Word: caseys
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...will further seek indictments against officials, including North and possibly Robert McFarlane, who helped draft a chronology of the Iran-contra affair that contained serious inaccuracies. The chronology was intended to prepare the President for his Nov. 19 press conference and to help guide the late CIA Director William Casey through his congressional testimony. Here the charge would be conspiracy to suborn perjury. Walsh would not have to prove that Casey or anyone else actually gave false testimony. He would only need to show that the officials who drafted the chronology knew it was inaccurate...
Toward the end of his distinguished if always faintly controversial career, however, Casey's reputation for keen intellect seemed at odds with his testimony before members of Congress last Dec. 10. To pointed inquiries on Iranscam, he repeatedly answered, "I don't know." The Senate Intelligence Committee had planned to quiz him on Dec. 16, but he suffered a seizure the day before and then underwent surgery for a cancerous tumor in his brain. He never recovered, and spent his last months in and out of hospitals...
Throughout his private and public career, Casey had been supremely self- confident and aggressive. Born in New York City, he was a postwar success as an attorney, a university lecturer on law and the author of humdrum books like How Federal Tax Angles Multiply Real Estate Profits. Not a humble man, he once boasted, "I was never in a law firm where I wasn't bringing in 75% of the business...
...Secord described his contra supply operation to William Casey, then director of the CIA, at three meetings during the period when any Government assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels was forbidden by Congress. One of those meetings was held in the White House. Casey approved of the supposedly private arms operation. In an interview with TIME last December, which turned out to be his final public comment on the affair before he was hospitalized for a brain tumor, Casey insisted, "We were barred from being involved with the contras, and we kept away from that." Secord said he doubted Casey knew...
...Secord, "but I did not go to Bimini." The allusion to Gary Hart's troubles set off a gale of laughter. Secord eventually asserted that he intended to donate his share of any money that might be left after paying bills to a fund being established in memory of Casey to aid the contras. In response, Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire sternly warned the erstwhile covert operator that he did not have a "right to send that money anywhere. That money belongs to the people of the United States." A G.O.P. Senate colleague, Paul Trible of Virginia, told...