Carroll Hawver

The Central Intelligence Agency's top covert operations official and its inspector general--both casualties of damaging revelations in the Iran-Contra scandal--are resigning, apparently beginning a long-anticipated housecleaning, sources said Wednesday. Deputy Director for Operations Clair George, a 32-year agency veteran who served undercover in Africa, Lebanon and Europe, announced his resignation at a senior CIA staff meeting Wednesday morning, sources said.

The Central Intelligence Agency's top covert operations official and its inspector general--both casualties of damaging revelations in the Iran-Contra scandal--are resigning, apparently beginning a long-anticipated housecleaning, sources said Wednesday. Deputy Director for Operations Clair George, a 32-year agency veteran who served undercover in Africa, Lebanon and Europe, announced his resignation at a senior CIA staff meeting Wednesday morning, sources said.

CIA Director William H. Webster, apparently concluding a monthlong house-cleaning of agency officials tainted by the Iran-Contra scandal, has fired two Central America undercover officers and demoted or reprimanded four other agency employees, sources familiar with the actions said Thursday.