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committee staffer contends that Casey was in a position to know more. Says he: "The first thing Ollie North...
...director of Central Intelligence, Casey has known of the Iran arms initiative at least since the NSC proposed the idea in June 1985. On Jan. 17, when Ronald Reagan signed a secret Executive Order lifting the ban on arms shipments to Tehran, the CIA officially became the middleman for the weapons sales. Casey reportedly told congressional investigators that his agency had set up a Swiss bank account to receive Iranian payments, but insisted he had no knowledge of where the money was going. Meese asserted at last week's press conference that Casey had no prior knowledge of the contra...
...public still nursing bitter memories of the violent anti-Americanism displayed during the hostage crisis of 1979-81, and the Administration's early explanations of the rationale and methodology of the shipments convinced hardly anyone. Briefings of the Senate and House intelligence committees by Poindexter, CIA Director William Casey and other officials on Friday, Nov. 21, failed to dispel congressional feelings that the full story had still not come out. The Congressmen did not know that Meese shared their opinion. The day before the briefings, Meese called his assistant, Charles Cooper, into his office for a long review of legal...
Meese chose a select team of three assistants, including Charles Cooper, who assembled and read documents Friday night. On Saturday they began their questioning. The Attorney General called on Secretary of State George Shultz at home and talked with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director Casey as well. Other investigators questioned Poindexter and his predecessor, Robert McFarlane, who had begun the contacts with Iran. Meese's assistants pored over North's papers in his office from early Saturday morning until late into the evening, then summoned North to Meese's office in the Justice Department on Sunday...
...meantime, congressional committees are rushing to schedule hearings, many of which will focus on the possible involvement of other Government officials or agencies in the Iran-contras scam. First up: the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was scheduled to hold hearings Monday to investigate what might have been known by Casey and the CIA, which keeps close tabs on the contras and set up a Swiss bank account to receive money paid by Iran for U.S. arms. Says Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat: "I don't see how the money could be transferred, the logistics could be handled...