A WILLIAM CASEY VIEW OF WWII

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050037-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 1, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Si Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050037-7
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A William
Casey view
of WWII
THE SECRET
Nonhlct o, . WAR AGANIST HTLEA
By William Casey,
Reo!u'v Genwnc $1nam
Here is a voice from the
telling history - his way. A grave,
year
after his death, William Casey makes
his can for the cause of his final
y
lic ears: a powerful CIA secure in pub.
unhampered, b
ed, unapologetic actions, in.
cluding the combat intelligence and
guerrilla operations on which the
book centers.
Casey somehow managed to write
this book during 1985 and '86, despite
his intense CIA work and declining
health. Clearly, it meant a lot to him.
Cagey was upholding not only. the
CIA's legitimacy in American life,
buttalso?his own in the pantheon of
American intelligence heroew This
book reminds everyone that he, a
man of modest background, had
achieved much in the Office of Strs?
tegic Services - the CIA's predecm
sor - and stood as close to William J.
Donovan, the charismatic godfather
of American intelligence, as the ivy
Leaguers who had Joined the CIA
early in the cold war.
Casey is at 6he with most CM Poo.
NO in harking back to the glory days
of World War II, whet the On re.
crusted the boa and the brightest to
fight the good fight Casey does not
grasp that times have changed, that
confronting Gorbachev or Gadhafi is
hardly analogous to fighting Hitler,-
and that policy by nartalgle signifies
intellectual bankruptcy.
This book is highly uwAsuflouC its
data is shaped and' manipulated to
bolster Casey's rationale for strong
intelligence systems, and not to in.
vemigate the OSS actually ac.
p
The thrust is that powerful outside
(translation: American) support will
rouse indigenous- peoples against
their oppr asors. The analogies to
the contra war are obvious.
Nowhere does this lawyer, making
a politically tinged can, strike a bal-
ance. Writing history requires readl-
news to question received truths, So
politicalized a person as William Ca.
m
SeY memoir, but a history? Never.ng
for
the Ch
ReViewsd by n Science Monitor.
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The,Chlcego, Tribune
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050037-7