European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 27, 1987 the stars and stripes Page s Book says Casey knew from the Start of diversion of funds to Contra rebels Washington up a dying Cia director William Casey acknowledged to Washington Post Edi Tor Bob Woodward Ihal he knew All along about the diversion of profits from Iran arms sales to the Nicara Guan rebels . News and world report said Friday. Woodward the author of veil the secret wars of the Cia about in be published wrote thai he Visi cd Casey Ai Georgetown University Hospital and asked him about the Scandul Ihal was enveloping the Reagan administration. Woodward who with Carl Bernstein unearthed the watergate scandal wrote that almost rhetorically he asked Casey if he had known about the diversion scheme from the Start. Casey nodded yes. Woodward then asked Why. And Casey replied i Woodward asked. Whal Casey repealed i believed then fell Ait Cep. The Book is to he published ocl. 9. Galley proofs were obtained by . News and world report which released a Story Friday about the Book. The washing ton Post is planning to run excerpts from the Bonk starting sunday. The work focus s on the Cia especially under inc stewardship of Casey and its worldwide operations. Among inc Book s allegations the Cia had informal Ion thai egyptian president Anwar Sadat used drugs and had anxiety attacks saudi Crown Prince fahd drinks heavily and libyan Leader Moa mar Qaddafi likes 10 dress in women s clothes. Casey was president Reagan s Campaign manager in 1980 and became Cia Chi Fin 1981. He ran the Agency until he resigned on feb. 2 Alicr undergoing brain cancer surgery Las dec 18. He died May 6. Specific descriptions of Casey s role in inc Iran con tra scandal have come Only from other key figures most notably Marine a col. Oliver North and Allor nay Genera Edwin me Csc during the congressional hearings this summer Casey himself told Congress Early last december thai the Cia had nothing to do with inc i ran Contra operations. But North said an enthusiastic Casey knew from the Start in january 1986 about inc scheme to funnel millions of dollars in profits from arms Sain to Iran through Swiss Bank accounts to the Contra rebels fight ing to overthrow Nicaragua s government. Mccase however said thai in a conversation nov. 25 the Day the attorney general revealed the diversion Casey expressed Surprise at the news of the scheme and insisted he had never heard about it before. Woodward s Book apparently affirms North s ver Sion of events and May provide however cryptically the rationale for Casey s involvement. The Cia director. Like Reagan was a firm believer in supporting rebel movements fighting communist governments Bui the primary revelations in veil Are Aboul the Cia itself at one time or another the spy Agency had on its payroll such figures As lebanese president Bashir com Acyl who got s10 million for his militia. Gamay cd was killed in a september 1982 bomb blast. Under Casey the Cia had More than 25 spies in the soviet Union and other Warsaw pact nations including a High level source inside Moscow s aeronautical technical Institute after the Cia supported a failed Effort financed by saudi Arabia to kill inc Leader of the violently Ami . Hezbollah group in Lebanon the Agency and its saudi allies tried bribery. After j2 million was passed to the Hezbollah Leader violence against . Interests in Lebanon ceased. Despite his loyalty to Reagan Casey found inc president Loo passive and indecisive. Casey believed that Reagan was comparatively friendless except for his wife Nancy Casey aspired to be Sec Ciary of stale and once suggested in a classified letter to Reagan that Secretary of slate George p. Shuttz be fired. The so called second channels that North and others used in the 1 ran Contra affair were a Nephew of Hashemi Raf Anjani speaker of the iranian parliament and the director of intelligence in the iranian prime minister s office. That official was not named. Aid programs especially those to establish Modem communications networks and strengthen Security and Palace defense forces were used to increase Cia penetration in third world countries. A Cia investigation into the car bombing of the american embassy in Beirut in 1983 came to a halt after a suspect died under too vigorous interrogation with a Callic prod. The Cia under Casey launched at least a dozen coven operations around he world. Cia spokeswoman Sharon Foster said the Agency had not seen the Book and could not comment on u. After we be seen the Book we can t even guarantee that we re going to make a comment she said. Fireworks Plant blast set off in apparent suicide Rialto Calif. A an explosion heard 30 Miles away levelled a Bunker at a fireworks Plant Friday after an employee identified As Eric w. Garcia 24, called his wife and told her to look out of her window officials said. Police ale Ned by Garcia s wife Mary were 1 a Miles from the celebrity fireworks co Plant when inc Bunker blew up at 1 55 fire capt Randy Ammons said. The explosion which caused extensive damage and injured two people occurred in a mile Square area shared by at least i rec fireworks firms for storage and production of explosives. Last july an explosion Al Astro Pyro Technics in he same area killed one Man and set off a Chain reaction of other blasts. The Fate of Garcia was not immediately known. Firefighters found Bone fragments in the debts Ammons said. Police chief Raymond e Farmer said Garcia s wife reported that he had said something like look out your window. You re going to Sec something you be never seen Garcia had been living in a Plant of fice where a sleeping bag was found authorities said. His wife icy were having firemen search through rubble left by explosion in fireworks storage Bunker. App to marital difficulties and Ihal she feared for his safety and mental Ammons said. We can Only surmise thai it was a suicide attempt by or. Garcia he said. The 25-by-60-foot Bunker contained hundreds of pounds of Black powder and hundreds of Aerial fireworks shells am Mons said. Concrete and other debris was Flung hundreds of Yards and win Dows were broken up to four Miles away. Ammons estimated that a dozen Struc Tures of various types were destroyed in the Sam Rural area 55 Miles East of los Angeles and a dozen structures were damaged. The fire was controlled in 45 minutes and Coroner s and sheriffs investigators scoured the rubble for human remains. It just rocked the building said Dave Dowling a spokesman for the san Bernardino county emergency communications Center where the blast was Felt la was incredible. We be had Calls from As far As 30 thai heard the injured in Friday s explosion were an employee Al nearby Trojan fireworks the Parent company of Asiro pyrotechnics and a woman who lived nearly a mile away who was hit by flying Glass Dowling said. Both were treated and released he said. Sessions of d As Fri head in unanimous Senate vote Sands of time Washington up the Senate unanimously confirmed . Judge Wil Liam sessions on Friday for a 10-year term As Fri director making him the fourth head of the crime fighting Federal Bureau. Sessions chief judge of the Western District of Texas was confirmed 90-0 after three minutes of debate that included Praise from Texas Sens. Phil Gramm a Republican and Lloyd Benison a Democrat who lauded his record and his credentials for heading the Fri. Bin Lson called sessions a distinguished Jurist and said the country was exceedingly fortunate to have him As director of he Fri Gramm said sessions career has been marked with knowledge integrity president Reagan nominated sessions after a Long search to replace William Webster who in turn replaced the late William Casey As head of the Cia. At a one Day confirmation hearing earlier this month. Sessions vowed to maintain the Independence of the Fri. John Otto has served As acting Fri director since Webster s departure. In 1974. President Gerald Ford appointed sessions to the Federal court in e paso Texas. In 1979, he moved to san Antonio to replace . Dis Ricl judge John Wood after Wood known As maximum John for his harsh sentences in drug cases was assassinated. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1947 Britain s colonial Secretary told the 55-Nalion Palestine com Mittee in Lake Success n.v., that Britain would not implement by itself or with other nations jointly any United nations solution to the Palestine problem that was not agreeable to both arabs and jews 30 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1957 the Senate rackets commit Lee agreed to postpone indefinitely further questioning of teamster vice president James r. Hoffa. Hofta s lawyer had asked for More Linc to familiarize himself with a Federal grand jury s perjury indict ment against his client. 20 years ago today. Sept. 27,1967 a tentative settlement was announced in the new York cily teachers strike that had All but paralysed the nation s largest Public school system for 12 Days. 10 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1977 Secretary of state Cyrus r. Vance urged the Senate to Vole for ratification of the Panama canal treaty which president Carter had signed sept. 7,
