U.S. House of Representatives
The 1980 Reagan–Carter ‘Debategate’ scandal files
Collection · written 28 October 1980 · released 7 October 2026
Why this matters
Records on the controversy that erupted in 1983 when it emerged that Reagan's 1980 campaign had obtained Carter's confidential debate briefing materials before their 28 October debate. Congressional investigators never established how. A forgotten campaign-ethics scandal, now collected in one place.
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U.S. House of Representatives. "The 1980 Reagan–Carter ‘Debategate’ scandal files." 28 October 1980. Released 7 October 2026. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-1980-reagan-carter-debategate-scandal/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0142).
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