CASEY DEPUTY TAKES OVER AS NEW CIA BOSS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301260067-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: February 3, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AKIILLCprraru~~?r 3 February 1987
ON PAGE A
Casey deputy
takes over as
new CIA boss
WILLIAM CASEY: Out.
By RACHEL FLICK
WASHINGTON - Robert
Gates, a CIA official whc said
he urged, the White House a
come clean on Iranscam
months ago, was nominiated
yesterday as the spy agency's
new director. -
President Reagen chose
Gates to succeed 73-year-old
William Casey, who's recover-
ing from brain tumor surgery.
Casey was invited to be a
presidential counselor - if and
when he can return to work.
Gates, 43, has been the No. 2
official at the CIA since 1986
and has. been running the
agency in Casey's absence.
Gates - a 20-year veteran of
service in the CIA and the
White 'House National Se-
curity Council as a Soviet af-
Robert Gates, No. 2 man In the CIA, was nominated yes-
terday as the agency's new director.
fairs expert - Is %#Idely re-
spected on Capitol Hill and
likely will have no difficulty in
winning Senate confirmation.
But he's sure to be grilled
about the CIA role in Iranscam.
A Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee report Issued last week
said Gates was told by a CIA
analyst last Oct. 1 that money
from the Iran arms sale was
being diverted to Nicaraguan
contra rebels.
The report described
Gates' as "surprised
and disturbed" by the
news.
It quoted him as say-
ing that he and Casey 1
later that month
urged then-NSC ad-
vise:' John Poindexter
to have the President
go public with the
Iran initiative, rather
than let it leak out "in
dribs and drabs."
The arms-sale deal
was revealed Nov. 3
by a pro-Syrian' publi-
cation in Lebanon.
Casey testified be-
fore the Senate Intelli-
gence Committee on
Nov. 21 but did not
mention the possibil-
ity of funds being di-
verted
White House spokes-
man Marlin Fitzwater
revealed yesterday
that Casey resigned
Thursday at a meet-
ing in. his hospital
room with Attorney
General Edwin Meese
III and White House
Chief of Staff Donald
C. Regan. .
The. President off-
ered Casey's job to
Gates the very next
day In an Oval Office
meeting on "putting
the agency back on
course .following the
director's illness."
Fitzwater said Casey
first mentioned his
resignation during the
meeting last week and
"offered it voluntarily."
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/15: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301260067-4