Word: mole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the sale became known, a furious Judge Sand threatened to freeze $55 million worth of the company's assets in the U.S. Rich then promised to deliver the contested documents. But only three days later, U.S. Customs officers, apparently acting on a tip from a mole inside the Marc Rich subsidiary, stopped a Swissair jet just as it was taxiing to take off from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport for Zurich. Aboard the plane were two steamer trunks full of Rich's documents...
...welcome to rummage in the trash cans. He filled a box with a batch of papers and last week showed some of them to the Post. They provided ostensible verification of a report by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett in his new book on Reagan that "a mole" had operated in the White House to help Reagan's campaign staff...
...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, "You found the author. I can't deny...
Still, if a mole did operate within Carter's staff, it is certainly possible that he or she also supplied information not found in the garbage can. Jones claimed that he had met his 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...
There was no evidence that the papers had been deliberately solicited by anyone in the Reagan campaign, although Barrett had surmised in his book that "a mole" had been planted in the Carter White House. Carter aides doubted the possibility that a White House secretary, hoping to curry favor with the possible new Administration, had sent the papers to the Reagan staff. Asked again about the briefing book while traveling in California later in the week, Reagan repeated: "We don't know how any of that happened, and I never knew there was such a thing...