LEAKS, UNSOLICITED ADVICE PLAGUING REAGAN TRANSITION TEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 11, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
11 December 1980
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rently messy: ssy: business of tranvisn i ., _ ...On the transition team at .
e 'unlie': ? _
tion is being complicated for the incoming, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Reagan administration by.leaked reports, un David S. Sullivan who-resivned'from the
solicited studies and aflood of quasi-official- ;CIA after. leaking-.a secret_ : report to
from the . Veterans:,. Administration , to : `the
Central Intelligence AMencv
dress spokesman James Brady and oth
erg. Reagan advisers have repeatedly charac-
terized these proposals as opinions that- do::
not' necessarily reflect Reagan's :thinking or
lay'the foundation. for administration - policy.
But, the leaks persist, making it more diffi-
cult for the Reagan camp to settle its ideo-
logical feuds in private and. keeping transi-
tion-officials. busy smoothing the ruffled
feathers of the Republican Parts conserva-
tive and moderate wings.
.While transition - teams can put together..;
reams of facts and recommendations, no real
movement- toward forming. policy can come
until the president-elect has named. his de-
partment heads, according - - to one official
close. to the transition effort. When that pro
cess starts today, department' and. adminis- -
tration policy will start to.. jell around ` the
nominee...
iNfeariwhile, oiganrzations outside the tran_,
sition eftoct who had a hand in-early dur
ing'" .rise platform-writing, candidate-
nomsnetiag and campaign process - are
hovering about,. doing their best to see ? that
the...: developing .'administration adheres to
their.-ideals els and expectations:. And ' the usual
gamut of rumors ? about abolishing . depart-
menu and slicing personnel rosters and bud-
gets - taking - its toll ? on the government
workers who will remain after the Carter ad-
muust zion goes.: =
"It*.* little bit' like roller skating on ice,"
.sighsd.-.me .:transition' `worker.;"Blindfolded.
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