William J. “Bill” Casey served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. Within KiriPedia’s source corpus he is referenced principally as the founder of the CIA National Resources Division, the agency’s domestic intelligence-collection arm.[1][2]
Casey is characterized as “the notorious criminal that he was” — but as having been “actually right on” about the National Resources Division concept. His insight: large numbers of patriotic American businesspeople routinely travel to “denied areas” — countries such as China, the Soviet Union, and Cuba where the CIA cannot maintain a clandestine presence — and would willingly debrief on what they had observed if asked overtly.[2][3]