Casey, William J.

Casey, William J.

▪ United States government official
in full  William Joseph Casey  
born March 13, 1913, Elmhurst, Queens, N.Y., U.S.
died May 6, 1987, Glen Cove, N.Y.

      powerful and controversial director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1981 to 1987 during the Ronald Reagan administration.

      Casey graduated from Fordham University (B.S., 1934), studied at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and took a law degree from St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y. (1937). After working for the private Research Institute of America, Washington, D.C., he served in Europe (1941–46) with the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA), directing continental spies from London. After the war he lectured on tax law at New York University (1948–62), wrote legal and business books, and invested wisely enough to amass a fortune. He was also a partner in a New York law firm (1957–71), along with Republican Party leader Leonard Hall. After working on Richard M. Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, Casey successively became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1971–73), under secretary of state for economic affairs (1973–74), president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank (1974–75), and member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1976).

      While affiliated with the law firm Rogers & Wells (1976–81), Casey became Reagan's presidential campaign manager and was subsequently awarded the directorship of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in 1981. Under his leadership, covert action increased in such places as Afghanistan, Central America, and Angola, and the agency stepped up its support for various anticommunist insurgent organizations. He was viewed as a pivotal figure in the CIA's secret involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which U.S. weapons were sold to Iran and in which money from the sale was funneled to Nicaraguan rebels, in possible violation of U.S. law. Just before he was to testify in Congress on the matter in December 1986, he suffered seizures and then underwent brain surgery; he died from nervous-system lymphoma without ever testifying.

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