EX-CIA CHIEF BEING MEDICATED, FED VIA TUBES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000706370002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 24, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
24 March 1987
Ex-CIA Chief Being Medicated, Fed vii. Tube's
New Procedures Indicate Poor Response to Cancer Treatment
--% By Michael Specter'
Doctors at Georgetown Univer-
sity Medical Center have inserted
tubes into the brain and stomach of
former Central Intelligence Agency
director William J. Casey to admix-
ister cancer treatment and help
feed him, the hospital reported yes-
terday.
Medical experts said the proce-
dures suggest that Casey, who had
a brain tumor removed Dec. 18,
was not responding well to treat-
ment.
"I would be worried that they
require a feeding tube," said Dr.
William R. Shapiro, professor of
neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center in New
York. "It means he is not able to
eat, and that suggests he may be
sicker than we think."
Officials at Georgetown would
not respond to specific questions
about Casey's condition, other than
to describe it as "stable." Casey, 74,
was readmitted Friday and will re-
main there another week, according
to the statement released by hos-
pital officials.
Although it is not unusual to ad-
minister chemotherapy through a
tube to the brain, it is far more
common for patients to receive
shots intravenously to treat lym-
phoma, the type of tumor Casey had
removed, doctors said yesterday.
Casey had been receiving radi-
ation treatment, but several cancer
specialists had encouraged his phy-
sicians to complement it with che-
motherapy. Hospital spokesmen
said after Casey's operation that he
was having trouble speaking and
had weakness on the right side of
his body.
Friends of his family and other
sources, however, have said
Casey's condition has deteriorated
since then.
"My guess is that the nature of
the problem must have changed in
some way," said one cancer special-
ist who,# saying he had little new
information about the case, asked
not to be named. "They are not just
treating the brain tumor at this
point."
The specialist added that if doc-
tors had inserted the tube into
Casey's spinal fluid to treat him, it
would indicate that he may have a
tumor located in the spinal fluid.
Casey suffered a seizure Dec. 15
while working at CIA headquarters
in Langley. He was taken to the
Georgetown hospital a day before
he was scheduled to appear a sec-
ond time before the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence concern-
ing the Iran-contra affair.
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