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...hostages deal that fell apart because of the squabbling and led to disclosure of the Iran-contra scandal. That is the contention of one of the factions that are still feuding hotly over the foreign policy disaster. As reports circulated about the imminent retirement of CIA Director William Casey, who is suffering from brain cancer, the agency itself is agonizing over its handling of the Iran initiative...
...fell the task of logistical support, including transport, banking and hiring specialized agents. CIA Director Casey entrusted the task to the counterterrorism section, which in January 1986 he put under the direction of his longtime favorite, Duane ("Dewey") Clarridge. Charles Allen, the agency's chief analyst for counterterrorism, was made Clarridge's deputy...
...William Cohen, R-Maine, the committee's vice chairman, said the panel did not reach any conclusions about the testimony by White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan and CIA director William Casey...
...What it does point out is what information was conveyed by Casey and Regan to the committee. We leave it up to readers to decide," he said...
More remarkable than the outburst was the fact that after a few days of bewilderment, politicians and the press simply dropped the matter. To this day, the French parliament and public remain blithely in the dark about it. Imagine William Casey going on television to proclaim that the CIA was being dangerously subverted in the Iran arms deal -- and having the U.S. press and public let it go at that...