"', the satyrical magazine, had a book at the end of the century and... saluted that day with a fake headline from The New York Times saying "Reagan inaugurated, urges America not to put two and two together." ...[T]hat's one of the things that's so intriguing about the whole story. On some level it seems obvious on its face, and yet when you try to nail it down it was very hard to do so. ...Casey was a truly great spy and he would go in a dozen different directions at once. No one knew everything he was doing. Things were very... compartmentalized. But he would meet secretly in London with a South African arms dealer... selling arms to Iran... I went to Israel and met with who was the head of Israeli military intelligence and he said, "Oh sure, Casey and I would talk regularly." This is back at the time of the Iranian Revolution..."
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Craig Unger
(b. March 25, 1949) is an American journalist and writer. He has served as deputy editor of ' and was editor-in-chief of Boston magazine. He has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for ', Esquire magazine, and Vanity Fair magazine. He has written about the and .
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