Casey's CIA: new clout, new danger. (William J. Casey)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: June 16, 1986| Author: Manning, Robert A. | Copyright information

CASEY'S CIA: NEW CLOUT, NEW DANGER

To his supporters, William J. Casey is a savior who is leading the Central Intelligence Agency out of the wilderness into a new era of prominence and power. To his critics, he is a blustering autocrat whose impulsiveness threatens America.

On only one thing do most agree: At 73, Bill Casey has become the most influential director of the CIA since Allen Dulles, whose reign ended a quarter century ago. Along the way, he has n...

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