Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
...attacks on Casey mounted, Reagan kept asking aides: "Is there anything to these charges against him?" The White House began to qualify its backing of Casey. But then the old pro counterattacked. He made an effective series of calls on Senators, admitting that he had been wrong in appointing Hugel. Most surprising of all, the reticent, publicity-shy Admiral Inman went on ABC's Night-line TV program to deny rumors that he was leading a coup against Casey. Declared one astonished former CIA spook: "That's like seeing George Smiley appear on the Gong Show...
Behind the scenes, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker worked to keep Goldwater's committee from appearing to lynch Casey first and give him a hearing later. While publicly supporting Goldwater, Baker urged him to appoint Fred D. Thompson, a longtime friend from Tennessee who was Republican counsel in the Senate's Watergate investigation, as chief counsel in the Casey probe. Thompson accepted the post, promising a prompt but careful study. Casey supplied the committee with volumes of documents and demanded a quick hearing...
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...