Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's uphill struggle to win congressional approval for its controversial actions in Central America, the meeting counted as a decisive victory. After several hours of closed-door sessions with the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director William Casey and Secretary of State George Shultz emerged with what seemed to be a strong endorsement of one of the Administration's most hotly contested policies: providing aid to guerrilla opponents of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as a means of checking that country's efforts to aid leftist insurgents in El Salvador. The proposal must now go before...
...most glaring contradiction now known is between CIA Director William Casey and Chief of Staff James Baker. Baker wrote to a congressional committee in June that Carter's strategy book for the debate with Reagan had been passed to him by Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign chairman. "It is my best recollection that I was given the book by William Casey, with the suggestion that it might be of use," his letter said. Casey, on the other hand, wrote to the committee that "I have no recollection that I ever received, heard of, or learned...
...that he was willing, even eager, to undergo the test. He has already been interviewed by the FBI twice, most recently for 90 minutes in his West Wing office two weeks ago. Baker is understood to have given the FBI his full recollection of the time and place that Casey supposedly handed him the campaign documents. Baker insists that his memory of the occasion, which would have been shortly before the October 1980 debate, is unambiguous. Casey has just as steadfastly stuck by his denials during his two interviews with FBI agents. The bureau is also looking into the roles...
...Central American situation. Her findings prompted the Administration to ask for an additional $110 million in military aid to El Salvador in fiscal 1983, on top of Reagan's original request for $61.3 million. Another point on which Clark and Kirkpatrick agreed, with the support of CIA Director William Casey, was that Thomas Enders, then in charge of Latin American policy at the State Department, should be replaced. They felt that Enders was moving too slowly and cautiously. In May, Clark took the lead in getting Enders ousted and reassigned as Ambassador to Spain, a move that resulted in Clark...
Actually, the heat may now shift from Baker to Casey. TIME has learned that, as rumored, Casey did indeed set up a political intelligence-gathering apparatus for the Reagan campaign. But it was not simply a casual use of retired military officers asked to stay alert for any U.S. aircraft moves that might signal the Reagan camp that Carter was about to gain the freedom of the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran-the "October surprise" that Reagan's political aides feared. Instead, cooperative former agents of both the FBI and the CIA were used to gather political information from...