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Wednesday morning brought one of the more solemn transition rituals: the passing on of intelligence secrets to the President-elect. CIA Director Stansfield Turner arrived at the Jackson Place town house, briefed Reagan for 90 minutes, and left stonefaced and silent; he knows that he will be replaced, probably by William J. Casey, Reagan's transition chairman, who sat in on the meeting. But the ritual had one touch of humor. Hurrying to the briefing, Bush bounded up the steps of 712 Jackson Place and began shaking hands with puzzled secretaries from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation before...
...began a transition that will pick up its pace this week, when the President-elect comes down from the Santa Ynez Mountains. Reagan was scheduled to fly to Washington Monday for the first of three weeklong visits before his Inauguration. At a CIA briefing he will tell Director Stansfield Turner that he will be replaced. On Thursday, Reagan will visit with the man he defeated so resoundingly Nov. 4. While their husbands confer, Rosalynn Carter will show Nancy Reagan around the White House living quarters...
...Senators wanted to know why Brzezinski felt free to use information from a classified CIA report in warning Billy that his actions in Libya might embarrass the Administration. Brzezinski explained that on receiving the damaging report from CIA Director Stansfield Turner, he pondered the matter over lunch in his office, then concluded that "I would serve the President better if I first admonished Billy." According to Brzezinski, the President later told him, "You did the right thing." There was no breach of security, said Brzezinski, nor did he risk revealing the source of the CIA's information. Said Brzezinski...
...explanation left many Senators unsatisfied, as did Civiletti's defense of his decision not to pass on to Justice Department investigators a report in mid-April from CIA Director Stansfield Turner that Billy was negotiating with Libya on behalf of Charter Oil Co. and that the Libyans might be making a payment to Billy...
...Department's spokesman, refused. Says he: "I don't believe in signing a piece of paper that says I am innocent. That's not how things are supposed to work in this country." All the others signed, including Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher; CIA Director Stansfield Turner; National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...