LUNCHEON WITH BILL RICHARDSON (D., N.M.)

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• Publication Date: September 9, 1988
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o 9 SEP 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: John L. Helgerson
Director of Congressional Affairs
SUBJECT: Luncheon with Bill Richardson (D., N.M.)
1. You will host Representative Richardson for lunch in
the Executive Dining Room at 12:15 p.m. on 14.September
following his presentation to an Agency audience in the
Auditorium commemorating our Hispanic Heritage Week. He
will be accompanied by Melanie Kenderdine, his administrative
assistant, and Calvin Humphrey, Counsel for the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence. Sixteen Agency employees
will also join you, including each of the Deputy Directors, the
Inspector General, the Director Equal Employment Opportunity
and several Hispanic employees (a list of Agency attendees is
attached).
2. The staff advises that Mr. Richardson has no specific
topics he would like to discuss, but notes that he is keenly
interested in the area of Equal Employment Opportunity,
especially Hispanic employment. Of Hispanic origin himself,-
his interest in minority opportunities stems from the Hispanic
representation in his Congressional district (third district,
New, Mexico), three-fifths of which is either Hispanic or
American Indian. As a Member of the Hispanic Caucus and of the
House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, Mr. Richardson
has actively worked toward improving opportunities for
Hispanics. He has also shown an active interest in Agency
efforts directed at the employment of Hispanics. For example:
--He was instrumental in introducing into the
.Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1989 the
requirement that the Agency and NSA submit to the
Committees a report setting forth an analysis of the
representation of each minority group and a CIA
plan for addressing any underrepresentation by
September 1991. is currently preparing
the analysis and report.
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--Mr. Richardson has been briefed on three separate
occasions in the past six months on the employment of
Hispanics, twice in Washington and once at his
district office in New Mexico. His interest during
these briefings primarily concerned Agency recruitment
efforts. At one briefing, he was particularly
interested in the number of Hispanics in professional
positions.
3. Mr. Richardson will be interested in hearing from you
about the Agency employment profile of Hispanics and efforts to
improve their re entation rticularly in the professional
ranks. Althoughes aand Rae Huffstutler will be 25X1
present to help with any details, a fact sheet is attached that
summarizes the employment profile of Hispanics.
4. You may want to take the opportunity to inform
Mr. Richardson that has been appointed Deputy
Director for African an a in American Analysis, a key senior
management position in the Directorate of Intelligence.
5. Mr. Richardson has taken several trips to familiarize
himself with A enc- o erations.
John L. Helger on
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AGENCY ATTENDEES
FOR
REPRESENTATIVE BILL RICHARDSON'S LUNCHEON
1215 14 SEPTEMBER 1988
EXECUTIVE DINING ROOM
William Donnelly, Inspector General
Richard Stolz, Deputy Director for Operations
Richard Kerr, Deputy Director for Intelligence
Evan Hineman, Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Henry Mahoney, Associate Deputy for Administration
Bill Baker, Director, Public Affairs Office
John Helgerson, Director, Office of Congressional Affairs
Director of Personnel
Chief, Arms Control Intelligence Staff
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity
Chief, Language Training Division/OTE
Chief of Personnel, National Photographic
Interpretation Center
Office Referent, Planning and Resource
Staff, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Latin American Referent in the
International Communism Branch, Directorate of Operations
Executive Secretary of the Subcommittee for
Reconnaissance Systems
Chief of Personnel, Office of Special
Hispanic Employment Program Manager
for the Office of Equal Employment
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ADMINISTRATIVE/INTERNAL USE ONLY
HISPANIC EMPLOYMENT FACT SHEET
??The Agency employs
??Almost three-fourths
ranks:
STAT
STAT
are in the professional STAT
STAT
??The Breakdown by Directorate is as follows:
DA(34%)
Professional
Technical
Clerical
Wage
DC( 36%)
S&T ( 23%)
--Over 50% are clustered in the GS 10-14 grade levels.
-U Hispanic males hold SIS positions. Most Senior
Hispanic females are GS 14s.
STAT
STAT
??Our minority student programs have begun to include
Hispanics:
--The Minority Undergraduate Program, which provides
paid summer work for promising minority students, this
summer included 6 Hispanics out of 45. Last year
there were none. Several students recruited in this
program came from several schools in the Southwest,
including New Mexico Institute of Mining, New Mexico
State University, Saint Andrews University of Texas
and the Pan American University of Texas.
DI ( 10%)
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--The Undergraduate Scholar Program, which provides
qualified and financially needy high school students
with tuition assistance and CIA summer work
experience, this year includes 5 Hispanics out of the
total number of 17 students. Last year there was only
one Hispanic in the group of 11.
?ODuring the past year,,,the EEO staff significantly stepped
its recruiting effort at colleges and universities where there
are significant numbers of Hispanics. Among these universities
were:
--The University of New Mexico.
--New Mexico State University.
--University of Texas at El Paso.
--New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
--Pan American University in Texas.
--Corpus Christi University.
This year the search will be expanded to other parts of the
country including plans to recruit at:
--Florida State University.
--University of Miami.
--Florida International University.
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BIOGRAPHY
Name: Bill Richardson (D., NM)
District: New Mexico - 3rd District
First elected: 1982 Up for re-election: 1988 Winning %: 71
Past service on intelligence committee: Yes: No: X
Current service on intelligence committee: Yes: X No:
Term on intelligence committee expires: 1994
Other committee assignments: Education and Labor;
Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs;
Select Committee on Aging
Major intelligence/legislative interests: Immigration reform;
U.S. policy toward Nicaragua; Environment; Hispanics
Key votes: Produce MX missiles - No; aid Nicaraguan Contras - No;
impose sanctions on South Africa - Yes
Intelligence Interests: South Africa; Angola; Arms Control
Visits to CIA facilities:
February 19, 1988 at Headquarters
Last contact with DCI/DDCI: February 19, 1988
Recent correspondence: 10 August 1988 - African trip - debriefing
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Aew Mexico - 3rd District
3 Bill Richardson (D)
Of Santa Fe - Elected 1982
Born: Nov. 15. 1947. Pasadena. Calif.
Education: Tufts U., B.A. 1970, M.A. 1971.
Occupation: Business consultant.
Family: Wife. Barbara Flavin.
Religion: Roman Catholic.
Political Career. Executive director, Ne) Mexico
Democratic Party, 1978-80; Democratic nominee for
U.S. House, 1980.
Capitol Office: 332 Cannon Bldg. 20515; 225-6190.
in Washington: Richardson is an aggres-
sive. ambitious man whose penchant for public-
ity makes some colleagues a little wary of him.
But he is a shrewd politician. and he knows
how to work his way into positions of influence.
Sitting on both the Energy and Commerce and
Interior committees, Richardson is in a good
position to pursue issues that are crucial to
New Mexico, and he does so tenaciously.
He possesses superior public relations
skills. and he uses his committee assignments
to attract valuable attention back home. He
sees to it that regular field hearings are held in
his district. and that they are widely reported.
Richardson's desire for attention causes
him problems in the legislative process. Mem-
bers hoping to win his support for a measure
sometimes complain that the only way to do so
is to make him a sponsor and give him a
generous supply of the credit. regardless of how
important his role has been.
Although he bears ar Anglo name. Rich-
ardson has a Hispanic background, and has
been a leader on Mexican-American issues.
Early in the 99th Congress Richardson was
chosen as chairman of the Congressional panic Caucus, but he later stepped down saying
that he wanted to spend more time on state-
wide issues in New Mexico. His decision to give
up the chairmanship came at a time of contro-
versy over his support for comprehensive immi-
gration reform legislation, which most members
of the Hispanic Caucus opposed.
The immigration bill combined legaliza-
tion of many illegal aliens already in the United
States with new sanctions against employers
hiring those here illegally. A majority of His-
panics in the House argued against the bill on
the grounds that the sanctions would lead to
discrimination against anyone who looked or
sounded foreign.
Richardson had voted against immigration
reform himself in 1984. but in the 99th Con
gress he favored a compromise in an effort to
make the bill as palatable to Hispanic interests
as possible. "There's going to be an immigre
tion bill anyway." he said in 1986. "1 hate to fall
on my sword." Later he voted for the bill that
became law, saying it was "the last gasp lot
legalization to take place in a humane way."
If Richardson's work on immigration led to
some tensions within the Hispanic Caucus, it
also may have helped change some minds. In
1984, no members of the Hispanic Caucus
supported the legislation: in 1986, four of 10
members went along with his position.
Another sensitive issue for Richardson has
been U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. In his first
term. Richardson was a staunch critic of Rea
gan administration efforts to support the con
tra rebels in that country. But in the 99th
Congress he altered his course, expressing con
cern about human rights abuses by Nicaragua's
Sandinista regime. In early 1985 he warned
that the Sandinistas needed to "clean up their
act." and a few months later he supported
sending the contras non-military aid. "I aro
willing to give the president of the United
States a chance and the benefit of the doubt."
he said. The House later adopted a Richardsor
amendment requiring the president to estate
lish procedures to ensure that the aid would not
be used for weapons purchases.
In 1986, Richardson opposed administre
tion efforts to send military aid to the contra
Instead he joined with Indiana Democrat Lee
H. Hamilton to offer an unsuccessful substitute
package providing $27 million in humanitarian
aid to Nicaraguan refugees as well as funding t',
promote regional peace talks.
Richardson pays particular attention to
the needs of American Indians, who have a
significant presence in his district. In the 99th
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Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
New Mexico 3
With three-fifths of its voters either
Hispanic or Indian, the 3rd is decidedly
more liberal and more Democratic than
either of the state's other constituencies.
The population is divided between the
Hispanic counties of northern New Mexico
and the energy-rich Indian lands along the
Arizona border.
Of the two regions. the Hispanic north
is the most loyally Democratic. It includes
six of the seven Neu Mexico counties car-
ried by Walter F. Mondale in 1984. The
centerpiece of the region is Santa Fe, the
second-largest city in the state, and a pleas-
ant mix of Spanish and Indian cultures has
attracted a steady influx of young Anglos.
The rest of the Hispanic north is pri-
marily mountainous, semi-arid grazing land
that supports some subsistence farming.
Unemployment has been high in the ar
ea:
the Mora County jobless rate was well above
30 percent for much of this decade.
An economic oasis is the Anglo commu-
nity of Los Alamos, where the atomic bomb
was developed during World War 11. One of
Congress he sought funding to fight alcohol and
drug abuse among Indians in the giant anti.
drug package. He has also worked on other
Indian health legislation, but those efforts were
frustrated in the 98th Congress. when Presi-
dent Reagan pocket-vetoed an Indian health
package. and in the 99th, when the House and
Senate were unable to resolve differences.
Richardson has been an active player on
Energy and Commerce from his first months on
the committee. In 1983, he teamed with Repub-
lican James T. Broyhill of North Carolina to
offer a producer-oriented version of legislation
governing gas pricing. This was a good deal for
both men. Richardson. by teaming with one of
the chamber's shrewdest legislators, got his
name on a major bill at a stage when most
freshmen were still invisible.
Widely identified as a liberal Democrat on
most issues. Richardson is not an automatic
environmentalist vote on Energy and Com-
merce. When the Transportation Subcommit-
tee began taking up legislation to reauthorize
the "superfund" hazardous-waste cleanup pro-
gram, Richardson resisted a proposal to add
Petroleum leaks, including 261 in his home
state, to the list of sites to be cleaned up. Oil
North and West -
Farmington; Santa Fe
the most prosperous counties in the coun-
ry, its unemployment rate has been negligi-
ble in the 1980s. Its voters - well educated
and scientifically inclined - are largely
Republicans. But there is a strong moderate
streak in some of those Republicans; John
B. Anderson's presidential bid drew 15 per-
cent in Los Alamos County in 1980.
The Indian country divides more close.
1y at the polls. The Indians. most of them
Navaho, usuallh vote Democrati(
But they
turn out in small numbers and occasional)
bolt to the Republicans - the council for
the Pueblo tribes endorsed Reagan in 1980
The largest county in the region is San
Juan County. where a conservative Angle
population settled around Farmington to
tap the vast supply of oil. gas and coal in the
Four Corners area. San Juan County gave
Reagan two-thirds of its vote in 1984.
Population: 432.492 White 272 117 (63?.). Btac~
2.060 t1%i, American Indian. Eskimo and Aleut 90.403
(21%) Spanish origin 168.577 (39:,t 16 and over
280.182 (65%). 65 and over 34.045 (8?,%! Median age
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and gas companies in New Mexico were con-
cerned that under such a proposal they could
be held partly liable for supplying fuel to local
service stations with leaking tanks. But when
the full committee voted to report superfund
legislation in late 1985. Richardson and nine
other Democrats joined in rejecting it as too
weak.
Richardson also speaks out frequently on
ehalf of New Mexico's troubled uranium in-
bdustry. In 1985 he offered an amendment to the
authorization bill for the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission allowing the agency to require that
utilities use domestic uranium. He withdrew
the proposal when Interior Chairman Morris K.
Udall promised to hold hearings.
At Home: A former staff member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richard-
son made his entry into politics in 1978. when
he moved to New Mexico to become executive
director of the Democratic State Committee.
Within months he was planning a 1980 congres
sional campaign against Republican Rep. Ma-
nuel Luian Jr. He was criticized as a carpetba-
ger, but he responded that his ethnic heritage
- he was raised in Mexico City by a Mexican
mother and an American father - made
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Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
heavily Hispanic New Mexico a logical home.
By coming within 5,200 votes of the seem-
ingh? entrenched Lujan, Richardson became a
star in his state party overnight. When the
northern New Mexico 3rd District was created
the next year. he was the early favorite to win.
His campaign survived some serious prob-
lems. He had to retract a statement in his
literature that identified him as a ",top" foreign
policy adviser to the late Sen. Hubert H. Hum-
phrey. Questions about a $100,000 campaign
loan produced a probe by the Federal Election
Commission. Although he was eventually
cleared of any wrongdoing. the probe did bring
his campaign unwanted negative publicity.
Richardson countered the bad press by
campaigning dawn to dusk through the small
towns and pueblos, reaching the Hispanic and
Indian voters who together cast a majority of
the ballots. With his 1980 organization still in
place and a substantial campaign treasury.
Richardson won the four-way primary with 36
percent. In the most loyally Democratic con-
stituency in the state, his win was tantamount
to election.
Richardson has not had serious compe-
tition since then, although at least one of his
campaigns attracted considerable attention. In
1986, he was challenged for re-election by for-
mer GOP Goy. David Cargo, a whimsical man
Committees
Education and Labor (17th of 21 Democrats)
Elementary, Secondary and Vocations' Education; Employment
Opportunities
Energy and Commerce ;18th of 25 Democrats`
Commerce. Consume, Protection and Competitiveness. Energy
and Power: Telecommunications and Finance
Interior and Insular Affairs (15th of 23 Democrats'
National Parks and Public Lands, Water and Power Resources
Select Aging (31st of 39 Democrats)
Housing and Consumer Interests. Human Services.
Elections
1986 General
Bil Richardson (D)
95.760
(71%;
David F. Cargo IF,
3E,552
(29%)
1964 General
Bill Richardson (D)
100,470
(61%)
Louis H. Gallegos (R)
62.351
(3e %)
Previous Winning Percentage:
1962 (65%)
District Vote For President.
1964
1 1980
1976
D 77.774
(46%) D 59.788
(40%) D 73.305
(53%)
R 89,612
(53%) R 76.859
(52%) R 63,159
(46%)
1 9.325
( 6%)
Campaign Finance
Receipts Expend-
Receipts from PACs )turn
Richardson (D) $370,329 $244;185 (66`0) $354,849
Cargo (R) $88,365 $24,092 (27%) $86,865
who was seeking a political comeback 15 Yea,
after leaving office - following a long a1
from the state.
Cargo managed to land some blows, %.he,
Richardson accepted an honorarium for tour,
a southwest Virginia coal mine, the Republ,,~
branded him "Peso Bill" - a move that get*.
ated home-state pressure and event..'?
helped encourage Richardson .w donate
money to charity. Unfortunate) for Cargo, h-
organizaiionapand vote-getting abilities did nr,,
match hs cacity for one-liners. Richards?,
capitalizing on publicity he received for h,
work on a bill to grant a national histu,
designation to the Santa Fe Trail, bleu Carl
away with over 70 percent of the vote.
Richardson almost passed up politic, fur is
career in professional baseball. Following hr
boyhood in Mexico City. he moved to th,
United States to attend school. At age 16. h,
was drafted by the Kansas City (now Oakland
Athletics. He might still be roaming the be,
ball diamond had an elbow injury not ended h?
sports career.
After graduating from Tufts Unix'ers;tt
Richardson moved to Washington and found
work in the State Department's congressiuna'
relations office. He subsequent) worked f
three years as a Senate Foreign Relations Cun,
mittee staffer before moving to Nev Nlfxic(,
1964
Rrcnardsor, (Dl
G
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$439.746
$256.235
(595x'
$425
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$207.831
$27.400
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$201.9-
Voting Studies .
Presidential
Support
Party Conservative
Unit) Coalition,
Year
S
0
S
0
S
0
198E
24
76
90
9
52
44
1985
25
71
89
6
33
6E
1964
31
66
89
9
19
B
1993
16
82
87
9
29
71
S = Support
0
= Opposition
Key- Votes
Produce MX missiles 11985;
Cut federa' subsdj for water projects 11955;
Weaken gun, control laws (1986
Cut back public housing construction (1986; N
Aid Nicaraouan.cor,tras(1986) N
Impose textile import limits over Reagan, veto (1986; Y
Block chemical weapons production (1986' V
Impose Soutn African sanctions over Reagan veto (1986) Y
Interest Group Ratings
Year
ADA
ACU
AFL-CIO
CCUS
1966
75
it
100
41
1985
70
14
76
32
1994
85
17
100
43
1~
95
13
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