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This attitude coincides with the new President's apparent determination to restore the muscle of the CIA and make it an important element of his Administration's global strategy. Reagan indicated his concern with the appointment of William Casey, his campaign manager and close adviser, as CIA director. Casey, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, once served as a top-ranking officer in the CIA'S famed predecessor, the OSS of World War II. Since then he has not been directly associated with intelligence activities, but veterans at the agency look forward to working...
...Casey's first task will be to strengthen intelligence analysis, the agency's basic responsibility. At present there is no lack of qualified recruits. Applications for CIA jobs have reached record levels; in fiscal 1980, 9,200 men and women asked for posts, for which 1,458 were hired. In addition to new hands, Casey is expected to bring back some of the talented oldtimers who were ousted in successive housecleanings during the past few years. The current director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, downgraded the importance of human beings in intelligence gathering on the scene. Says a veteran intelligence...
...Crisis Investing, Casey...
...advance his private interests. One charge is that he passed along inside information to a Japanese businessman with the aim of developing lucrative contracts for himself. He received some $60,000 from fugitive Financier Robert Vesco as a "verbal consultant." Allen also introduced Vesco's attorney to William Casey, then Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, at a time when Vesco was under investigation by that agency. Allen claims, not too persuasively, that he was unaware of the probe when he was working for Vesco. Most serious of all was a charge made by an executive of Grumman Corp...
Most career-agency officials welcome the appointment of the OSS veteran-as long as he selects a capable deputy to take care of the details that he prefers to shun. But first Casey must survive a tough grilling by Senators on accusations of misconduct as SEC chief, including an old charge that he tried to thwart an SEC inquiry of Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco in 1972. Casey, with typical bluntness, professes no concern. Says the CIA nominee: "I've been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times. I don't think there's any question...