WHO, ME?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201450002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 1, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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fairs, D'Aubuisson took along a copy of his
country's new constitution, a document he
might well carry on his person at all times,
so great is his reverence for it.
This is obviously not the thug who went
before the Kissinger Commission last Octo-
ber and outraged its members with his
casual dismissal of charges that he fingered
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D'AUBUISSON
The Washington D'Aubuisson exchanged
chitchat with Secretary of State George
Shultz about electoral turnouts. Shultz, he
said, was frankly envious of the 85 percent
turnout in El Salvador's recent exercise.
"How do you get so many to go to the ballot
box?" was the Shultz quote rendered in
D'Aubuisson's staccato Spanish.
When he went to see Langhorne Motley,
assistant secretary for inter-American af-
AJ. Roberto D'Aubuisson came
to town 'as such a zealot for
constitutional government, human
rights and the democratic process
t that you might'have thought he was a
victim of mistaken identity.
Little Caesar suddenly turned up
,,-.claiming to be Tiny Tim.
Our former ambassador called the
jockey-size major "a pathological kill-
To many in Congress, he is "Murder, as communists on television certain citizens
Inc.," leader and organizer of the death who later turned up dead. AFL-CIO Presi-
squads that have claimed some 40,000 civil- dent Lane Kirkland took particular exception
ian lives in El Salvador since 1979. to D'Aubuisson's practice, since one of its
But at a steamy press conference, spon- targets was a land reformer sponsored by
sored by and packed with fans from the U.S. labor unions.
Young Americans for Freedom, D'Aubuisson "Many I mention are not killed," D'Au-
was giving moral judgments about another buisson replied arrongantly.
politician on tour, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. D'Aubuisson is going to support El Salva-
Did the Jackson mission to Central America dor's new president, Jose Napoleon Duarte,
improve the chances for peace? An expres- as long as Duarte "remains within the con-
sion of total satisfaction passed over his taut stitutional parameters." The bloodthirsty
fascist-fancier, who is running for re-elec-
tion, somehow thinks there are votes in
championing an admirer of Hitler.
In his previous. incarnation, D'Aubuisson
expressed to German reporters his regard
for genocide: "You realized that the Jews
were responsible for the spread of commu-
nism, and you began to kill them."
D'Aubuisson's admiration was echoed by
another public figure who played a squalid
role in our domestic politics. Jesse Jackson
refused for too long to disclaim the Rev.
Louis Farrakhan who regards Hitler as
"wickedly great," and who, while Jackson
was dickering with Fidel Castro in Havana,
called Judaism, a "dirty religion."
Jackson, the liberator, was a prisoner of
his fear that if he repudiates Farrakhan, it
would cost him some support in his hopeless
quest for the presidency. Ronald Reagan is a-
fellow hostage, powerless in the grip of his
bizarre Central American policy. He -let
D'Aubuisson into the country because if he
didn't, he feared the little major would re-
vert to his former self - when the guns did
the talking.
little' countenance. crusader wh9 campaigned on a platform of
"If he is doing it for moral reasons," he
said condescendingly, "he is perfectly enti- exterminating the rebels did not mention
tled to do so. If for political reasons, then he
is out of place." communists and reacted mildly to questions
about his support for Duarte's vague plans to
t with the erillas
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On "Nightline," he told Ted Koppel that
he knows nothing about the plot against
Bishop Oscar Romero - the prelate was
murdered as he was saying mass in 1980 -
and, although U.S. officials suspect his in-
volvement, even less about the more recent
cabal to knock off our present ambassador,
Thomas C. Pickering, whom he graciously
referred to at his press conference as "a
friend."
As for his complicity in various other mur-
der plots, he said they were made by "a paid
accuser" - a concept that pained one of his
delicate sensibilities.
His pitch can be described in a single
word: "Moll"
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But who made those charges that the CIS
ha ght the electim for And who
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squads against democracy?" It must have
been somebody else. The vistin statesman
knows virtually nothing about it. e most
he could say was that there were "popular
rumors" about the Venezuelan Institute. for
ration as a front for the CIA,
But, you see, it doesn't really matter, said
the convert piously, "Votes cannot be
bought - they represent the solemn will of
the people."
It was all a bit thick, but D'Aubuisson's
coach in reputation restoration is Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.), a man for whom the word
excess has no meaning. The Senate's leading
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