CIA MANUAL BASED ON VIETNAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440061-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: October 30, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTL'N POST
30 October 1984
CIA. Manual Based on Vietnam
lording in Nicaragua Booklet Similar to '68 `Lesson Plans'
By Joanne Omang
J Wa+n ngtnr. Post Scat} Writer
investigation into that question to-
day to CIA Director William J.
Casey, Moynihan said.
Senate intelligence committee of-
ficials have said hearings on the or-
igins and authorship of the Nicara-
gua manual would be scheduled af-
ter the inspector general's report
was given to the panel. Yesterday,
they said no hearing is likely before
next Tuesday's general election.
Moynihan said it is still unclear
whether the Fort Bragg lesson
plans were used to train U.S. troops
in guerrilla warfare or merely
sought to describe existing methods
used by the Vietcong, the North
Vietnamese and other U.S, adver-
saries. in Vietnam. They cite the
late Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung,
Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
and assorted U.S. sociologists. "We
plan to ask them about that,"
Moynihan said.
He noted that other, more recent
copies of psychological warfare
manuals do not contain recommen-
dations for political assassinations,
"It took us some time to realize that
while a communist insurgent move-
ment could behave like that, we
couldn't," Moynihan said.
He noted that no explicit prohi-
bition on political violence existed
until President Reagan signed an
executive order on it in December
1981, the same month he author-
ized the start of aid to rebels in Nic-
aragua. They received the CIA
manual in 1983.
The most controversial recom-
mendation in the Nicaragua manual,
summarized at the start of the Fort
Bragg lesson plan numbered 643
and expanded later, discusses "se-
lective. use of armed force for
PSYOP [psychological operations]
effect." It says that "carefully se-
lected, planned targets-judges,
police officials, tax collectors,
etc.-may be removed for PSYOP
effect in a UWOA [unconventional
warfare operations area], but ex-
tensive precautions must insure
[sic] that the people 'concur' in
such an act by thorcugh explanato-
ry canvassing amon' the affected
populace before and after conduct
of the mission."
The Spanish version in the Nic-
aragua manual, as translated by the
Congressional Research Service,
discusses "selective use of violence
for propagandistic effects."
It says it is possible to neutralize
carefully selected and planned tar-
gets, such as court judges, n:esta
[municipal] judges, police and State
Security officials ... it is absolute-
ly necessary to gather together the
population affected, so that they
will be present, take part in the act
and formulate accusations against
the oppressor."
Sections of 1968 U.S. Army "les-
plans" for training U.S. Special
Force s troops in Vietnam guerrilla
warfare are "word for word the
same" as parts of a CIA manual that
recommended political assassina-
tior. of officials in Nicaragua, Sen.
Darnel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.)
said yesterday.
The Defense Department sup-
plied ccpies of three lesson plans,
dated April 1969, from the U.S.
Army Special Warfare School at
Fo t Bragg, N.C., to the House. and
Sen,,,e intelligence committees
the weekend in response to
t eir recuests. Copies were ob-
ta ned by The Washington Post.
Allowing for repetition, elimina-
tion of bibliographies, teaching
notes and U.S. military jargon and
some rewriting to make specific
reference to Nicaragua, the points
of instruction are identical in the
Fort Bragg plans and in the manual
that the CIA has admitted supplying
to backed insurgents in Nic-
aragua.
'We really know now what the
origins of this thing are," Moynihan
said in an interview, referring to
the Nicaragua manual. "We have
stiff' to learn how it happened."
The deputy inspector general of
the Central Intelligence Agency is
expected to submit the report of his
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