CONTROVERSY OVER CARTER-REAGAN DEBATE OF 1980

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000200750004-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 23, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Controversy Over Carter-Reagan Debate of 1980
DAVE MOLENDY: Some Reagan Administration officials
have shed some new light on the so-called briefing book affair.
A congressional investigation is underway into how
some White House briefing material for President Carter during
the 1980 campaign wound up in the hands of Reagan campaign
officials just before a debate.
Sandy Crolle has the latest.
SANDY CROLLE: CIA Director William Casey, who ran the
Reagan campaign, says he does not recall seeing or hearing
about any Carter documents pilfered to help the Reagan cam-
paign.
Budget Director David Stockman, remembers the papers,
but says since the Carter positions were a matter of public
record he did not pause to worry about where they came from.
Chief of Staff Jim Baker says he remembers the set of
documents and at the time thought they may have come from the
Carter camp. But Baker does not believe it was strategic
material.
Finally, Dave Gergen, now Chief of Communications,
says he does not remember receiving or seeing a Carter debate
book. Gergen, like Baker, suggests that the entire episode is
being brought up now for political reasons.
Chicago.
Sandy Crolle, AP Network News, with the President, in
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