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    Veil

    By Bob Woodward

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    Veilis the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781471109874
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    Bob Woodward

    DR BOB WOODWARD was born in 1947 in Gloucester, United Kingdom. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a co-worker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a centre of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He remained within the Camphill Movement for some forty years, teaching children with special educational needs, retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50 and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books, including Knowledge of Spirit Worlds, Journeying Into Spirit Worlds and Karma in Human Life. He has been married for some 46 years and has five grown-up children and currently ten grandchildren.

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      Woodward provides deep journalism on the work of the US Central Intelligence Agency, "CIA". President Ronald ("Nancy") Reagan appointed William J. Casey as DCI ("Director of Intelligence"). The book covers the period of Casey's service from 1981 to 1987 when he was forced to resign.Casey was DIA Director and responsible for the dramatic expansion of programs unprecedented in American traditions: He conducted (1) Covert wars, involving actual boots on the ground, and (2) Disinformation campaigns, which deliberately lied to the American people and destroyed the Congressional oversight required by the Constitution. The unauthorized wars, and disinformation, coupled with clandestine relationships with both domestic and foreign powers created "time bombs" with both immediate and long-term effects. Woodward documents the conduct as well as the harmful impacts. I was left with the conviction that the Reagan administration was not only left un-informed, because of a failure of intelligence, but was also deliberately and intentionally subverting the Constitutional structure of oversight and rules of law.The specifics revealed by Woodward are convincing. He enjoyed access to Casey himself in numerous interviews, even long after he had resigned in disgrace and was dying in the hospital. Morever, since the book was written, the data has been largely corroborated by writers whose work is more associated with "history" than with Woodward's "journalism", such as Kessler ("CIA at War"), and admissions by Wm Donnelly, the CIA Head of Administration. The entire Reagan administration came under scrutiny and most of the officials at the highest levels were convicted of perjury and other felonies. Many of these crimes were enabled or solicited by Casey, and Iran-Contra was only the tip of an iceberg of expensive and wrongful abuses of power.Woodward had the opportunity to meet with Casey after the facts and cover-ups had been exposed, hoping there would be "an admission of some kind or an apology" acknowledging the damage or his understanding. [506] "It hurts", Casey said. "What you don't know."