Oh, I agree entirely, you can't trust a politican's words. But you can make a guess as to what his motivations might be and there doesn't seem to be any reason now for Healy to cloud the issue. He doesn't have any need to toe the party line now, and if there had really been any financial/political pressure from the US at the time, you would think that'd he'd now be more than happy to say so - why wouldn't he? Surely, if there was even the slightest hint of polticial misdeeds, he'd be busy writing-up his memoirs?