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William J. Casey, the former CIA director who resigned in February after undergoing surgery for the removal of a brain tumor, has been readmitted to Georgetown University Hospital, a spokeswoman said Friday. Casey was readmitted last week for "re-evaluation" and was listed in stable condition Friday, hospital spokeswoman Robin Payes said. CBS News reported Friday that Casey had difficulty swallowing and had been readmitted for further surgery. Payes said she could not confirm that report.

A bipartisan House task force said Wednesday that it could find no credible evidence to support charges that Ronald Reagan's top campaign aides, along with then-vice presidential candidate George Bush, agreed in 1980 to supply arms to Iran in exchange for a delay in the release of American hostages until after the election. The findings clear Bush and the late William J.

FBI Director William H. Webster is among a handful of people approached by White House officials about heading the CIA, but the search has been suspended to see if William J. Casey recovers sufficiently from brain surgery, Administration sources said Tuesday. Three Reagan Administration sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a handful of people had been sounded out by White House officials about taking over the CIA if Casey cannot resume work.

A Senate investigation has failed to find "credible evidence" to support allegations that officials from Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign sought to delay the release of American hostages being held in Iran until after the 1980 elections, according to a report issued Monday.

Secretary of State George P. Shultz was among about 100 mourners who attended a Thursday afternoon wake for former CIA director William J. Casey, who died Wednesday. The body of Casey, 74, who died of pneumonia early Wednesday in the Community Hospital at Glen Cove, lay in a coffin in the parlor of his Tudor-style home, "Mayknoll," on Glenwood Road in exclusive Roslyn Harbor. Shultz and his wife arrived at the house in a seven-car motorcade, which included a large number of security officials.

Former CIA Director William J. Casey, under treatment for pneumonia, remained in a Glen Cove hospital Monday, but no further information was released because of a family-ordered news blackout.

Former CIA Director William J. Casey has been released from Georgetown University Hospital, where he underwent brain surgery for a cancerous tumor more than two months ago, a spokeswoman said Monday. Casey, 73, was admitted to the hospital on Dec. 15 after suffering a cerebral seizure at his office. He was released on Saturday.

Congressional investigators have indications that William J. Casey, the former CIA director, masterminded White House efforts to help the Nicaraguan rebels get military supplies, according to a published report. The New York Times, quoting two unidentified senators and a representative, all members of the panels probing the Iran- contra affair, said in today's editions the lawmakers did not say what specific evidence they had.

President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, will travel to New York on Saturday to attend the funeral of former CIA Director William J. Casey, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Thursday. Casey, 74, a close friend of the President, died Wednesday at Glen Cove Community Hospital on Long Island. The funeral is scheduled at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Roslyn Harbor. Burial will be at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury.

President Reagan is receiving regular medical reports on the condition of ailing CIA Director William J. Casey, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Monday. Speakes said that Col. John Hutton, physician to the President, "has kept up with the Casey situation through the doctors and briefed the President." Speakes said that the White House does not know how soon Casey might be able to return to work, but reiterated that a successor is not being sought.

A former Jimmy Carter Administration aide renewed charges today that Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iran to hold 52 American hostages until after that year's presidential election. Gary Sick, who worked on the 1980 hostage negotiations at the National Security Council, wrote in a new book that after a two-year investigation, he is more convinced than ever that Reagan campaign chairman William J. Casey struck a secret deal with the Iranian regime.

Former White House aide Oliver L. North charged Saturday that President Ronald Reagan knew the secret that lay at the heart of the Iran-Contra affair--the diversion of money from Iranian weapons sales to the Nicaraguan rebels--and lied about it to protect himself from disgrace. But North, in excerpts from his memoirs released on Saturday, offered no concrete evidence to support his charge and conceded that he never spoke to Reagan about the diversion.

Whether Robert M. Gates wins or loses, his battle for confirmation as intelligence director may mark a watershed in the 44-year history of the Central Intelligence Agency--for it has allowed Congress to inject itself for the first time into the CIA's most important function, producing secret intelligence analysis for the President.

Former CIA Director William J. Casey ordered a senior agency official not to tell the CIA's deputy director, Robert M. Gates, about arms sales to Iran during the early phases of the arms-for-hostages dealings, the senior official testified Tuesday. Appearing at Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Gates' nomination to become CIA director, Charles Allen said that Casey, acting at the behest of National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver L.

Robert M. Gates, President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, conceded Monday he should have done more in the mid-1980s to head off one of the worst scandals in the agency's history, but he assured senators he has since "learned the lessons of Iran-Contra."

Prosecutors investigating attempts to cover up the Iran-Contra scandal are concentrating on the former chief of the CIA's Central American task force and what he knows of the roles played by other CIA and Bush Administration officials. Considered one of the most promising younger officials in the agency until he was reprimanded for withholding information from Congress, Alan D. Fiers and his lawyers have been discussing a possible plea bargain with independent counsel Lawrence E.

Former President Reagan wants his 1980 campaign files searched for documents that might shed light on charges that his campaign officials conspired to delay American hostages' release from Iran. "Although I firmly believe these charges are groundless, I feel we should do all we can to clear the air of this unsubstantiated allegation," Reagan said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press.

House Speaker Thomas S. Foley indicated Monday that he may soon decide whether to launch a formal congressional inquiry into allegations that the Reagan-Bush campaign struck a secret deal to delay the release of American hostages held by Iran until after the 1980 presidential elections.