SENATE PANEL SCOLDS CASEY BUT FORGIVES HIS FORGETFULNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100550036-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: December 3, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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J.F ICLE APPEARED
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3 December 1931
STAT
Washington (News .Bureau}-The
Senate Intelligence Committee scolded
CIA Director William J. Casey yester.
day for being "inattentive to detail"
because he forgot to tell the panel
about $250,000.. in investments -and
'$500,000 in debts in his financial diselo.
sure statement.
The committee, closing its investiga-
tion of Casey's sometimes controver?
sial business activities before he took
over the Central Intelligence. Agency,
decided that despite his forgetfulness,
'the former New York lawyer is a
suitable CIA director.
For all practical purposes, the In-
telligence Committee's investigation of
Casey ended last July when the panel,
in a statement by Chairman. BarryGoldwater- (R-Aria.), pronounced .him
"not unfit" for his job. But a smallI
committee investigative staff,. headed
by a former CIA official, spent thel
following four months tying up looser
ends in the Casey probe, reaching thel
same conclusion yesterday. -= - I
Only Sen. Joseph Biden `(D.Det.)I
continued to - express doubts about]
Casey, charging--ate CIA director had-
"displayed a-. consistent pattern oft
omissions,. misstatements. and contra
dictions. ,and has Jest Myconfidence."I
Ai IOYG THE.Intelligence Commit--
tee's findings in the Casey case:.
? His answers to a committee finan.
cial disclosure questionnaire during i
his confirmation hearings last January were "deficient in several respects... 1
(lie) omitted at least: nine investments
valued at more than a quarter of a
million dollars and debts of nearly half.
a million dollars."
? Casey also failed to disclose that
Willian- Casey.-rapped on oiz eals he served on the boards of directors of!
a number" of corporations and found-4
ations nor did he mention that he wasi
involved in four civil lawsuits. Among!
the legal clients he did not disclose:
were the governments of South Korea!
and Indonesia, the report said. - - f
? His representation of Indonesia in
1976 raised a question of whether het
should have -registered as a- foreign . ',
agent. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(D-N.Y.), acting chairman of the Intelli.
gence Committee in the absence of the
ailing Goldwater, said the Justice De-
partment would be,asked for a ruling
on this point. - -
Summing up, the committee said it,.
was "concerned that-this pattern ... (of
orris
s
ions) suggests . an insufficient
?: appreciation of the obligation to pro.
vide complete and accurate informa-
tion to the oversight. committees of
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