THE CIA GOES AFTER THE CHURCH PAPERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2012
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• Publication Date: December 31, 1984
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The CIA Goes After the Church Papers
The late Sen. Frank Church, who as chairman of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence exposed CIA plots to overthrow
an leader
Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuban he
Fidel Castro, is continuing to cause problems
died last April, Church transferred all his official papers from
Stanford University to Boise State University in his home state of
Idaho. The CIA is anxious to see those papers, which include
materials from both his Intelligence Committee and Foreign
Relations Committee chairmanships. So on the agency's behalf, the
Information Security Oversight Office of the General Services
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Administration asked university officials to hand over any sens
documents. But the university balked. '"They told us, `Thanks, but
no thanks'," says Steven Garfinkel, director of the GSA office. Now
the CIA and the Reagan administration are searching for another
4ay to gain access to the Papers.
Wrinkles in the Agent Orange
The American chemical companies that manufactured Agent
Orange-the herbicide used to defoliate millions of acres of jungle
in Vietnam-may soon face further diTculty. The companies
have already anted up $ 180 million in an out-of-court settlement
of a class-action lawsuit brought by veterans who suffered health
problems after intense contact with the chemical. But last week
U.S. district court judge Jack Weinstein issued a preliminary
order unsealing thousands of corporate and government docu-
ments that had been obtained by the plaintiffs' attorneys as part of
the pretrial discovery process. The order does not become effec-
tive until after a hearing set for Feb. 6, and the companies are
expected to appeal vigorously. Some of the lawyers seeking to
unseal the documents say they may show what the companies and
the government knew about the damaging health effects of Agent
Orange-and when they knew it-and may well provide a damn-
ing indictment of negligence.
In and Out of Alphabet Soup
More troubles are looming for the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to
UNESCO officials, Singapore will shortly join the United States
and Great Britain in announcing its intention to withdraw from the
beleaguered agency. Although the tiny Asian nation contributes
only a small fraction of UNESCO's budget, the impact of its
departure (at the end of 1985) would be significant, since it would be
the first Third World country to voice open disapproval of the
organization. However, Singapore is not expected to echo Ameri-
can and British criticisms of excessive Soviet influence and
politicalization in UNESCO; instead, it will simply argue that its
contribution would be better spent elsewhere.
^ Meanwhile, the Reagan administration's criticism of UNESCO is
having an unexpected side effect: donations to the U.S. Committee
for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have sharply
decreased. Americans are apparently confusing the two U.N. or-
ganizations and are expressing support for the U.S. withdrawal
from UNESCO by turning Scrooge. Instead of ordering greeting
cards this year (a traditional source of revenue for UNICEF), many
former card buyers have been sending in notes saying that they
"agree with President Reagan's position." In addition, "people
are writing or phoning us to say that they're unhappy with our
policies," reports UNICEF's Felicia Fairchild. Yet when the agen-
y's fund raisers get a chance to explain the difference between
have really tried to clear up this confusion," says Fairchild. "But we
haven't had much success so far."
Judging Reagan's Candidates for the Bench
Several public-interest and consumer groups have put together
an early-warning system as part of an attempt to prevent the
Reagan administration from appointing unqualified cronies to
federal judgeships. The plan centers around a grass-roots intelli-
gence network, called the Judicial Selection Project, that will
collect tips from local lawyers on possible candidates for the federal
bench. The information will then be used to mount full-fledged
campaigns against those potential appointees who lack strong
professional credentials or who have failed to demonstrate a com-
mitment to fairness and equality under the law. The project is being
coordinated by the Alliance for Justice, a Washington-based group
whose members include Consumers Union, the Natural Resources
Defense Council and the Women's Legal Defense Fund.
The Cuban Solution
Concerned that Cuba's world-class athletes might miss yet an-
other Olympiad because of a politically inspired boycott, Fidel
Castro has proposed a change for the 1988 Games scheduled in
Seoul, South Korea. In a letter to Juan Samaranch, president of the
International Olympic Committee, Castro recommends that the
games be shared "in approximately equal parts" between North and
South Korea. Such a plan, the Cuban leader believes, might be the
only way to avert another boycott. "I don't see any other possibility
for saving the honor of the coming Games," wrote Castro.
Trimming Down Foreign Relations
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee probably will not
replace the three members it is losing because of retirements and the
1984 elections. Anxious not to deepen the ideological divisions that
hamstrung the committee on many votes in recent years, incoming
chairman Richard Lugar (Indiana) wants to keep membership at its
current level of eight Republicans and seven Democrats. Some
GOP leaders like the idea because it gives them an excuse to keep
hard-line conservatives such as Orrin Hatch (Utah) and Jeremiah
Denton (Alabama), as well as liberal Democrats, off the committee.
"There's already a lot of dead weight-and lightweights--on the
committee as it is," explains a top Democratic aide.
JOHN CAREY with bureau reports
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Weinberger's Forked Tongue
Already piqued by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's
stubborn refusal to cut the soaring defense budget, Reagan loyalists
on Capitol Hill are privately accusing Weinberger of duplicity. The
secretary has been arguing that defense cuts would seriously under-
mine U.S. efforts for an arms-control deal with the Soviets. Yet,
congressional sources say, his hard-line lieutenants in the Pentagon
have been quietly assuring conservative Republicans that the next
round of arms talks are predestined to fail. "At the same time
Weinberger was telling us how we shouldn't hurt the chances for a
deal by cutting his budget, we're being told that there's no way we'll
ranking `ill
get any arms-control agreement," complains hone"
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