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Article: Casey Depicted As Overseer; North Ties CIA Chief To Range of Actions Series: The Iran-Contra Hearings: The Eighth Week
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- The Washington Post
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- July 9, 1987
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The guiding hand behind secret Iran-contra operations, Lt. Col.
Oliver L. North testified yesterday, belonged to the late CIA
Director William J. Casey. By North's account, Casey was effectively
his personal case officer from 1984, when the secret contra supply
operation was "almost drawn up" by Casey, until early last November,
when Casey suggested that it was time to "get rid of things . . .
clean things up."
North said Casey was fully informed about, supported and was
"effusive" in praising the plan to divert funds from the Iran arms
sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. Casey called the diversion scheme
"the ultimate irony, the ultimate covert operation," North said,
because it diverted ...