Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama was the increasingly crusty Goldwater, who considers himself the Senate's leading expert on intelligence. The venerable (72) Arizona Republican was miffed when the Reagan transition team failed to consult him last January on who should head the CIA. He did not like the choice of Casey, a wily and tough Washington operator, to direct the agency. Casey made matters worse by virtually ignoring both Goldwater's committee and the House Intelligence Committee, which take their duties to oversee the CIA seriously. He even curtailed the CIA's congressional liaison staff...
Within the agency, philosophical fights were brewing too. One faction, including Casey's top deputy, Admiral Bobby Inman (who had been Goldwater's choice to head the agency), advocates more emphasis on "pure" intelligence gathering and analysis-calling the world as the agency sees it, whatever the conflicts with Administration policy. Other officials feel that the agency should tailor its reports to the decision-making needs of the President. Casey was seen by some as reflecting this view. When a CIA report failed to detect the degree of Soviet influence over worldwide terrorism that the White House...
...work relating to the Soviet Union would be consolidated in a single and probably dominant directorate. At present, responsibility for Soviet affairs is parceled out to directorates that deal with intelligence gathering, analysis and covert operations. The reorganization was first pushed by Max Hugel, the man whom Casey chose to head clandestine operations-a wheeler-dealer from New Hampshire who was widely viewed inside the CIA as a political amateur and incompetent spymaster...
...illegal stock manipulation in the mid-1970s. The timing of the McNeils' attack, so long after the events that had turned them into enemies of Hugel's, fueled suspicions that it may have been instigated by Hugel's CIA foes. When Hugel promptly resigned, his mentor, Casey, suddenly looked vulnerable too. Goldwater, in particular, saw the Hugel fiasco as reason enough to replace Casey for having chosen a misfit for the sensitive...
After the Washington Post published the McNeils' charges, other papers followed up with a story about an overlooked May 19 decision by a federal judge; he had ruled that Casey and other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness venture, had misled investors about the finances of the firm. With that, Goldwater swung into action, ordering an investigation of Casey's fitness for his job. Even before the probe began, Goldwater and two other Republican Senators, Ted Stevens of Alaska and William Roth of Delaware, called on Casey to quit...