William J Casey (1913 - 1987)

Born 13 Mar 1913 in Elmhurst, Queens, New York

Ancestors

Died 6 May 1987 at age 74 in New York, United States

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Biography

Preceded by Stansfield Turner

Director of Central Intelligence William Casey 1981-1987

Succeeded by William Webster

Bill Casey is Notable.

William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 – May 6, 1987) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community and personally directed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

He was involved with the October Surprise^{[1] [2][3]} and Iran-Contra^[4]

Casey, along with broadcaster Lowell Thomas, Republican leader Thomas Dewey and others, started Capital Cities in 1954. Serving as the company’s chief counsel, Casey was also a board member until 1981, when he was appointed by Reagan to head the CIA. When Casey was forced to put his stocks in a blind trust in 1983, he quietly kept control of his largest single holding: $7.5 million in Cap Cities stock.

In November 1984, in his official capacity as CIA director, he asked the Federal Communications Commission to revoke all of ABC’s TV and radio licenses, in retaliation for an ABC News report that suggested the CIA had attempted to assassinate U.S. citizen Ron Rewald in Honolulu, Hawaii. (ABC News, 9/19/84, 9/20/84). In February 1985, the CIA asked the FCC to apply Fairness Doctrine penalties to the network. The following month, ABC was bought by Casey’s Cap Cities. (See “The Seizing of the American Broadcast Company,” by Andy Boehm, L.A. Weekly, 2/20-26/87.) ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/
2. ↑ https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_cr/h920205-october-clips.htm
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
5. ↑ https://fair.org/extra/capital-citiesabc/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2570/william-casey

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rewald