1996

Commentary on James McCullough Reflections on Bill Casey' Last Month at CIA

By David Gries

Introduction

There are only two additions and one comment I can usefully add to Jim McCullough’s vivid, evenhanded description of the events that overwhelmed CIA’s seventh floor during November and December 1986 (“Personal Reflections on Bill Casey’s Last Month at CIA.” I do want to record, however, that with customary modesty, McCullough fails to note his own steadying influence as a voice of reason and common sense during those troubled months.

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