MAX HUGEL AND WILLIAM CORSON INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010080-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: December 12, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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December 12, 1986 7:30 P.M.
Max Hugel and William Corson Interviewed
Washington, D.C.
ANNOUNCER: Live from Washington, Crossfire. On the
left, Tom Braden. On the right, Robert Novak. In the crossfire,
covert operations expert William Corson: and in New York, Max
Hugel, former Deputy Director of the CIA.
BRADEN: Good evening. Welcome to Crossfire.
Now it turns out that William Casey, Director of the
CIA, first encouraged Ronald Reagan to begin the secret process
of sending arms to the Ayatollah's army. Now it turns out that
William Casey was also the first to learn that the secret might
be blown. Some of Casey's friends and acquaintances had put
money in to the secret deal. They weren't getting paid off.
They were threatening to go public. So Casey went to Oliver
North and said, "Is any of that money being diverted?"
All of which leaves Washington with a suspicious
afterthought. Oliver North couldn't have dune it on his own.
Nobody agrees to that. Could anybody have dune it on his own?
Why, yes, of course: Bill Casey.
ROBERT NOVAK: You know, Tom, I would call that
introduction disinformation, except it's really part of a witch
hunt against Bill Casey, who has restored the morale and the
esprit de corps of the CIA.
And I suppose that Colonel Corson, since you don't like
him any better than Tom, you join right in that witch hunt.
Isn't it a fact, however, that there is not one shred of
evidence to indicate that Bill Casey was running this operation
on his own as a rogue elephant?
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