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...hardly a ringing endorsement, but that statement by a sour Senator Barry Goldwater nevertheless ended a two-week furor in Washington over the fitness of William Joseph Casey, 68, to stay on as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which Goldwater leads, promised to push on with its investigation of Casey, but Ronald Reagan's former campaign manager clearly had won, on points, one of the nastiest brawls in Washington since the President took office. In a broader sense, however, everyone lost. Casey remained under suspicion. Goldwater and other Senators who attacked Casey prematurely...
...Casey battle involved a complex mixture of personal and institutional motives, the springing of leaks and planting of misinformation, and a web of backstage intrigue that tended to obscure the real reasons for the struggle. As pieced together last week by TIME correspondents, the inside story reflects little glory on any of the participants...
...drama was the increasingly crusty Goldwater, who considers himself the Senate's leading expert on intelligence. The venerable (72) Arizona Republican was miffed when the Reagan transition team failed to consult him last January on who should head the CIA. He did not like the choice of Casey, a wily and tough Washington operator, to direct the agency. Casey made matters worse by virtually ignoring both Goldwater's committee and the House Intelligence Committee, which take their duties to oversee the CIA seriously. He even curtailed the CIA's congressional liaison staff...
Within the agency, philosophical fights were brewing too. One faction, including Casey's top deputy, Admiral Bobby Inman (who had been Goldwater's choice to head the agency), advocates more emphasis on "pure" intelligence gathering and analysis-calling the world as the agency sees it, whatever the conflicts with Administration policy. Other officials feel that the agency should tailor its reports to the decision-making needs of the President. Casey was seen by some as reflecting this view. When a CIA report failed to detect the degree of Soviet influence over worldwide terrorism that the White House...
...work relating to the Soviet Union would be consolidated in a single and probably dominant directorate. At present, responsibility for Soviet affairs is parceled out to directorates that deal with intelligence gathering, analysis and covert operations. The reorganization was first pushed by Max Hugel, the man whom Casey chose to head clandestine operations-a wheeler-dealer from New Hampshire who was widely viewed inside the CIA as a political amateur and incompetent spymaster...