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WASHINGTON--Former CIA Director William Casey, on his sickbed, told investigative reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post he knew all along about diversion of money to the Nicaraguan Contras, according to galleys of Woodward's forthcoming book obtained by U.S. News & World Report...
Woodward's book, "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA," seems to shed light on a mystery that has stumped investigators for almost a year. Former White House aide Oliver North is the only other person to have said that Casey knew about the diversion of funds from arms sales to the Iranians...
...liberals are wreaking havoc on the whole confirmation process," says Dan Casey of the American Conservative Union. "We are reluctant to engage in that." Instead, conservative groups have concentrated on mailings to their members. One statement charges that the anti-Bork movement "is a consortium of extremists, kooks, weirdos and America-haters -- the likes of which we have not seen since Jane Fonda held fund-raising dinners for George McGovern...
George claimed that Casey wanted North and the National Security staff to handle the Iran initiative, because he knew that his own aides, including CIA Deputy Director John McMahon as well as George, were opposed...
...some of Casey's men share their chief's admiration for North. Alan Fiers, who worked with North on the contra-resupply operation as chief of the CIA's Latin American Task Force, told the committees, "I never knew Colonel North to be an absolute liar, but I never took anything he said at face value...