Word: iran-contra
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...says in his new 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...
...Governor is no charisma candidate. His principal appeal is his reputation as an efficient manager, and he has been pushing that appeal for all it is worth. For example, Dukakis has derided Ronald Reagan for being dangerously unaware of what the White House staff was doing during the Iran-contra affair, yet in the first crisis of his campaign, the Governor appeared ignorant of what his own campaign staff had been up to. If Dukakis had fired Sasso immediately, he might have looked decisive; if he had kept Sasso on, he might have got credit for gritty determination. Instead...
Sheehan's said his speech was based on evidencehe accumulated in a federal circuit court suitthat charges Iran-contra figures including Gen.John K. Singlaub, Gen. Richard Secord, Contraleader Adolfo Calero, arms dealer Albert Hakim and25 others of wide-ranging organized criminalactivity. The case is currently being heard inFlorida in the Eleventh Circuit Court...