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...secrecy was punctured -- which pushed the Marine officer into the difficult spot of trying to avoid portraying his bosses as either a willful part of a cover-up or too meek to defend their policy convictions. North had his most arduous time trying to justify the creation of Casey's covert "slush fund" that not even the President need be told about. (Some of the proposed uses were for U.S.-Israeli operations that North explained in a closed session...
...William Casey...
...director frequently provided North with instructions and advice about the secret contra-support network. It was Casey, North testified, who told him to set up an "operational account" to handle the flow of covert funds...
...William Casey...
...Casey knew about the shipment, North said, and deliberately misled Congress, avoiding any mention of the deal during testimony in November 1986 -- one of his last official statements on the matter before his death...