CIA'S CASEY HAD OVER 100 CLIENTS, SENATE LIST SHOWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100270064-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: August 28, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
28 August 1981
CIA's Casey Ha
Over 100 Clients,
Senate List Shows , j
By Charles R. Babcock
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CIA Director William J. Casey= has filed a new
"list with the Senate Intelligence ;Committee of
.more than 100 legal clients` including large cor
' potations such as Pan Mn, Kennecott Copper and i
''Merrill Lynch and the*lgovernments`of Indonesia;
'and South Korea.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Aria.), chairman of.
.
the committee,` sent 'the new listing to the secre-
tary of.the-Senate yesterday, noting that it sup--plemented what Casey had supplied the commit-`:
tee- at his 'confirmation hearing early this year..
The earlier submission- covered only 'the last two
y~ears.r
Casey's- former- law firm, Rogers "& Wells or
New York, told the committee the list represented
{clients for which. Casey "had billable time or oth-
erwise received credit" from 1976 to 1981.
Casey came under intense criticism in Congress
last month after Max Hugel, his choice to run the
CIA's clandestine arm, was forced to resign be--,
cause of allegations of financial wrongdoing while
a businessman. Goldwater and other senators
-:called for Casey's resignation because of errors in.
judgment but, after a. hearing July. 29, agreed he
was fit to serve r - + J
-A CIA spokesman declined to comment` on the
new list yesterday. The committee staff is check-
ing Casey's records' I while preparing" a report' on
-,the.Hugel affair that is expected to be `completed'
,goon after the Senate reconvenes in.two weeks.
= 'A-Justice ''Department-official said. yesterday
that Rogers & Welk was a registered foreign agent
for Indonesia., in apd 1978, trying to obtain
"U.S. foreign . tax credits for Indonesian income
taxes paid by U.S. oil companies." Casey's new list
of clients also included Pertamina, the Indonesian
national oil company.
It could not.be learned immediately whether
Casey had registered separately as a foreign agent=
or whether he would have been required to do so.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/28: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100270064-5