Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate investigation left a permanent legacy of bitterness. Some Senators felt that Casey had misled them about his finances, and looked with increased suspicion on his running of covert operations. Casey felt that some lawmakers were conducting a vendetta against him and was strengthened in his natural tendency to tell them no more than the law requires. Says one official who worked closely with Casey during that period: "Casey gets mad, and he also tries to get even. The attacks from the Hill just compounded an existing disdain for the legislative branch of Government...
...Casey's counterparts in other democracies have little need to deal with their legislatures at all. The heads of the British agencies, M15 and M16, report to an executive committee chaired by the Prime Minister, who does not officially tell Parliament so much as their names...
...alone, however, will not be enough to handle the far more serious underlying problem. No oversight arrangement will work, nor will any program to rebuild America's covert capabilities work, until a way can be found to dissipate the corrosive mistrust and suspicion that has built up between Casey's CIA and Congress...
...decorated with photographs of him shaking hands with every President since Dwight Eisenhower. "With appreciation and warmest friendship," says a photo inscription from Ronald Reagan, whose Inauguration ceremonies Gray helped arrange. By day he likes to be seen with his pals in high places, including CIA Director William Casey, Senator Paul Laxalt and most of the Cabinet. By night, if his friends have to work, Bachelor Gray squires their wives to so many Washington parties that he claims he wears out two tuxedos a year...
Meese served as president and the only salaried director of the Presidential Transition Foundation Inc., set up to plan the transfer of executive power from the Carter Administration to Reagan's team. The other directors were William Casey, now CIA director, and Verne Orr, now Secretary of the Air Force. In addition to receiving $2 million in operating expenses from the Government and $250,000 from the President's campaign treasury, the foundation raised $688,931 from unidentified private donors, according to its tax return. No limit was set on the amount people could donate, but Orr said...