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...life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, explains that Casey "doesn't spill his guts to anybody without a reason. If we don't ask the right question, we won't get the correct answer." One Congressman who grilled the CIA chief observed, "Casey talked like...
Casey, who appeared to be stalling Furmark, says he had conveyed his friend's complaints to Poindexter on Oct. 8. "He was surprised and concerned about it," Casey says of Poindexter. "I advised him I thought he ought to get prepared to pull the whole story together and make a public statement. He said he didn't want to do that because it was an ongoing operation. They were hoping to get some hostages out." Casey advised Poindexter to get a lawyer and then took another surprising step: he asked North whether any CIA people had been involved...
...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...
More important, though, was Master Aloian's example during the last year of his life. Faced with a frightening and insurmountable disease, he continued to pour himself into his role as master and friend of Quincy House. As the year progressed, so did his failing health. Yet he continued to eat with the students in the house, keeping up with their lives, refusing to let his infirmity sway him from his goals...
Master Aloian was an inspiration as he attended the senior dinner, graduation ceremonies, house ceremonies and 350th proceedings in rapidly deteriorating health. He was a person dedicated to others. He will be missed as a friend, a leader and an educator whose concern has been felt throughout the Harvard community...