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William J. Casey served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) under President Ronald Reagan. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the KH-11 imagery-sharing program with Israel from the moment he took office. Early in his tenure, he ordered that Israeli liaison officers be provided with a private office near Central Intelligence Agency headquarters to ensure all essential intelligence was turned over.1
After the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, Casey authorized a small, ad hoc committee of experts to review Israel's potential abuse of the KH-11 intelligence-sharing agreement. The review found that Israel had significantly expanded the agreement, requesting and receiving extensive KH-11 coverage of western Russia, including Moscow.1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. ↩︎