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Article: William Joseph Casey
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 7, 1987
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IN WASHINGTON, it often seems, you're only as good as your last
official job, and that is why most of the obituary comment on William
J. Casey, who died yesterday at age 74, centered on his work as
intelligence chief for President Reagan. He rode into the
administration on the wheels of a common view-actually much
exaggerated-that the Central Intelligence Agency had been gutted and
rendered useless by Congress in the wake of Vietnam. Mr. Casey then
proceeded, as his friends put it, to "restore" the agency to its
intended place in the Washington firmament: budget increases, status,
lots more operations, policy activism, a leadership role in the
anticommunist struggle and the rest.
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