WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100040003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: BIO

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Born 13 March 1913, New York City
1919-30 Public and parochial schools, New York City and Long Island
1934 Fordham University, B.S.
1935 Catholic University of America - Social Work
1936-37 New York City Welfare Department - Social Worker
1938 St. John's Law School, J.D.
1938 Research Institute of America - Editor of Federal Tax Coordinator
1939-40 In Washington working on pre-World War II industrial mobilization;
assisted Leo Cherne on book, Adjusting Your Business to War
1940 Research for Tom Dewey - Pre-convention Dewey for President
1940 Research, speechwriting - Wilkie campaign
1940-41 Research Institute of America - Chairman, Board of Editors
1941-42 Set up Washington Office for Research Institute, edited Business and
Defense Coordinator, War Research Report
1941 Army and Navy Munitions Board - Consultant
1942 Consultant, Board of Economic Warfare - Preemptive buying of
strategic materials
1943-45 Office of Strategic Services - First as Naval Lieutenant and later
as civilian
Special Assistant to General W. J. Donovan, Washington, DC
Aide to David Bruce, London
Chief, Secretariat, London - received Bronze Star for coordinating
support and operations of French Resistance in support of Normandy
landings and liberation of France
1944-45 Chief, OSS Intelligence, European Theatre
1946-51 Chairman, Board of Editors, Research Institute of America
1948 Founder, later Chairman, American Friends of Russian Freedom
1948 Research, Delegate Hunter, Dewey for President
1948 Associate General Counsel, European Headquarters, Marshall Plan
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1951-71 Founder, in collaboration with Prentice-Hall, Editor and Chief
Executive of Institute of Business Planning, a publisher of
business, financial and legal information services and books -
created and earned royalties on seven or eight loose-leaf services
and some 30 books in this capacity
1951-71 Venture Capitalist - participated in founding and developing some 25
enterprises (see disclosure to Senate Banking Committee at 1971
confirmation hearing)
1952 Research and speechwriting - Taft for Presidential Nomination
1952 Research and speechwriting - Eisenhower election campaign
1952-71 Partner, law firm of Hall, Casey, Dickler and Howley, and
predecessors
1953-54 Assistant to Leonard Hall, Chairman of the Republican National
Committee
1954-71 Co-Founder and Director, Capital Cities Communications
1956 Assistant to Leonard Hall, Campaign Manager - Eisenhower for
President
1958 Founding Director, National Strategy Information Center
1959-60 Assistant to Campaign Manager, pre-convention and election - Nixon
for President
1960 Founding Director, National Strategy Information Center - stimulated
course and chairs for national security studies on some 200 campuses
1964 Executor of the estate of the owner of Human Events, ran it for
close to a year, and worked out plans to turn it over to the writers
who are still the owners
1964 Worked with Leonard Hall and Fred Scribner on possible Romney and
Scranton candidacies and ran Nixon primary campaign in Oregon
1965 Founding Director, Center for the Study of the Presidency
1966 Primary candidate for Republican nomination for Congress on Long
Island
1966-71 Chairman, Executive Committee and then President, International
Rescue Committee
1968 Romney and Nixon Pre-convention, Nixon election campaign
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1968-71 President and then Chairman, Long Island Association
1969 Presidential Task Force on International Development with David
Rockefeller, Cardinal Cooke, Earl Butz and Rudy Peterson
1970 General Advisory Committee on Arms Control with John McCloy, Dean
Rusk, Cy Vance, Harold Brown, and Doug Dillon
1971-73 Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
1973-74 Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
1974-76 Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States
1976 President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
1976-77 Chairman, Task Force on Capital for Small and Growing Businesses,
Ford Administration
1976-80 Founder, Center for International Economic Policy Studies - now
Manhattan Institute
1976-81 Counsel, Rogers and Wells
1976-81 Director, Capital Cities Communications
1977 Chairman, Blue Ribbon Panel on Governance of American Stock Exchange
1977-79 Co-chairman, Citizens Commission on Indo-Chinese Refugees
1977-81 Chairman of Executive Committee, Long Island Trust Company
1979-80 Vice Chairman and then Chairman, Reagan Presidential Kick-Off Drive
1980 Campaign Director, Reagan for President Primary and Election Campaign
1980-81 Chairman, Reagan Transition
1980-81 Chairman, Interim Foreign Policy Assessment Board
1981- Director of Central Intelligence
present
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Books
Numerous books on legal and financial subjects
American Tour of the American Revolution
Awards
William J. Donovan Award
St. John's Gold Medal
Honorary Degrees
Fordham University Adelphi University
St. John's University Polytechnic Institute of New York
Chung Ang University Westminster College
New York Law School Bryant College
Molloy College Long Island University
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