Investor’s Business Daily Pays Tribute to Former CIA Director; William J. Casey Institute Proudly Carries on His Legacy

(Washington, D.C.): The unique career and issues portfolio of William J. Casey were the subject of a laudatory retrospective last week in Investors Business Daily (see the attached). As it happens, this tribute coincided with the latest contribution of the institution that bears the former CIA Director’s name, the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy: The hugely successful effort to publicize and oppose the Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange by PetroChina, a subsidiary of the PRC’s largest state-owned energy corporation, China National Petroleum Company.

As this effort indicates, the Casey Institute, which was founded some four years ago on the anniversary of its namesake’s birth, represents a living tribute to his exemplary public policy contributions: the nexus between global finance, trade, energy and technology flows and traditional national security concerns. Despite the obvious and growing salience of this work program, the Institute has since its inception been the only public policy organization in the United States exclusively concerned with it.

The Casey Institute’s path-breaking “Capital Markets Transparency Initiative” and related educational activities led by its Chairman, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., have been a particularly important legacy for Bill Casey, carrying forward into the future the kind of “cutting edge” contributions this extraordinary attorney-financier-public servant made to his country. Among these were: a keen sense of how to mitigate America’s vulnerabilities while exploiting those of its adversaries; a deft understanding of economics and finance and the skill to vector these disciplines into vital national security undertakings; an exceptional ability to identify and cultivate talented individuals and recruit them into the service of the country; and an indefatigable championing of freedom, while safeguarding America against global oppressors.

In addition to Bill Casey’s chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission, presidency of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and highly successful Wall Street ventures, his partnership with Ronald Reagan literally changed the course of human events. Without their leadership and steely resolve, the bright light of freedom for some 300 million people laboring under the yoke of Soviet totalitarianism would likely have remained elusive.

As Investor’s Business Daily eloquently put it: “The most powerful director in the Central Intelligence Agency’s history wrapped up his life having had a history-changing role in the demise of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.” The Casey Institute is enormously honored and proud to carry forward the visionary work and name of this exceptional public servant.