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...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in 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...
...knew, didn't you?" Woodward asked, inquiring whether Casey was aware that funds from the sale of arms to Iran were being diverted to the Nicaraguan contras. "His head jerked up hard," Woodward writes. "He stared, and finally nodded...
...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...
...article does not specify when Woodward's hospital visit occurred...