A U.S. AMBASSADOR EXTREMISTS HATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100170062-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: July 19, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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G1.Y PAGE~.~- "' WASHIl`3GTON POST
19 JULY 1980
it violence-ridden El Salvador man=ri~Monday morning, when the l~larines?
ages to avoid an all-out explosion be-' used tear gas to disperse the mob. The
tween extremists of the right and left,- r~iierican Embassy is a fortress1de-
a lot of the credit will go to U.5. Am- scribed by one visitor as "better
bassador Robert E.. White. ? . guarded than the vault inFort Knox:"
A veteran diplomat at 53, the plain-
spoken White made his career in Latin _ White's' enemies are not just Salva?,.
America and his reputation ir. human doran extremists. After a reception. he
rights advocacy. He was probably the 'gave for the U.S: citizens there, one
best choice .President Carter could .U.S. businessman was overheard mut-
have made last iViarch for the unenvi- ;< tering, "I'd like to kill him." Unde-
able position of the man in.the middle:` terred by the hostility White coolly in-
in EI Salvador : ~~' , ,_~w~~ formed-'the local chamber of , com-
White's assignment-was to make merce,'' ;4s strongly as we reject a solu-
clear to every element in E1 Salvador tion of the extreme left, we reject the
- right, left and center -that foi- right.,We..wantademocraticsolution."
once the United States is determined The rightists see the U.S: backed jun-
to support. middle-of-the-road moder- ta's agrarian and banking. reforms as
ates. It's an overdue switch from Uncle "railroading-'socialism into- E! Salva-
Sam's traditional backing of tinhorn dor." The leftists sa the land reform
tyrants whose only claim on our alle? was ` ma a m' . .A. from ~. the old
glance is their devout anticommunism. _ ictators ip s ?.blueprints . an suspect
-'- Because it is such a drastic change in 4;, .the CIA ma be behind it. In fact, on
policy; it has aroused outrage from the 'r ,the first t m s. ite eman e -
"betrayed" right, and disbelief from ~?an of - w en a move Into is al-
thesuspicious lef t. ~: - _ va oran of seat was t e reca o e
?-White has become the lightning rod;'": IA statiomc fie : r~,,
y.
.
for the extremists' wrath.. "The situa- ?t' ""
tinn is rlanoornnc Fn,-mo hn.,~..~~,t>.:. ? ., On Second Thought -Unlike mo.
~,...,,.,. ~..~ ~,,,?u ~~a?a, .~ ~?~r the priviledge of correcting slips o
admitted nhilnsnnhically to mo ro_ ~_ _
r": r ` """. "`~'?"""?"? _ _ - -other boo-boos they commit
list of 250 individuals to be "physically;:.
eliminated" by the right-wing secret}
Anti-Communist Army: The list also in- Y?
eludes leftists, members' of the junta, : ~~
members of the intelligentsia and reli-
gious, labor and professional leaders.
White's residence was surrounded .'
by right-wing demonstrators for an en-
tire weekend in~141ay. He sat tight till -
During a recent Ho
Tennessee-Tombig
over Rep. Be
criticizing
the con
oversial, 219-mile canal-and-
etwork has soared, from., $300.
million to $3 billion over the past eight
years. ,:,~.,
Whitten's remarks could have een
interpreteEl as a veiled threat ~ain~t
future public works projects in Ba-
dell's district. But when the on,*es-
sional Record appeared the. ext day,
~Vhitten's sarcastic com ents -had
During the same debat ,Rep. Dad ii!
Bowen ID-l~iiss.? Loted t at the Louis-
ville & Nashville itailr d opposes the
waterway; which wou parallel its`rail
line. "I do not blame ~ ," said Boweii'~in
floor debate, referri ~ to the railroad.
have to oppose it a so." c,y..
Evidently fear" g he appeared to he
supporting the railroad's antiwater-
way position, oven amended his-re-
marks to: "T s is a misguided policy.
This waterw y- would.. be an asset to .
this railroa as such waterways ha4e
been to of r rail lines." -
and Re .Jack Edwards iR:~la.),'who
stated t'1 ly on the floor of the House
that, he would not support an exten-
sion of the waterway from Demopolis
to 1~[ lie, "extended" his spoken` re-
mar to read that he wouldn't sup~rt
th xtension "based on what is known
a his time." . , - , :;..
,. Cuban...Cover-i?p -- Fidel Casten
continues to meddle in the affairs.:vf i
his Latin American neighbors, i)ut he.
is trying to keep a low profile. One way
he does it, according to secret reports ~
by the Defense Intelligence Agencyr is
to-give his guerrilla clients weappns
stamped ' "made in U.S.A." They're
genuine, some of the thousands?vf.
guns captured by Castro more than 20
years ago when he overthrew the U.S.-
backed dictatorship of Fulgen~io
Batista. _ . ... ~ ;.~;: ,.__
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