10-22-95, NYPaper: "When Spies Look Out For the Almighty Buck." "The fact of the matter is that the intelligence agencies are the center where all this is put together -- the economic, the political and the security concerns," said Robert B. Zoellick, a former top State Department official who handled much of the economic portfolio in the Bush Administration. "And perhaps that makes sense, because they should have more detachment than the individual economic agencies would." "Economic Espionage." Editorial The C.I.A. has not made a convincing case why it should start from almost no base to build a center for economic intelligence and analysis when the Government can hire outside experts or look to agencies like the Treasury Department that already have more knowledgeable staffs. William Casey had many faults as Director of Central Intelligence in the Reagan Administration. But he did know a thing or two about economics. Whenever he wanted economic intelligence, Mr. Casey often said, he would ask a businessman, not an intelligence analyst. SPI_bux (14 kb)