Reagan calls Casey allegations `fiction'

WASHINGTON Plunging into a welling controversy over the late CIA Director William J. Casey, President Reagan Wednesday disputed the accuracy of cloak-and-dagger activities and a so-called "deathbed confession" attributed to the spymaster in a new book by reporter Bob Woodward, exposer of the Watergate scandal.

In a brief exchange with reporters, Reagan said, "I think that there's an awful lot of fiction about a man who was unable to communicate at all, and is now being quoted as if he was doing nothing but talk his head off."

Reagan referred to the claim by Woodward, now…