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FBI Time: 302
Halper, in addition to being a co-founder of Palmer National Bank and policy director for the Bush campaign, was allegedly part of the Reagan-Bush election team that participated in the October 1980 Paris negotiations with
representatives of Iran that has come to be known as the “October Surprise.”
Halper was connected to the intelligence community through his father-in-law, Ray Cline, a former CIA deputy director who also advised Bush during his 1980 campaign.
Halper’s intelligence-gathering work during the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign apparently involved the theft of the Carter campaign’s debate briefing books, a scandal that came to be known as Debategate.