Word: caseys
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...inner sanctum of his office in Langley, Va., CIA Director William Casey was interviewed last Friday by TIME Assistant Managing Editor Henry . Muller and Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. Under the ground rules, he refused to discuss sources or methods of covert operations. Repeatedly disclaiming CIA involvement or even knowledge about much of what went on, he defended what he insists was the agency's narrow role in helping the National Security Council...
WASHINGTON--Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday denied through a spokesman that he had any knowledge of a memo written in early October by CIA Director William Casey relaying suspicions that money from U.S. weapons sales to Iran was being diverted to the Contras...
...York Daily News reported in yesterday's editions that Casey has told friends in recent days that he sent Meese a memo shortly after learning from New York businessman Roy Furmark on October 7 of the possible diversion of funds to the rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua...
...time prior to November 25 did the attorney general or anybody else in the Department of Justice receive a memo or have any indication orally or ortherwise that Casey had suspicions about money being diverted to the Contras," Justice Department spokesman John Russell said in a statement...
...Post also quoted sources as saying CIA Director William Casey met in October and again in November with senior Iraqi officials to make sure an improved communications link was functioning and to encourage more attacks on Iranian installations...