CASEY SAID TO HAVE FAILED TO FOLLOW ARMS RULE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 3, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAR
ON PAGE R-A
NEW YORK TIMES
3 April '1987
Casey Said to Have Failed to Follow
Arms Rule
By FOX BUTIERFIELD
Spedi a Ylr Now Port Timm
WASHINGTON, April 2 - William J.
Casey, former Director of Central In-
telligence, promised in writing in June
1986 to notify the Senate Intelligence
Committee of any secret United States
arms sales, but failed to tell it about the
clandestine weapons sales to Iran then
under way, Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan has disclosed.
The promise was contained in a writ,
ten agreement approved by President;
Reagan and intended to insure that the
be
Senate intei would promptly antdfinformed of all Ad-
ministration covert operations.
Iran
Senator Moynihan said the
arms sales represented a clear viola-
tion by Mr. Casey of the accord.
tion by Casey," Senator- Moynihan said.
It was in profound bad faith and
showed profound bad judgment. Here
the facts are not in dispute."
Senator Moynihan, a former 'vice
chairman of the Senate Intelligence,
Committee, provided the text of what
he termed the "Casey accords" in writ
ten testimony he had prepared to give,
to a subcommittee of the House Intelli-
gence Committee on Wednesday.
Hearing an Notification
Senator Moynihan, who was helping
lead the effort in the Senate to override
President Reagan's veto of the high-.
way bill, did not attend the hearfngsa
They were set to hear testimony
about a proposed bill that would re-
quire President Reagan to notify the
House and Senate Intelligence Com-
mittees in writing within 48 hours of ap-
proving a covert operation.
The existence of the agreements
signed by Mr. Casey had been hinted at
before, and a text of them was released
in February by.the committee at the
time of the hearings on the nomination
of Robert M. Gates to be Mr. Casey's
successor. They were not noticed at the
time or reported in the press.
Mr. Casey, who resigned as Director
of Central Intelligence earlier this year
after surgery for brain cancer, was un-
available for comment.
This accord was signed by Senator
Dave Durenberger, Republican; of
Minnesota, as chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, and -Senator
Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Ver-
mont, as vice chairman of the commit-
tee.
Mr. Moynihan added that in signing
the agreemen& with Mr. Casey, senator
Durenberger and Senator Leahy
"agreed that the procedures have
worked well and that they have aided
rr
the?committee and the D. 1. (Director
of Central Intelligence) in
re the uibii-
meet of their respective sties." Pherson, a spokeswoman for
the Central Intelligence Agency. said
she was not familiar with between
ments, but said the
Mr. Casey and the Senate committee
was "a problem between the president
and the Congress." The Presidential
finding of January 1986 that authorized
the arms sales, she said, barred Mr.
Casey from reporting them and be felt
bound by this.
ptnw am Harbor Milt
Senator Moynihan said the "Casey
accords" grew out of the furor in Con-
gress in 1964 after the disclo that
the C.I.A. had helped organize the oin-I
ing of harbors in Nicaragua Ibnehtalf
of the contras. According to the gence Oversight Act of 1980. president notify the
House and was senate intelligence eC he
authorized ' Coven foreign military or
autlho-lonxe 6 a
Intelligence operation.
..This worked well until the spring of
1984 when it emerged that the intelli-.
Bence committees had not been told of
the mining of Nicaraguan harbors,"
Senator Moynlhan said in his prepay
testimony.. IThee chairman of the Corn
mlttee. Senator Barry Goldwater, Re.
publican of Arizona, was. "outraged."
Senator Moynihan related, and he him-
self resigtned as vice chairman in pro-
test.
A few months later, in June 1984,
Senator Goldwater and Senator ita ni-
hannegotiated an accord explicit Mr. ..With the president's Gam' Calling for Mr. Casey to
agreement. c Commit-
notify the Senate Intelligence
tee .Of all covert action ra activities" for
re-
Which Presidential approval
quired. the senator said.
The agreement called for a review a
year later, and in June 1986 Mr. ic Casey
signed an amended accord in h1 he
promised to notify the Senate pane of
any covert action approved significant the 1
President IA which "sig i sup* equipment actually is to be songsup*
plied for the first time
in an operation
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