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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...
...inquiry by Michigan Democratic Representative Donald J. Albosta, chairman of the panel that oversees the Ethics in Government Act, was sparked by a new book on Reagan, Gambling with History, by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Barrett wrote that "apparently a Reagan mole in the Carter camp had filched the papers containing the main points" Carter planned to make in the debate. Baker, Stockman, Casey and Communications Director David Gergen, all former Reagan campaign aides, sent Albosta letters explaining what they knew about the papers. Meanwhile, Administration officials debated whether to ask the Justice Department to launch a search...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...
...diplomat who with his fellow Cambridge graduate Guy Burgess was at the center of Britain's most infamous spy scandal in the past half-century; of cancer; in Moscow. Recruited at college in the 1930s with his lover Burgess by Anthony Blunt, then a don, Maclean was a mole in the British embassy in Washington, where he had access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew everything!" exploded then Secretary...
...sound undermine his efforts to make sense. An example: "Thus one who lobbies expertly for the rights of female derelicts might be called a shopping-bag-lady knifethrower." He is usually most effective when simplest, writing blunt, mock-macho prose. Recounting in January the confession of a former Communist "mole," American Aristocrat Michael Straight, Safire cracked, "How delicious it must have been for a Red under the bed to deride Joe McCarthy for looking for Reds under the bed." In a column labeled "The Midterm Crisis," Safire counseled: "Mr. Reagan must dispense with his I-am-not-a-shnook defensiveness...