EX-CIA ADVISER: REAGAN IS CRIMINAL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201140041-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: November 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Exl=CIA adviser: Reagan
^ is criminal
By JOAN ZALES
Camara Staff Writer
A former CIA adviser charged Fri.
day night that the CIA is responsible
for "a fountain of evil," but it carries
out its "dirty jobs at the behest of the
president of the United States."
"I have a slightly different view of
the CIA role in the conducting of
foreign affairs," said David Ma Mi-
chael, who served from 1981 to 1983 on
a 15-member support staff to the
senior staff of the"
For many people,, he said, the CIA is
a convenient scapegoat. But MacMi-
chael's main theme for a talk Friday
night at Balch Fieldhouse on the Uni-
versity of Colorldg campus was that in
e case of the CIA role in Central
America, the blame should fall square.
ly on one person:
"He is a criminal and he is Ronald
Wilson Reagan."
MacMichael, who is a senior fellow
with the Council on Hemispheric Af.
fairs in Washington, D.C., did not
hesitate to put the CIA at the head of
the revolution in Nicaragua.
MacMichael's talk, attended by
about 400 persons, was sponsored 'iy
Community in Action, Citizens in Soli.
darity with the People of El Salvador
and the CU student government.
The talk came three days before a
planned protest against recruiting by
the CIA on the CU campus. Protesters
plan to nyke "citizen arrests" of CIA
recruiter!' Monday. Community In Ac.
tion is organizing the protest.
Departing from a prepared speech,
MacMichael said he chose instead to
read several pages of sworn testimony
by a former member of the political
directorate of the "Contras," the Ni-
caraguan counter-revolutionaries.
The written testimony was delivered
this year at the World Court, the
judicial body of the United Nations,
MacMichael said. It detailed the rise
of the Contras, aided and orchestrated
by the CIA. The testimony was au.
thored by Edgar Chamorro, who was
part of the Contra force from 1981 to
1984.
Chamorro wrote that the expressed
goal of the CIA was to overthrow the
Sandinista government and overturn
the Nicaraguan government.
On several occasions, Chamorro
wrote, he was told that Contras should
take responsibility for something the
CIA had done. And the Contras always
did as they were told, such as take
responsibility for an attack on an oil
pipeline used by the Nicaraguan gov-
ernment.
The CIA, according to Chamorro,
also told Contras to say that arms
were being smuggled from Nicaragua
to El Salvador to keep the support of
the U.S. Congress.
"We never saw any arms," Chamor.
ro's testimony said, "but we were told
the story was necessary." Chamorro
said that they were told by CIA
representatives, in private, that the
goal was to overthrow the Sandinistas
and to overturn the Nicaraguan gov-
ernment.
Earlier Friday, MacMichael said the
reason for his Boulder appearance was
to contribute to the discussion of the
CIA as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.
He did not come, he said, to tell
anyone what to do about the recruiting
by the CIA at CU.
"These are decisions to be mady by
University community. If the Universi.
ty reflects on the actions of agencies
and thinks it fits University purpose,
it's fine. But the University commune
ty at large should make that decision
in light of the fullest exposure to th4
facts."
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