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...years later he became head of the Office of Electronic Intelligence, which is responsible for the CIA'S eavesdropping operations. After moving through a series of high-level jobs during the 1970s, McMahon was placed in charge of clandestine operations in 1978. Three years later CIA Director William Casey tapped him for executive director, a post from which he has run the day-to-day operations of the agency...
...worried that although McMahon has held a number of senior posts at the agency, he may lack the analytical skills for his new job. There is also concern that McMahon lacks the clout and independence to push successfully for his own policies, and may not stand up to Casey. Some Senators feel that the CIA director is too eager to expand his agency's intelligence-gathering operations within the U.S. Inman, by contrast, had headed the National Security Agency before joining the CIA in 1981 and had already built up his own constituency within Congress...
...maintains Schlesinger, is also coming back into vogue. The Agency under director William Casey seems a throwback to "the freewheeling days of the 1950s when the CIA believed it was omnipotent and could shape the destinies of far-away countries. Now with its new power to intervene domestically, God knows what will happen...
...White House, some presidential aides suspect that Inman's friction with Allen, who quit in January after disclosure that he had accepted gifts from a Japanese magazine, spilled over into hostility between Inman and Casey, since Casey and Allen had long been allies. Inman concedes that the "air might have had a little strain in it" when Casey was being investigated and Inman was seen as a successor, but he insisted, "The personal working relationship has been very easy from the start...
...Casey Stengel, the New York Mets' first manager and "perfesser," once celebrated a two-game winning streak by donning a high silk hat and taking a carriage ride around Central Park. So streaks are relative. Which is more remarkable-that by the start of last weekend the Chicago White Sox had won eight games in a row or that the Baltimore Orioles had lost nine games in a row? That the Detroit Tigers took seven straight or that the Milwaukee Brewers dropped five straight? What's going on in baseball this season...