![]() ![]() ![]() Had Casey really spent a lot of time with Woodward, at least some of the events described in Veil would have received a decent analysis. ![]() But Veil is not an inside story it is at best an “inside-the-locker-room” story, full of the vulgar language and pseudo-informed gossip that one finds among middle-level bureaucrats pretending to know “what really happened.” Woodward’s claims to the contrary notwithstanding, it is also hard to believe that interviews with Casey had much to do with the writing of Veil, not simply because of the late CIA Director’s well-known contempt for Woodward and Woodward’s newspaper, the Washington Post, but also because of the startling lack of any informed understanding of international affairs that characterizes this book. Casey, Veil has been widely praised as an insider’s account of the secret activities of the Reagan administration. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987.ĭespite the near-total lack of documentation for most of Bob Woodward’s tales in this book about the CIA under the directorship of the late William J. ![]()
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