NEW' CIA DEEPENS U.S. INVOLVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202000007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 5, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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known as the CIA's "Fami- of Marxist insurrection in the re- liticalap
ly Jewels," the'-private 'sins' ' .giori : between the -Panama Canal bassador
whose public airings virtually de- , and Mexico's oilfields.-;!,. Iron
stroyed the agency's scapacity=,tfor ''The tnpaigxr.coiiabines U.S. mil- __Pervised
Eight plots to assassinate.tFidel,- 4st?suliversion X& economic aid to
Castro. -Destabilization o .Salvador,. erase--the.;social.iinequixies that fuel
'Allende's .administration An,. Ch le revolutions, and::CIA' funds to at-
The Bay oVPigs. The overthrow'i f-' :tack-the perceived rootlof much of
the Diem regime In Vietnam 'the*. trouble 3iicaragua's leftist
Snooping- -yon :American,' "students. Sandinista-government._;..
Opening US: mails. '- :3n the pasttwoyears,-Reagan has
Throughout the late!' 97-0s:::--the pumped.more than.$ billion in eco-
-CIA's strong-arm specialists :moped. comic :aid:and`$218,million in -mili-
retired early or wer a fired ,,as a tary assistance into- Central Ameri-
'post Watergate Congress shined the ca - not counting the 519.5 million
bright light of morality ,on the dark for the CIA operation. -
corners of the spy underworld. The number _of U.S. military per-
But now many of the CIA's, coy- sonnel stationed in Honduras will
,ert - action experts have come in soon :rise _to.:about 300..-Fifty-five
from the cold, lured out of inactivi- U.S. military advisers-are stationed
-ty by President Reagan's vows to in .El,Salvador; and Reagan is re-
pull up America's socks in a world- portedly" considering,sending up to
wide contest with the Soviet bloc. A east 50 others-to Guatemala. Even
Reagan's "new" CIA has Costa -Rica., which doesn't have at,,
launched at least 11 covert cam- army, -has received. U.S. - military
paigns since-`he walked into the aid. ..
White .louse, by . far the highest The. economic aid requests have
number since the agency's salad- had easier, sailing.through'.Congress
?days in the 1960s, U.S. intelligence `than proposals"for military assist-
sources say. - ance., While agreeing largely on the
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rebels in
have come
who read the GOP 1980 campaign
platform.
The platform vowed Reagan
would "seek to improve U.S. intelli-
gence capabilities for technical and
clandestine collection, cogent analy-
sis. coordinated with counterintelli-
gence and covert action."
It also deplored Cuban and Soviet
intervention in Central America and
"the Marxist Sandinista takeover of
Nicaragua." More significantly, it
The biggest of ' them - in fact,. ' Marxist threat to Central America.:. promised to "support the efforts of
.the biggest CIA operation since the F members of Congress dissent heart-' the Nicaraguan people to establish a
'Bay of -Pigs --.is -in Central Ameri- ily over Reagan's accent on military free and independent government."
ca, 'where Reagan sees leftist sub- assistance. .Reagan had been campaigning
-versions being fueled by Nicaragua. Unwilling to face future charges for the GOP nomination as Central
.Cuba and the Soviet Union... , that it "lost" El Salvador. Congress America virtually' went up in
And now,, public disclosures of grudgingly. -approves only part of. flames. In mid-1979, Sandinista
the Central' American ccvert opera- , the Reagan requests for military aid.- guerrillas toppled Nicaraguan Presi-
tior, have brought new criticism, of - and wraps them in a spider's dent Anastasio Somoza. Six months
the CIA. The controversy has' web of demands for progressive re- later, Marxist insurrections explod-
-grown-into one of the most heated : forms by the Salvadoran govern-
in Washington today. ment.
Liberal congressmen want to In recent weeks, the dispute over
squash the CIA campaign. There : Reagan's .. approach to Central
are fears that it could help trigger a - America has spilled over into the
war between Nicaragua and Hon- executive branch, essentially pitting
duras. There are high-sounding ar- the National -Security Council
guments that the world's leading against officials in the State Depart-
democracy should not stoop to ment.
NSC chief William Clark and the
U.S. ambassador to the United Na-
tions Jeane Kirkpatrick, both hard-
-liners on Central America, are now
said to have the strongest voices on
policy. "
ed in neighboring El Salvador and
Guatemala.
Congressional sources with ac-
cess to intelligence information say
that a few days after the GOP
adopted its 1980 platform, several
former CIA officials began forging
the framework of a covert program
to restore the agency's "strength"
around the world.
These former CIA officials were
described as "old-timers." some of
them covert action specialists dis-
missed by the hundreds in the
1977-1978 housecleanings that fol-
lowed congressional investigations
into charges of CIA abuses - the
so-called Family Jewels.
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