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...Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward 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...
...secrecy surrounding Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Simon & Schuster; $21.95) would have done any intelligence agency proud. Galleys of the book, written by Washington Post Editor Bob Woodward (All the President's Men), were carefully guarded. The timing of serialization rights was scrupulously calculated: Newsweek planned to print excerpts in this week's issue, while the Washington Post and other newspapers began running portions last Sunday...
...veil was lifted ahead of schedule. U.S. News & World Report somehow got hold of the galleys and, in addition to printing a story this week, issued a news release that enabled the networks and the Associated Press to air disclosures from the book last week. According to the reports, Woodward says he visited then CIA Director William Casey in the hospital before he died last May and asked him whether he had known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward...
Woodward's book, "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA," seems to shed light on a mystery that has stumped investigators for almost a year. Former White House aide Oliver North is the only other person to have said that Casey knew about the diversion of funds from arms sales to the Iranians...
...approaching to reclaim her and her children: "And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there where no one could hurt them." If she had had her way at that mad moment, Sethe would have killed all her children and then herself...