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...praised the president for his "totalcooperation" with the inquiry and said "the onlyU.S. officials who knew of the diversion wereAdmiral Poindexter, Colonel North and possiblyDirector Casey." William L. Casey, the director ofthe CIA, died...
...Casey, it was disclosed at the hearings, had even written Reagan when the furor erupted last November to ask that he fire Shultz. Recounted the Secretary: "Everybody was saying I'm disloyal to the President . . . I could see people were calling for me to resign . . . I was the one who was loyal to the President because I was the one who was trying to get him the facts so he could make a decision...
After the Iran arms sales and the diversion of profits to the contras erupted in a public explosion last November, the bureaucratic double dealing still did not stop. Reagan ordered the State Department to take full charge of any future relations with Iran. Casey and Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost worked out an agreement under which U.S. contacts with a "second channel" (a relative of a high-ranking Iranian official) would be used only for intelligence gathering and State Department officials rather than CIA operatives would conduct the conversations. Without telling Shultz or his deputies, Casey then went through...
...first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan put the resignation in his desk and told Shultz, "Let's talk about it after you get back from vacation." The matter was dropped...
...Capitol Hill that pardons may have been considered in November as part of a deal with Poindexter and North. Congressman Louis Stokes asked Poindexter whether the question had been discussed at a Dec. 16 White House meeting between the President, Edwin Meese and the late CIA director William Casey. "I don't know anything about that," Poindexter replied tersely...