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Among the papers were economic memos prepared by Carter aides for the Cabinet. Marked " Not for public distribution," they were attached to a covering note addressed to Reagan campaign officials "Bob Gray, Bill Casey, Ed Meese." The note was signed by a low-level Reagan volunteer, Daniel Jones. Jones had written on one of the papers: "Bob-Report from White House mole." Another Jones note to Gray, Casey and Meese included the final week of Carter's campaign schedule, labeled by Jones the "latest information from reliable White House mole." Jones, now a Washington stockbroker, told the Post...
...Carter source only once and had not even learned "his" name, but promised to help the FBI identify the person if asked to do so. The fact that Jones' memos were addressed to such senior aides as Meese, now Counsellor to the President, and Casey, who is CIA director, complicated their attempts to isolate themselves from the brouhaha. Declared Meese: "I do not have any recollection of any memo from Jones or anyone else that mentioned a mole in the White House...
...Casey, he took the unusual step of walking into the Washington bureau of the New York Times, sitting down with three reporters, and claiming that he would never have used Carter documents to help Reagan, whose campaign he directed. "I wouldn't tolerate it," Casey said of the briefing book. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole...
...Casey had been put on the spot by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, who claimed that the Carter debate papers had been given to him by Casey. Budget Director David Stockman has admitted using the papers to rehearse Reagan for the 1980 debate. Casey earlier had said that he had "no recollection" of having seen the papers. Last week, despite deriding the idea of using them, he conceded that it was possible he might have passed some papers to Baker without reading them. But he said if Baker did acquire Carter documents, Baker was "remiss" in not telling...
Clearly, the briefing-book fuss had renewed old rivalries among the Reagan aides. Casey and Meese seemed to be trying to focus responsibility on Baker, a relative newcomer in the Reagan staff hierarchy who is viewed by the Republican right as too much of a moderating influence on the President. Meese, however, cannot separate himself that neatly from another instance of Carter White House information reaching the Reagan election staff. Richard Allen, Reagan's former National Security Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter...