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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...
Late last month two Wall Street stockbrokers, Thomas and Samuel McNeil, publicly accused Hugel of illegal stock manipulation in the mid-1970s. The timing of the McNeils' attack, so long after the events that had turned them into enemies of Hugel's, fueled suspicions that it may have...
After the Washington Post published the McNeils' charges, other papers followed up with a story about an overlooked May 19 decision by a federal judge; he had ruled that Casey and other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness venture, had misled investors about the finances of the firm...
The anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he...
Behind the scenes, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker worked to keep Goldwater's committee from appearing to lynch Casey first and give him a hearing later. While publicly supporting Goldwater, Baker urged him to appoint Fred D. Thompson, a longtime friend from Tennessee who was Republican counsel in the...