Word: caseys
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...explained his failure to take notes during meetings with many of the key figures in the scandal by claiming that he was engaging only in "casual conversations" and not trying to gain "great amounts of information." One such chat occurred at the home of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, whom North has depicted as a sponsor of the diversion scheme, just hours after the incriminating memo was found. Meese insisted that he did not discuss the transfer of funds to the contras with Casey. The Attorney General described a laid-back talk about the diversion with Vice Admiral John...
...Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and sold U.S. weapons to Iran even though his Administration was loudly urging other nations not to do so. He did this on the advice of two far less assertive aides, first Robert McFarlane and then John Poindexter and, more significantly, William Casey, the late CIA director whose ghostly presence haunted the hearings as the one who may have masterminded the events...
...praised the president for his "totalcooperation" with the inquiry and said "the onlyU.S. officials who knew of the diversion wereAdmiral Poindexter, Colonel North and possiblyDirector Casey." William L. Casey, the director ofthe CIA, died...
...first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan put the resignation in his desk and told Shultz, "Let's talk about it after you get back from vacation." The matter was dropped...
...Capitol Hill that pardons may have been considered in November as part of a deal with Poindexter and North. Congressman Louis Stokes asked Poindexter whether the question had been discussed at a Dec. 16 White House meeting between the President, Edwin Meese and the late CIA director William Casey. "I don't know anything about that," Poindexter replied tersely...