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...Woodward admits that his first attempt to enter Casey's hospital room in late January was thwarted by a CIA guard. Woodward says he returned a few days later but refuses to give more details of how he got in, 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...
...book Woodward portrays Casey as a wily and aggressive director who made the CIA his personal instrument of foreign policy. In early 1985 Woodward reports, Casey went "off the books" to enlist Saudi help in carrying out three covert operations. One was the attempted assassination of Sheik Fadlallah, who had been linked to the bombings of American facilities in Beirut. After that plot failed, Woodward writes, the Saudis offered Fadlallah a $2 million bribe to cease his terrorist attacks. He accepted, and the attacks stopped...
...Woodward's account of the incident was denied last week by the Saudi press agency and by Fadlallah's office. President Reagan also denied any knowledge of the affair. "Never would I sign anything that would authorize an assassination," he said. "I never have, and I never will, and I didn't." & Meanwhile, House and Senate intelligence committees reviewed their files to see if they were misled about the CIA's role in the assassination attempt...
...Carter years, gave financial aid to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper that was shut down for 15 months by the Sandinista government before reopening last week. Past charges by the Sandinistas that the paper was CIA-supported have been denied, and Publisher Violeta Chamorro last week labeled Woodward's revelation "totally false...
...been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer involved was later fired.) There are gossipy revelations about Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi (according to CIA intelligence, he liked to wear...