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...October 21, the second-highest ranking U.S. intelligence official, Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, discusses "Arms Control Challenges in U.S. Intelligence." Inman, former head of the super-secret National Security Agency and now deputy director of intelligence under William J. Casey, is set to appear in Coolidge Hall, Room...
Walking into a Capitol elevator last week, Casey confidently declared, "It's going to be a cakewalk." During the five-hour, closed-door grilling, most of the Senators, who had not had time to study the Casey papers, were less interested in his business practices than his leadership of the CIA. Some Senators complained about a lack of good intelligence from the Middle East under Casey. Others contended that the CIA's analytical reports were too "political." Mostly he was assailed on his appointment of Hugel...
...Casey took full blame for the Hugel choice, admitting that it "turned out badly." He insisted that he was on the same side as Inman in wanting a nonpolitical, objective analysis of intelligence. He agreed that many of the restrictions on the agency were proper. He promised to cooperate fully in helping congressional committees perform their oversight...
Still, the Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...
...defined the Two Cultures; Martin Gardner bridges them. His classics, Relativity for the Million and The Ambidextrous Universe, make physics lucid to the layman; The Annotated Alice has become the standard guide to Wonderland. In addition he has published exegeses on poetry as diverse as The Ancient Mariner and Casey at the Bat. Yet no matter how wide he ranges, one subject has preoccupied the polymath since he began writing 35 years ago: the dangers and delights of pseudo science...