WIDE G.O.P. ACCESS TO CARTER PAPERS IN '80 IS INDICATED
The White House released sheafs of information today from President Reagan's 1980 campaign files indicating that Reagan advisers had repeated, secret access to strategy material prepared for President Carter, including debating tactics and other campaign plans. President Reagan said tonight at his news conference that he ''never saw anything of the kind'' in the campaign. ''It seems strange to me that, since I was the debater, no one on our side ever mentioned to me anything of this kind,'' he said, suggesting the materials might have come from a ''disgruntled worker in the Carter campaign.'' He indicated that the Democrats were now pursuing ''political'' motives in demanding an investigation of how his campaign aides obtained the material. A Battery of Questions The President answered a battery of questions about the surreptitious use of the Carter material in his 18th formal Presidential news conference. He also said, with a broad smile, that he found ''profound wisdom'' in the observation of House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. that even without the secret material Mr. Reagan would have defeated President Carter.
