HAIG BLAMES OUTSIDERS FOR WAR IN EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202230093-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: March 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAR D
PHILADE PHIA INQUIRER
3 MARCH 1932
By George Gedda dor, the continuing passage of goer
Assa:inted?ress riitae in and- nttt nf 7Uiraravna fnr Haig replied; ' I don't know of any
WASHINGTON -Secretary'of State advanced training .in ,sabotage e official in the. executive branch who
and. is considering
At anoth
that the military operations' of the ; ence, of high-IeVel'.guerrilla head- er point, he said the administration's
Salvadoran guerrilla movement were quarters elements,-in Nicaragua,". policy would be guided by "what is
being directed from' outside the Goldwatersaid most prudent and what is most likely
country by non-Salvadoran- forces he Casey was quote d in this week's tosucceed:
refused to identify. " issue of U.S. News & World Report as Haig was testifying on the admims-
Haig told the House Foreign Affairs saying that the insurgency in El Sal- tration's request for $8.67 billion in
Committee that he could not provide vador was being directed from Nica- foreign military and security related
more details because thls'could jeop- ragua with the help of Cuba, Viet- aid.
ardize U.S. intelligence "sources. nam, the Palestine Liberation Organ= On another issue, Haig sought to
Haig's statement emphasized the; ization (PLO) and the Soviet Union. dodge questions about whether the
Reagan administratid i'& contention' Guillermo Ungo, a leader. of the.. administration plans to sell mobile
that the turmoil in Ef-Salvador does' Salvadoran leftist groups seeking id, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles and ad.
not, result exclusively from focal . overthrow the ruling junta, has de vaned jet fighters to Jordan., Al.
'discontent: Some critics of adminis- nied that the civil war is being di though the idea has triggered fierce
tration' policy'have challenged that rected from outside El Salvador'by opposition from Israel,: Defense Sec!:
retary Caspar W. Weinberger recent
non "The who,,,
contention. people
'`The operations, of the guerrilla are directing the war are in El Salva ly d, scussed the possibility with Jor
forces inside -El Salvador are con- .. dor," Ungo, president of the Demo-?" dan s King Hussein, and the king said
trolled from external command and cratic Revolutionary Front,. said in in a television interview Sunday that
he intended to
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e United States -
an interview Monday with the Asso-
control," Haig said in'response to a y to sell him theequipment.
, ciated Press.
question from Rep
Lee Hamilton (D
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Ind.). He added that: congressional In his testimony 'yesterday, .Haig.' Haig, 'avoiding.. a confrontation
.intelligence committees recently had ;again warned that it was a "terrible with Israel's congressional support
"
to draw parallels between ers, replied with the administration's
been-briefed privately on the sub-; distortion
acct El Salvador and the Vietnam War. He? stock answer that no request had
Sena Barry Goldwater (R:, Ariz:) said the Caribbean Basin is far more, been- received from Jordan and thus
critical to American security inter. no decisions have been made.'He
chairman of the Senate I Feb. gence gists because a sizable portion of U.S._ added: "It is not prudent to get out
Diracector. CCommittee, William said that on; eb. 2s, CIS oil and.trade passes through: that fro
'. nt:with definitive statements that
had given.the panel Casey and;others region are neither timely nor called for :,, a. brifi that, "left no doubt th ttheree.is.-act ve The area is plagued by extremely He .urged Israel. to.exercise, "re
involvement by Sandinista INicara- urgent dangers" resulting from a straint and. moderation" in assessing
guanl; government officials' in sup= combination of economic problems how to respond to signs that the PLO:
and the "willingness ?of the Soviet was increasintr
port? ,of, the, Salvadoran guerrilla a its military. prepared
movement.',' Union and Cuba to manipulate irage- Hess in Lebanon. He said the PLO has
This i dies in the hopes of spreading Mar- been: acquiring arias rockets: and..
support:-: includesarrange xism-Leninism"hesaid.
ments for the use of Nicaraguan ter- tanks but suggested that ,Israel has
ritory for the inovementof arms and Rep: Stephen Solari (D. N.Y.), a been. increasing its own military
mun}lions, to .guerrillas. inEl,S.,alva- critic of administration policies in El readiness as well 7 i
Salvador, suggested that it would be '-Although the PLO bis an
logical to assume the United States "unsettling :'.thing" to:bu buildup ldu ,::Haig
eventually would send combat troops' said,. he, Hoped .that the cease-fire
to El Salvador to ensure the mainte- reached' in July along the Lebanese
nance of .a friendly government border would be observed by .boor..
sides. a :i t.,sc=
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