PRESIDENT REAGAN PRAISED WILLIAM CASEY, HIS EMBATTLED CIA DIRECTOR, TODAY AN APPEARANCE WITH CASEY A DAY AFTER A HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT IMPLICATED THE SPY CHIEF IN THE PIRATING OF PRESIDENT CARTER'S BRIEFING PAPERS DURING THE 1980 PRESID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Publication Date: May 24, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

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Aft UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 411
24 May 19S4
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BY GREGORY GORDON
WASHINGTON
President Reagan praised William Casey, his embattled CIA director, today
an appearance with Casey a day after a House subcommittee report implicated
? spy chief in the pirating of President Carter's briefing papers during the
10 presidential campaign.
Casey fended off reporters' questions but said he would have a statement
:er in the day.
During an outdoor ceremony at the CIA's headquarters in nearby Langley,
Reagan had good words for Casey along with the agency's other officials and
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?nts but did not mentioned the debate papers controversy.
"Your work and the work of your director and other officials has been an
;priation to your fellow Americans and to people everywhere," Reagan said.
The ceremony was to mark the beginning of new construction to house a vast
-ay of new computers for intelligence gathering. Reagan told his audience of
IA employees, "You are the trip wire over which the totalitarian rulers must
amble in their quest for world domination."
Earlier, while awaiting the arrival of Reagan, Casey declined to comment on
? congressional report that said the "better evidence" shows White House
lef of staff James Baker had received ,documents from President Carter's camp
Jm Casey.
Casey said he expected to make a statement later in the day, brushing off
'ther questions from reporters with a "not now." The CIA chief has said he
Ild not have touched such material "with a 10-foot pole" and recalls nothing
Jut the disputed documents or how they came to the inner circle of Reagan's
30 election effort, which he headed.
A spokesman said Casey had not yet read the voluminous report delivered
inesday by a House subcommittee led by Rep. Donald Albosta, D-Mich., after a
-month inquiry
Spokesman Chuck Wilson said Reagan's visit to the sprawling spy agency
adquarters in suburban Virginia was "a great show of support. for the CIA.
ced if it was a show of support for Casey, Wilson said, "He's a big part of
? CIA. "
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When deputy. White House press secretary Larry Speakes was asked Wednesday if
!re was any feeling in the White House that Casey should step down, he
Jlied, "Not on the part of the president."
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/16: CIA-RDP92G00017R001100230056-0