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Article: CIA's William Casey: A stranger to honesty
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 7, 1990
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Casey From the OSS to the CIA. By Joseph E. Persico.
Viking. $24.95.
The mythomaniac, the neurotic, the flamboyant braggart, the
impulsive mystifier, the permanent adolescent and other unsavory
types seem to find their way unerringly into intelligence
organizations.
- Sanche de Gramont, The Secret War (1962)
Ultimately the policies of a country determine the moral tone of
its intelligence. But it can work the other way round: the moral
tone of its intelligence can sour its policy. When William Casey,
the venture capitalist who began accruing millions with books
teaching businessmen minimal compliance with the law, took over the
Central Intelligence Agency in 1981, it was ...