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Reagan may also have to look for a new CIA chief. He has nominated Deputy Director Robert Gates to succeed the ailing William Casey. Though the Tower commission found that Gates had played only a minor role in the sale of arms + to Iran, it raised suspicions that he might have been involved in the secret, and possibly illegal, provision of military assistance to the contras...
Unless we accept responsibility for our government, we leave its direction to people like William Casey, Oliver North, John Poindexter and others whose greatest claim to power may be a desire for it. Since the White House is now in the hands of a very capable man from Tennessee, the business of government likely will proceed smoothly for the last 23 months of Reagan's term. But to accept that situation would be irresponsible. We owe it to our democratic heritage and to our future to hold our leaders to standards of responsibility and competence...
Though no one has precisely traced the money, North was fired for diverting profits from the iran arms deals to the contras through Swiss bank accounts, with John Poindexter's knowledge. by October, nearly two months before Meese revealed the diversion publicly, the CIA's Casey and Gates had indications it was taking place...
...misuse of Government funds or the unauthorized diversion of profits from U.S. arms sales was an apparent violation of the law. Casey passed on his suspicions to Poindexter, but Casey and Gates deny any complicity because, they say, they did not have hard evidence of any crime...
Gates, through a spokesman, asserted that "such suggestions are totally unfounded." But the story broke at the worst possible time for him: he had just sweated through two days of tough questioning before the Senate Intelligence Committee on his nomination to succeed the ailing Casey as CIA director. Gates repeatedly insisted that he had known little about the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the contras, and he promised to argue within the Administration for prompt disclosure to Congress of any future covert operations...