SENATE PANEL ASKS FOR GREATER VOICE IN COVERT ACTIONS

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• Document Release Date: November 16, 2010
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• Publication Date: May 7, 1983
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IN COVERT ACTIONS #ortheCentralintelltgence Salvador. ?-Gt iaar w' .tempt
Agency. for democracy and armed to the teeth
i Tbe_ Senate committee deliberately by Nicaragua, Cuba and the Soviets are
Intelligence ..chose not to embrace this -week's plan determined to shoot their way into
'?bythe House Select Committee on Intel- power," he said.
Unit Votes 13 to 2 igence to cut off funds for covert aid by ,,- IVleanwhile Powell Moore, Assistant 4
y in '- be C.1-A. to anti.Sandini~t rte. T e i secretary of state 2or Congressional
to Give Con ress a Sa
g terse rommtitee; voting along party Relations, reaffirmed that the number
n lines Tuesday, authorized Sap million + of American military training officers'
the C.I.A. S Latin Mans for the remainder of this fiscal year and m El Salvador had not exceeded 55
550 million for the next fiscal year for since the spring of 1981. Be said, bow-
I ever, the Reagan Administration
$y.DAVID SHRISmAN ! 1neDdly Central American nations bstop .Congress would not seek to restrict
Abe tlow of weapons to El Salvador.thet extent that available itmds
WASHINGTON, May 6th-at The House and Senate proposals must Pmt, we would be prepared to pro.
Select Committee on Intelligence ap .now work their-through their re- vide additional training at prepared
facilities out-
proved a measure today that would ea spective chambers and, if approved, be side of M Salvador,,, he wrote in a let-
able Congress to cut
off future financing reconciled is a Houses mate confer. ter to Senator Charles H. Percy, the I11i-
for covert operations in Central Amer., ence committee. nois Republican who beads -the Senate
ica The Reagan Administration has re- Foreign Relations Committee. .,At the
The cumfLwould take effect .1f the peatedly argued that the purpose of coo- same time, we would strongly oppose
President failed to submit a plan for the ert operations in Central America is to' any rigid legislative constraint that
region that met with the approval of the stop the now of weapons from Cuba and would preclude reasonable modif5ca-
!.Congressional intelligence committees. the Soviet union through lions to the structure of our trainurg Nicaragua to
om that might be advisable...
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, of 13 to 2, approved the continuation of ,I President's plan contend that the pur.
covert activities in Central America pose is to destabilize the Sandiaist Gov-
through this fiscal year, which ends on erament of Nicaragua.
Sept. 30.
The action marked the first time that President Via. spmking is Phoe.
one of the Congressional intelligence . ? , warned soda?-that Congressional
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indifferent to an.-
committees had formally asserted what gees were
;,it considered its .right to approve spe-' Ot e ; Communist ULkeover on our door-
cific covert activities, according to a P, and added: wag awayfsom
member of the committee. this clear-cut responsibility would re-
ward aggress' and bring dishonor to
'Tart of the Process'
"We are no longer simply TD be in-;
formed," Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan; Democrat of New York,
said. "We want to be part of the pro-!
According to a compromise plan the
committee adopted after three hours of
briefings and deliberations i a secret
session, 819 million for--art activities.
in Central Amer-ca next yearwotild be
contingent on' approval of ' President?
Reagan's:stsessments and goals for the;
region by""the House and Senate intelli-1
genre asamittees.
"We'?waht a -redefined 'program ra? i
Central America," said Senator, Barry.
Go-dwater, the chairman of the com-
mittee and the author of the.compro
mise measure. "I want him to-tell us In
plain language just whatft is he wants
to do relative to Nicaragua and other
th
Mr. Moore said the Administration
would "reprogram" S30 million in for-
eign military sales guarantees to El
Salvador, the amount approved by the
House Appropriations ' Committee's
subcommittee on foreign operations
and the Senate Foreign Relations Com- I
mittee. The White House had requested
S80 million.
He said, however, that the Adminis
tration intended to proceed with allocat.
ing $140 million in economic support for
the Government of El Salvador, S25 mil-
lion more than the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee advised.
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