EL SALVADOR DEEPENS FROWN LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100060034-0
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 16, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR
16 ,MARCH 1982
alv-ador-die' 11~e`
s. i-rown: fin, es.
But nobody: claimed any sudden south..Minneapolis business for
clarity of vision, either: Years and now with:Old.St. Antho-
1--`"" ;uy.7He.wants.tobe-patrioticonthe.
Central ;America. wrangled but_,he j
crux s .seexing _toe .commun-ty-s "The problem is separating. the
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one :tying ne aian'ro get was hear about. the atrocities commit
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The tumult in Central America
In a Deli- so where do you go?'
In : Aiex: Haig are to .our living Fred Pielert wants to go back t6`
rooms- every' evening, ::he noted; the square that reads, ;;" $ettie your.'.
~- and asked- "Does it mean anything own dilemmas first"
important in our lives?:',- +We've got economic problems,'.,,
Beyond that, how are we looking he- said, "and I'm afraid an easy so--
eepen over ! at Centrai America-as.,a:security lution might be to get involved in`
problem for the United States.or as -the war down there. I.think what's
ar a~ d - . :t a place of- relentless poverty that. , happening there could be a danger
we might be capable of relieving to our peace and security only if
The Central Intelligence 'A;enc "Instead of looking3.at: the prob-;~ 'we make a big 'open;. global press
Y tie issue out of it, which it doesn't
I lem of poverty there,, what: we're . tige offended Mike-St. Dennis. 1 doing.. is playing World, po'liti es have to be. The CIA- down there
with their campus-spying during 4 Salvador and Nicaragua doesn't bother me ...,.'They per-.-
with-El the Vietnam War, but he trusts the and the- others," architect Sandy form a function that's necessary to
CIA in Nicaragua and-El Salvador. Ritter'said every government. I'm- simply say-
Sandy Ritter doesn't; he -is be_ . ' If we insist'on that.. I -
think it's just a matter of time until: ing that if instead of, making a
fogged about what the CIA is up to j it comes back to bite us. We're try--i . world 'showdown out. of this we
in Latin America. Ping to bolster somebody in El Sal- handle it quietly ..and subtly 'and
An advertising man- named Fred vador with enough muscle to run ; -_ constantly watch it, we'd be better-
Piele rt squirms over what he be.
the"P off.",
olitics, but - our - history has-a
lieves is the Reagan of str - But how can make a revolu
,;.been that eventually you. people
ttonsubtle?. -
ing the Central America turmoil:, we re backing get thrown out. t
into high noon between- the super- Were now hearing' talk about A--", :"I'm just saying that our priority
Per clandestine American operation right now is to get this country
powers, and a lawyer named Jim against the Sandinistas in Nlcara-:,i moving again..I think you should. McCarth t y is suy a ced g this coun- j ' gua, but' the government there is take, care of your own problems
bang of inur robabl more le inmate than the . before jumping ;into somebody.,
derers" in El Salvador. ; ' ? r p y g else's."
-
one we're supporting in El Salva-
us._Dennis isn't-:convinced, be dor We don't seem to be able to! ` But did the gentleman honestly.
cause he. still. hasn't been. able*;t-;distinguish the nationalist. interests: 1.: believe this country was risking. a.
distinguish the saints from the cut- major of those people::I don't:. trust the jar war with its political strafe
throats:;,,:- ...::: ... -:: ies in Latin America..
CIA In "Latin America .because I. gies
And a mother. witha 9-year-old.
Y, don't know what they're doing." "From my own experience,"" he
sossib worded. about global :war; , Whatever the CIA is concocting. said, "I think the children in gram-?
possibly ignited in those: tropical mar school today
jungles that were, once; art.of the in Nicaragua, St. Dennis argued, is7 y are growing up
P
Gamic. nothing more than. A ::response tai - with a- fear. of war that is -much
political idiom in the United .
States..-;.Communist manipulations from more pronounced than it's ever,"
Cuba-and the Soviet-Union.