CASEY VS. KGB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820037-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 24, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820037-6
NEW YORK POST (NY)
24 August 1985
Inside
report
By ROWLAND EVANS
and ROBERT NOVAK
CASEY VS. KG
THE man administra.-
a
on's revelation of per.
U&Uy cancemn yellow pow.
der Used by the B
to
track Amer$cp in mosem
helped blanket the U.S.
doci, to conduct an &ntjs&W.
iltea weapotu test only be.
cause of Soviet delay in lssw
log a visa for a medical ex.
pert to go to Moscow and ex.
plain the frightening infor.
motion to the U.S. Embassy.
~tbeen that the tton is Washington
cleverly delayed reveaingg
the yellow powder incident.
CLA
tacit the Moment Director
tabWhed what So ~
were doing he hurried to the
White House to seek lmmedi.
ate U.S. remedial action.
He called a top-level White
House meeting for Aug. 18 to
he head just received.
evidence ranch.
President Reagan o
no
thing said until the U.S.
Ein
briefed, y could be rally
But when a visa was
pert, the for Sthe oviet ex.
vEmbassy
her* denied It for 48 hour,,
delayed the explanation, That
until Aug. 21. the day nt
?satejLte test was an.
the nOunced.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820037-6