Quote (IceMage @ May 20 2018 06:43am)
Maybe I missed it... what proof is there that he was involved in stealing that material?
eh what ever gets
proven in washington? One could still believe in the Rose Mary Stretch if they wanted to
as far as all the oodles of evidence of his involvement, its in those links;
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/07/us/reagan-aides-describe-operation-to-gather-inside-data-on-carter.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/01/us/a-bank-that-banks-on-conservative-dollars.htmlhttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/07/24/The-briefing-papers-mystery-Leaked-Stolen-Investigations-spawn-contradictions-unanswered-questions/7460427867200/Quote
An operation to collect inside information on Carter Administration foreign policy was run in Ronald Reagan's campaign headquarters in the 1980 Presidential campaign, according to present and former Reagan Administration officials. Those sources said they did not know exactly what information the operation produced or whether it was anything beyond the usual grab bag of rumors and published news reports. But they said it involved a number of retired Central Intelligence Agency officials and was highly secretive. The sources identified Stefan A. Halper, a campaign aide involved in providing 24-hour news updates and policy ideas to the traveling Reagan party, as the person in charge.
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In an interview two weeks ago, Mr. Halper recalled that ''there was this material, the existence was widely known or at least generally known in the campaign". "I may have seen a few pages of it,'' he continued, ''but I can't confirm any particular subject or format. If pages of material had come my way, I would have routed them over to the debate group.''
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White House chief of staff James Baker says he recalls seeing the briefing book, and he believes he received it from campaign chairman William Casey, now the CIA director. Casey also was singled out in published reports quoting sources as saying he recruited former CIA and FBI agents to gather intelligence from their friends in the agencies about the Carter campaign and watch for a possible 'October surprise,' such as the release of 52 American hostages in Iran.. ... But William Van Cleave, a senior defense analyst who shared offices with Allen, told UPI he saw the material and assumed Allen did, too. ABC, quoted Van Cleave that Allen saw the briefing material. Van Cleave denies knowing the source of the material. Baker advised congressional investigators in a letter that he recalled passing the 'large loose-leaf bound book' to the debate briefing team headed by David Gergen and Frank Hodsoll... -Some conservatives in the Reagan White House have alleged that Stefan Halper, who served as director of policy coordination in the Reagan-Bush campaign, used former CIA agents to run a data-collection operation on the Carter administration's foreign policy. Halper has acknowledged employing former CIA agent Robert Gambino in his office, which he said was responsible for monitoring and analyzing all news developments 24 hours a day. However, Halper, a GOP moderate, said to his knowledge the existence of an intelligence network of former agents spying on the Carter administration was 'absolutely false.'
From everything I've ever read about Reagan-Iran-1980 (before Iran Contra), the general consensus was that the spying and collusion definitely occurred, but it was always brushed away as the actions of rogue aides taking their own initiative, never tied to the big cheese.
I must note that the allegations against Halper historically have been just his involvement in the general foreign policy spying and the debategate, whereas its me speculating that he's the informant who met in a park to tip off allen about the rescue attempt- could be that's not actually halper but one of the cia moles he was corralling. Not sure that distinction would mean anything.
This post was edited by Goomshill on May 20 2018 07:05am
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