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...there are any of the usual politician's improprieties lurking in Powell's closet-sexual, financial-no hint of one has ever come to light. Working for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Powell did have a small role in the Iran-contra scandal, facilitating the transfer from Army stocks of one of six missile shipments to Iran. His unrevealing congressional testimony about the affair seemed "completely out of character," says Korb. But even Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-contra special prosecutor who criticized Powell's testimony in an August 1993 report for being "at least misleading," says now that "Powell didn...
...elite political insiders who have been on the Bechtel payroll is sizable. John McCone, who headed the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s, and the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s, was a Bechtel man. So was George Schultz, the former secretary of state. And so, too, was Caspar W. Weinberger '38, the former secretary of defense who now publishes Forbes Magazine...
After tying up a gallery security guard, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, managed to make off with three works by Romantic painters J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich valued at $42 million. Meanwhile, across the ocean at a warehouse on Boston's waterfront, a 1786 portrait of Thomas Jefferson worth at least $1 million was lifted from a metal and concrete safe...
...OTHER CLIENTS: Caspar Weinberger, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, Marge Schott...
Allison said he will continue consulting for Perry much as he did for Caspar W. Weinberger '38, secretary of defense under former President Ronald Reagan. Allison said he would return to teaching next fall...