From a New York Times story by Peter Baker headlined “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-Election”:

It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.