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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000807550029-9: SOVIET THREAT TOWARD IRAN OVERSTATED, CASEY CONCLUDED

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/17: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807550029-9 WASHINGTON POST 13 January 1987 Soviet Threat Toward Iran Overstated, Casey Concluded By Bob Woodward and Dan Morgan W MImtytoo P)t ,,tdt Wro,r-, CIA Director William J. Casey concluded in a revised intelligence assessment last spring that the So- viets were less likely to attack Iran or have influence in a post-Kho- meini regime than the CIA believed in 1985, according to informed sources. Casey's amended analysis ap- pears to have called into question a primary White House rationale for the secret sale of U.S. a…