Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey managed only 19 words. But before drifting off to sleep, he seemed to clear up one of the chief mysteries in the Iran-contra scandal...
...seen her late husband in the hospital. Ronald Reagan branded Woodward's account an "awful lot of fiction." Others questioned whether, even if true, Casey's dying nod and the tantalizingly ambiguous "I believed" were enough to close the books on the CIA director's involvement in the Iran-contra affair. Though Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified in July that Casey had embraced the diversion as the "ultimate covert operation" and many suspect he was the mastermind behind it, Casey had never publicly admitted knowledge of the operation...
...presumably to protect the insider who helped him. He denies that he used an alias or disguised himself as a doctor. "Why was I the only journalist who tried to visit the hospital when Casey held the key ((to a central question in the Iran-contra affair))?" asks Woodward. "It's Journalism...
...Reagan also was to relay his concerns about the regional accord and discuss his Contra request "as an insurance policy for implementation" of the agreement, the press secretary said...
Fitzwater denied that Reagan has arrived at a new set of guidelines--beyond those included in the regional plan--that would be used to judge Nicaragua's compliance with the peace accord and determine whether to send further Contra...