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...Hampers' major campaign setbacks came from Bellotti's office in the form of a letter concerning a fired employee's suit against the Department of Revenue. The memo, which Hampers sent to the attorney general's office while she was revenue commissioner, referred to Benjamen Rosales, who contested his firing as the department's legal counsel by Hampers' predecessor. The letter implies that Hampers was willing to settle out of court although the department had a good chance of defeating the suit. She denied signing it until three independent handwriting experts determined that the signature was genuine...
...newspaper's famed Watergate sleuth, Bob Woodward, unearthed a damning document to back up the charge: a memo from National Security Adviser John Poindexter to President Reagan. In it Poindexter outlined a plan that "combines real and illusionary events -- through a disinformation program -- with the basic goal of making Gaddafi think that there is a high degree of internal opposition to him within Libya, that his key trusted aides are disloyal, that the U.S. is about to move against him militarily." According to the Post, this disinformation policy was approved on Aug. 14 at a meeting of the National Security...
...relative value of the intelligence information and the U.S. military's readiness to respond. The Journal story quoted a "top official" as saying Gaddafi "seems to have gone off his rocker again." Other officials claimed he was involved in terrorist plots in Cyprus and Berlin. But the Poindexter memo contended that "Gaddafi is temporarily quiescent in his support of terrorism." The Journal wrote that Administration officials were convinced the U.S. air strikes had "sparked several mutinies in the Libyan military" and even quoted unnamed officials as claiming the Libyan air force "had to send hired Syrian pilots to crush...
...claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans off balance and to assemble forces in case a quick, punishing strike at Libya is needed." A White House memo to CIA Director William Casey underlined the point. It suggested that "overt (military) operations will also be required to give credibility to rumors that the U.S. intends to take further military action...
...Memo to: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Taxpayer...