WAR IN AL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301590005-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
PROGRAM First Line Report STATION WTOP Radio
CBS Network
DATE February 12, 1985 6:40 A.M.
SUBJECT War in El Salvador
Washington, D.C.
JUDY MULLER: There are echoes of Vietnam in the
corridors of power this morning, unsettling echoes of
half-truths, of alleged government deception, of playing politics
with war. In this case, the war in El Salvador. A report by
Congress's Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus accuses the
Reagan Administration of supplying insufficient, misleading, and
in some cases false information on aid to that country.
Democratic Congressman George Miller was one of the
leaders of the 130-member caucus.
REP. GEORGE MILLER: I think that this dramatically
changes the Congress' attitude toward our involvement in El
Salvador.
MULLER: More after this message.
MULLER: A report to be officially released this morning
by a bipartisan congressional caucus says economic and military
aid to El Salvador is actually prolonging that country's civil
war. But the most serious accusation:
REP. MILLER: I think it's clear that the Administration
has engaged in a pattern of deception with respect to the
Congress and the American people about our involvement in the war
and in the prosecution of the military actions in El Salvador.
MULLER: California Democrat George Miller, who says the
report charges the following:
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REP. MILLER: Unlike the claim of the Administration
that economic and humanitarian aid is three-to-one over military
aid, in fact, military aid is better than two-to-one over
humanitarian aid. Rather than 55 American advisers, which the
Congress was told was the limit in El Salvador, it is nearly
double that. And in fact, rather than a specific use of American
airplanes in El Salvador, we now find that both the number of the
planes is greater than the Congress was told and the targets are
different than the Congress was told.
MULLER: To be more specific, the report charges that
U.S.-supplied planes are indiscriminately bombing civilians
targets, villages thought to harbor rebel sympathizers.
Miller says the blame for the inaccurate information
lies with the State Department and the Pentagon.
REP. MILLER: Mr. Reagan has told the Congress and the
American people certain facts that have been given to him by
those two agencies. He believes them to be true. Unfortunately,
they just turn out not to be the case.
MULLER: The report, which was based on four months of
investigation, calls the misinformation a haunting reminder of
congressional-Executive relations during the Vietnam War.
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