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...they had swayed an enthusiastic Reagan and his equally gung-ho NSC and CIA advisers. Ten days later the President signed a secret intelligence "finding," thus permitting "occasional" arms transactions with Iran in spite of the continuing embargo. He assigned management of the deals to the CIA and instructed Casey to conceal the project from Congress. At the same time, Reagan ordered that intelligence traffic on the arms shipments be kept from the State Department and the Pentagon. While Shultz accepted the blackout as a way to distance his department from a dubious policy, Weinberger requested access to the intelligence...
committee staffer contends that Casey was in a position to know more. Says he: "The first thing Ollie North...
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...director of Central Intelligence, Casey has known of the Iran arms initiative at least since the NSC proposed the idea in June 1985. On Jan. 17, when Ronald Reagan signed a secret Executive Order lifting the ban on arms shipments to Tehran, the CIA officially became the middleman for the weapons sales. Casey reportedly told congressional investigators that his agency had set up a Swiss bank account to receive Iranian payments, but insisted he had no knowledge of where the money was going. Meese asserted at last week's press conference that Casey had no prior knowledge of the contra...
...public still nursing bitter memories of the violent anti-Americanism displayed during the hostage crisis of 1979-81, and the Administration's early explanations of the rationale and methodology of the shipments convinced hardly anyone. Briefings of the Senate and House intelligence committees by Poindexter, CIA Director William Casey and other officials on Friday, Nov. 21, failed to dispel congressional feelings that the full story had still not come out. The Congressmen did not know that Meese shared their opinion. The day before the briefings, Meese called his assistant, Charles Cooper, into his office for a long review of legal...