BRIEFING - MANEUVERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100600019-7
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 21, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE A IUD
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NEW YORK TIMES
21 August 1985
WASHINGTON TALK
Briefing
Maneuvers
I n the old days, political maneuver-
ing for Presidential nominations
began surfacing late in the year
before the election. Any public dis-
play of interest or activity earlier
than that was regarded as premature
or even in bad taste, to the extent that
any such standard was observed in
politics.
But today, a party leader with per-
sonal ambition or with a candidate to
promote or oppose can't begin too
early. Here it is, only nine months
after the last Presidential election,
and a New Hampshire Republican is
dy starting a national campaign
Ott top for leaders un-
party's 1988 nomi-
ietion. He is Max Hugel. who worked
x~eew s.re.b.
izl the 1980 10eaxan camoamn and
b e[1v rued lA r as denut~r' direc-
Wrof the Central Intelligence Agen-
~, and he is to hold a news confer-
ence this morning at the National
Press C1 .
The move is sure to be interpreted
in professional circles as a holding
operation to keep party leaders in key
primary and caucus states from en-
dorsing Vice President Bush, al-
though Mr. Hugel is expected to deny
any such motivation.
.Organizers of the effort say their in-
tent is not to promote any candidate,
t there is some contrary evidence.
jute Hugel news conference was set
%rp by David Carmen, a Washington
publicist who until five months ago
worked for Lewis E. Lehrman, the
wealthy political activist from New
York. One of Mr. Carmen's current
clients is Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the
former United Nations delegate.
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