Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its murky connections to the private contra supply network in danger of trickling exposure, along with virtually all of its other covert activities, the Administration seems destined to be debilitated for months to come. The realization that the scandal has a life of its own added new urgency to the maneuverings of Reagan's old California cronies (and of his wife) to prompt a housecleaning. Yet Reagan continues to resist. "If anything," said Senator Paul Laxalt, a longtime friend, after seeing Reagan early last week, "his heels are dug in even deeper than before." Don Regan, annoyed with someone...
...inner sanctum of his office in Langley, Va., CIA Director William Casey was interviewed last Friday by TIME Assistant Managing Editor Henry . Muller and Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. Under the ground rules, he refused to discuss sources or methods of covert operations. Repeatedly disclaiming CIA involvement or even knowledge about much of what went on, he defended what he insists was the agency's narrow role in helping the National Security Council...
...sense, he was. The CIA's fingerprints have been found all over Iranscam. U.S. arms reached Iran in CIA-chartered cargo planes. Part of the payments for the weapons went into a CIA account in Switzerland. The CIA first directed the covert arming of the contras in Nicaragua; when this was outlawed by Congress in June 1984, the agency monitored the secret resupply of munitions to Ronald Reagan's favorite "freedom fighters...
...between the Company's capabilities in ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering) and HUMINT (human intelligence gathering, meaning spies and informers), which had been given short shrift. Having been a World War II operative for the old Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's precursor), Casey has retained a fondness for covert activities, and his reputation and elan have made him a hero within the agency. Yet the high morale at the CIA is in danger of evaporating as Iranscam unravels. Says one friend: "Everything that Bill Casey has achieved could be destroyed by the Iran-contra connection...
Kelly's secret contacts with the National Security Council about covert American arms shipments to Iran and American hostages in Lebanon infuriated Shultz, who has testified before Congress that he had limited knowledge about the purchases...