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...Administration documents. According to the latest scenario, the Administration's weapons deals with Iran were a straightforward arms-for- hostages swap. Reagan's repeated claim that the transactions were an overture to moderate factions in the Iranian government was no more than a rationale concocted by CIA Director William Casey. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North was instrumental in persuading the President to proceed; North's boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was aware that Iran arms profits were being diverted to Nicaraguan contras. Casey, too, knew of the diversion weeks before he has claimed he was told. Yet Ronald Reagan...
...Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document claims that arms shipments "may well be our only way to achieve the release of the Americans held in Beirut...
...Senate report states that last Oct. 1, Charles Allen, a national intelligence officer at the CIA, told Deputy CIA Director Robert Gates he suspected a diversion of Iran arms profits to the contras. Six days later they discussed the matter with Casey. On Oct. 9, Casey and Gates confronted North. The NSC aide denied there was any contra connection. This scenario contradicts Casey's claim that he did not learn of money being diverted to the rebels until just before Attorney General Edwin Meese announced it to the public on Nov. 25. Last week the CIA released a statement reiterating...
What is all this hype about healing? Dr. Ben Casey, the stuffy TV neurosurgeon of yesteryear, would surely be stunned. While many doctors still keep a low advertising profile, the rest of the health-care industry has suddenly gone for the hard sell. To fill a growing number of empty beds and to stand out amid increased competition, hospitals and clinics have started embracing modern marketing techniques. Result: a wave of come-ons for everything from cancer treatment to fat removal...
...example, the report was critical of CIA Director William Casey, saying he had been less than candid with the Intelligence Committee when he appeared before the panel last November. The report indicates Casey had been aware of the possibility of the funds diversion as early as Oct. 7, 1986, several days earlier than he had contended, NBC said...