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ashington — Wil-
liam Casey, the late
director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, was
a great admirer of the Israeli
intelligence services and for a
time even provided them with
"almost unlimited" access to
previously restricted U.S. sat-
ellite reconnaissance photog-
raphy, according to a new
book on the CIA written by
Washington Post editor Bob
Woodward.
The book, entitled Veil: The
Secret Wars of the CIA, says
that Casey overruled the
number two man in the CIA,
Bobby Inman, by authorizing
U.S. intelligence for Israel, in-
cluding information that
helped Israel destroy Iraq's
nuclear reactor on June 7,
1981.
Immediately after the air
strike, Inman "checked and
found that, under the intelli-
gence-sharing arrangement
set up with Casey's approval,
Israel had almost unlimited
access to U.S. satellite
photography and had used it
in planning their raid."
Inman, the book continues,
opposed this policy. He "didn't
see how the United States
could maintain any balanced
policy if Israel was permitted
to drop bombs all over the
Middle East using American
intelligence. He quickly
created new rules by which
Israel could get photos and
other sensitive intelligence
only for defense. Israeli access
would be restricted to photos
of those countries that posed
an immediate threat or were
on Israel's border. Baghdad
was five hundred miles away
and Off the list."
According to the book,
Casey "went along" with the
new restrictions but the CIA
director "was pleased that the
Israelis had disposed of the
[Iraqi] problem, and he ad-
mired their audacity. When
the White House expressed
shock and imposed sanctions
on Israel, witholding delivery
of several F-16s, Casey felt it
might be a necessary diplo-
matic and political gesture,
but privately he called it 'bull
Woodward, who had nearly
50 interviews with Casey in
recent years as well as access
to numerous other CIA of-
ficials and documents, reports
that the Mossad, the Israeli
intelligence service, had ex-
plored the possibility of a
sabotage operation to destroy

William Casey: Great admirer

the reactor, "but the air strike
was, correctly, determined to
involve less risk for both
Israelis and Iraqis."
Casey, the book says, saw
that Israeli intelligence had
"a special hurdle of skep-
ticism" to overcome among
CIA professionals.
"Before 1974," the book
says, "the celebrated CIA
chief of counterintelligence
James Jesus Angleton had
run the Israeli desk at the
agency, keeping vital infor-
mation from the Middle East
operations people and ana-
lysts. Even after Angleton
was fired, all Israeli in-
telligence was for years
viewed as little more than a
Mossad press release, de-
signed to serve Israel's
political goals."
But the book suggests that
Mossad, "in fact, had some
good human sources in three
places of vital significance —
Lebanon, Syria and the So-
viet Union. Casey had to
work to make Mossad credi-
ble."
The book also notes that in
"some important respects,
Israel was more sinned
against in intelligence mat-
ters." It points out, for exam-
ple, that the CIA had had
secret PLO sources that "at
times provided operational
details about PLO attacks in
Israel:'
The CIA's Directorate of
Operations "had convinced
Casey that such information
could not be passed to the
Israelis, because the sources
would dry up. It was a tough
game, and Casey admired the
way Israel accepted the rules:
sources had to be protected at
all costs. They were very so-
phisticated about this; they
realized that an ally could not
give everything."
Thus, .the book says that
Robert Ames, a top CIA agent