CASEY MISTAKEN IN REPORT IN FOREIGN TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 10, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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,? government.._ consent decree and were let off with
tore n Ties My reporters John Dillon and Corky a slap on the wrist, Indonesian En
Johnson-have span a ..,,.,., ?r +u- i... .-- - . --
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to invest in an Indonesian restaurant Faced with an impressive mass of
In Report on in New York City if they wanted to evidence, the Indonesians signed a
do business with his
THE WASHINGTON POST
10 November 1981
Casey Mistaken. Oil corporation, informed various oil Inc. for selling unregistered securi--~
companies that they would be wise ties
CIA` Director William J-Casey tier, more stock in the
The restaurant There
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tered as a foreign ?- the Indonesian government. would the companies, involved in the
his work for the Indonesians. make. it tough for them to operate if ola. Also by coincidence, Peter Clark,
Here's the story they didn't buy shares in the restau a former attorney in another as
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Casey's law firm, Rogers and rant. = -. law firm--Hall, Casey,. Dickler-and-t
Wells, represented the Indonesian Eventually, 54 oil -companies, Howley-was .the SEC attorney as .I
government in an embarrassing brib- shippers and energy-related firms signed to the Indonesian case.
ery case in 1977. Casey also repre- invested in the restaurant. The Clark' and other lawyers involved]
sented Indonesia in efforts to per- scheme raised more than $1.1 mil- in. the case said. Casey did not. par-.
suade the Treasury to increase cer-lion, twice what was needed to start ticipate directly in the Indonesian
thin tax breaks for oil companies up the restaurant. Several oil com- bribery case. Added. CIA : gene
doing business there. Rogers and Party executives wound up as officers counsel Stanley - Sporkin?.:."I. don
Wells registered as foreign agents in of the restaurant company. think there's an
the tax case; Casey did not, and the But Gen. Sutowo overlooked one registration. [as 'a fo eig that n
agents
Senate committee wants to know , . important technicality in his shake- required." S rkin? ign
why. down scheme: He neglected to reg- mented the "very able" Senate in pest
The bribery case was a` classic ister his stock sales with the SEC. So tigators who proed Casey's business
shakedown. Gen. Ibnu Sutowo, head the agency brought charges against dealings and. predicted they would
of Pertamina, the Indonesian state Sutowo and Indonesian Enterprises give him a,clean7bill of-health -~,A
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he nor his law, firm had` ever repre- urant will be of great benefit to ,. called 'to Indonesia, where he was
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sented'a?foreign-govemment:-- Indonesias economic development,"- 'placed under house arrest. The'co
He was mistaken,- and- the Senate he wrote, "we request all companies panies that had invested theii~'
Intelligence Committee wanted to stock
which have business =r~elationships holders' money in. the restaurant
know how Casey could have failed to with Pertamina to assist--us in this were not prosecuted: The restaurant'[
mention his own and his old law project by participating in the cap- is still' in.business,tbut it has been?
firm's ties to the Indonesian govern- ital of the restaurant .... 11 operating at a loos and is expected to] .
menu four years ago. The committee According to memos in Securities close soon.
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assured the Office on Government "
mince words. were no fines or other penalties.
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