WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL US?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505410141-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 141
• Publication Date: April 22, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHfi1GTO11lT LY
22 APRIL 1980
Ronald Reagan- has said =that-?as -president: he
would supply' weapons to. the.. ;Afghan freedom.-
fighters..';Speaking to-p-the4:American._Society .of
Newspaper Editors on April 8; Reagan said:~`.`.We in-.'!
,the past have found ways to do this before we gotso
frightened-that .we'decided =that: the CIA- should ?
become 'a'kind, of? Virginia Gentlemen's: Club-and?~
'not dolthings. to-preserve our security. He added:-
"I have no quarrel--with delivering- weapons' to:.
someone' who-is trying to- fight for-his freedom."
Reagan's-remarks on the Afghans,-ignored by the .
Washington Star and .the New -York Times, were
partly reported by the Washington Post- - = `-I
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