THE SUBSTANCE AND THE RULES

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Angelo Codevilla is a professional staff
member with the Senate Intelligence
Committee. Previously, he was a foreign
service officer and a fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford tlnivessity. Dr.
Codevilla has written widely on European
politics and in the field of intelligence and
military policy.
By focusing so exclusively
rules and standards of
operations, the intelligence
debate of the mid-1970s did not.
answer the fundamental
question of what the United
States expects of its intelligence
services or what they are to
accomplish in order to meet th
challenges of the 1980s.
The Substance and
the Rules
Since the early 1970s, this country's intel-
ligence agencies have been asking, "What
does the country expect of us?" That ques-
tion had not arisen in the postwar period be-
cause the American political system had left
the agencies to the total discretion of those
appointed to lead them. In the early 1970s,
factional conflict among those leaders spilled
over into a national debate about what
America's practitioners of intelligence ought
to have foremost in. mind. That debate con-
tinues.
Recently, Admiral Stansfield Turner,
President Carter's Director of Central Intelli-
gence, and his former special assistant,
George Thibault, published an attempt both
to answer that question and to indict the Rea-
gan administration's handling of intelli-
gence. The author's answer seems to be that
the American people expect their intelligence
agencies to be as innocuous as possible.
They charge that the Reagan administration
is undermining the agencies by loosening too
many restrictions. The authors thus contend
that for our civil liberties' sake, and for thr
sake of the agencies' own standing in the
country, the agencies ought to concentrate on
formulating for themselves the right kinds of
rules and restrictions. However, bne would
not suspect from Turner and Thibault's arti-
cle,that the rules by which intelligence offi-
cers live ought to flow from the intelligence
profession's substantive requirements.
Nevertheless, in intelligence as in other
areas of government, the American people
rightly want their employees to accomplish
the functions for which they are paid. This
author will argue that Stansfield Turner is
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31 May 1983
KOPPLL: host Americans have never beard, of it. ven fee
Suriname, a norther- neighbor of Brazil wedgee between. Guy
beet attracting a fair amount of internatlOrncl attention i
colonial backwater Lmti? ?975 Its Bove- ent is ?1i' tin?
fiica.ragu.ans and, just a Couple of months ago si?neca_rier
is on
i3- a tiny country with a population of fewer than 40C
a 1it.:e large, that Georgia, but in the current DG1it3Ca)
friend, of Fidel Castro is viewed a5 at of a larger trout
South America and the Caribbean, is that kind, of Climate, as La-2 bernsLea^ counc, out
ir, t^is exclus:ve report, the T%eaga:, acministratior. was readv td, tu-n coerce.-- into
action..
B RN TSIN: president Reagan last yea.r autho:izec: the Central Intelligence Agency to
=de,-take Covert actions aimed, at overtnroving the government o= the tine South
American state 0f Suriname The rationale of the president and the CIA to justi43,
such, actio91 Shat 5uriname's military leader, a former phvsica, education
~at
Aamec bOUtersE, was lead- hie Cour t-3 toti the a --ms of 1-,st:uC}
arc _ ride; Castro. -7hat
vas last winter in December. d reouired b%, law. Centro] latel
Will eare Age oy Diretto-
iaII Casey went to GSpito .111 to in_the souse and Senate 1:nteliigenoe
COrr~l ..tees of the iapending operstiOr,, a mul or : d
1iCllc_ ;)-an to CreBtE a
parami~ita-y force of exiles _:_Oz Suriname to Ove.-'pover the cou trS ~- a
JTJ_ anC topD1e
BouterSE, but aCCOrCing to COn?re??i0ua1 sources, the cOSII:.^i51rati0a,s p1as Caused a
foil-scale revolt of both committees by Democrats and Republica.^.s a_like. The threat
to hem:spherjC seturiTv, cited b3y the Presiner,t and the Cl.:. simply cic not exist, the
COn?re5smer argued. 'Valente that GastrC was manipulating the g0ve menL -'r., Suriname
Or' gaiT:ing a 1`ili arv foothold 1' the COLtr'G? vas Virtually nOneXiStent. the.
told,
Casey. Bouterse had, praised, Gast-c. a~lowed the Cubans a vel)-staffed, embassy iIr
Suriname s CaDita_ but little more. fit.
-oZg, says Surinamese poi i ~i cal caasmeatater , red,
-.arts, now ar eXi1ee leader Of the CouM
c_' td, iberate Sur-'t'ame. _S71.J '?,A The
Cubans have been vibitixlg SL'rirame after Sr'outer'SE took, over, Theyre aGt'i iA~E
Bouterse. Theyre advising the r-inister of Culture ono mob liz.ajo hoV td, ieaoh the
Surirname people how 1C Sake a r eVOlutio . Thew are adv- . _Slng, giving
to .Douterse.
$.F,ASTLIh: Americ= E1 CrIoe Of:.C_als say they iacx such specific in
f G rZLa L 3 0~ .
That were and are co cerneC about what happen. thy, TZ (Under Secreta.-y of
Defer_se) : 14e are beeply C0:7CerrreC that t.^.i& Would be a- extensior, of the Cuba~.'s.tyie
totalitarian regimes that is emerging in Suriname, that ve tan.': be sure Vet.
thin a weeX of the C1 direct cr ' E appearance before the douse
IntE_ ligence Comm,: t tee, C haii-=ar, Lo arc BGlannc had, written the presaoe:,t that members
were Virtually u_nani2IIbus in opposition, to the C1 'E pia^.S. The Senate tOalliittee c1SD
informed the president Of its vehement and united opposition. The aCminiStratiDa had
become totally paranoid about Castro, members told, Casey, Seeking. co=frontatlon with
the Cubans at almost every turn in the Americas. Things had gone too _ar . ffLer
listening to the objections of the souse comsittee, .Casey' said, the C1r would
nevertheless go ahead with its planes. The law requires only that eongressiornal
intelligence committees be informed of covert actions. The tommittees have no power
to veto such operations, Out when Casey ran into a s-olid wall of opposition. On a
Senate committee as well, he and the White house repo-tteb2y began -ernes. DErin?.
Several weeks later the congressiornal Committees were informed by Casey that the pian.E
for overthrowing the government in SurirnaIIle had been withdrawn. and members seem
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ARTICLE APPEARED. NEWSWEEK
014 l'YkGE A _ 30 May 1983
PERISCOPE
Two Debates Over Central America
Will the Reagan administration issue a second white paper on
communist activity in Central America? Central Intelligence Agen-
cy Director William Casey and other hard-liners are urging the State
Department to release a new report that has been prepared by the
agency. But senior State Department officials, including Assistant
Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders, contend that
the draft contains little more than reheated right-wing rhetoric and
adds nothing to the national debate over Central America. Secretary
of State George Shultz must now decide whether to release the
report, have it rewritten or suppress it altogether.
^ In the wake of Sen. Christopher Dodd's controversial attack on
President Reagan's Central American policy, there are signs that
Democratic lawmakers fear that such criticism might ultimately tag
the Democrats as the party that "lost Central America." Earlier this
month, several Democratic senators declined a State Department
invitation to tour the region. In the House, some Democrats who
supported a bill to cut covert aid to insurgents in Nicaragua are
reconsidering. Capitol Hill sources now predict that the final bill will
permit the covert aid to continue for the time being. Another indica-
tion: New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, normally a caustic critic
of Reagan's moves in Central America, seemed eager to be polite
to-and occasionally agree with-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirk-
patrick, a Central America hawk, in a panel discussion last week.
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SOCIETY / Betty Beale
J
uave writer Arnaud de
Borchgrave(pronounced
BOR..grahv), who was a
senior editor..ctly ewsweek
forte wears and its chief foreign
.cwmet;pondent for17years, has
doze it.agair, with his second
noycl, a sequel to his bestseller,
'Ti .Spike" His, and-co-aut?
ha:?obert Moss', "Monimbo" a
factual expose of what the Cuban
lnrelligence Service, the DG1, is
up_ro`in the L'.S.A.., is the Literary
Guiid's main selection for August.
TheDG1, in case you didn't know,
is the principal proxy service of
the Soviets' KGB.
BUT perhaps an equally fasci?
natit g output of.the De
Bor:chgrave-Moss team is their
neuw'and unique ultra-confidential
moaih1 v intelligence digest. Early
Waf 6ng, which even CIA Director
BilJ.C'asev subscribes to. Between
thei.vro.xhey know where all the
bodit:s are buried or who's trying
to bury whom.
Moss, who was the Economist's
edi;nr for its confidential intelli-
genZ e bulletin, Foreign Report,
wrote "The Urban Guerrillas" 11
yearK ago when he was only 26.
It itill required reading in intel-
ligence training schools in the
Wesiern world. They have also put
together a worldwide network of
former intelligence officers and
ex-officials "to focus on matters of
jugular concern that the media is
ignoring, misreporting or dis-
torting," says Arnaud.
If the Fairfax. Va., woman, Soy
Copeland, who wrote Yuri Andro?
.pov she thought he was-right and
Reagan was wrong about missile
deployment, had seen the Early
Warning issue or, thenew Soviet
boss, she might have thought
twice before penning her epistle.
Andropov, the Feb.'1 issue stated,
"denounced his wife and son as
'anti-Soviet: and they were
dragged off to tabor camps where
his son died of TB." The former
KGB head is an expert at duping
his enemies into dropping their
guard, then coming in for the kill.
Well-meaning people lust cannot
fathom such sinister types.
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Ti C.I.A. But the bill says information derived
L...j ngRequest Co Exempt ~I from the exempt files and distributed to
T other parts of the agency has no special
A.L Its Files From Information Act Boa. addition the trees may
be required to search its operational
files for information abmn .covert ac-
i tivities whose existence has already
By ROM.ICT PEAR been wafirmed by the Government
sPW=Wmrft yCMTinM Goldwater'D-etendsplan
WASHINGTON, May! - La" This legislation does not frustrate
Lawyers oration that is
now available, we would the essential purposes of the Freedom
for the Central intelligence Agency and never go along with this proposal," said of information Act,Mr. Goldwater
the American Cfvil Liberties Union aav Mr. Leach who has been involved in said. "Requesters will continue to have
they msY be close to agreement on a litigation against the ag?cz? for the last access to CJ.. . files corm i g the formula for amending the Freedom of -eght Yeas `The bill relieves ,:the teIitgence product and to information
Lzfo-orati on Act to exempt numerous 'agency oftheadmtflisrrativeburden of 'licyquestionsandciebatesonthese
files relating to the a bores. ?'
gene} s ;clendes- . reviewing flies whose contents are al-
tine operations. -ready exempt. It does not exempt sap 141in Shsttuc>;., director of the Wash-
Spokesmen far the cfvil 'iberties additional information frnm release." . mgtaa office of the civil liberties union,
I union said the formula -would 'prest7ve The key to the said thatif the bill became law it might
bill is 'the ass?mption Jead otber:Feaez-aJ agesmes to seek ea-
public access to all documents that that the C.1-A-, because of its commuter- emptions from the disclosure law. Be
must be dMako+ed under axrrentlaw. ized file system,-cam separate the fruieG said be would be concerned about any
The C.LA:`s:support for the-plan rt, of intelligence-gash rug from sensitive attepr tc amend the law "in pie e-
fiectc a majar:c2 age from its p1ev1ou_1 data about sources- of intelligence and meal fashion to provide relief to individ-
.the agency's
insistence that it shcauid be tely es- .
ti methods m gathering the -aal agencies.
{ empt from eiiisclos-,ire f rs~ , 8 rd. The formula in the C-oidwat bill was
m? t-o.Ernest "Mayerfeld, deputy get,. i fps Exempted From Search tailored to the needs of the Central In-
e al c'?tsel of tbelatelligexviceageacz The bill would sethorize the
Dii-actor telli?ence Agency. 'There is no ec-i-
of Ce=-al intelligence to designate cer- dente znat it would work fo say Other
latroduced )ry Goid~vster fain files as "exempt from search rb agency," Mr. Lynch said-isv Tne compromise is contained in a bill view, publication or diSGo~sure" under
erfeld said )se was ~n?
intrvduced? recently by Senator E at the Freedom of Information Act. for the Director of Central lnwlligence,
a P'^'***'tioffi William J. Casey, m saying, We favor
Goldwater , the Arizona Republican who Presuraab)p, his
this bill: "
is cba -man of the Senate Select Com- cmi)d be challenged and rngewen M
Under the bill, the agency's .'open;- 1 the agent s contention that a
tioaal flier, which show ho" It gathers document should not be disclosed be-
g use It is pr vperly classified.
intelligence, would be exempt tram di.- "If someone challenges a `classted'
closure and the agency would be re, stamp," Mr. Mayerield said, "we are
lieved of ita_ :responsibility' to searcc obliged in tour: to iutstify the classifics.
such files in response to information r-e~- - tion of every piece of paper and every
quests under five act. But unclassffied portion of the docurmeat
political, economic and scientific faster- To qualify for an exemption., t'n-
mation obtained ti rough intelligence must be situated in one of
operations would still be accessible to branches of the agency: the Directorate
the public, as it is now supposed to be.
The Reagan Administration has of-
fered many proposals to limit the scope
of the Freedom of Information Act and
has taken several steps to prevent the
unauthorized disclosure of classified fn.
formation, leading c-:tics to charge
i that President Reagan is trying ' to
I achieve a new era of secrecy in t't,e Gv~ -
ernmer:. Administration officials insist
they are committed ,to' the .spirit of. the
law and the original objectives of Con-
gress in passing it.
Ma. H. Lynch a staff attorney for
the civil liberties anion, said the G016-
water bill could speed disclosures be-
cause the C.I.A. would no longer have to
search files that, in practice, yield no
releasable documents. The agency has
a large backlog and is just now comply.
trig with requests submitted two or
three yea.rs ago.
.,If we thought we were losing infor.
of Operations, the Directorate for Sci-
ence and Technology or the Office of Se-
curiry. Under the bill, a file could be es-
empted from the searab??nd?dIsc)o5trre
requirements if it dealt with one of four
topics: "scientif c and technical"
mearis of -collecting intelligence, tor-
eign intelligence and cxxmterthtelil.
geoce operations, background investi-
gations of potential informers and liai-
son arrangements with foreign govern-
meats.
STAT
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U.S. Spies:
`The Wraps
Are Off'
By David Wise
AdrniniStni i ffhas moved on a broad front"
to unleash the intelligence agencies, par-
W ASHINGTON-A =Moujahedeen in- ticularly the CIA and the Federal Bureau
surgent in .a remote . mountain pass in of Investigation, to control sensitive t or-
Afghanistan receives.a Soviet made Kal- rnation, and to crack down on government
ashnikov rifle from captured American employees who leak to the press.
stocks. Halfway across the -world, near The President has done so through a
Jalapa, ' Nicaragua, a former. member -.of _ series of : executive :orders and directives,
dictator Anastasio Somoza's national as well as-through the budget and legisla-
guard, now a member of the anti-Sandie- tion. Since taking office, be has issued a
- - e.w.-4i-... wwaZew /.~ ew4 o~I~noTNG 'CT_
grenade-launcher. In El Salvador, an
election official stamps -a woman's wrist
with invisible ink to prevent her from
voting more than once.
What all three have in -common-the
Afghan tribesman, the Sonwcista and the
Salvadoran 'official -is that they received
their weapons, and the .invisible ink, from
,the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Prom all signs, under the Reagan Admin-
istration, the CIA has stepped up its covert
.operations around the globe, probably in
number and certainly in size.
Even in Washington, the names of John
H. Stein and Duane R. (Dewey) Clarridge
are not household words, but both men
'have an important, albeit secret, impact on
U.S. foreign policy. Stein heads. the :CiA
directorate of operations, the intelligence
agency's covert-action arm., and Clarridge
is the CIA's top operative for Latin
America. Under CIA director William J.
Casey, who was Reagan's campaign man-
ager in 1980, they help to direct America's
secret -wars, including. the conflict in
Nicaragua, the agency's most ambitious
undertaking since the Bay of Pigs. .
Congress has become increasingly res-.
tive about the covert operation in Nicara-
gua-an operation that is no longer very
covert-but the increase in cloak-and-
dagger activity should-come as no surprise
to the lawmakers, the press or the public.
During the 1980 election campaign, Rea-
gan promised to rebuild America's intelli- .During the 1980 campaign, O'Neil con-
gence agencies, which he and his aides tinued, both Reagan and Casey said they
believed had been unnecessarily hobbled didn't have the capacity to conduct covert
following the disclosures in the 1970s of operations. "Olearly.they set out to rebuild
widespread abuses by the spy agencies.
-'it, he said. ""They :wanted to be sure we
The Republican Party platform specifical- have this form of. policy tool when the
ly pledged to "improve U.S. intelligence
capabilities for. . . covert action."
But the many millions of dollars ' of
covert money being spent in Central
America, and the increased emphasis on -
covert action in general, is only one part of
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other on classification of documents and a
recent directive lo deal with 'news leaks.
At - 'the ..urging .. of the Administration,
'Congress has :passed a law to bar the
publication of the names of secret agents,
.and the FBI has issued a new set of
guidelines thatease the restrictions placed
on the bureau during the Ford Adminis-
tration.
:All of -these actions have clearly been
designed::ta:mold the intelligence agencies
? tothe Reagan design * Each-Adatinistra-
lion in the. last- three has written a new
executive order on intelligence," Michael
The Administration
Has Strengthened the
CIA and FBI
and -T ghtened.
Government Secrecy,
national interest dictates." O'Neil, .'who
serves-.under Chairman Edward F. Boland
(D-Mass.) on the House panel-which has
tried to restrain the Administration's oper-
ation - in ., Central - America-believes The
debate over covert operations and.intelli-
gence is "almost theological," certainly
ideological. -"One of the things they want-
ed to make clear-to intelligence officials is
that they are trusted and can go about
their duties, that they are notpariahs." He
added: "I don't think in the long run'there
is really a,great deal of difference between
what Reagan and Carter permitted-But if
you are .an intelligence official looking at
the atmospherics, the changes might tell
you, 'The wraps are off.' ?
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J. O'Neil, chief counsel to the House
Intelligence Committee, points out. "Intel-
ligence has become a political issue. It
wasn't before. The Church committee
changed all that." (The Senate Intelli-
gence Committee headed by former Dem-
ocratic Sen. Frank Church of Idaho con-
ducted the most ..far-reaching of the
various investigations of the intelligence
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U.S. Officials discount
`Bulgarian Conneetion'
By ROBERT C. TOTH,Time_Sta}f-Writer
There have been other recent developments in the
WASHINGTON- National Security Adviser William -tItali an authorities investigating the attempt on the
P. Clark and CIA Director. William..J.-Casey now both Pontiff's life have now obtained enough photographs of
lean toward the view that. efforts to1ind a 'Bulgarian :ft. Peter's Square to construct a montage of virtually all
connection".-between Bulgarian-intelligence: agents-and maple present before, during and after the shooting.
the attempted assassination -of T'.opeJohn aul ll:have _~according to sources. Much of the film has been
run dry,according to ReaganAdmimstration officials.:. rovided by American tourists, through the FBI, after a
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1tcoiaes=amid signs that the'Xremlinhas demonstrat-A West German television pros ram,re
ea `unusually visible anger'with-the Bulgarians and a Mme man p the ported that
report that the unusual visit of senior Bulgariai;~'fficiais photographed squnge rafter the
and churchmen to the Vatican-last-peek was intended to footing in Maographed y, 198 1, apparen fleeing t l~> the carrying 2 gun, has
discusssome aspects of the affair_ ..been identified as Oral Celik, also a Turk, who allegedly
unprecede ielped Agca assassinate -a Turkish editor in 1979 and to
-Soviet Leasure was seen -earlier this month in an
nted announced visit-of the new chief of they, then escape from a'Turkish prison to Bulgaria.
'Ceiik in Soviet KGB security police to Sofia, and in a report-that use to is reportedly extradite. him Bulgaria now, where authorities
raditm to Italy, much as they have
personally Bulgarian by leader Yuri ` V. Todor AndZhivropov, Zhivkov
the was " new read out Kremlin?' 'another another Turk in the case, Bekir Celenk, the man who
3 million to kill th
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romised A
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leader .and former KGB chief,-during a visit by Zhivkov
to Moscow. -
There-is speculation in Washington that. both inci-
dents are -related to embarrassing ties that have been
found by Italian investigators between the Bulgarian
intelligence service and the Turkish gunman, Mehmet
All Agca, who shot the Polish-born Pope on May 13,
1.981. These links have led to widespread allegations
that the Bulgarians hired Agca to kill the pontiff.
The theory has been that Bulgaria, the Soviet Union's
closest ally, was acting on behalf of Moscow, which was
presumed to blame the Pope for fomenting anti-Soviet
unrest in Poland.
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.. On White House orders, a detailed review of
information available to the United States from the
Italians and others-was conducted. The review came
after broadcast charges that CIA officialswere discour-
aging efforts to find a connection, ostensibly to avoid a
revelation that could prevent a summit meeting
between Andropov and Reagan.
After the review, Casey came to agree with career
CIA officials that the Bulgarians very probably did not!
direct Agca to shoot the Pope, although they probably
did know his intentions and chose not to stop him.
Earlier this month, NBC correspondent Marvin Kalb
reported that Casey also cited three other factors that
Embarrassing Ties caused him to "change his mind" from his earlier
Adding credence to the speculation was the visit of inclination to believe in the connection:
the 12-member delegation from Bulgaria, led by a Lack of progress in the Italian investigation of the
deputy foreign minister, to Rome on Thursday where connection; reports from Rome about a possible trade of
they were received by the Pope in a private audience- the arrested Bulgarian airline official, Antonov, who
the first since the assassination attempt. The announced was one of Agca's alleged accomplices, for two Italians
reason for the visit was to mark the feast of St. Cyril, but jailed in Bulgaria on espionage charges, and the
this was the first time Bulgaria has celebrated the feast persuasive denials in a New York Times report in April
in this way since John Paul's election to the papacy in that a Bulgarian defector in France had provided
-1978.--- supporting evidence for the connection theory.
Moreover, according, to one knowledgeable U.S. "Casey's view now, which the CIA has presented
official, reports from Eastern 'Europe earlier said that convincingly, is that Agca was probably not hired by the
the delegation's purpose was "probably to discuss a Bulgarians," a knowledgeable Administration official
political solution" to 'the Italian case against. Sergei ' ;d-
ntonov, the Bulgarian airline official who was arrested `Clark's position issomewhat short of that, between
.fter being identified by,Agca as an accomplice in the one that says there was no connectiort?tand another that
shooting. holds if there was some connection, we'll-never be able
? Clark and Casey, whileno longer inclined to believe in to prove it,?' the official added. "He thinks that vein has
Bulgarian connection, still strongly support the, just.about petered out."
continuing search by Italian authorities for evidence ? Officials flatly deny that the new Clark-Casey
that could tie the Turkish criminal, Agca, wit positions are related to any desire for a Soviet -Ameri-
h
Bulgarian-and Soviet-intelligence organizations. can summit conference.
Analysts saw Soviet anger at the ;Bulgarians in the
brief 'story recently in Pravda, Moscow's Communist
Party newspaper, reporting that the new Soviet secret
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/T Cu 1 p ? such as today s because it contained so
~/ . S.Says L.t b a'- a7 ils eri little that was ww. Among them, aG cmt=g to a State Dmepartment official,
was . Thomas 0. Enders, who was
Cen ~a A .erica Subversion tint Secretary stag for inter.
AmericanAffairs until today, when he
was nominated to be Ambassador to
Spain. .
F3v STEPHEN SIt1tiZER^ Mr. -Maders was said to have been
-overruled. by -others, including W11liam
spa i Yaatim. J Ca. Director of Central latelb-
F1 ASE N TON, May Ti -Tae Rem- course in guerrilla warfare and~-related ,who were eager m reiterate their
gun Administration charged today that subjects in Cuba,., and that 16 more Sot,- , accusations about foreign intervention I
C ur a was expanding its political-mill- dm= TeceaUy arrives;` in Glib-. for O'behalf of -leftist guerrilla groups in;
that Cubans, Nicaraguans Bnd-guerril-
las'from El Salvador were jointly plan-
ingte~rvrsstasn theTegion.- - `
Toe charges were -COntained in
"8ackgrcEmd Paper- tra1 -Amer-
ica.," a document mane Trnblic by the
State and.Defense-Departments. 2rpor-
taaved - Cuba as directing -subversion
tkzrix~ the 'isthmus, 'working
tbrougb ,b-tae Sand inst Government
of Ntcaraa-gu. and lettistgroups in other
countries. _
The doc-ameatbad little new informa-
tion One official Called it "`P compen-
dntm of backgrounc materials" sap-
por~iag the Admtni non Contention
that turmoil in Ceatrrl America is
used largely by outside interference.
Nearly all the incident cited took place
last year or ea_rber, and most have been
pebhcized before. -
U-S. to Train More Salvadoraw
The document said Cuba "played a
major:- role" in training commandos
who raided the Dopaago air force base
outside San Salvador last year. It said
Cuba had fusanced "a new leftist politl-
cal perry- in Costa Rica. It charged
also that Nicaragua "has instigated ter-
,in Costa Rica" and that
Cuba was trying "to intimidate Hon-
duras and its leaders. into passivity
through acts of terrorismn." . .
At a brieting on the document, a De-
tense Department official said 20 Hon-
duran leftists had recently completed a
lion Mme 'lrV .a captured :handicap the =-T" -Administnation issued a
leftist .sue," .m 1 alleging g that
= ke L m - - - "the smut, in El Salvador presents-.
States would id sTapQrts Tmhe'I:a)"va- "= case of Soviet,
at a new begin e base tr is Hondt>ian Ea Cuban and other +Cc=mtmist -m~ilitarl'
do= tes limps soon
Ddu uas, iav oYvement in a politically troubled
the oh=al confirmed that 2;400.Saly .- ;-ttdrd VKYrid camtr9.,, In 1952 the Ad-
dorans would be trained in , ~ondura~
averthe neat six mouths. 1 ramisrration.made public p P-rapes
The base where rbe~' will be gained, that it said backed the charge that the
Soviet
be said,`~iil remain a 'Honduran taaih- improve Union iW85 helping Nicaragua
t3' " although a 100i-member American points its military m ttbe_ e made
mobile t 4 team will teach the Public
P today.
_
dition the official said, 5 Sal Critics of the Adrniniscation said ttae
In ad,
Mier docurnetms were not conclusive
d
ffi
d
d
ll
va
an o
cer can
or
ates wi
i
be
trained at Fort Beaumg this year. The
candidates began arriving there this
evidence that leftist movements in Un
tral America were being directed from
week, be said.
1n toclav's document, previouslvpub-
lisped material hclnded reports of arms Shipment intercepted on the way
from Nicaragua to El Salvador in 1981
and charges that some M-16 rifles found
at guerrilla safe houses in Guatemala in
1991 had originally been shipped to
American forces in Vietnam,
-Internal Dissent an.t:he Report
The document said an airfield Z3
miles north -of Managua was used in
1981 to service "imide Hired aircraft"
carrying weapons to rebels in El Salvo
dor. "This particular route has been
closed down, but air infiltration over
new routes Continues to this day," the
paper said-
Some Administration officials report-
ed)y argued against releasing a paper
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ON
Casey Asks Panel: Who Said `the C.LA..Lies'?.!
SpedW w The New Yett'nrnea
WASHINGTON, May 26 - William J.
Casey, Director of Central Intelligence,
has written to members of the House in. telligence committee demanding to
know who told a "reporter that "the
C.I.A. lies taus anyway."
The letter; sent Wednesday, referred;
to an article in The New York Times on
May 18 that discussed differences be-
tween the House and Senate intelli-
gence committees regarding Con-
gress's role in curbing covert aid to the
Nicaraguan rebels. The article men-
tioned a House intelligence committee
report that accused the Reagan Admin-
istration of misleading and ignoring
Congress 4bout covert operations . in
A Democrat on the committee who
asked not to be named was quoted as
saying, "The C.I.A. lies to us anyway."
This member believes that all aid to the
rebels should be ended, as the House
committee has recommended, rather,
than conditioned upon an explanation
by intelligence officials, as the Senate
committee has recommended. The Sen-
ate committee has also asserted its
right to veto specific covert operations.'
Mr. Casey wrote: "While I have less
than complete confidence in the ac-
curac. of press reporting, that cphn- ;
meat has offended otfr' entire Organiza-
tion and impugns the integrity -of our
fine employees. In obligation to them I
feel that I must pursue its accuracy.
"The possibility that any Committee
member harbors the thought that C:I.A.
lies to the Committee Is so appalling
that I feel obliged to determine If any,.
member of the Committee actually
feels that way and, if so, to seek the
particulars: The confidence between
the Agency and the Committee essen
tlal to make the oversight process work
requires that any such impression be
addressed
"1 therefore ask you to let me know
whether you have made or heard any-
body make such a statement or know of
any member' of the Committee who
would be under that impression."
One :committee member ' who re-
ceived the letter today was incredulous.
"'T'hey stopped just short of asking us to
take a lie-detector test," he said.
.Negotiations Criticized
Meantime, Speaker of the House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.,today criticized
negotiations between Democrats on the
House Foreign Affairs committee ,and
Administration officials concerning
legislation to end the covert Nicara- :
guan aid. The Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee tee has concurrent jurisdiction with the
intelligence committee on the legisla.
tion.
- o ,
The President of the United States
broke the law and then laughed to the
American people that he broke the
law," Mr. O'Neill said. Referring to the
negotiations, he said, "I hope there is no
agreement to allow them to continue to
break the law for the rest of the year."
The committee has selected Repre-
sentative Lee H. Hamilton, Democrat
of Indiana, to negotiate with the Admin-
istration, which is represented by
Thomas 0' Enders, Assistant Secretary
of State for. Inter-American, Affairs.
"We're a long way aw y from any
agreement," Mr. IIamiltoi said.
In a report supporting ending the aid,
the House intelligence committee dis-
closed that a year ago Congress barred
any assistance to the rebels that was for
the purpose of overthrowing the Sandin-
ist Government. That prohibition, in
April 1882; appeared in a classified
annex to an authorization bill. Last
December, Congress publicly adopted
the same language, allowing covert aid
only for the purpose of halting weapons
flowing from Cuba and Nicaragua to in-
surgents in El Salvador.
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odd hits:
Nicaragua
Connection
A MEMBER-of the Senate.Foreign
Relations Committee in 'Chicago
Tuesdaywarned that time is running
mout.fora.settlement to the inflictin
'Nicaragua, .and .:said .American
,troops `leould _ "easily? become ate- ..
'olvedin,a war 'in n Central -.America
vithin',he next few 'months.
-Sen: Christopher Dodd [D., Conn);
:.a -critic --of the Reagan administra-
ztion's ;Latin American policies, -said
that'f' Nicaragua's Sandinista : ?go-
vernment feels that it -is losing
-ground -;to the rebels, it probably
:would.-call for help from the Soviet
- nion and Cuba.
-:This would be.followed immediate-
ly by more :arms and possibly troops
front' .the United-States, he predicted.
"We'-could easily send down. forces
to hedge against that .possibility,"
Dodd. said. in.an:interview after-ad-
dressing a Jewish-United Fund din-
ner at the Palmer 'H.otise. "This
`thing has -a way-of escalating "'
:PUBLISHED REPORTS have
By: Sieve' Sanders
enceA~gg__ency arrector, and Thom-'
as Enders, assistant secretary of
.state, as having told congressional
committees that the right=wing Ni-
caraguan rebels are close to over-
throwing the Sandinistas. Both offi-
cials have denied the reports.
Dodd charged the Reagan adminis?
tration is trying to "scare" Congress
into approving more military aid for
governments friendly to the United
States money 'the administration
says is being used only to stop Soviet
- arms shipments into the region.
-Congressional committees have
'threatened to decrease Reagan's lat-
est bequests for aid because of fears
that the United States is covertly
playing -an -active role in the over- .
throw movement.
"in a sense, [the administration
is].telling Congress, 'If you do what
you've. said you're going to do' and
these guerrillas are successful,
you're going to be responsible, de-
spite the fact the law explicitly
prohibits the administration from
giving [the rebels) aid," Dodd said. .
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ON PAGE .l2 -- WASHINGTON POST
26 MAY 1983
THE FEDERAL
TRIANGLE ? .
Peat Plan Hits Snag
One of the first projects funded
by the Synthetic Fuels Corp., a
proposed' peat-mining facility in
North Carolina, ran into a potential
snag yesterday when?four environ-
mental and fishing :groups threat-
ened to,sue ':the government :if.the
project _goes forward.
The groups, led by the National
Wildlife :Federation, contended in
letters to ,the.?Army and the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency that
the 15,000-.acres of swampy coastal
land proposed for ? development is
wetland and ,is supposed to be pro-
tected under the Clean Water Act.
The 1$576 million project is the
brainchild of Peat Methanol Asso-
ciates, a consortium of investors that
includes CIA Director William J:
Casey. Last December, despite . a
staff opinion that the venture _. was
"unpromising," -the, Synfuels Corp.
agreed to provide $465 , million ..,in
loan guarantees and price -supports
for the methanol fuel the consortium
intends .to produce.
Yesterday the wildlife federation,
along with the Environmental Policy
Institute and two North Carolina
fishing organizations, said that un-
less the Corps of Engineers and the
EPA assert jurisdiction over the area
within 60 days, they will file suit.
-Cass Peterson
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25 May 1983
EDITORIALS
Covert aid
Congress should be guided by
our relations with'South and Cen-
tral American neighbors in decid-
ing how far to go in funding co-
vert operations aimed -at inter-
rupting the flow of arms to leftist
guerillas in El Salvador.
*What -began -as an anus .inter-
diction effort now seems -to be
turning into support for -Hondu-
ras-based drive to bring down the
Sandinista government of Nicar-
agua, the country we blame for
supplying the Salvadoran gueril-
'This new angle is causing divi-
siveness between the administra-
tion and Congress. Congress has
directed by law that covert mon-
ey not be spent in an attempt to
overthrow the Nicaraguan gov-
ernment- House Democrats want
to end the use of covert money
and spend money openly to halt
the arms -flow.
Controversy.has arisen over a
New York Times story.that had
two high administration officials
predicting the -downfall of the. Ni-
caraguan Sandinistas to rebel
forces by the end of the year.
Central Intelligence A~genncv 'Di-
recto amd Casey, one of
the named officials, denies mak-
ing such a prediction.
Whether it was predicted or
not, it seems clear that our intelli-
gence officials would not be un-
happy if the -insurgents against
the Sandinistas are successful.
The question is whether U. S. aid
is being used in -a manner that
Congress has expressly -forbid-
den.
supposedly.preparing for a drive
.on Managua.
Congressional committees are
debating the best way to weaken
the Sandinistas. The House Intel-
ligence Committee, fearing that
.covert interception;ofarms to El
Salvador: vas-getting, out;. of con-
Ftrol;wants. money to go,openly'to
- Central, American -countries to
counter arms smuggling. The
' Senate ? Intelligence Committee
would. continue covert funding
but insist on 'an administration
statement of objectives and
plans.
We fear the U. S. administra-
tion : is getting deeply into a "no
win" situation. The present El
Salvador government is accept-
able.mainly because it is not com-
munistic. On most other points, it
does not meet our standards for
an aid recipient. -
We deplore the -Soviet Union's
use of client -states such as Cuba
and .Nicaragua. But then we de-
velop :our -own client -states and
risk: committing the U S. to the
extent-that our own troops might
be necessary either to disengage,
save face, or bailout an.ally.
This obviously is; what Con-
gress feared last fall when it ap-
proved a law-banning U. S. covert
support for military operations
aimed at overthrowing the Nicar-
aguan government.- In spite of.
this, our covert program may be,
having that very effect
President Reagan has set up
Congress for blame if indecision
leads to communist gains. This is
trying to force Congress and the
country farther than they are
Also, we may be dangerously. willing to go and doing it in a way
compromising Honduras, which
shares a border with Nicaragua,
by using that country as a supply
uit for 7,000 rebels who are
that invites communist reprisals
and the ill will of other American
nations. These are dangerous tac-
tics.
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the committee member-said Mon- 'I its were successful
.
comment publicly on Allegations con- k '
.,6enate .majority;4eader; .aDd :Thomas Kcial l-was one of thesources, for the ar=
cerning intelligence activities except O'Neill, Jr.,- the::speaker,of the ticle in-The Times -Monday. On Sun-
when they raise questions of .legality. i+,ouse,said Monday .that they.hadnot Kiclay;-,be-said that thearmed opposi-
This morning's New York; TSmes a?A n told b Mr. -or,an one-else Lion to`the Nicaraguan
state that..I and Assistant :Secretary t the . Nicaraguan :rebels : bad a ,.had achieved some tjorgvivctoriies in
of State Faders have .predicted athat
M good chance. of overthrowing' the recent-weeks, adding;~:''We're con-
Nicaraguan ..rebels have. -a good ,y icaraguan government by the end of vinced that "they can win." -CIA offi=
chance of overthrowing the Saoduus= eyear. cials have also madethis assessment
eta government by the end of the year..;- -A staff member of the House corn- in conversations with -reporters that
No such -prediction has been made. 5; mittee said Monday.night.that neither
;aaveeks:
.
. a matter. of lic , I,-do not aught
po y %r.. Both Howard
-Baker.:Jr .the A senior Defensellepartment offi
William J. Casey, :the director -Of sometime -.in the last three weeks. (D,-Ind.), member of the Souse In-
Central Intelligence; deniedMonday Asked if they had come in secret tes- J telligence Committee, said Monday
that be had predicted that rebelshad timony -,or informal conversations' .night that be did not recall hearing
.a goodchance of :overthrowing ::the with members, the representative ;:Mr..Casey or Mr. -'Enders make the
Nicaraguan government by the end of ,,aid tw- could not remembe
this year. prediction" .on the =ti-Sandinist
Au . article 9n "The:IJeirk .He aid_that both Mr: ade:s and rebels. He said hebaone through a
Times Monday ..New nstr a 'or mr'rC ybriefed the committee sev- ' apt of testimony_that both had
T
p .said e era] :times in recent weeks and that given in which neitherof the:two men
officials and members of CoDgress,'~, 1 ~efore and after their formal pre- made:sucba prediction. _-_-^ ,., 1
had attributed the prediction to se :pared remarks, they chatted with tepresentative'hiorman i' Mineta
cret testimony ..by 'Mr. , Casey and ;members of the committee.
e
Thomas_ O.Bmders, .assistant secre- mmit ee a .membeL id wt- -ecO y
tart' of-state for inter-American of '.dap -that committee
e remarks wwere -made in 'hearing : Casey e or ~Mr. E-ZDd
ers
fairs. The CIA :refused ::to .comment -.za"eci~ettestimony. -make uch;a .statement in testimony
Sunday tm the article and Mr. ceders ;~ .The'Times-s rticle?quoted the ad- :;before the committee.
did not return repeated phone calls to ` g Dual
mi nistration.and :non
Republican =member of the Ben
his home. ; , ;'zsources as saying--the -:predictions ate Intelligence Committee who was
_Mr. Casey said tn. .statement is- were ;made in -.secret =testimony - to also quoted as a source of Monday's
'sued in `Washington byy-the CIA -MoD- `
*ongressional committees in recent article could not be reacbed_Monday
congressional briefings. which re- .suggested in formal testimony before A State Department spokesman,
mutely resembles the -story in The 4he committee that the insurgents had John Hughes, called The Times's ar- ` !.
New York Times.!,',
spa .reasonable chance -of -overthrowing ticle -an inaccurate and misleading
. A "Democratic member of the he government- He said,-however, account of testimony. givez by. admin-,
Rouse Intelligence:'Committee, who ?4hat. it was clear from conversations istration witnesses." He added that
was one of the sources cited in the ar- with intelligence -officials that they the administration was -complying .'
:=tide, when asked Monday night about y would not be unhappy if the incur-. with .a -law. enacted by 'Congress .last
-
-.ay against . the Nicaraguan govern
.;went as early as the end of this year.
.--Mr,, Casey's statement, reiterated
what he said Sunday.
: That was that Mr. Enders and Mr.
Casey had told members of the com-
mittee that in the estimation of the
CIA, the anti-government guerrillas,
who are supported by the United-)
States, could achieve -a military victo-.
-year that prohibits .S. :aid to mili-
tary :groups An Central America -for.
.the:purposeof overthrowingtheNlca=.
raguangovernment:: ".
:.:.:Mr. ,Hughei -Md not deny that ad--"l
-ministration -officials had. predicted
-that the rebels might topple the Nica-
rraguan :government. Be said he could
not comment on that subject.
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Nicaraguans
And-the U.S.
Congress Asks Reason
For Giving C6vert Aid
By PHILIP TAUBMAN
Spacial tatT~cNew Yo[t'neor.
WASHINGTON, May 24 --'The Rea-
gan Administration's problems with
Congress over Central America policy
have worsened in recent weeks because
of confusion over the Government's jus-
-tification for supporting in-
Nerovs surgents in Nicaragua.
While still denying that
Analysis they seek to overthrow
Government of Nicaragua,
senior Administratian:affi-
eials have begun talking about the pos-
sibiliry that the 'paramilitary forces
that the United States helped assemble
and train may, acting without Washing-
ton's approval., force the Sandinists
from power.
There appear to be a number of rea-
sons for discussing the prospect-of a
military success, even though it raises
questions about the Administration's in-
tentions. According to senior _national
security officials, these include a fear
that Congress may -cut off money to the
rebels unless the cost of such a cutoff is
made clear, and a sense that the insur-
gents have made significant military
gains in recent weeks,
There is also a feeling that -remarks
by President Reagan, Including his de-
scriptions of the insurgents as "tree -
don fighters," .made it impossible 'to
sustain the official explanation that
American aid was exclusively for the
purpose of stopping Soviet clad Cuban
arms bound for rebels in El Salvador.
Credibility Problem
But by suggesting that the insurgents
could topple the Government, Adminisr
tration officials have contused -Con-.
gress and increased `suspicions that the
Administration has misrepresented the
true intent of the covert effort. That, in
turn, has sharpened a basic credibility
problem that was the underlying reason
for the House intelligences committee's
vote earlier this month to cut off money
for the covert activity.
Administration officials in back.
ground discussions with reporters con-
tend that what looks like inconsistency
between American and rebel goals Is
superficial. They have told Congress
that this inconsistency 'is the inevitable
result of having limited American
-aims, specifically the interdiction of
arms, pursued by rebels who have more
ambitious ideas. Because of controls on
the rebel activities, the officials insist,
it is reasonable and possible far the in-
?sargents to do one job for the United
States while they do another for them-
selves.
Many members of Congress consider
it impractical at best, and deceptive at.
worst, to differentiate intentions in &
fluid, expanding operation that is
funded and partly directed by Ameri-
can intelligence officials.
Senator Daniel Patrick .Moynihan,.
Democrat of New York and vice chair-
'man of the Senate intelligence commit-
tee, said on Monday, "The problem is
that from the beginning of this activity,
the Administration has -tried to .make
the kind of fine distinctions that might
be suitable to an antitrust case pending
before the cast of appeals but are not
appropriate to an intelligence operation
of this kind.' `
A sdmorr ense en
said this week that it was his under.
standing that the prospect of a military
victory by the rebels would be brought
to the attention of Congress as part of
"the-Administration's effort to prevent a
cutoff of funds for the insurgents.
As concern about the covert operation
mounted in Congress in recent weeks,
Administration officials first asserted
that United States involvement in the
operation was carefully controlled and
that American support remained in
compliance with the Boland amend-
ment, which bars efforts to overthrow
the Sandinists. The law was named
after its sponsor, Representative Ed-
ward P. Boland, Democrat of Massa-
..chusetts and chairman of the House Set
?lect Committee on Intelligence.
When Mr. Boland and the Democratic
majority on his committee voted to cut
off money for the rebels, Administra-
tion officials began to predict that the
rebels, moving on their own, migizt
overthrow the Sandinists.
`Pure Hearts' Not Enough
He added: "Administration officials
have assumed that it is enough to know
that -their hearts are pure. That' isn't
sufficient for Congress."
Members-of Congress say they found
It mare difficult to accept the distinct
tion made by the Administration when
officials from the Central Intelligence
.Agency and State Department started
reporting that the Nicaraguan rebels
planned later this year to launch a
three-.front offensive directed a Mana-
gua, and bad a good -chance of forcing
the Sandinists from power. Several
times in recent months, intelligence
and Defense Department officials have
made the same, prediction in back-
ground conversations with reporters.
A Republican member of the Senate
intelligence committee and a Demo-
cratic member of the House intelli-
gence committee said last weekend that
two senior Administration officials,
William I. Casey, the Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, and Thomas 0. En-
ders, the Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs, said to re?
cent secret testimony before their com-
mittees that the Insurgents could oust
the Sandinists by the end of the year.
Boland Amt
Mr. Casey and Mr.-Enders, respond-
ing to an article in The New York Times
on Monday that cited their comments,
denied ever delivering such testimony.
Both the Senator and House member
who were sources for the story have
since repeated their original accounts,
but both said the remarks may have
been made by Mr. Casey -and Mr..En-
ders in informal conversations at the
opening or closing of committee meet-
ings rather than in formal testimony.
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vIn r.^~
Z4 MAY 1983
newsbriefly
Central America won't get
Gls, White douse says j
=Washington
The White Douse said President
~isagan?had r1o.~lans to send.United..
Mates combat?troapsrto Oeotrsi A erl'
,'ica A spokesman was responding to
a senior ~er~erat ~ t
that t cops mighf,e+rentuaUy be re-
quired to stem leftist insurgencies in
he region. } .
the White House alsotleciined
comment on a New York Times report
that two senior administration officials
had Predicted USsupported rebels
had a good chance of overthrowing
the Nicaraguan government. The
newspaper had quoted unnamed con-.
Pressmen as saying that CIA Director-
William Casey and Assistant Secretary
.of State Thomas. Enders had made.the
.Prediction in secret testimony to
con-
,gressional intelligence committees.'
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ON FA _ 1 24 MAY 1983
Synfue'ls Corp.
Projects'..off er_
Little Promise
vert peat into methanol in North lion handout to some of the very
Carolina. One member. of the con- Arab sheiks from which it was sup-
sortium -is the Energy Transition ',posed-to liberate the country. Inte-
Corp., of which CIA Director Wil- rior Secretary James G. Watt .recent
Liam J. Casey is a?founding investor. ly barred Santa Fe International
- Originally turned down by Syn- from holding U.S. gas and oil leases,
fuels because of serious deficiencies because the Kuwaitis don''t'?allow
ement structure First Col- Americans to bold energy interests
in mana
g
The high-salaried executives of ony bounced back with its hand out. in-their country.:Watt'a concern ap-
the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corp. might . ,,It now has the distinction 4having pears not to be shared by the Syn-
?be forgiven their wastrel ways ifthey- received the - first `letter 'of intent" -fuels board.
-were spending the taxpayers` billions from Synfuels, promising `$455-mil- Another North Alabama sponsor
on alternative-energy projects df'ac -ho'd in-iom and price guarantees. 3s Air Products and Chemical Co
fuel or even Irotential merit;`' " _ et internal documents-.66w .that Though it's in the .fortune 500 list
Unfortunately,.. they~re ;squander -1ynfuels-still has some reservations of wealthiest corporations, .and re-
ing money on; grandiose .-schemes of about.. the project, mainly. because cently spent $230"million to gobble
. So little promise-that-private 4ndus First; Colony's -price expectations-are up another company, -Air Products
'ry wouldn't 'touch - them '.unless considered-unrealistically. optimistic. 'Wants the 'government to `put- up
Uncle Sam was picking -up the. bill, .,-The First Colony project is con- most of the money for the gasifica-.
In fact, the major oil firms have -aidered a high-risk project based on tion project -Does it know something
:abandoned synthetic fuel, ventures 1Synfuels'j _methanol price projec we should know?
:,even with -the :lure of government tions, which are lower-than sponsor- Headlines and. Footnotes; Two-j
loan .and price guarantees. That's: expectati Qns," says one. intern al eval sensitive reports critical of Israel are
how little Big Oil thinks of"synfuels' - uataen: '"The project is relatively ;being --suppressed on Capitol- Hill
future. This leaves the Synfuels : 'high: risk =one=in terms'-,of -its long`.; while Congress tries to ram through
Corp. with $15 billiQn to handout-.-,,,, y-e~ economic viability." Despite $400 million more in military-aid
and only second-rate programs on -;.{hese~ misgivings, Synfuels officials than the White House wants. One is
'which 'to spend it.-Five-of the six approvedFirst Colony's application. a GAOstudy?of alleged Israeli mis-
finalists for the second round of Syn- `=Now the' General Accounting Office use of U.S. arms .aid. The other is a,
fuels' largess were -rejected by the is investigating and wants to know report by a nine-member. Hill del-
the first time around.. the firm's "legal authority for offer- egation looking into Israeli harass
corporation
II
My associates 'John Dillon and ing price guarantees of up to double merit of U.S.- Marines in Lebanon.
Corky Johnson have obtained inter -current oil prices as-an . incentive ? Even though ' extended investi
nal Synfuels documents that show , ... ? gations of.,Labor Secretary Raymond
the dubious chances -for success of ' ? The North Alabama coal-gasi- J. Donovan- turned up no conclusive
the expensive projects the agency is fication project is backed in part by proof of alleged .ties to organized
considering. Two glaring examples: Santa, Fe International, a -company . crime, insiders say access-to the nor-
? First Colony is a consortium' owned by the government of Kuwait. mally outgoing Donovan. bas now,
that wants'Synfuels noney.to con- So Synfuels is considering a $1 bil- been controlled severely,by.aides. _.!
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Kirkpatrick
says U.S.
threatened
Compiled from dispatches
U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirk-
patrick said Monday that Ameri-
cans are no longer safe in their own
hemisphere because of a Soviet
threat via Cuba and Nicaragua.
And CIA Director William J.
Casey Monday denied a published
report that he had predicted in
secret congressional testimony that
U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels had
a good chance of overthrowing the
leftist Sandinista government by
the end of the year.
In a rare public statement
responding to ?a published report,
Casey said that "no such prediction
has been made."
The New York Times reported
Monday that members of Congress
said Casey and Thomas 0. Enders,
assistant secretary of state for
.inter-American affairs, told the
committees that anti-government
forces in Nicaragua were planning
a steady increase in fighting this
summer, culminating in a pincer-
style assault on Managua, the capi-
tal.
Kirkpatrick, interviewed on
evangelist Pat Roberts' "700 Club"
program, said the Soviet Union has
become a "military power in this
hemisphere" through its bases in
Cuba. She said Nicaragua is being
used as a springboard -for-subver-
sion aimed, at forming, a "union of i
countries under communist govern-
ments" in Central America.
She reiterated the Reagan admin-
istration's contention that Nicara-
gua has become a base for the
subversion of El Salvador, Hondu-
ras and Guatemala. Nicaragua's
Sandinista leadership, she said, has
been "very clear about the fact that
establishing communist gov-
ernments throughout the region is
their goal."
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CIA Director William Casey adamantly denies a report saying he and other
government officals predicted in a closed hearing that U.S.-backed rebels could
topple the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
The New York Times Monday quoted congressmen as saying they were told by high.
U.S. officials, including Casey and Thomas Enders, assistant secretary of state
for Latin American affairs, that the rebels ''have a good chance'' of
overthrowing the Managua regime by the end of the year.
But Casey denied that he or Enders mate those comments during a hearing.
No such prediction has been made,'' Casey said. "There is nothing in the
record of the congressional briefings which remotely resembles the story in The
New York Times.''
The Times said today two sources stood by their account of what Casey and
Enders had said; a third source could not be reached late Monday.
One source, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told the newspaper
it was possible the comments had been made during infomral conversations with
the congressmen.
Earlier Monday, State Department spokesman John Hughes refused to comment on
the Times report, but said that portions of the story that suggested that the
United States has gone beyond simply trying to stop the flow of arms to El
Salvador are ''innacurate and misleading.-
He said, ''The administration respects and will respect the Boland
amendment. "
The Boland amendment, passed by Congress last year, prohibits any U.S.
activity designed to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. Congressional
.opponents of U.S. support for the Nicaraguan rebels have charged that the
administration might be violating that law and the Times story raised further
questions about the legality of aid to the rebels.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, reacting to the Times story, condemned
President Reagan's Central American policy, saying his emphasis on military aid
is ''all wrong.''
"I think it's wrong. I think it's all wrong,'' O'Neill said of Reagan's
emphasis on military aid during the speaker's regular morning news conference.
O'Neill said the United States was successful in foreign policy when it
concentrated on economic aid such as the Marshall Plan. But when it turned to
arms, ''It didn't help us at all.''
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,The irony is so thick you could .scarcely to anyone. An aide to the admiral put it more
penetrate it with a piercing metaphor. The bluntly: The cut-,' are nit-picking and
-ration's former spymaster, Adm. Stansfield quibbling,. he says. Right or wrong, that
Tt_rner - the man who, as director of the complaint touches on a -basic flaw in the
,. C under Jimmy Carter, enforced an present government policy: it gives
=outrageous agency wag Wile - is - himself arbitrary power to the censors who, for
being gagged by Show who jnowzun-theshop 7 whatever Z. eason, can ..gut '..a book not
The CIA's .censorship mruitt xiecessarily "because it reveals strategic
.4nnaaiously :.a3am ; .tit3 aricrost x,ecrets' rise t ?nnap =-ast some
~8oard, as ken h ev -, :W11 t:2 rr ='4admin; non gore in an
a a k Zltraer s` g {the*; Mnfavr cable = fight fir, the
t:. o. t.s a iit iM ~, ; Situp
`m ellilgence" - ot e
nay'n e+author
RThatmakes'14?ner aiseso- n .~* Turner sists. themiatter~vill . e -resolved
it - was -under .his -Tenure hatthe- CIA- swan ?bi' megvtiarian,' but hasn't :,ruled out
7m for Supreme Court decision denying litigation. in fact, to compound the irony, the
Frank Snepp, a former agency operative, the attorney he has retained, Anthony Lapham,
earnings from a book he wrote because he was the CIA's chief counsel when it went to
-0.=ft clear it with his former employers. court against Frank Snepp. Suing could., of
Tie pre-publication review rule that snared course, cost the admiral a 'lot, something
Snepp has since been 'expanded by the Frank Snepp would know about. Asked for
Ragan administration to -effectively gag his reaction to Turner's plight, Snepp -
official with access to classified couldn't help seeing .'poetic justice in the
.tiy ,material - not just CIA:personnel -'1rom fact, that the architect of the CIA's
?ever -publishing : anything-:hat bears even censorship should now be:feeling the heat.."
nAtrectly on his ?or :her government service, Beyond that, though, there's also the
out -;first submirting =it,,.to-?she.;censors. lingering, injustice of a regulation - so far
More. than ? -that,' . the administration also upheld :in rubber-stamp fashion by federal
ri ants.zo ;make .it a 'crime;'or.rnere)y a 'civic courts - that has the potential ao censor far
-offense, to publish uncensored ?matlerial.' ,more than `classified information and to
intimidate countless persons who, hesitating
'T'urner has complained that the deletions to tangle with the intelligence elite, will keep
made by the agency have no?.basis, since the quiet when speaking out could be in the
.material -is not classified. and poses no threat - public interest.
Ex-spy chief out in the cola
SLAT
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Div, FACIE /0
Panelists .discount
Nicaragua report
WASHINGTON - Sources in the
House and Senate intelligence com-
mittees said yesterday a review of
secret testimony does not support a
report that Director of Central In-
telligence William Casey and a sen-
ior State Department official pre-
dicted that American-supported
rebels in Nicaragua have a good
chance of overthrowing the San-
dinista government by the end of
this year.
"We could find no basis for that
story," said one Senate Republican
source after a check of committee
transcripts, and a House Demo-
cratic source said a similar review
by that committee had yielded the
same result.
According to the report, pub-
lished in yesterday's New York
Times, Casey and Thomas Enders,
assistant secretary of State for In-
ter-American Affairs, made their
prediction in secret testimony to
congressional committees in recent
weeks. Unnamed Administration
and congressional officials were
quoted in support of the report, but
in interviews. yesterday, 'House In-
telligence Committee members on
both sides of the issue said they
had no recollection of such testimo-
ny.
"Neither Casey nor Enders ever
made a statement like that to the
Intelligence Committee I'm on,"
said Rep. C. W. Bill Young (R-Fla.),
-a prominent conservative, and
Rep. Norman Mineta (D-Cal.), a
leading critic of the Administra-
-tion's policy, said he could not re-
call such testimony.
Though the Administration
first Ju..tified covert military aid to'
the Nicaraguan insurgents as
a
means of interdicting arms ship-.?
ments to leftist guerrillas in El Sal-
vador, members of both the House
and Senate intelligence committees
have long expressed fears that an=
unstated goal is to overthrow the
Sandinista regime.
The Insurgents have not hidden
their own ambition in. this regard;;
but the Administration has sought
to downplay any threat by citing
the Nicaraguan government's su-
perior military strength. In fact,-
sources estimate that the claims of
strength for both sides have been
inflated, and while there is nod
doubt that the insurgents have
grown stronger with American,,.
supplies, the fighting has- not-:
reached the level where there has
been any clear test of strength.
Whether or not Enders and Ca
sey .had testified as reported in the.
Times, these sources questioned,;
the accuracy of any such predic-
tion now, and whether it was be-,
lieved even in the Administration.
According to one member of the
House committee, a CIA official.
based in Honduras had told a visit
ling fact-finding mission that the'
overthrow of the Nicaraguan-gov-
ernment was possible in six!
months, but this was later abrupt-,n
ly dismissed by Ambassador DeaneY?
.Hinton, who met with the same'
group when it reached El Salvador.:.
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Director of O.I.A. Denies Report
He Predicted Ouster of Sandinists
William J. Casey, the Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, denied yesterday that
he had predicted that rebels had a good
chance of overthrowing the Nicaraguan
Government by the endof this year.
An article in The New York Times
yesterday said Administration officials
and members of Congress bad gat
tributed the prediction to-secret .testy
mony by Mr. Casey and Thomas O: En
ders, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs. The C.I.A. re-
fused to comment Sunday on the arti-
cle, and Mr. Enders did not return re-
peated phone calls to his home.
'No Such Prediction'
Mr. Casey said in a statement issued
in Washington by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency yesterday:,
"As a matter of policy, I do not com-
ment publicly on allegations concerning
intelligence activities except when they
raise questions of legality. This morn-
ing's New York Times stated that I and
Assistant Secretary of State Enders
have predicted that Nicaraguan rebels
have a good chance of overthrowing the
Sandinista Government by the end of
the year. No such prediction has been
made. There is nothing in the record of
the Congressional briefings which re-
motely resembles the story in The New
York Times."
The committee member said yester-
day that the predictions w made
sometime in the last 4weeks,
Asked if they had come in secret testi-
mony or informal conversations with
members, the Representative said he
could not remember.
that both Mr:,Ende and,Mr.
`Casey briefed the-couineeeverai
-times in recent weeks-and that before
and after their formal prepared re-
marks they chatted with members of
thecommittee.
The committee member said Sunday
that the remarks were made in secret
testimony.
The Times's article quoted the Ad-
ministration and Congressional sources
as saying the predictions were made in
secret testimony to Congressional com-
mittees in recent weeks.
Both Howard H. Baker Jr., the Senate
majority leader, and Thomas P. O'Neill
Jr., the Speaker of the House, said yes-
terday that they had not been told by
.Mr. Casey or anyone else that the Nica-
raguan rebels had a good chance of
overthrowing the Nicaraguan Govern-
went by the end of the year.
A staff member of the House commit-
tee said last night that neither Mr.
Casey nor Mr. Enders had ever sug-
gested in formal testimony before the
committee that the insurgents had a
Representative Norman Y. Mineta,
Democrat of California and a member
of the House committee, said he did not
recall hearing Mr. Casey or Mr. Enders
make such a statement in testimony be-
fore the committee. .s-
A Republican member of the Senate
Intelligence Committee who was also
quoted as a source of yesterday's arti-
cle could not be reached last night.
. `Convinced that They Can Win'
-A senior Defense Department official
was,,o a of the sources for the article in
The Times yesterday. On Sunday he
said-that the armed opposition to the
Nicaraguan Government had achieved
some major victories in recent weeks,
adding, "We're convinced that they can
win."_CJ,A. officials have also mad
this assessment in conversations with
reporters that were not for attribution.
- A State Department spokesman,
John Hughes, called The Times's arti-
cle "an inaccurate and misleading ac-
count of testimony given by Adminis-
tration witnesses." He added that the
Administration was complying with a
'law enacted by Congress last year that
prohibits United States aid to military
groups in Central- America for the pur-
pose of overthrowing the Nicaraguan
Government.
Mr. Hughes did not deny that Adnun-
istration officials had predicted that the
rebels might topple the Nicaraguan
Government. He said he could not com-
ment on that subject.
A Democratic member of the House
Intelligence Committee, who was one of
the sources cited in the article, when Government. He said, however, that it
asked last night about Mr. Casey's was clear from conversations with in-,
statement, reiterated what he said Sun- telligence officials that they would not
day. be unhappy if the insurgents were suc-
That was that Mr. Enders and Mr. cessful.
Casey had told members of the commit-
tee that in the estimation of the C.I.A.
the anti-Government guerrillas, who
are supported by the United States,
could achieve a military victory against
the Nicaraguan Government as early
as the end of this year.
reasonable chance of overthrowing the
Representative Lee H. Hamilton,
Democrat of Indiana, a member of the
House Intelligence Committee; said
last night that he did not recall hearing
Mr. Casey or Mr. Enders make the pre-
diction on the anti-Sandinist rebels. He
said he had gone through a transcript of
-testimony that both had given in which
neither of the two men made such a pre-
diction. `
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f 24 May 1983
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CIA I)irector'William.:T. Casey de- b
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ass
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support:
for_the
died yesterday a -re port that be had
rebels -was primarily to -stop .arms
Inedicted in secretcongressional tes- -shipments to rebels in. El Salvador.
- mony_:-that U.S-backed Nicaraguan Other officials have said:secently
-rebels had a.good chance Hof over- ,that .the guerrillas in Nicaragua
u h :theeg end of he dear. ear, -government estimated at 7,000 men - have poor
,my: a rare pfublic the statement respond- -..short-term .prospects of.taking power
:fin a
public because of the 25,000-moan army.: ,.
ingto a published report Casey said "The descriptions we beard, even
ba such pthinie gAn the he been record .m of made.
the though they included lots -of-qualifica-
is nahi
ongrgmssional briefing which remote- ions-about how the rebels were build-
:~con
ly resembles the story." ing up. their own momentum,. have
much-.more in common with Press'
-.The article .was=carried -in pester- dent Reagan's reference to ahem as-
day's editions of the New York Times: ;freedom fighters' than',:the'.official''
Quoting g unidentified congressmen claim that we are - providing -covert
and :adminitration .officials, .it said :aid only to prevent arms shipments4,
the predictions were made to can- --.the des quoted a.Democraticmem-
.gressional committees . in recent ber-of the House intelligence commit.
weeks by Casey and Thomas O. En- tee ,as sa
;:dens, assistant secretary. of .state for 9~!g
inter-American affairs. Caseys denial, in an agency state-
According : to the Tunes, the eon-
went, said that'tas a matter of policy
,I do not comment, publicly on:allega-
lions comer-um activi-, -
ties except-when tbey.raise questions
of legality"::
The reference`.t legality apparent-
'ly means the so-called Boland amend-
ment that bars the CIA from support-
ing the Nicaraguan -rebels- for the
purpose-of-overthrowing the govern-
ment. Casey also,der ied that Enders had -
made any ;prediction. of . short-term .
rebel victory.' Enders could mot- be '
reachedtor'eomment...-:
Meanwhile,'House-Speaker Thom-
-as P. O'Neill, 3r-, also reacting-to,--the
story, condemned Reagan's . Central -
American. policy, saying that hisemL
phasis on military -aid. is wrong.
O'Neill -said -the United *States -vas
successful in -foreign policy when it
concentrated on economic aid such as
the Marshall Plan..But when itturned
to arms, "it didn't help us at all,"
The State.Hepartn:-ent said the
port was misleading and inaccurate
because of what-it said -was the sug-
gestion that the :United States was
trying to overthrow-' he government
--of Nicaragua.
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On rAri Z 4 MLA Y 19 8 3
BRMFLY / Capital
CIA chief denies.-report
CIA Director William J. Casey yesterday denied a
published report that he had predicted in secret con-
gressional-testimony that U.S.-backed Nicaraguan
rebels had a good chance of overthrowing the leftist
Sandinista government by the end of the year.
Ina rare public statement responding to a pub-
7ished report, Casey said, No such prediction has
Teen made. There is nothing in the record of the con-
ressional briefing which remotely resembles the
-Glory.,,
^- The article was carried in Monday's editions of
The New York'Times. The Times, quoting unidenti-
fied congressmen and administration officials, said -
.the predictions were made to congressional commit-
:tees in recent weeks by Casey and Thomas 0. Enders,
assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
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24 MAY 1983
U.S. denies
i0
t's ai
COUP in
Nicaragua
Special for, USA'TODAY
The State Departrnent'Mon-
day disrnissed&w 'hmisleading
:,and inaccurate": a news report
-,uggesting-the t aited'States4s
overthrow
'actively trying a 6l.
'Nicaragua'slett-wing Sandinist
,government.- s
.:However,-spokesrnan Bohn
Hughes refused tosaywhether
top U.S. -officials, Axluding CIA
director William - Casey, ~ .told .
Congress that American sup-
ported guerrillas in Nicaragua
could oust the Sandinistregime
this year..
The report said. Casey and
'Thomas Enders, assistant sec?
retary of state for Latin Ameri-
ca, made the -prediction at re- .
cent secret congressional hear-
ings. When asked _if At .is
realistic,,fughes replied: 'We'
are not -prepared-to-address a
speculative= question . of that
Hughes insisted the adminis-
tration ' espectsand will :re-
spect" the congressional
amendment; prohibiting -the-
US. from giving covert aid to
seek the overthrow of the Sark-,
dinist government
He ruled out "any thought" 4of sending xnerican -combat
troops to Central America. .
Meanwhile, House Speaker
Tip O'Neill Monday. con-
demned President Reagan's
military and security-oriented
Central American policy Mon-
'. day as "all wrong"
In anther .Central- America
;developments Monday
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ON Pt L_ .` ...~.~ 24 May 1983
Central America combat
not planned, Reagan .says
'Washington - The 'White House
said yesterday President Reagan had
no plans to send U.S. combat troops to
Central America, despite a senior
general's reported statement that
troops might'.eventually be required
to stem leftist insurgencies in the re-
gion:
"The president has said we have
not been asked and we have`no plans
to send them," said deputy~press sec
retary Lyndon K. Allis.
.Meanwhile, it was announced in
Washington 'yesterday that the U.S.
Army will start training an additional
525 junior officers for the army of El
Salvador. The 525 new 'Salvadoran
officer candidates will begin arriving
at Fort Benning, Ga., Thursday to be-
gin 13-week courses at the Army's In-
fantry Center. '
Mr. Allis made his comment when
asked about a report that quoted Gen.
`Wallace Nutting, commander of the
U.S.:Southern Command, based in
Panama, as saying that U.S. combat
troops might be needed, in addition to
current programs of military and
economic aid.
Senator Barry Goldwater (R,
Ariz.) voiced sentiments-like those'of .
General Nutting yesterday in a televi-
sion interview. -
The White House declined com-
ment on a report that two senior ad-
ministration officials had said U.S.-
supported rebels in Nicaragua lead a
good chance of overthrowing the1eft-
wing Sandinist government in Mana-
gua by the end of the year.
The report, carried in yesterdays
Sun, quoted unnamed congressmen
as saying the prediction was made by
CIA director William Casey and Wil-
liam :Enders, -assistant secretary -of
state for .inter-American affairs, in
secret -testimony to congressional`;iD-
telligence committees.
Mr. Allis said the White House
would follow its tradition of not com-
menting on intelligence-related re-
ports. However, Mr. Casey and'4wo
congressmen later denied that "any
such testimony had been given.'
The Salvadoran officer candidates
will be the first brought to Fort Ben-
ning since a group of 477 completed
their training in May, 1982.
The United States has also trained
two battalions of Salvadoran infantry
in their home country and one battal-
ion at Fort Bragg. N.C.
Generally, U.S. officials have
praised these units, which Pentagon
Latin American chief Nestor Sanchez
has called "the mainstays of the Sal-
vadoran army."
However, Mr. Sanchez and other
Pentagon officials have said U.S.
training "has touched only about 1,0
percent" of El Salvador's military
forces.
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24 May 1983
Report: CIA see
Sandinista ouster:
pro" Trouts Wt Fe x^"'" ..The description's we heard, even
NEW YORK -- The.director of the though they included lots of qualifi-
C1A has predicted in secret testimo- -cations about how the rebels were
nyzhat U.S-supported-Nicaraguan re- building up their own momentum,
bels_ have a good -chance of over have much more in.common with
throwing the Sandinista government President Reagan's reference to
by-the end of the year, members of
Congress 'have told the New York
-Times.
The Times quoted unidentified leg.
islators yesterday as saying that the.
predictions were made ,to congres-
sional committees in recent weeks
,by CIA -director William J. Casey and
by Thomas 0. Enders, assistant secre-
tary of state for inter-American af-
fairs.
The legislators said the-predictions
seemed to undercut the Reagan ad-
ministration's assertion that US. sup-
port for the rebel groups primarily
-was for the-purpose of stopping arms
shipments to guerrillas in El Salva-
dor.
Other officials have said recently
that they believe the guerrilla forces
in Nicaragua-do not have any short-
term prospects of taking power be-
cause of the -size of the main force of
the Sandinista army.
The Times said Casey and Enders
told the committees that anti-govern-
ment forces in Nicaragua were plan-
ning a steady increase in fighting
this summer, to culminate later this
year in a pincerlike assault on Mana-
gua, the capital.
them as freedom fighters than the
official claim that-w.eare providing
covert aid only. to prevent arms ship-
ments," a Democraticmember of the
House intelligence committee told
the Times.
Refusing to comment on the mat-
ter yesterday were Dale Peterson. a
-spokesman for the CIA; Mark Wein-
berg, a White House press duty offi-
cer; Joe Reap, a State Department
press duty officer, and Cmdr. Jeffrey
Renk, a Defense -Department press
.duty officer. Enders did not return
repeated calls to his home.
from four Latin -American nations
known as the Contadora Group said -
in Costa Rica they would visit Mana-
gua this week. Costa Rica invited the
observers -to examine the border
with Nicaragua, ;where anti-govern-
ment rebels under the Pastora's com-
inand-are launching attacks.
'-'The Contadora Group, named after
the Panamanian island where repre-
sentatives of Mexico, Colombia, Vexf-
ezuela and Panama first met in Jana-
ary, is trying to bring peace, to
Central America and prevenrthe'rt.
gionfrom becoming battle zone for
the superpowers. -
Foreign ministers from the group-
along with counterparts from other
nations in the region, will meet -in
Panama this weekend for three days.
Meanwhile, in Managua, -the Nica-
raguanatf Defense Ministry yesterday
said thive rebels, reportedly com-
manded by renegade Sandinista lead-
er Eden Pastora, were killed Sunday
in a clash with a Nicaraguan army
patrol near the Costa Rican border.
in another development, observers
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Good Morning America
May 23, 1983 7:00 AM
William Casey: Nicaragua
STATION W J L A T V
ABC Network
Washington, DC
STEVE BELL: In other news this morning, CIA Director-
William Casey is quoted as saying that the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua may fall by the end of the year.
Several congressmen have told the New York Times that
Casey's view undercuts the White House assertion that American
support for anti-Sandinista rebels is aimed only at ending arms
shipmens to rebels in El Salvador.
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SUBJECT CIA/Sandinist Government
STATION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
BILL. KURTIS: Nicaragua's Sandinist government could
soon be on the way out. According to the New York Times, CIA
Director William Casey, an Administration official, and congres-
sional officials all believe that U.S.-supported rebels have a
good chance now of overthrowing the current regime in Nicaragua
by the end of the year.
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DATE
SUBJECT
May 23, 1983
ort
CIA Re
7:00 A.M.
CITY
Washington, D.C.
p
JOHN PALMER: The CIA reportedly feels the overthrow of
the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua is near. According to the New
York Times, CIA Director William Casey believes U.S.-backed
rebels have a good chance of bringing down the Sandinistas by the
end of the year.
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C.LAa IS REPORTED
TO PREDICT OUSTER
OF THE SANDINISTS
REBELS ' PROSPECTS 'GOOD'
'Congress Toid:'Guertillas -Plan
By PHIL:IPTAUSMAN
' 'WASHINGTON,May22-7be'Direa
itor of Central.lntelligeace and another
+seaior Administration official have pre`
dic ted that American-supported Nica-
raguan rebels have a : good chance of.'
overtbrowing the Santinist Govern-
meat by the end of the ,year, Adminis-
tration and Congressional officials said
today.
Members of Congress -said that the
predictions were made by William J.
Casey, the C.IA director, and Thomas
0. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State
'forInter-American Affairs.
.The Congressmen said the predic-
tions seemed to undercut the Adminis-
tration's longstanding assertion that'
American support for the rebel groups
wwas primarily for the purpose of stop-
ping arms shipments to guerrillas in El
? Salvador. The Administration asserts
the arms flow through Nicaragua.
Testimony Is Secret
'The descriptions we heard, even
though they included lots of qualifica-
tions about how the rebels were build-
tag_ up their .. own momentum, have
much more in .common with President'
Re a&an's reference to- them as
,foam-fightera`?,.than.the official- claim`
that we are providing covert aid only to
.prevent arms shipments'," a Demo
cratic member-of the House Intelli-
-genre Committee said. .. IV
The Administration
and : Congres-
sional sources said'Mr. Casey and Mr.`
Enders made their. prediction in secret
testimony to Congressional committees
In recent weds.
,anAttack-onthet apitai
;They .told - the eomraittees ? that anti. a said that the Nicaraguan military
Government forces in Nicaragua were., includes a 25,000-man army, plus mili-
piaaning a steady increase in fighting I . tia units that bring the total armed
this summer, culminating later fn .the, forces to 75,000. The military is armed
year.in a pincer-style assault on Mane- ~He added that equipment, ls arhe said.
8ua.'the capital, members of Congress ,I ,farmer officers of the national by a
said.c . - I guard, a
Zbey Think It Can Work"
Dale.:Petersoa, a-spokesmeen for the
Ccutrsl ; Intelligence Agency, said the
agency would not comment on the mat-
lter-`tdr:"Enders didnot returnrepeated
p hone calls tohis home. ,
Altbough the members of Congress The House intelligence .Coramittee
said they were skeptical about the Ad- -voted this month to estt.off money for
_ia_sttation's expectations they re-;; covert activities 1n, Nicaragua. The
sQm'Ged that intelligence and Defense =mmittealarmed about-reports that-.
I?epartment officials considered they the operations had grown beyond their
1405peact :of a anitttary victory to be. original objectiveof Ming arms
sbipme nz -to El Salvador, recom-
told that there are 7;000 mended that Congress instead'author-
Wer
4+ebelsand thedrnumbers are.growiug;"~ magic nations million -in over -.aid -to Central
arm
*'Republican member of the Stenate In-- smuggling
telligenoe Committee said.. "The The legislation is a cxed to come up
uric' ey .pied has the rebels J or debate by the House Foreign Affairs
' :picking up'more and more popular sup- Committee this week.
-part., 'which will produce desertions in = ators Approve Compromise
'the Nicaraguan military, all setting the -The 'Senate Intelligence Committee,
stage.'#or a drive an Managua that adopting a Comp response to the
:farces the Government out of power. r'eported increase in the covert opera-
tions,'voted so continue financing until
Theythink it caaaROrk ?' -
A senior national -98=31 ty official 11 September. The come -asked the
.familiar with the.covert -operations in
Nicaragua said today that one torte at-
tacking Managua would come from' the
north, -near the Nicaragua-Honduras
border, where .the largest group of
Tebels has been operating. -
A second front east of Managua would
be opened by insurgents composed pri-
marilyof Misidto Indians who fled their
homeland along Nic aragua.'s the Atlas;
tc Coast in recent years, he said.
He said that a southern front would be
manned by forces under the command
of Eden Pastore G6mez, a leader of the
revolution that overthrew Gen. Anasta-
sio Somoza Debayle in 1979. Mr. Pasta-
TL, known as Commander Zero during
the Sandinist insurrection, - -defected
from the Nicaraguan Government last
year and moved to Costa Rica. -He re-
cently announced-he was directing mili-
tary operations against the Sa* mist
Government from inside Nicaragua.
Predictions Called Pr'emanrre
.Another American 'military official
,familiar w th the situation in Nicaragua
said that predictions of a victory by the
rebels were "terribly premature" and
were based on "highly.questionablc as-
sumptions" that popular support for the
Government would collapse and the
i military would not defend the Sandin-
ists..
-force closely identified with human
mghts abuses Committed by the Somora
Government.
' the 'Administration's assessment of
the potential success of.the rebel 'forms
was shared with Congress when Amen-
Administration to develop a .statement
of objectives and plans for the activi-
ties, which the committee said it would
review before approving financing for
the fiscal year that begins in October.
Last year, Congress -approved a law
prohibiting American covert support
for military operations -aimed at over-
throwing the Nicaraguan -Government.
Concern that the activities in Nicara-
gua were not in compliance with the law
led to the recent actions in Congress.
Members of Congress said that the
prediction of a military. victory by the
Nicaraguan insurgents was part of a
broader effort by the Administration to
build support in Congress for its Central
America policies by suggesting that an
erosion of United States aid would lead
to an expansion of Soviet :and Cuba in-
fluence in the region. . -
A Warning by Reagan
." They were telling us that, in effect,
if we cut off assistance to the rebels now
we would be responsible for aborting a
great chance to reverse Communist
gains in Central America." a member
of the House Intelligence Committee
said.
President Reagan, in a speech to
Cuban Americans in Miami on Friday,
repeated his warning to a joint session
of Congress last month that indecision
in the United States could produce
Soviet gains in Central America.
He said in Miami, "If those trying to
. throw .roadblocks in our path succeed
and interpose themselves at a time
when a crisis could still be averted, the
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U.S./NICARAGUA KURTIS: The Reagan administration, under fire for its
unacknowledged support of rebel forces in Nicaragua, today went
to unusual lengths to counter new ammunition for critics of its
Central American policies. That ammunition came in a newspaper
report published today. David Martin has details.
MARTIN: The New York Times report that CIA Director Casey and
Assistant Secretary of State Enders have told Congress that
U.S.-backed rebels could overthrow the government of Nicaragua
by years end drew more than the standard response from the State
Department. JOHN HUGHES (State Dept. Spokesman): We wish to
say that the Times' article is an inaccurate and. misleading
account of testimony given by administration witnesses to the
relevant committees.
MARTIN: That was followed late in the day by an unusual public
statement from Casey himself. It read: 'No such prediction has
been made. There is nothing in the record of the congressional
briefings which remotely resembles the story in the New York
Times.' Two members of the House Intelligence Committee also
told CBS News Casey had made no such prediction. Pentagon
officials say any prediction that anti-Sandinista rebels might
overthrow the Nicaraguan government before the end of the year
is premature at best. The 7,000 rebels are badly outnumbered by
100,000 Sandinistas. under arms in Nicaragua. The rebels'
success depends on mass defections from the Nicaraguan military
and on a popular uprising against the Sandinista regime.
Pentagon officials believe the ingredients for an uprising
exists but that the people of Nicaragua will not declare
themselves until they are sure which side is winning. One
Pentagon official linked the recent attempts by Libya to fly
arms to Nicaragua to the pressure the Sandinistas are feeling
from the rebels. Four Libyan aircraft remain stranded in
Brazil, but sources told CBS News that a Libyan 707 like this
one has made one, and- pos-sibly,two round trips to Nicaragua with
what is believed to be a cargo of.arms. Some of the arms
flowing into Nicaragua are destined for leftist guerrillas in El
Salvador. For the past three months U.S. intelligence has been
tracking these arms shipments with nighttime flights by C-130
aircraft based in. Panama'an-d..equipped with infrared cameras.-.
These same planes were used as gun ships in Vietnam, but
administration officials insist that the C-130s peering into
Nicaragua do not carry any ammunition and are in danger of being
fired upon. David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON
CASEY DENIES PREDICTING NICARAGUAN REBEL VICTORY
CIA Director William J. Casey on Monday denied a published report that he
had predicted in secret congressional testimony that U.S.-tacked Nicaraguan
rebels had. a good chance of overthrowing the leftist Sandinista government by
the end of the year.
In a are public statement responding to a published report, Casey said "no
such prediction has been made. There is nothing in the record of the
congressional briefing which remotely resembles the story."
The article was carried in Monday's editions of The New York Times. The
Times, quoting unidentified congressmen and administration officials, said the
predictions were made to congressional committees in recent weeks by Casey and
Thomas 0. Enders, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
According to The Times, the congressmen said the predictions seemed to
undercut the Reagan administration's assertion that U.S. support for the rebel
groups was primarily to stop arms shipments to leftist guerrillas in El
Salvador.
Other officials have said recently that the guerrilla forces in Nicaragua
estimated at about 7,000 men have little short-term prospects of taking power
because of the 25,000-man Nicaraguan army.
"The descriptions we heard, even though they included lots of qualifications
about how the rebels were building up_their own momentum, have much more in
common with President Reagan's reference to them as 'freedom fighters' than the
official claim that we are providing covert aid only to prevent arms shipments,"
The Times quoted a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Casey's denial, made in a prepared statement issued by the Central
Intelligence Agency, said that "as a matter of policy I do not Comment
publicly on allegations concerning intelligence activities except when they
raise questions of legality."
The reference to legality apparently refers to the so-called Boland amendment I
that bars the CIA from supporting the Nicaraguan rebels for the purpose of
overthrowing the Sandinista government.
Casey also denied that Enders had made any prediction of short-term rebel
victory. Enders could not be reached for comment.
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WASHINGTON
SALVADOR-AMERICAN
CIA Director William Casey today denied a published report that he had
predicted in secret testimony to congressional committees that U.S.-supported
Nicaraguan rebels had a good chance of overthrowing the leftist Sandinist
government by the end of the year.
Casey, in an unusual public statement, said: "No such prediction has been
made. There is nothing in the record of, he congressional briefing which
remotely resembles the story."
He referred to a report in today's New York' Times quoting unidentified
congressmen and administration officials saying the predictions had been made in
recent weeks by Casey and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs Thomas Enders.
The Reagan administration has come under fire over its covert support for the
anti-government rebels in Nicaragua. President Reagan has said the U.S. aid is
aimed at stopping the supply of Soviet bloc weapons to leftist guerrillas in El
Salvador fighting the American-backed Salvadoran government forces.
Reagan has said U.S. support for the rebels does not violate a law passed by
Congress forbidding the financing of any operations aimed at overthrowing the -
Nicaraguan government.
Casey's denial was issued by the CIA late today.
Casey said that "As a matter of policy I do not comment publicly on
allegations concerning intelligence activities except when they raise questions
of legality."
The White House declined to comment on the New York Times report, but the
State Department called it inaccurate.
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DATE
May 22, 1983 11:30 P.M. CITY
Washington,
D.C.
SUBJECT
The Sandinista Regime
TOM JARRIEL: CIA Director William Casey reportedly has
told some congressmen that U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels have a
good chance of overthrowing the Sandinista regime before the end
of this year. Casey's prediction appears at odds with the Reagan
Administration's claim that U.S. support for the rebels is aimed
primarily at cutting off the flow of arms to leftist guerrillas
in El Salvador.
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On nz ?y. C - J
.:Drawing a .belt-Portrait With W
20 MAY 1983
By Sara :.Booth'Conroy
Clare Boothe .Luce has not so
much lived herwife=as written it..:as':
an epigram. She was born -with the
gift of intelligence and the,curse of,
-seeing the world as ludicrous.
"Without atragic view of life? you ,
canit find it, as .'funny as I. do," she
-:said last night. The. difference be-
twee'n a pessimist and a` optimist is
'
that the - pessimist is better in- .
formed."
Last night, five weeks after her.
80th birthday, the wit and the beau-
ty were holding up . well at.a verbal
-''Self-Portrait?at ?the: National Por-:
trait Gallery." Those of the about
300 guests who came expecting a
drawing room dialogue. from the fa
mous playwright of "The Women"
were not disappointed.
Neither were those. who came to
hear the Republican politician and
diplomat who was a member of Con-
gress from Connecticut and an am-
bassador to Rome. Today she is a
consultant. to the National Security
Council, a member of the Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, and an
amazing combination -of a grande
dame and an .enfant.terrible.
Paying tribute to her past and her
present was an . appreciative, group
that included three CIA directors, two
past-and one present-=William Colby,
:,.Richard Helms and William Casey-
the Librarian-of Congress Daniel Boor-
stin, the ? Architect of the Capitol
George White; former Nixon secretary
Rosemary Woods and Luce biographer
Sylvia Morris.
In fine form, shimmering, with se?,
_,~guins, wearing enough pearls to dec-
imate a bed of oysters, Luce ranged
with Marc Pachter,.. the National Por-
trait Gallery's historian, over,,her var-
Letting Luce
With Clare Boothe
sous starring roles with-words about
-the costars and-,thebit players in the
road :company 'of her life. he spoke
much about the cheers'and a-bit about
the boos.
.She neatly dug a grave for the long--
standing rumor that George Kaufman
had written parts of "The Women;"
her biggest hit. "He used to say, `Do
you think that 'if I'd written a play
that .made $3 million, I would've put
When she was inCongress, she said,-
"someone was always saying that- my ,
husband [Henry Luce, owner of Time-
Life] had his , staffers write -my
..speeches for me. But it all, balanced i
out, sometimes: people said I .wrote his,
editorials foi'hiin ' ,
Listening to 'her last night, it is
doubtful that anyone would dare write
anything for her. Looking at Secretary
of Defense Caspar Weinberger-, sitting
on a front seat at the discussion, she
gave a mild example of the sort of
thing that made many enemies in her
career. She. chastised . Weinberger for
popularizing the phrase "build-down"
"The secretary is a great patriot,"
she said, "but .,he would certainly do
the country a favor if he would get rid
of `build-down.' "
She said she learned at a party re-
cently that. former senator J. William
Fulbright had never forgiven her for
the time she -corrected his use of imply
and infer. And she told about the con-
gressman who told one of her verbal
victims not to mind her because "her
real vocation is writing, She attaches.
meaning to the use of words,"
Luce told of a time she met her
match. "When 'The Women' was a
success in London, I was brave enough .,
to ask Sylvia Astor to introduce me to
George Bernard Shaw. I wrote out in
my mind what I was going to s#."
But when ---We was shown into
Shaw's study, he ignored her for so
long she forgot her speech. "I just
blurted out,- 'Mr. Shaw, if it weren't for
you, I wouldn't be here ...' He looked
at me and. said, `And what is your
mother's name?' "
Pachter asked Luce which of her
many roles she preferred. She said the
-most wonderful was to be mother to
her daughter, who was killed in a car
accident at 19. -Luce,said she mourned
the grandchildren she might have had.-
And in a characteristic shift, from
.dark to light,-she went on to say she
was proudest of learning scuba diving
after she was .50.
"I took a certain pride in that Pres-
ident Eisenhower gave me 14 missions
to accomplish as ambassador to Italy.
And I accomplished 15-I persuaded
Italy and Yugoslavia to settle their
territorial dispute. I believe it is the
only border disagreement since World
War II solved short of war."
Luce admitted that her first ambi-
tion was to be a playwright despite her
subsequent diplomatic career. In con-
versation after the formal dialogue, she
said she has a. play "gestating. But you
know the kind of life we lead often
acts as an abortion to the creative im-
pulse."
It is said no woman can be too, thin
or too rich. Last night, it seemed that
Luce, who is neither fat nor poor,
could have ruled the world-if she had
not also been too beautiful and 'too
witty.
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Dear Mr. Casey:
Enclosed is a copy of the May 1983 issue of SIGNAL Magazine
which contains your statement "C3I As a Peace Keeper."
It was a privilege for the Armed Forces Communications and
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your statement in the May 1983 issue of SIGNAL. I know that the
readers of SIGNAL will find your remarks very interesting.
Reprints of the statement may be obtained from AFCEA. If
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By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Spedal oT eNewYorkTYmes
WASHINGTON, May 18 - A dispute
over whether to hold an open or closed
debate on a proposal to end covert aid to
the Nicaraguan rebels led the House
Foreign Affairs Committee 'to delay
consideration of the measure today. -
Democrats pressed for a closed ses-
porters and opponents of the legislation. James H. Michel, Deputy Assistant Sea
The delay, until next week, was hailed retary of State for inter-American Af-
by some Republicans as a "cooling off" fairs, said he saw no reason fora closed
period that would enable them to ne- debate.
gotiate with some Democrats who, they
said, were having second thoughts : "What remains is .a policy judg-
about "tying the hands of the presi. meat," Mr. Michel said. "We believe
dent. that issues of policy could be decided in
ji
The committee bas had extensive .apublicsession."
-
classified briefin
Democrats then asked M
s fro
Will
Mi
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m
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iam J.
chel if
sion, on the ground that the debate ; Casey, Director of Central Int ce, ,he would declassify any of the informa-
would necessarily draw upon classified ;and other officials of the agenI'd tion received by the ? committee. Mr. .49 information provided by intelligence of- hateto debate this thing and not use any Michel replied that he could notdo so.
ficials. "The sole consideration was not -of the information they gave us," said
to open ourselves to the charge that we Representative Dante B. F.ascell, Representative Jun ,Leach, Republi-
are cavalier about national security," Democrat of Flo 'can of Iowa, who supports the measure, c' b 41 17;f said Representative Stephen J. Solari., 1 question whether you can debate this nonetheless urged a public debate, ar-
Democrat of Brooklyn. issue without discussing the testimony ~ that "what we're really dealing
But Republicans and Administration we weregiven." . with here are the war-makingpowers of
officials sought an open session, ar- But Representative William S. the U.S. Government."
g'? g that the debate was on policy, not Broomfield of Michigan,
i strategy-, and could therefore be con-
ducted without reference to classified tees ranking Republi, accused the
data. They called the Democrats' de-
mand for a closed session a "smoke-
screen" to avoid public scrutiny on the
issue.
"If the majority of this committee is
as "a -smokescreen" to avoid going on
record on an issue about which they
were increasingly apprehensive.
.'They're embarrassed," Mr. Broom-
field said. "There's been a change of at-
going to sail out Latin America and titude by some me of`them, and they don't
emasculate to do i the Monroe Doctrine, they want to so ofiedge it. We've had
openly and not covertly,"
ought y' + enough secret sessions. It's just a ques-
said Representative Henry J. Hyde, Re- tion of do they or do they not favor an
publican of Illinois. "I'm against covert end to covert activities?"
action in this committee." "The bottom line is the reconsiders-
At 2 late-afternoon meeting, the corn- liby a lot of members who don't want
mittee's Democrats agreed to have tote put on the spot on tying the hands
both public and private debate on the of the president," he added.
bill and
h
eac
amendment. They will
.first be debated in a closed session and
then the doors will be opened to allow
public discussion. The same procedure
is expected to be followed when the bill
reaches the House floor.
Apparently behind the dispute, at a
90-minute committee session, was a
jockeying for position on the part of sup-
In a reversal of form, committee
Democrats, rather than Republicans,
solicited the Administration's position.
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x-Intelligence Director Disputes
Censorship of is Book ?n G .A.
give the'Govertnaeat:Sl4o,o00 in vazn- Admiral Turner, in the -interview,
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By SEYMOUR IM. HERSH so p, er said, was
Spw:WtoTb*)4 wYwtT1w damaging to his work in progress,
?whichis nearly completed. In one chap-_
WASHINGTON, May 17 - Adm. don't agree with their deletions and ter, the C.I.A.'s proposed cuts "in effect
have to go to the Justice De mean there's not much message left."
Stanfield Turner, who as Director of then they ,The general tenor of the cuts, he added,
Central intelligence prosecuted Frank partment" to decide how1to proceed, -""changes the chapters and makes them
tt . Snepp 3d, a former officer of the Mr. Snepp- who was forced -by a Su- ; Mess aPP~ from 'e sales -point of
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or re
-Central Intelligence Agency,.
February 19K to viavv.
ruling ta
ing to clear his book about the fall of preme Court
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sputing
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,1t1. Bon, is
4.-r'!.~' ?iJ VYGI i tm his book,
DecentInter al,
his own book on intelligence published d by Random House in 1977, ex-
Admiral-turner acknowledged.in an pressed Little 'sympathy for Admiral
interview that the agency's Publics- der "I think Turner deserves
tions Review Board had objected to por- the censors visit on him be.
former Director said he made a
-number of modifications to his book to
meet the agency's objection. But he
added that in many other cases be was
convinced the' agency had no basis for
asking for deletions.
The overall result of the agency's cen-
hi Ad
i
l T
the C.I.A.'s censors, but one of his for-
mer senior aides at-the agency,-who has
been involved in the preparation of the
book, depicted the deletions as nit-pick-
ing and quibbling.
"Stan Turner understands as well as
anyone what is classified and what is
not," the -aide said. "He feels there are
fundamental issues in carrying out in-
telligence in a free society, but there
are absolutely unclassified issues -
political science issues; if you will."
The aide added that Admiral Turner.
had upset many agency employees by
authorizing the dismissal of hundreds of
senior operatives.
Senior intelligence -Officials acknowl-
edged that there was a growing enmity
one section was delated, on the ground --- "`-_'"" ?""`r -_ "' ... .
that it included classified information place,"the former-agent said in a tele-
phone interview.
that would be injurious to the protection "I hate to think of anybody being cen-
of agency sour es and methods.
The - retired Navy admiral, who. sow' Mr. Snepp added, but I think
-served as Director of Central Intelli- there is poetic justice in the fact that the
gence in the Carter Administration, has architect of the C..'s censorship
vigorously disputed the agency's, cen- should now be feeling the thereat."
sorship tiations that In the interview, the former Director
in nego began early defended the intelligence agency's re-
this year. view program. "I've endorsed the pro-
Admiral Turner has retained an at- cess that I'm going through," he said.
torney, Anthony Lapham, who was the H "r n not fighting that.
C.I.A.'s general counsel at the time of I Number of Modifications Made
the Snepp proceedings, and said he was His complaint, he added, was over
prepared to litigate if a satisfactory
compromise could not be reached.
The former Director has no publisher
yet for his book because it cannot be
shown to outsiders until-it is cleared by
the agency. He said the book focused on
the issues "of running secret intelb-
{ Bence operations in a democratic soci-
ety."
Charles E. Wilson, chairman of the
agency's Publications Review Board,
confirmed today in a telephone inter-
view that the board had "noted some
things that are deemed classified" in
Admiral Turner's book.
Mr. Wilson praised the former Direc-
between Admiral Turner and high-level
officials in the Reagan Administration,
including William J. Casey, the current
Director.
Admiral Turner has emerged in the
past year as a leading critic of the Ad-
ministration's intelligence policies and
strategic programs, and has made his
criticisms in print,
what he termed the ""mechanics" of the
censorship process. "It's a bad system .
to take an internal set of rules and apply
them to external people," he said,
maintaining that rules designed to pre-
vent the spread of information inside
the agency should not apply to him be-
cause -everything that he wrote would
be cleared anyway.
At- issue, Admiral Turner said, "are
specific anecdotes of operations thats
had experiences with" while serving as
Director of Central Intelligence. "They
feel that by describing the operations I
tor's previous cooperation with the
board and expressed confidence that
the current dispute would be resolved
,.short of litigation. ""If we did end ?up in
court it would -surprise me," he said.
"This is a highly negotiated process.'.'
Before posing a legal challenge to the
agency's right to censor his book, Admi-
ral Turner said, he had "a number of
options."
"I can simply print anything and let
them sue me," be went on. -'The onus is
on them to stop me from publishing."
He added that could also "tell them that
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Democrats Fault Anti-Nicaraaua Aid
By Margot Hornblower . ways Ito interdict arms, but develop
wasnington Post Staff Writer ing a sizable military force and de-
Covert U.S.,support. or_guerrillas ployingit in Nicaragua is one which
fighting the leftis,t.;Sandmista gov strains credibility as an operation
ernment in Nicaragua has. strength only to interdict arms," the Demo-
ened international support for the crate said in the report.
Sandinistas--and- .-ailed ,to 'stop 'However, the comrriittee's five Re-
them from. helping .to train and arm publicans issued a dissent, stating
leftist rebels in nearby _El Salvador, . their conclusion that the - covert op-
the .Democratic .majority ' of the- eration has been successful in deter
House Intelligence Committee said _ ring arms shipments
in a report released . yesterday: Cutting it off, as the ,committee's
The Reagan Administration has. Democratic ma jan tvhas voted to do,
"allowed the spotlight~of internation- would hand "a. legislatively engi-
"
'
al opprobrarm to, shift from
Sandi neered victory" to the
Sandinistas,
nista attempts to subvert a neighbor- the Republicans said-
ing government -fin El Salvador] to a .`Mhe- Sandinista Nicaraguan gov-
U.S,...attempt to subvert that of Nic- ernment marks the first foothold of.
aragua," the committee's nine Dem- Marxism on the mainland in our
ocrats concluded in the unprecedent- Western Hemisphere," they said.
ed report about an -ongoing-CIA -co- "With only a modicum of help from
vert operation. the United States democracy can
Significantly, they agreed with the flourish in Central America"
Reagan administration's contention The Democrats argued in the 44-
that file S iidinistas`liav elped 1 page report that U.S. support for the
give communist-backed rebels -in El anti Sandinista insurgents has . had
"entlrelyopposite resuWfrom those
Salvador logistical support trainin g '111
troops to Nicaragua in this century,
They stated in the report that this country has once again been
intelligence information shows "with cast inhe role of interventionist."
certaint-~" that "a -major fortiori of- ':Citing congression 1 testimony by
the arms and other material sent: ' ; AssistantSecretaryjof State Thomas
Cuba and other communist countries 0. -Enders, the House committee
to the Salvadoran insurgents transits concluded . that Cuban agents
dsslstance o the zianalnlstas. factions together, worked out a unity
This arms flow has not been iri pact. and set up Salvadoran rebel
terrupteci, the Democrats concluded; headquarters in Managua.. Nicaraua
by covert. CIA support for about and Cuba appear to be continuing
1.000 anti-Sandinista guerrillas in their training of Salvadoran rebels,
Nicaragua: `The :acid test is that. the' the committee said.
Salvadoran insurgents continue to be.
According to its report, in Decem
well armed and supplied;"'the.report her 1981, five days-after the commit-
said. "They have grown in numbers ' tee's-first briefing on the program by
and have launched more and longer administration officials, Chairman
offensives, -All this requires --an: un Edward P. Boland (D=Mass.) wrote,
interrupted flow-of arrhs:"- "the Vrincipal_.executive branch
"There are certaml - a number of briefer"-CIA Director William `J:
Ntcara ua with the permission and- brought rival. Salvadoran guerrilla
Casey-.raising q uestions a' the
number and tactics of the anti-San-
dinista Nicaraguan guerrillas, the
extent of U.S. control, and the pos-
sibility of -Military clashes between
Nicaragua and Honduras, where the
rebels had established bases. r.
,'A-few months ,later,--the commit-
tee adopted .classif-ied,-language in
the `.:intelligence- authorization 'bill
'limiting; the covert, operation -to in-
terdicting arms .to.:the `Salvadoran
rebels, .;rather. than -to -overthfowing
the Sandinista government 'inc-
aragua.` _In- December, the.same.lan-
guage, known as-the Boland amend-
mentrva.s publicly-attached to ?a de-
fense '-appropriations- bill on the
House floor.
' Last .week, the committee voted to
terminate the covert operation . and
substitute :assistance --to "friendly
countries" like El Salvador and Hon-
duras to try to-stop the arms flow to
Salvadoran rebels. The report re-
leased Yesterday accompanied this
legislation to the House Foreign Af-
fairs Committee, which is to consider
it Wednesday,.
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erately" had leaked the story of the tions: Is th program consistent with
~e pane 1 CIA campaign to the press. The re- the law and with the direction of the
part gave, no. reason for-.that suspi- Congress? Is the program a wise one?
rebukes- com' Is the program successful?
For the first time, -the report said As -to the first question, the law
formally what has long been known: says that the program may ziot have' - on _ Nicaragua- -that the original goal of the covert the purpose to overthrow the gov
?
acion, as putlined by the administra- ernmeni of.Nicaragua The -com- -i
By Alfonso Chard) s. _ -deft and -authorized by oversight mittee ..has reached the point-where
)nplnrer wasne"jtan'~rreQV strbcommittees_:of both' the-House,
at 'Sebate:was to interdict-Cubari it .is unwilling to assure the House
WASHINGTON -- In -a.rare-public -that'the present program-meetsIthis
report, the House.SelectCommittee and Nicaraguan weapons shipments requirementl.
to Salvadoran guerrillas.t
on Intelligence said yesterday that ;The activitiesand-purposes of the
the U-S.-supported covert : operation The House panel issued the.reportanti-Sandinista insurgents ultimate-
in Nicaragua "has been a failure-that to explain the reasons for Iegislation Iv shape the program. Their openly,
has cost "innocent lives" and-has it-approved May 3 to end the covert ackziowledged.goal of overthrowing
-tarnished the reputations .-of ape operation and to create an.$80 m%l= the:"'Sandinistas; the-size of.,their..
-United States and the_CIA. lion overt" fund to intercept the iorces and efforts -to increase such
`--The detailed, 44-page trepan .about arms shipments. That bill, embraced forces, and finally 'their. activities
the CIA's assistance to ;the .rebels by a 9-5 partisan vote, will be debated now and while they were on - the
tomor
fighting the leftist Sandinista ov'
row. by ;the House Foreign Af-'-
ernment also suggested stronglythat ` firs' Committee- not to, arms interdiction but to mili-
the Reagan. administration had-4o 'IbetRepublican-contronedSenate tars confmntation.,_
lated a law precluding the use-of Select Committee on Intelligence -ap4? 'These groups are -not controlled
f
-
ederal funds
to overthrow that_gov-. proved legislation Two -weeks- "-ago. by the United States. They constitute
ernment. that would allow the CIA to continue an-independeat force:-The`oniv ele-
"
The United States has allied itself
with insurgents who carry the taint
of.the .last. Nicaraguan. dictator, IAn-
asfasiol Somoza.' the report said. "[It)
has allowed the spotlight of interna-
the covert--operation until Sept. 30. ment of control that could be exer-
After that date, money for the pro- cised' by the United States, cessation
gram would be withheld pending a of aid, is something that the execu-
report -to-Congress by President Rea- "e. branch has no intention of do-
gan defining.his goals in Nicaragua. :,ig
tional opprobrium to shift from ISan- The report said the House commit "'The second question - is this
dinista) attempts to subvert a neigh- tee began-to lose faith in administra wise? The committee is forced to
boring government iEl Salvador] to tion briefings when it was told that ? respond in the negative. Inflicting a
attempts -to subvert that of Nicara- the CIA bad several other goals be- bloody nose on nations achieves a
gua:-' sides arms interdiction, including
The CIA has been hurt, the com- the democratization of Nicaragua-
mmee said. because it again has and pressure on the Sandinistas to
been subjected to critical public call elections and negotiate with the
scrutiny. The -covert action "has put opposition.
CIA witnesses who do not make poli-
cy in the increasingly uncomfortable
position of trying to sell the program
to an increasingly skeptical Con-
gress," it said.
The report by the committee,
which, like the House. is controlled
by Democrats, is the first formal con-
gressional accounting of the covert
action in Central America since it
began 18 months ago. - -
The committee noted that some of
its members, including chairman Ed-
ward P. Boland (D., Mass.), as early
as last spring had sought to end the
operation by withholding funds re-
quested by the CIA. Instead, the com-
mittee had voted to restrict the oper.
ation to the interception of arms
shipments for Salvadoran guerrillas.
The report accused the CIA and the.
Reagan administration of misleading
the commirtee.on U.S. objectives in
Nicaragua, and it voiced suspicion
..that administration officials "delih-
The committee report also ex-
pressed "distress" at the number of
insurgents supported by the t,ro-
gram.- Although no figures were
cited, committee sources have said
the CIA told them - that the rebels'
Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN)
has grown from -500 men in 1981 to
about 7,000 now.
The report said that five days after
the first CIA briefing in December
1981.- Boland noted this concern
about the insurgents' numbers "in a
letter to the principal executive
branch ,briefer," apparently CIA Di-
rector William J. Casey. - . '
. The "central_segment of the report "
said: "In its final `review of the Ico--
vertJ program, the lHouse intelli-
gence] committee asked three ques
Nicaraguan-Honduran'. border point
r_
purpose no ' different with nations
than with individuals. It tends to
instill a deep desire to return the
favor.-The Sandinistas are no differ.
ent Their policies have not softened.
"Finally, and most importantly, the
program has not interdicted arms. In
18 months the committee has not
seen any diminishment in arms flow
to theSalvadoren guerrillas but rath-
er repeated border clashes -followed -
recently by heavy fighting well in-
side Nicaragua. In the process, inno-
cent--lives have been lost:"
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Uneasy over a Secre
When should an open society resort to covert action?
T be debate was not merely over the
activities involved. although they
were indeed controversial. What
caused greater worry was the fact
that, at least in theory, the operation was
secret. evoking disquieting memories of
dubious CIA ventures that had backfired
in the past. After a decade of discomfort
over even the thought of using covert ac-
tion to interfere in the affairs of other na-
tions, President Reagan was unabashedly
restoring the role of that weapon by sup-
porting contra guerrillas fighting the San-
dinista regime in Nicaragua.
The issue came to a bead last Tuesday
when the House Permanent Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence defied Reagan and
recommended cutting off coven aid to the
contras. The lawmakers decided that the
Administration's professed goal of stem-
ming the flow of arms to rebels in El Sal-
vador could best be accomplished in the
open. The Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence rejected this proposal on Fri-
day, and the covert funds are likely to
continue at least until the end of Septem-
ber. But the committee insisted that in the
future it have the right to approve or veto
specific covert activities. The anguished
public debate over Washington's clandes-
tine involvement in Central America. a
region where the nation's interests are
clearly-at stake and the evidence of for-
eign subversion is widespread, called into
question whether coven methods can be
used effectively by the U.S.
During his 1980 campaign, Reagan
pledged to rebuild the nation's intelligence
agencies as pan of his overall plan to end
America's post-Viet Nam timidity about
asserting its interests abroad. The Repub-
lican platform specifically addressed co-
vert operations, calling it "a capability
which only the U.S. among the major
powers has denied itself." Supporters ar-
gue that covert action is an essential tool,
lying somewhere between a diplomatic
demarche and a landing by the Marines.
Opponents of covert activities say that
the U.S. should hold itself to a higher
standard and not meddle in an under-
handed way in the affairs of other coun-
tries. They also argue that given the na-
ture of American society; covert activities
are unlikely to stay secret for long. One
reason is that after the Watergate-era in.
vestigations of abuses by the CIA, Con-
gress insisted on a more stringent watch- interdict the sup- y military equipment
dog role. Another is that the nature of from Nicaragua and Cuba."
journalism has changed. In 1961 the New
York Times voluntari3y withheld infor-
mation it had about the impending Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba: today major news
organizations are inclined to publish that
type of story.
Despite their uneasiness over the Ad-
ministration's activities in Nicaragua,
most Congressmen believe that clandes-
tine operations can play a legitimate role
in protecting national security. "The ad-
versary uses them all the time and a hell
of a lot more than we do." says Edward
Boland of Massachusetts, chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee. "I think
they're a necessity." Indeed, members last
year approved Reagan's request for secret
funding to the contras as a way. of inter-
dicting Nicaraguan arms shipments to
the Salvadoran rebels. But Boland at-
tached an amendment barring the use of
any of the funds "for the purpose of over-
throwing the government of Nicaragua:'
As news reports over the past few
months disclosed more and more about
the CIA involvement with the contras,
members began to feel political heat for
apparently condoning the program. More
important. many became convinced that
the Administration was violating the Bo-
land Amendment by using the aid as a
way to destabilize the Marxist-led Sandi-
nista regime. In an attempt to resolve
both dilemmas. Boland and Clement Za-
blocki of Wisconsin proposed a second
amendment, this one "to prohibit U.S.
support for military or paramilitary oper-
ations in Nicaragua and to authorize as-
sistance, to be openly provided to govern-
For the first time since the House In-
telligence Committee was given its over-
sight role in 1977, the members split on
party lines. The breakdown of the corn-
mittee's traditional nonpartisan approach
threatened to undermine its sensitive role.
"The one thing I don't want is to see this
committee deteriorate into a partisan
group," lamented Boland after the vote.
Reagan was less philosophical. He
told aides that the House committee ac-
tion was "irresponsible as bell." But in an
interview with six reporters on the day af-
ter the vote, Reagan stumbled repeatedly
in trying to explain his policies. He
seemed to confirm that assistance to the
contras was more than just a way to stop
arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels.
He referred to the contras as "freedom
fighters" and praised their struggle as a le-
gitimate response to the broken promises
of the Sandinista regi rne_
Reagan said the cutoff of covert au-
thority by Congress "was taking away the
ability of the Executive Branch to carry
out its constitutional responsibilities."
Another member of the Administration,
U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, im-
pugned the motives of some members in
an interview with a Buenos Aires newspa-
per: "There are people in the U.S. Con-
gress who do not approve of our efforts to
consolidate the constitutional govern-
ment of El Salvador and who would actu-
ally like to see the Marxist forces take
power in that country."
The Senate Intelligence Committee
adopted a compromise proposal drafted
by its chairman, Republican Barry Gold-
water of Arizona. Under its provisions, the
money already appropriated for the cur-
rent fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. will
remain available. But to get any more
funds, the President will have to submit a
plan defining the objectives of CIA covert
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1t. P - ED LOS ANGELES TIMES
OAI PA&& f air Pl. ? 15 May 1983
White House to but Limi
on Army's' Secret Spy Untt
By ROBERT C. TOTH, Times Staff Writer .
WASHINGTON-The White
House, moving to close a gap in
control over U.S. intelligence activ-
ities, is about to impose operating
guidelines on a secret, 2-year-old
Army intelligence-gathering unit
that the Army's inspector general
says was, monitored "insufficiently
closely" for the first year of its life.
Called Intelligence Support Ac-
tivity, the Army unit has conducted
operations in places such as Nicara -
gua and El Salvador, Africa and
-Southeast Asia. It has worked for
almost a year without a legally
required presidential finding that
such an organization is necessary to
national security.
The intelligence unit's operations.
coupled with questions about
whether the Federal Emergency
Management Agency has been col-
lecting intelligence on Americans,
have raised doubts about how close-
ly the nation's various intelli-
gence-gathering organizaao:is are
being supervised.
In particular, the intelligence unit
affair is raising questions abcu'
whether Director of Central intelli-
gence N illiarn J. Casey 'has been,
minding the store closely enough
over the last two years..
The little-known federal man-
agement agency, which is responsi-
ble for conducting the government's
civil security program against ter-
rorism, sabotage and other civil
disorders, is notcfhciauy part of the
U.S. intelligence community and
thus is not under Casey's
Lion, but Sen. Walter D. Huddieston
(D-Ky.) has questioned whether it
may have engaged in : domestic
spying.
Louis 0. Giuffrida, who heads that
agency, flatly denied that it has
ever conducted such illegal opera-
tions. Huddleston refused to-discuss
tlte~-suer,-but~it-is?e~s~clei+stoad that be intends topursue
itfuriher.. , ~~
. 4'hese issues av,e.eirrerged against.the background of
v44espread 'concerns arr-Congress-:that the Central
1ntelligenceAgency's -covert operations in support of
Nygaraguan4nsurgems -skirting the law.and that the
gan. 4nmiriistratieia4s-blurring the7line4eparating
tl lJk-and the M-onlounterintelligence activities in
Casey, -throughc `a:4pokesman,-~,refused -to. answer
gt?J+estions about-the-Army's intelligence Support Activ
ity=onit:'rncl ng{ane5about whether-be was aware of
t anit'soreatibrr iromtthe start,
I, ;dministration officials said that -Casey directed -the
ACmyageracyYto:undertake at least two of the 10 covert
missions the!dnit2aasundertaken-to date.=But it-remains
unclear - when,-he- .was personally -.old about "the
fvi?matibn of "the,Aetivity," as the unit is known to some
ofltfsos -whofiavetbeen associated with it.
As-pieced together'from'distussions-with various L'.S:
government officials, the Intelligence Support Activity
"was created in the wake of the:abortive Iranian hostage
rescue attempt in April, 1980. Military officers'-particu-
larly ln'the Army, coissidered:t. e:CIA's support efforts
-to have teen inadequate.
Some CIA agents in Iran at the time were Iranian
exiles sent back:to gather intt;lligence.'One complaint by
military officers was thatone of those agents could not
drive a jeepinto'Tehran to-check out the occupied U.S.
Embassy and nearby helicopter landing areas.
But more-generally, one official said, "the agency
(CIA) people -were preoccupied with keeping their
cover and could :not provide -equipment or information
for - the (rescue) operation.: They had enough to do
covering their skins. The--'military' decided that they
needed :their-own -outfit ,to collect -intelligence on areas
where they are asked to fight.'!
. Little tangible was done ln 11980, however.-Although
several published 'reports : trraintaiw,that the unit was
started in 1980,'former Director-of'Central Intelligence
Stansfield Turner said last,weekthat the agency "did
may " i;
not exist, as far as I knew, during -my -tenure." Turner
headed central intelligence until January, 1981.
- Another former intelligence official from the Jimmy
Carter Administration said, "This kind of unit had been
_
discussed at the. Pentagon..for.-,.long time, but no
decision was made on it until the Reagan Administration--
took-over." -
Richard G. Stilwell, a retired four-star Army general.--'
apparently picked up the issue in 1951 when he became -
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1W e have been amazed by the recent mass expulsion of
Soviet diplomats, journalists and -assorted embassy
personnel who have been given-their walking papers
for spying on their. host governments. The number itsellff (70:so
far this-year) is impressive, but so is the-number of countries
thatiiave declared the Soviets persona non grata, which include
Australia, Britain, Canada, West Germany, Prance; and the Unit-
ed ' tates '" " _ .
Wedon'tkcnow how difficult it-was for Yuri Andropov's for-
mer chums~inthe KGB to ferret out state secrets in any of those
countries, except of course in the case of the United States. .
Based on information accumulated in the three weeks since we
expelled three Soviet diplomats for undiplomatic behavior, it
seems clear that Yuri's people could have remained in Moscow
Center (as thriller writers have christened it), and better spent
their rubles on subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and The
New York Times...
The day'after the director of the FBI told r,1 orters that his
agents had "foiled attempts by three Soviet offi {ials to obtain
classified information from the United States government," Wil-
liam Casey, the director of our own KGB (read CIA), released
his blueprint for combating the Soviet challen gains) in
the Third World. Obviously the contents of such a document
would be of immense interest to foreign agents, especially Sovi-
et agents.
The manner in which this document fell into Sbviet'hands
(for the price of 40 cents) is enlightening. Instead of keeping the
details of his seven-point plan to "Regroup to Check the Soviet
Thrust" in a safe at CIA -headquarters, Mr. Casey had them pub--
lished on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.
About the same time the Soviets got this information, Presi-
dent Reagan described what The New York Times balled the
Doomsday Scenario to reporters traveling with him, on 'Air
Force One. The scenario was played out against three days of
war games and centers on how the White House would respond
to a nuclear attack on the United States. In this version, as re-
counted by the President, he stayed on in the White'House and .
got "killed,". while Vice President George Bush escaped in a
Boeing- 747 to run what was left of the nuclear war and the coun-
try from, 40,000 feet over the Washington wasteland .
Now the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, Sen. Daniel Moynihan, has charged the White House and
senior administration officials of playing loose with national se-
curity information which was leaked to the press. Moynihan
cites two stories this-,month in The New York Times- stories
that foreign agents could have obtained for 60 cents, the price of 1
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-SOCIETY
Me :...:T ,, one - month.
er gala
o- gala .a
?i3o1Iywood and-the Federal City I thatstans Matthew Broderick as a
mingled at the Motion Picture ;teen-aged electronics whiz who
Association of America'last week aecidentally;plugs into aDefense
when MPAA head Jack"Valenti jepartmentcomputer and almost
hosted a screening of I MGMIUA's , .sets off World War IIl -a-similar
new?movie'"War Games." The film y_ premise to that used in :the 1964
company paid for'the'bash, and film "Fail-safe" Nevertheless,
Valentisupplied a dazzling array almost everyone enjoyed the film,
ofWashington celebriti.es,includ- which Bill Safire described.as "a
ing Sens. Ed Zorinsky, D-Neb., nuclear'-E-77,.'
William Cohen, R-Me.,-and Pete Scott-.Sublett
Wilson, R-Ca., all of whom brought
their wives. Sen. JohnWarner,
R-Va., was in the company of ten-
nis pro Kathy Kemper, of
Georgetown University, and Rep.
Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., was
escorted by her handsome 16-year-
old son Scott. David Stockman,
director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, fullof good
words about Married Life, was
therewith his new bride Jennifer.
Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Ca.,
wife Roscoe, and anti-nuclear
activist Dr. Helen Caldicott were
on hand, as was CIA Director Wil-
liam Casey. Journalistic lights
attending included WRC-TV
anchorman Jim Vance, columnist
William Safire, New York Times
Washington Bureau Chief Bill
Kovach and-his charming wife
Lynne.
The party was in honor of "War
Games" producer Leonard Gold-
berg and director John Badham.
Introducing Badham at dinner,
Valenti described the-director as,
"obscenely young, which I
define as anyone younger than I
.am." He went on to say that the
cinematic landscape is."cluttered
-with young geniuses" of late, and
that?Badhamis one of them.
Badham is hot this summer, with
"Blue Thunder" and "War Games"
both expected to do fast business.
After drinks and a buffet sup-
per, the guests trooped into the
MPAA screening room and
watched "War Games;" a thriller
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congress also has
deciding ~ S interes
What business does the Sandinista ' thorized -$80..million for ovgrt aid to
regime of Nicaragua have in tryin t
go
overthrow the government of neigh-
boring El Salvador? None whatsoever.
"'It is the ultimate in hypocrisy," Presi-
dent Reagan declared in his televised
address to a joint session of Congress,
"for.the unelected Nicaraguan govern-
men.t.,Ao, ,charge,that;.we seek their
overthrow when they are doing every-
,thing-zhey?can-to bring down theelect-
ed -government -of El Salvador" -
By the -same -token, , though, what
'.business does the United -States gov-
ernment .have in 'trying to overthrow
the Sandinista regime; ?repressive.as it
-is- to its own people, unfriendly-as it is
..to the United States?.--
For several -months the -CIA has
been arming and training some 3;000
:ib 4,000 anti-Sandinista guerrillas,
;many of Ihem..partisans of the repres?
.. ive Somoza regime that the Sandinis-
i as overthrew. I thas - been -engaged in
this "covert" .action that. everyone
knows about -notwithstanding the Bo--
-land amendment that Congress adopt-
ed last December prohibiting the Unit. -
.ed States from providing covert aid to
military forces "for the purpose or'
overthowing the Sandinista regime.
Mr. Reagan's response to that has
been disingenuous at best. "We do not
seek its overthrow," he declared in his
address. "Our interest is to ensure?that
'ii does not infect its neighbors
-through export of subversion and vio-
lence. Our purpose, in conformity with
-American and international law, is to
" any- riendly government,' .meaning
for the most-part El Salvador'and Hon-
'duras, to interdict the flow of arms to
El Salvador from Nicaragua, or ,any-
where else, like Cuba and the Soviet
'Union.
In an Oval Office news conference,-
Mr..-Reagan, . referring-1o the. Nicara-
guan insurgents as 'freedov.fighters"
denounced the committee vote as lit- .
erally -taking away the abil.ityaof: he
executive branch to carry out its con-
stitutional responsibilities.-"'That'sknot
the issue. Members of Congresslso-1
elected by the people, also =have-'the
constitutional.. responsibility;-to make`
their own judgments as to whether the policy. of the executive -branch. is in
accord with -America's national inter-
ests.
This policy is not. The l-}ouse pan
el's counterpart in the other=body; the
Senate Select -.Committee on Intelli-
gence, has-made its own judgment.-
4t-has voted to put the administration on-
a short Ieash;'iallowing funds for co-
veil operations in Latin America.-to
continue through Sept. I but ,insisting
on Congress's right to grant or with-
hold approval of specific covert opera-
tions. -
Beyond that, theissue is not simply
that the administration is doing what
it denounces others for doing; and
.doing what it says it is not.
The issue is that what the adminis-
tration is doing is leading into a blind
'prevent the' flow of'arnis'ta-'?EI?"Salva= -- "Support of the detested Somocistas
'dor, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa is a sure way of uniting Nicaraguans
?i behind the Marxist-oriented Sandinis
Taking him at his word, and ignor- tas, whose violations of human rights
ing a last-minute warning by CIA di- and mismanagement- of the economy
rector William J: Casey of ,a possible have disenchanted--w any -Nicara
.' bloodbath," the Iiouse..Select Commit= = guans who once supported them. It is
-tee on - Intelligence' leas. approved -a also a sure way of raising throughout
?"Ineasure specifically- prohibiting the Latin America the specter of an "impe-
'Fuse of funds "for:thepurpose or which . rialist" United States that intervenes
would have the effect of supporting,' at its own will or whim in Latin Ameri-.
'directly or indirectly, military or Para- can affairs.
military operations in Nicaragua by The.United States has the right to_,
any nation, group, organization, move- stop any flow of arms from Nicaragua"
ment or individual. It ought not to encourage the flow of '
The -committee also, however, au- support to the Sandinista _regime. _ .. .
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.Reagan appeals for aid against the menace in Central America
One congressional commit-
tee voted to cut the military
aid be requested for be-
sieged El Salvador. Another
sought to ban covert U.S.
operations against the ag-
gressive leftist regime in
Nicaragua. Polls showed
that few voters shared his critical concern
over Central America and even fewer
wanted the U.S. to become involved in the
problem. Yet because he fervently be-
lieves his policies are vital to the future of
the hemisphere, Ronald Reagan made a
bold but politically risky appearance last
week before a special joint session of Con-
gress. "A number of times in the past
years, members of Congress and the Pres-
ident have come together in meetings like
this to resolve a crisis," be said. "I have
asked for this meeting in the hope that we
can prevent one."
For such a grand occasion. the finan-
cial commitment sought by Reagan
seemed piddling. As he put it, "The total
amount requested for aid to all of Central
America in 1984 is about 5600 million
that is less than one-tenth of what Ameri-
cans will spend this year on coin-operated
video games." But failing to make such an
investment, be insisted, would have dire
consequences. "The national security of
all the Americas is at stake in Central
America, If we cannot defend ourselves
there. we cannot expect to prevail else-
where. Our credibility would collapse, our
alliances would crumble, and the safety of
our homeland would be put at jeopardy."
Whether Reagan succeeded in head-
ing off a crisis will not be known for
months. perhaps years,-but his speech
could only have helped. It was one of the
best of his presidency, forceful yet tem-
perate. without the belligerent anti-Soviet
rhetoric thai has at times made his foreign
policy pronouncements seem more sim-
plistic and militaristic than in fact they
are. "It was a model of teamwork," exult-
ed National Security Adviser William
Clark at a meeting of Reagan's senior
staff the next morning, reflecting the
White House's jubilation over the speech.
The reaction on Capitol Hill was re-
strained. Congressional critics have been
sullen and uneasy about the possibility of
becoming involved in a no-win commit-
ment in Central America, but most mem-
bers are wary of an outright confrontation
with the Administration.
Hanging over the dispute, as well as al-
rns. within
chill specter of Viet Nam. Out of fear
1! of repeating that colossal misadven-
, ture. Americans have seized hold of
its lessons, perhaps inaccurately, per-
haps obsessively. There is a strong
aversion to undertaking any commit-
ment to shore up threatened pro-
American regimes in the Third
World, no matter how strategically
important they are. and a reluctance
to believe that the countries of a re-
gion could topple like dominoes, no
matter how compelling the evidence
of spreading subversion. This is
particularly true of Central America,
where the political vulnerability
clearly also has indigenous causes,
including widespread poverty and
decades of governmental ineptitude
and human rights abuses. "Everyone
in Congress is steeped in Viet
Nam." says Republican Congress-
man James Leacb of Iowa. "We in
Congress abdicated responsibility
then, and no one wants to do it again."
blamed for losing El Salvador and the
rest of . Central America. Explains -
Reagan's chief of staff. James Baker:
"We do not want a Central American
country to go Communist on our
watch. We are pointing out to Con-
gress that it shares that responsibil-
ity." indeed. one reason that Congress
has thus far been willing to give Rea-
gan at least half a loaf in his requests
for Salvadoran aid is the realization
that the fragile regime might other- i
wise fall to Communist rebels, an
event that could not only endanger
U.S. security but also prove a political
liability for those responsible. By tak-
ing his case to Capitol Hill, Reagan
made it clear he would hold members
accountable if they thwarted his
policies. His concluding line: "Who
sibility for failing to meet our shared
obligation?"
Reagan went to great pains to stress
that saving Central America was a bipar-
tisan burden. The only two Presidents
he invoked were Democrats. He read at
length from Harry Truman's 1947 speech
to Congress arguing that international
Communism must be contained
n his speech. Reagan confronted
the issue directly, as if trying to
exorcise its paralyzing spell. "Let
me say to those who invoke the
memory of Viet Nam: there is no
thought of sending American combat
troops to Central America." This
prompted the night's most thunderous
ovation, one that was sustained on both
sides of the aisle. (It also drew some quer-
ulous editorial fire. The New York Times,
referring to his pledge not to send in com-
bat troops, asked, "If the stakes are as he
says. why on earth not?") In the televised
Democratic response. Senator Christo-
pher Dodd of Connecticut invoked Viet
Nam -as an argument against the Admin-
istration's policies in Central America.
"The American people know that we
have been down this road before." he said,
"and that it only leads to a dark tunnel of
endless intervention."
Simply by using a joint session of Con-
ess to turn the spotlight ` once again
on El Salvador, Reagan may have ele-
Evated a nagging foreign policy prob-
'lem into a prominent campaign issue
;for 1984. Says one of his top political
:advisers: "It's waving a red flag. It's
raising the urgency. It reminds me of
Lyndon Johnson's escalating the Viet
Nam War."
Yet counterbalancing these con-
ce
the Administration
vention abroad for theAGppr+>l .FoihRe`I8996`2 'fli28'~ I
and praised Jimmy Carter because
be "did not hesitate" to send arms
to El Salvador when the rebels
launched their "final offensive" in
the fall of 1980.
One specific bipartisan bow
was the appointment of a special
envoy to seek a peaceful solution in
Central America. This was the
brainchild of Maryland Congress-
man Clarence Long. chairman of
the Appropriations subcommittee
that bandies foreign aid. Long and
his colleagues. however. were dis-
appointed by Reagan's choice of
former Democratic Senator Rich-
ard Stone ofFiorida (see box). They
feel Stone is too aligned with the
current Administration. for which
he has- undertaken several diplo-
matic missions in Central Ameri-
ca, and with the deposed right-
wing dictatorship of Fernando
Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatema-
Ia. for which be served as a paid
lobbyist. The White House held up
the appointment for a day while
aides assessed Stone's chances for
confirmation by the Senate. Many
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exertion of -pressure to force the leftist Sandinista lead-
By Don Oberdorfer .and Patrick E. Tyler ership of Nicaragua to "look inward" rather than export-
In December,.1981, the -CIA ;informed congressional
oversight committees that it had begun building a highly
trained commando-Jorce of 500 Latins to strike at targets
in Nicaragua. Sixteen monthslater,-this force has swelled
to an army of 7,,,000 -Nicaraguan men with ambitious po-
litical goals and-uncertain U.S. control.
Members of the House and :Senate "Intelligence corn-
mittees.said in.interviews that-growing -cone ern about the
size of this CIA-supported army, its objectives.. and the
question of control over it were major" factors in their
decisions last week to put brakes on the "secret war" in
Central America.
Information now available from .a variety of sources,
viewed with the benefit. of 'hindsight, raises questions
about the candor of the CIA br. iefings for members of the
Intelligence committees. Nevertheless, -most of the law-
makers interviewed said they still believe they were in-
formed accurately about details of the 'operation at every
step.
The central problem for many of them, they said, was
the growing contradiction between the limited objectives
that Reagan administration officials stated for the covert
operation in a dozen secret briefings on Capitol Hill and
the ceaseless, sometimes startling growth of the insurgent
force and the shifting focus of its activity from one
month to the next.
"There is no question that the numbers increased far
beyond what the committee anticipated," said Rep. Wil-
liam F. Goodling (R-Pa.). "I think as the force increases
and diversifies, controlling it would be an impossibility.'
Rep. Lee. H. Hamilton (D-Ind.) said, "The committee
.kept track of it pretty well, but ingot out.of hand." Once
this -happened, he said, "there were great restraints on
the capability -of the committee to -turn it around."
-What was -particularly difficult for -Congress," said
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan "was that the
definition kept changing of what the objectives were, and
when the president proclaimed these people to be 'free-
dom fighters' there was an unmistakable sense that we
were not, fully apprised of the purposes." . '
Initially, administration officials characterized the mis-
sions of the secret army as the interdiction of arms traffic
through Nicaragua to lefist rebels in El Salvador and the
ing revolution, according to participants in the congres-
sional briefings. Additional objectives, added months lat-
er, were to pressure the Sandinistas to be more demo-
cratic and to go to the negotiating "table:
bespite President Reagan's reference last Wednesday
to the CIA-supported anti-Sandinista -guerrillas as "free-
dom fighters," his administration did not suggest inbrief-
ings for Congress that the secret army's real purpose was
to bring down the Nicaraguan?government.
Increasingly, though, the very size of the secret army,
the intensity of its attacks inside Nicaragua and explicit
statements by its leaders appeared to outpace the limited
purposes outlined to Congress.
By the administration's figures, the '1,000 U.S.-backed
Nicaraguan guerrillas now outnumber the 6,000 commu-
nist-backed guerrillas whose threat to the government of
nearby El Salvador was the original justification for the
CIA effort. In meetings with congressmen and senators,
CIA Director William J. Casey has refused to set any
limit on the ultimate size of the force, made up of Ni-
caraguan'-exiles of various factions and native Miskito
Indians.
In the last week,-the house Intelligence Committee
voted to ban covert actions in Nicaragua, the Senate
committee voted to permit continuation of 'the actions
for alimited time subject to legislative approval, and
Reagan stepped up his appeals for public support of the
Nicaraguan insurgents.
Taken together, these events represent the most se-
rious struggle between the executive branch and the con-
gressional committees overseeing the intelligence agen-
cies since the committees were established as permanent .
arms of the two houses in 1976 and 1977.
The -congressional oversight machinery was created to
establish, tinder law, the authority of the legislative.
branch-of an -open and democratic government to mon-
itor executive activities that are secret, sensitive and have
the potential -for major international repercussions. As
pioneers in an area where the legislative bodies of most
other nations do not tread, the congressional committees
operate in a twilight zone, where both sides -are still feel-
ing their -way.
Unless a consensus can be formed in the coming weeks
and months, the struggle over undercover action in Cen-
tral America could bring about an even more serious cri-
ais between Congress and the Reagan White House.
Should the administration persist in backing the insur-
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mews restraint on secrets
asked for by CIA director
Director William .1. Casey of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency has called on
the media to use "a strong sense of
responsibility" in reporting news about
security matters.
-I am not persuaded. that a journalist
must print any alleged intelligence in-
formation he or she receives because
'someone else will print it anyway,"'
Casey said. "Nor am I convinced by
the argument that if a reporter obtains
some information, it is then correct to
assume our adversaries' intelligence
organization must also have it.
"These are specious justifications."
Casey declared that the CLA has
tried--and will continue to try-to help
reporters get accurate information
when this can be done. without en-
dangering CLA sources of information
or otherwise hampering the CIA in its
primary task of providing foreign
affairs analysis atld in fottrtation to the
nation's leaders.
-We in intelligence and journalists
share the common responsibility of
protecting sources," Casey said.
"Perhaps this can lead to a better
understanding or each other's con-
cerns. We should: both benefit."
Casey's speech-a wide-swinging
discourse on relations between the
press andthe intelligence community-
was delivered (April 13) at a dinner at
Georgetown University in Washing-
ton. D.C., marking the presentation of
the annual Edward Weintal prize in the
field of diplomatic reporting. The
55.000 prize was split this year between
William Beecher, Washington-based
diplomatic reporter for the Boston
Globe and Andrew Sterri. professor of
journalism at the University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley. The prize is named
after the. late diplomatic correspondent
of Newsweek magazine.
. "I would ask you to keep in mind that
irresponsible exposure in the press of
alleged intelligence operations-cor-
rect or incorrect---creates very real
problems for us." Casey told his audi-
ence, mostly journalists. "We must pro-
tect our sources and methods and often
cannot correct. inaccurate stones . . .
This is not to say there can never be a
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"I have been gratified by the readi-
ness of journalists to carefully consider
.,withholding publication of information
which could jeopardize national in- i
terests and to treat a story in a manner
which meets.the public need as they
perceive it, yet minimizes" potential
damage to intelligence sources. .
-The trick is to recognize the poten-
tial for damage and to consult on how it
might be minimized. We are anxious to
do this."
Casey said inaccurate stories still
appear. including accounts that said the
CIA was reluctant to. get involved or
take seriously the investigation into the
shooting of the Pope. He said the press
can be.surprisingly selective in what it
prints.
"In February of this year, when five
men in Miami were convicted of con-
spiring with Cuban government offi-
cials to smuggle drugs into southern
Florida, I was surprised there were no
reports in such national newspapers as
the New York Times or the Washington
Post despite the fact that one of the men
testified that the Cuban government
planned .to 'fill up the United States
with drugs."'
"The connection between the narco-
tics trade, terrorism in the destabiliza-
tion- of governments and the organiza-
tion and support of insurgencies is a
story which can bring a Weintal prize,
or a Pulitzer prize. or both ...''
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authorizes
covert aid
B-ut ' ,seeks redefinition
?.of policy on"Nicaragua
'taken'-up by the'i11 House and Sen- naily 18 months.ago. '
.ate. If they.survive in their present The initial finding submitted in
forms, they.wilLgo to a House-Sen- Tate 1981. reportedly ' requested
ate'- conference committee, which , X19:9 million to assist the Nicara-
will iron out the differences. guan rebels. The intelligence panels
Members of the -Senate lntelli- limited the program to halting Ni-
gence Committee declined: to give 'a caraguan -arms shipments to Salve-
vote breakdown on Friday'-s action doran guerrillas. They forbade
at their.-secret session, saying only -working for the -overthrow of the
that it was-nearly unanimous. Nicaraguan government.- _
The Senate committee said Rea- However, several-members of the
gaa must.presenthis pew ".finding", -intelligence committeesp.. .including
by Sept 30, the end of fiscal 1983, Moynihan, charged that the admin-
ii he hopes'toget fundiagauthori=,` istration-had violated the.-congres-
zation forl984
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sional restrictions by seeking to
-By ALFONSO CHARD' Onpe=th6-finding is submitted, the
herald woshi xgcon Bureau Oust the Sandinistas
committee:will
aonvene fora vote
,
....
Y WASHINGTON aa artial
p If,the panel approves the : ndmg; ' "T'lie "Senate intelligence over-
victory #or Reagan Administration will be authorired to con -' . sight committee, after much discus-
. policies 'in Central America, the :'tinue assisting the Nicaraguan 'reb= lion, -passed what we .call 'Alterna-
Senate:intelligence Committee on .tive Three' -instead of the amend-
Friday-:authorized 'temporary 'con- The decision -vat a 3compromise .? ;Went that had been offered which
tinuation-of covert support for Ni- between those who wanted to end ,. 'would have -terminated covert -,ac-
caraguan-zebels lighting -the Sandi- .the.covert:operation and those who lion now,' Goldwater said at the
nista governmentpported the administration. -,news conference. 1. 1 The 15-member committee, in a ? Legg experts in -the -intelligence -=-Sen. ' 'David Durenberger -(R.,
nearly . unanimous vote, approved community said'-the committee J i finn.) had offered the so-called
compromise legislation calling upon +. Lion would,'for the first .time, have- "Alternative Two" aimed at termi-
President. Reagan to submit .a new the effect of giving the congression tiating_the President's covert .ac-
"finding" -.-or redefinition - of ;Yal intelligence :units. veto power .=tion program?:.according to -an in-
precisely what the administration over a covert operation. relligence committee .document re-
seeks to accomplish in Nicaragua. Until now, procedures governing ' . leased -after the -vote. It =said that
before money will be approved for "Alternative 'One, supported . by
the relationship between the CIA fiscal 3984. Casey, Enders and lkle, would have
v.'?'.he committee set the 1984 fund- the -congressional intelligence , left the.covert action-:as.iris. that the
1bg authorization for the covert op- dent lno fy them?tb t he intendedS " ldwater:said be 'spoke to Presi-
eration at $19 million, depending on launch a covert action. No formal dent Reagan-by telephone 'Thursday
acceptance of the redefinition. to outline. -the- measure- finally ap-
committeeapproval has been neces- y
The Senate panel had, been ex- proved-He said Reagan reluctant)
-petted to follow the lead of the The Senate Intelligence Commit- agreed to it. sary- House Intelligence Committee, 'tee action was disclosed at a rare He would have -been happier if,
which on Tuesday voted 9-5 to sus- -we had left the ,Thole thing .alone,
.news conference by Sea.. Barry
tlon~ funding for the covert opera- Goldwater (R., Ariz.) and Sen:'Dan? but that was not the will of the
iel?Nl ter ,,n (D., n., an committee committee; said Goldwater. He
In its place, the House legislation also said the CIA had urged Reagan
would set up an S80-million fund chairman and vice chairman respec- to submit a'redefinition of the oper-
for U.S. aid to "friendly nations" in tively' ' ation, apparently in an effort to re-
the region, allowing them to openly The news conference came short- duce the controversy, over the cur-
pursue the same goals. as the covert . ly after the committee voted. In at-' rent program.
activity: halting alleged arms ship- tendance for the vote were William "Within one :month at. the most,
ments from Nicaragua to leftist Casey, CIA director, Thomas En= we'll .have a new-position on Cen-
guerrillas in El Salvador. ders, assistant secretary of state for tral .America," Goldwater -added. "I
The committee .actions :must be inter-American affairs; and Fred think it's perfectly plain to the
Ikle, under secretary of defense. All President that we want a redefined
three urged the committee to con- position on Central America."
,tinue the operation as funded origi- He said the new,finding should
contain, "in plain language," what
Reagan intends to do in Nicara?ua.
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Reagan Seeks Money for Covert Activity
In Nicaragua as House Moves to Bari It
By Gntat.n F. St a
StnffReporterof THE Wwu STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON-At the same time the
House is beginning a drive to eliminate U.S.
covert activities in Nicaragua, the Reagan
Administration has determined that it will
need more money to continue the opera-
tions, -'o'fficials said.
While the amounts involved aren't large,
the need.-for them creates a prickly political
problerth. It could give additional ammuni-
risks getting drawn in too deeply in its co-
vert program.
Congress earlier approved about $20 mil-
lion for the covert activities around Nicara- Open `Program
gua this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, arl- The House panel's bill would replace co-
ministration officials said. Now the Central vert aid with an open program to cut off
Tntelligence Agency has determined that arms flowing from Nicaragua and Cuba to,
about '511 million more will be needed, ac- the Salvadoran rebels. The bill authorized,
cording to officials in both the House and the president to send $30 million in assis-~
Senate familiar with the operations. ' ' tance this fiscal year and 550 million next
Contingency Funds
Administration aides, who acknowledge
that more money is needed, say the covert
activities are designed to stop the flow of
arms from Nicaragua to leftist rebels in El
Salvador. The additional money probably
would be drawn from a pool of contingency
funds set up for intelligence operations and
therefore wouldn't have to-be specifically
appropriated by Congress, congressional of-
ficials said.
Yet many lawmakers, particularly Dem-
ocrats, are starting to have doubts about
spending any more money in the covert pro-
gram. The House Intelligence Committee
Tuesday approved .a bill that would cut out
funding for all U.S. covert programs in Nic-
aragua. The bill was introduced because of
congressional fears that the Reagan admin-
istration was aiding armed bands trying to
overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government,
But that bill would have to be passed by
the full House and the Republican-controlled
Senate before it could become law, and its
chances of survival in the Senate aren't
high. In addition, lawmakers said, It could
be vetoed by President Reagan.
'Keep Right on Fightirig'
_ The president has indicated that he isn't
prepared to end the covert operation. He
told reporters at a diplomatic reception
Tuesday night that "we'll keep right on
fighting" for the program.
And yesterday, Mr. Reagan assailed the
House panel's vote as "irresponsible" and
the U.S. isn't sending any covert aid for the
purpose of trying to overthrow Nicaragua's
government.
American aid simply want the Nicaraguan
government to keep its previous promises }
about -holding free elections and guarantee-
ing democratic rule. Rather than trying to
groups are merely "asking it to go back to
its revolutionary promises."
year to friendly countries in the region that
will set up arms-interdiction programs.
Mr. Reagan said yesterday that he would
accept a plan for such open aid only if Con-
gress didn't place undue restrictions on the
aid. The only alternative, he said, would be
to depend on other nations to funnel assis-
tance to resistance groups, a course the
president said he finds undesirable.
The additional funds for continuing the
covert activities are needed because U.S.-
backed forces have' become busier and are
operating in more territory, administration
aides said. They insisted that it is impossi-
ble
to predict precisely how much such oper-
ations will cost, and asserted that additional
funds wouldn't alter the purposes of the pro-
gram that have been outlined to Congress.
Nevertheless, some officials said the dis-
covery that more funds were needed has
made some White House aides unhappy with
CIA Director William Casey. White House
aides have suggested before that he doesn't
manage the agency closely enough and has
created political problems in his dealings
with Congress.
But other officials think Mr. Casey has
been victimized by lower-ranking intelli-
gence professionals in the CIA, who realized
that more funds would be needed but put off
notifying Mr. Casey and Congress earlier.
Many career officials at the CIA are uncom-
fortable with the covert program in Central
America because they fear it could grow out
of control and embarrass the intelligence
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Reagan Defends
Covert Rebel Aid
Nicaragua.
. By GEORGE SKELTON,
Times Staff Writer
A law, signed -in' December by :Again defending the s
l
a
ttpp
ying+
t
Reagan .as an amendment to .an T.S. aid to the Nicaraguan guerri}
appropriations bill, forbid -T.S. as-. ilas, Reagan said..~The:whole pur-
sistance ."for the purpose" of over- pose; of the Sandinistagovernment .
throwing the Nicaraguan govern- seems to be notonly. (helping rebe)s
ment or provoking a military in) E1 :Salvador,but'the export of
confrontation between Nicaragua revolution to other -nation."_.Ee
andneighboring Honduras. - -cited Honduras -andCosta-Zues.as
Reagan. ion Wednesday sloughed being '"plagued h di
r
l
ca
s
a their
y
.Au off the issue of whether the U.S.- midst who .are encouragedabythe
supported .guerrillas area trying to Sandinista
overthrow the Nicaraguan govern. Earii
W
e,
hite Hovseaspolceaman
R AS meat, .,declaring "these forces that ending-
}TGT~ON-President Rea= ~iTy_~~Speakes, r
gin said Wednesday that Congress haverisen up.in.opposition to the -statement pbmed: iiCdftmi
would set "a very-dangerous preoe- . Sandinista,igover nment art. . . .. cvv= mid-would "beaza wads"
dent" if it it off covert aid ,to people-wbOzitnply.awant-this $ov- _
;.and =amount ;to . _,an
guerrilla "fieeda&,Lghters"'dnXic- errimetu of iioaragua.to
' pmfl f5e&r sr ,, -. , 'gyp "it6 '~I~Cb'~1Ct]On'3n nflUenC3ng andIn
aragua, implyvoig that`they ~aveas ., trio behavior-" $e said the
legitimate a .right .to represent 'the -of -these :people; are burl- --
' Sandinista government. .
Asserting that the leftist Sandin-.
istas came -to ...power "out -of Abe
barrel ' of . a gun;" Reagan asked
rbetoricaliy: "Other than being -in
control of the ,capita] and having -a
handle on all the levers, :what
.makes them zany more: a legitimate
government :'than the people -."of
Nicaragua who-are asking for .a
chance to vote for the kind -of
gove enttlzeywant??
Not Just Sa7vardor Arms.
Many of the'guerrWas now bat-
tling the Nicaraguan government
are disillusioned former revolution-
aries.who fought with the Sandinis-
tas when they overthrew the, mili-
tary dictatorship of Anastasio
Cmmn7a in ,Q7( T2nn~n n,,
been ;,taken raver,",Reagan .maid, ing iise of Nicaraguan terriuoryasa -
They are,farmers-whose land was .sanctuaay for ~tSalvadoranj:=~sur-
seized -by ,this ?o. went .'Vents.".
And-they're protesting this 'viola - Meanwhile, The Times . learned
tion{,of what had made them -support :that -CIA Director William. -Casey
the revolution to begin with," t.old'members of Congress this week
Using this and -outer reasoning, that if U:S. funds for covertapera-
Reagan :several .times .in -the inter- 'Mons were cut off, the.anti
-Sandin-
view.,referred.::to be Nicaraguan ista--effort .would-essentially
guerrillas -as.,. =freedom - fighters." Ile. -He said the FDN :(Nicaraguan
But.be said therebels in.El Salvador `Democratic Force) guerrillas have
are.:guerrillas," not freedom light- I.a-eied heavily on U.S. `funds, ~rain-
ers'4'because.they've got freedom" :..3agandarms.
already and ' are fighting against an
. 'The question-and-answer-session
elected gavetttment" with Reagan was the second =of its
The.. Democratic-controlledd?recently in which presidential
House .inteliigence' Committee, on a advisers, seeking to make thePresi-
S-Sport Iit~e Vote. approved legis- dent afore accessible to the press,
lation Tuesday to =Off funds for i have -invited six White House re-
covert operations by the -anti-San- '-porters to. interviewhim. -
-
ta rebel- RTC _ - - .a -
irths
they were "betrayed," the Presi- W ` a,u ,~' `'erns' esnencan .rented a mixture from the press
dent declared, -when the Sandlots nations for the purpose of interdict- and this time was composed of
tas. ing arms supplies from Nicaragua corps p~
rning
ke ter seizing refused to and Cuba to guerrillas attempting to rerters po Capo the
Newspapers, The
ad p their ward de demtoocall elections overthrow governments. N
and move tow
ard cracy. Reagan criticized the political New "York Times, U.S. News &
Reagan, answering questions partisanship" of the committee World Report, NBC-TV and the
from six reporters during a 35-min- vote. And he said that if the propose New York Daily News. The Oval
ute interview in the Oval Office, a] ever became law, "it would -set a office session was piped by inter-
took his 'argument for providing very dangerous precedent by '.lit- com to the rest of the press corps
covert aid to the Nicaraguan goer,-, ?. ]Y taking away the ability of the aitting in The White douse press
rillas a step beyond his previous Executive Branch to carry ,out its ? loom'
statements-that the sole purpose constitutional responsibilities to
of the assistance is *to help sever the conduct foreign policy.
Sandinistas' ppl`y ,Of arms 'to; the The President objected to "-tire
rebels battling U.S.-backed govern - ? restrictions" the committee voted to
meat troopsiriM Salyador. ... put on any overt aid-limitations
The President acknowledged that such as allowing it to be earmarked
the Nicaraguan guerrillas are using only for governments, not;guerril.
U.S. arms against the Sandinista as. He said the other Central Amer-
concern a government .,and did not express ice, governments might not want to
concern about it. i "give that money .to the freedom
fighters in Nicaragua." _ ..,
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REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
IN INTERVIEW WITH.
REPORTERS GEORGE CONDON OF COPLEY NEWS SERVICE,.
BRUCE DRAKE OF THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS,
SARA FRITZ OF U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT,
CARL LEUBSDORF OF 'THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS,
CHRIS WALLACE OF NBC,
AND
STEVE WEISMAN OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
Q Mr. Presid.ent,.the Roman Catholic Bishop;, as you
know, voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favor of a resoluton calling
for a halt in the nuclear arms race.. Is that going to comp. cate your
administration's efforts in trying to head off the nuclear freeze
movement?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I don't really think so, articularly
if those of you who are going to be commenting on this wil. wait, as
we have to, until we have a chance to see the 45,000-word etter.
.C think that too much attention was being paid to the one ??..'crd, "curb"
or "halt," when you think there's 45,000 words in toto. W.-. haven't
received it yet. I have had some information in advance a;>cut it,
which indicates that it really is a legitimate effort to d exactly
what we're doing, and that is to try to find ways toward w'rl.d peace.
And if so, then we're both, doing the same thing.
Q But isn't it true that if a number of leicing
Catholic Bishops -- archbishops, cardinals such as we've s.en during
this debate -- go around the country, either to their par_,-.es or in
other forms, and say, as they are saying, that we think nu-fear -- the
use of nuclear weapons is wrong ?--? and some of them are sa.-ing,
in fact, we see no way that nuclear weapons should ever be used --
isn't that going to have an influence on the debate?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, is it really? Is there anyone
that really favors using those weapons or that wants to see them?
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n Nicaragua
By ALFONSO CHARDY
Herald A'ashinpion Bureau
WASHINGTON - Ignoring a last-minute plea from CIA Director
William Casey, the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Commit-
tee voted Tuesday to end covert U.S. aid for Nicaraguan exiles fight-
ing against the leftist government in Managua.
The straight party-line vote of
S-5 -constituted a severe blow to
President Reagan's embattled Cen-
tral American policies.
The vote set the stage for the
first major test of Capitol Hill senti-
ment since Reagan appealed to a
joint session of Congress last week
to support his approach to the
strife-torn region.
"This is a great day in Managua
- an exciting day in Managua for
the : Sandinistas, a great: morale
boost," Republican committee
member C.W. (Bill) You g of Flori-
da said v: i er sarcasm. Young
opposed the action and unsuccess-
fully attempted to modify the vote
with a CIA-backed amendment.
The bill is a long way from be-
coming lava. It must pass the House
Foreign Affairs Committee and the
full House, and go through a similar
process it. the Republican-
con-:,,trolled Senate.. Reagan could :then
-veto it:
-Congressional sources said Rea-
-- -rr--?- ???+??~??~ -in..t...ehevSe'nat,,,te .. from the anti-Sandinista forces did
back a similar attempt
intelligence !"nmm;ttnc Aft., . not appear in the version approved
two-hour meeting Tuesday; the Re- by one co fic time memoers
publican-dominated panel put off said a specific time limit was ap
v d b t ld b
action until Friday on an amend-
ment by Sen. David Durenberger
(R., Minn.), to terminate funding.
Asleed at a diplomatic reception
about the House panel vote, Reagan 11,
told reporters: "What we're doing
is perfectly proper. We'll keep right
on fighting. If they [the committee
members] want to be ir>Appppi
that's their business."
White House. CIA and State De-
partment strategists hope to undo
the House committee action before
the bill ever reaches the President.
The CIA's Casey argued Tuesday
`that the U.S.-funded covert opera-
_`t.ions in Nicaragua were essential to
the United States' credibility in
'Central America. Ir. their heavy
'lobbying against the bill, adminis-
''tration officials had contended that
two Central American governments
..might fall - Honduras and El Sal-
if the U.S. covert actions
4 .were discontinued.
F.. Committee member Wvche
F-FFowler (D., Ga.) said Tuesday ss ac--
tion would make continuation of
-covert activities "difficult." He indi-
cated that the committee expects
the CIA to start winding down the
covert operation soon and to order
the anti-Sandinista exiles to begin a
withdrawal from Nicaraguan terri-
tory.
A provision in the bill that would
give the CIA 45 days to "disengage"
pro e , u woo not a made pub-
lic. Fowler said the change was
made to permit a "safer" with-
drawal of the CIA-backed forces, so
the Sandinistas would not be
warned in advance.
. The committee, which met for
five hours, also approved an 580-
FoF,#iV dt`r *?i`A,.
Nicaraguan and Cuban arms ship-
ments to Salvadoran guerrillas and
nsurgents in other nations of the
region.
Details of how the committee
wants the S80-million fund spent
have not been spelled out, but some
members say the Pentagon could
replace the CIA in providing intelli-
gence data, equipment, arms and
communications and transportation
equipment to the governments of
Honduras, E] Salvador and Guate-
mala to.stop the flow of arms from
Nicaragua and Cuba to insurgents
in their regions.
One thing committee members
made clear is that the CIA must not
administer the program. "Assist-
ance under this section shall be pro-
vided openly, and shall not be pro-
vided in a manner which attempts
to conceal United States involve-
ment in the provision of such assist-
ance," the bill says.
The committee dropped a flat
prohibition on taking any military
action "against" Nicaragua, which
appeared in the original wording.
Fowler said the restriction was de-
leted to allow the United States to
assist Honduras in case of a Nicara-
guan attack on that country.
"Our committee has done what
the majority of the members of the
committee believed had to be done,
and that was to cut off covert oper-
ations in Nicaragua," said Rep.~Edd-,
ward Boland (D., Mass.), can
of the intelligence panel and princi-
pal author of the bill.
"By and large, I think that what
this committee has done is in the in-
terests of our government, and I
think that what we were doing in
that area was counterproductive,"
Boland said.
"The bottom line," Boland said.
"was that covert action ought to be
cut off. and we ought to turn that
action into an overt action, and
that's exactly what we did."
Fowler, responding to Young's
criticism that the vote would aid
the Sandinistas, said that the action
"in no way could be construed as a
favor to the Sandinista govern-
ment."
"It was a decision of our commit-
tee that the covert-action policy of
the United States was simply con-
trary to the best interests of the
United States of America. It was
having the opposite effect for
which it was initially intended. In-
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Intelligence committee votes to halt
CIA support for rebels in Nicaragua
By Henry Trewhitt
Washington Bureau of The'Sun
Washington - Dividing along-par-
ty lines, the House Intelligence ;oni-
mittee voted 9-5 yesterday :to Morbid
covert U.S. support for insurgents in
`Nicaragua, but approved money to
block the flow of Nicaraguan arms to
guerrillas in other countries.
The decision was a severe setback
for the administration. It had -lobbied
until the last minute for less_restric-
five legislation.
Administration officials said they
will continue to fight as the bill goes
to the Rouse Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee and ultimately to the entire,Bouse
for action..Like the Intelligence Com-
mittee, both have Democratic majori-
ties.
Representative Edward P. Boland
(D,' Mass.), the committee chairman;
conceded that the vote yesterday was
only a "first step.... This is not the
end of the ball game by any means." i
As it now stands, the bill would
shut off funds for Central Intelligence
'Agency support of at least two insur-
gent groups now operating in-Nicara-
gua against the Sandinista govern-
ment.
The administration says its : pur-
pose is to interdict arms flowing
from Nicaragua to guerrillas else-
where, mainly in El Salvador. But the
opponents of present policy say it vio-
lates existing legislation that forbids
U.S. efforts to bring down the Nicara?
guan?government.
Mr. Boland and Representative
Wyche Fowler, Jr. (D, Ga.), who met
reporters after the vote, condemned
Nicaragua for exporting revolution,
Mr. Fowler said he agreed with Pres-
ident- Reagan's objectives but disa-
greed with his methods: ""We decided
that `the covert operation 'was con-
trary 'to the interest of the United
States," he said.
As it is currently conducted, he
argued, the undertaking fuels both in-
ternal and international support for
the Sandinistas.
He and Mr. Boland urged the ad-
ministration to develop plans to fund
other efforts to interdict the flow of
Nicaraguan arms ? directed against
other countries to the region, The
committee recommended $80 million.
in special aid for that purpose - $30
million this year, $50 million next.
Even before the committee began
five hours of meetings yesterday, ad-
ministration officials conceded that
they probably had lost the argument.
But. William J. Casey, the CIA direc-
tor; 'and Thomas 0. Enders, assistant
secretary of state for Latin America,
appeared before the committee with
several lower-ranking officials to
make a final appeal,
'.`.We're disappointed," a senior ad-
ministration spokesman said later..
But:be added pointedly that the com-
mittee bill "faces other legislative
hurdles,"
. The committee was careful to give
the iidministration time to dismantle
its operation in Nicaragua without
endangering the insurgents it sup-
ports. As offered by Mr, Boland and
Chairman Clement J. Zablockl (D,
Wis.) of the foreign affairs commit-
tee, the bill specified a shutoff of
money 45 days after enactment of the
legislation..
That provision was eliminated
yesterday in favor of a period that
was specified only In a portion of the
bill that was not made public for se-
curity reasons. "The purpose, Mr. 1
Fowler said, was to permit "orderly
disengagement" of U.S.-backed insur-
gents without letting the Sandinistas
.know the deadline.
Similar legislation is under consid-
eration by the Senate Intelligence
-Committee, which has an 8-7 Republi-
can majority, although some of the
Republicans there are expected to fa-
vor more restrictive legislation. The
administration appears reasonably
confident, however, that it can pre-
vent a vote there to-shut off all covert
operations.
Mr. Boland said he regards the
-committee bill as a vehicle for a thor-
ough discussion of policy. In fact, he
continued, he will ask for a secret ses-
sion of the entire House, once the for-
eign affairs committee has acted, for
a thorough debate over secret infor-
mation. --(
Few Republicans on Mr. Boland's
committee were available to com-
ment later.
But Mr. Fowler said he hoped the
administration would absorb the
committee's -message and reduce its
commitment, although it "technically
could continue" covert operations
pending final action on legislation. A
hint that. the administration was lis-
tening closely to Congress came from
yet another committee -involved in
Central America policy,
Without fanfare, the administra-
tion agreed to a delay in action on its
request for $50 million in supplemen-
tal military aid-to El Salvador this,
year, It reached an understanding
with Representative Clarence D.
Long (D, Md., gd), whose appropria-
tions subcommittee has the request,
to withhold action indefinitely.
In the meantime, administration
officials told Mr. Long, they will
make do with $30 million in emergen-
cy funds his subcommittee approved
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Washington (News Bureau)_ Only ..,days after.-President Reagan .
pleaded with Congress in :a nationally televised speech to supporthis
policies in 'Central -America, the House Intelligence Committee -dealt
a major'. blow to that policy yesterday, voting to end the CIA's.covert
support for a guerrilla campaign against the Marxist government of
Nicaragua Before the vote, CIA director VVil-
The vote set the stage for a possible I iiam J Casey and Assistant Secretary
confrontation between Congress and '= of State Thomas -0. Enders met with
the White -House over the President's the Intelligence Committee for ;three
prerogative to conduct a secret cam- hours in closed- session to urge
-paign as, an instrument of foreign -lawmakers to approve some--measure
policy. short of an outright ban on assistance
The last time Congress voted to stop to the Nicaraguan rebels..
such a covert operation was in 1975 Administration officials say -there
when the Senate. cut funding to guerril- ae -about S;OOQ,guerrillas fighting in-
las fighting Cuban-backed forces for side Nicaragua"Those rebels, known as
control of the newly independent Afri. "contras", include some members of
can nation of Angola. - the old National Guard of the late
On- a ?9-to-5 vote the committee. dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was
approved a bill to cut off -clandestine '.ousted in the 2979 revolution.
American support of the Nicaraguan ' The administration has insisted the
insurgents in 45 days, allowing the CIA only purpose of the covert campaign is
time to extricate itself-from the con- . to stop the flow of weapons to. the
flict. The bill would replace the covert . Salvadoran rebels.. But -several key
assistance with an _$80 million fund to members of the House and Senate
help 'Friendly Central American .aa. Intelligence -committees charged the
Lions halt the11ow of-weapons to leftist -administration was violating a 2982 law
rebels in the-region which bans U.S..aid for the purpose of
THE BILL, sponsored by Reps. 'l/d- overthrowing the Sandinista regime in
ward Boland (D-Mass.), chairman of the Nicaragua or provoking a war between
Intelligence r~~LL Co/Ip~mtsi~ttee, .and -- Nicaragua and Honduras..
QementJ. Zablo.~ ( - ls.),-cbairxnan
-ofthe House Foreign Affairs Commit.
tee, has the support-of the Democratic
leadership in the House. However, it
still must be approved by the full.
House and the Republican-controlled
Senate -before it becomes law. Passage
of the measure in - the full Senate is
considered unlikely. .
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House panel votes
to cut off covert aid
From wmbined dispatches
In a blow to President Reagan's
efforts to combat leftist inroads
into Central America, the House :
Intelligence Committee voted yes-
terdayto cut off covert aid to rebels
fighting against Nicaragua's
Marxist-oriented regime.
In a party-line vote, the
Democratic-controlled committee
decided 9-5 to eliminate CIA sup-
port for the rebels.
Reagan, asked about the vote
while he chatted with ambassadors
at a Waite House reception for the
diplomatic corps last night, in-
sisted, "What we're doing is per-
fectly proper" - apparently
referring to the U.S. interdiction of
supply lines into Nicaragua.
"We'll keep right on fighting," he
told reporters. "If they (Congress).
want to be irresponsible, that's
their business."
Although it voted the fund cutoff,
the committee approved an $80 mil-
lion fund to help "friendly" nations
in Central America to interdict
weapons going from leftist Nicara-
gua to guerrillas in other countries.
Aid to Nicaragua has enmeshed.--.
the Reagan administration in a con-
troversy with Congress over:
whether-it-is-being used m ~,t
supplies from Nicaragua to El Sal-
vador or to help topple the ruling
Sandinistas. The latter goal was
banned last year by Congress when
it approved funding.
Rep. Edward P. Boland, D-Mass.,
committee chairman, said the com-
mittee voted the aid cutoff because
"What we were doing in that area
was counterproductive." .
Boland said there was "no ques-
tion that Nicaragua is in violation of
international law" in its support for
Nicaraguan soldiers crush
new rebel offensive. Page 6A.
The committee acted .after.meet-
i ing :behind closed doors with CIA
":.Director William Casey and Assis-
tant Secretary of State Thomas
? Enders.
.. Despite the setback in the House,
:..-congressional sources said Reagan
- . apparently has the votes to 'turn
back asimilarettempt in the Senate ,
Intelligence Committee. After -a
two-hour meeting, the Republican-
dominated panelput off action until
Friday on an amendment by,Sen.
David Durenberger, R-Minn., to
terminate funding.
Rep. C.W. Young, R-Fla., a com-
mittee member,.said sarcastically
the vote-made it "an exciting day in
Managua for the Sandinistas - a
great morale boost."
The bill, against which the Rea-
gan administration lobbied vigor-
ously, also will be considered by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
and then will be voted on by the.full
House.
Rep. Wyche Fowler, D-Ga.,
chairman of the House Intelligence
subcommittee overseeing CIA
covert actions, said the committee's
vote could effectively force an end
to U.S. support for attacks against
Nicaragua.
"I feel that the impact of thecom-
mittee's action makes that (continu-
ation of the covert activities)
difficult," Fowler said.
Although the bill calls for cutting.
off the covert aid, the committee
deleted a 45-day time limit for with-
drawal.
Boland said the bill retains a time
limit for extricating CIA-supported
forces from Nicaragua, but the
time span will be included in -a clas-
sified part of the bill.
Fowler said that change was
made to permit a safer withdrawal
of CIA-backed forces.
Fowler said the covert actions
had only served to -strengthen
internal and international support
for the'Sandinistas"
In one change, the committee
dropped a flat prohibition against
the United States taking any miii-
. tart' action "against" Nicaragua.
Fowler said that restriction was
deleted to permit, for instance, the
United States to assist Honduras in
the nfof a Nicaraguan intrusion
in territory.
.Ti. _ :,dministration -insists that
.its actions in the area are intended
to stem the flow of weapons from
Nicaragua to leftist rebels in El Sal-
vador, and are not intended to over-
throw the Nicaraguan government.
However, some CIA-backed insur- ,
gents have declared openly that
their goal is to oust thet!Sandinistas
from power.
The administration pressed the
committee to approve something
short of an outright ban on assis-
tance to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Asked about the legislative bat-
tle, Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.
said, "We ought to have lived up to
the Boland amendment. That was a
compromise bill at that time.,,
leftist insurgents in .El Salvador.
But he added the committee felt the
covert action was not the way to re-
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House Panel Votes to Stop
Aid to Rebels inNicara
By ELLEN HUME and DON SBANNON; nm=sstaff Writers
WASE3NGTON-1n a move de-
signed to force President Reagan to
-scale back CLS. activities in Central
America, Democrats on the House
-Intelligence Committee on Tuesday
pied through .a measure that
would -CXrt -o ?covert. 3 nds .fior
DS.-backed anti-Sandinista - rebels
'The xneasix e, approved 91S1D'.5:ima
straight party-line Vote de`,pite -a
host-minute appeal by CIA Director
William J. -Cases. is expected to win
. -approval by the full House nett
week- But it faces an uphillbattie in
the Republican-contralled.Senate,
As a result, the stage may be set
farihe first real test of cangression-
al -sentiment since President Rea-
gan's speech to a joint session of
Congress a week ago.. 'Reagan
warned that the failure to approve
continued aid for US.-supported
governments in Central America
could lead to Comrntinitt takeovers
there.
I believe and I hope that because
of the Strong statement in this bill
_ . . (the Administration) -wall
re-evaluate their policies," Rep.
'Wyche Fowler Jr. (D-Ge-) said
after the vote
Burt 'Republicans on the commit-
tee expressed a different view: -1t's
an exciting-. day in Managua for the
Sandinistas, a great morale boost-
e_ " said Rep. C.W. Ball Young
(R-F l ). Young opposed the hill
and favored instead allowing the
covert operations to continue until a
verifiable agreement could be
reached that no Sandinista arms
would be exported to other nations
in the region His proposal was
defeated by voice vote in the com-
;mitice T1tesday.
1 _ Cagey -azgued..Z'ctes3atp .thate _
Although the measure, ro-spon-
sored by Boland and House Foreign
':Affairs Committee Chairman Clem
-em 1..Zablocld;(D-Wis.), 'originally
would ..have cut off the -covert
--funding within 45 -days of the -bill's
passage, .a secret new =toff -date
was set by the committee Tuesday.
'Fowler -explained _that..,ihe,adate
U.S.-funded covert dpetations . would remain classified.beeausethe
Nicaragua are essential th the Unit-'"' '.committee wanted "an.arderlyidis-
ed States' ..credibility in -central x - engagement... by such forces''hat
America..In their heavy lobbying
against the bill, Administration offi-
cials had contended that two Cen.
tral American government6 Ron.
duraa and El Salvador-right 'fan if
the U.S. -.overt actions.are thBoon-
1Se aughLbesn Nicaragua"
sure, swhiCt inter-approved lea :.
eected.
approval,fn-the oouoe
fairs Comtr:fttee and theioe M.
full-
as early as next?weelc,~tates:
"None of the funds annronrint
sor rascal year 1883 .or1984 #cr'te
Violation of OAS Charter Central Intelligence ABeaey,?arattry
other deparmertt.; :agency crimtity
me measure approved by the -of the United States involved -in-
committee authorized 530 million in intelligence activities may;beobb-
fiscal year .3983 and 550 million in gated or erpended'for the e-putpose
fiscal 1984 for oven funding to or which would bave'.the 'effectof
Central American nations to assist supporting, directly or indirectly,
them in impeding arms shipments ' mflftars, or., .operations
from Nicaragua, Cuba or other in Nicaragua by-any.nation, group,
nations. But no funds could be spent organization, movement or jnjvj..
for military or paramilitary opera- j '
tions inside Nicaragua. The measure allocates the 480
?'I'he'United States now is .under- won-?subiect to action by the
stood to be supplying covert aid to Appropriations Committee-for
anti-Sandinista guerrillas operating overt aid provided by the President
inside Nicaragua. The Reagan Ad- to the governments of any "friendly
ministration has argued that U.S. country in Central America" iz
funding of such covert activities in prevent the transfer of safiitary
Nicaragua is :needed to counteract equipment "from or through Cuba
what they, charge is the Sandinistas' or Nicaragua' to groups seeking to
Mariast-Leninist effort to over. . overthrow a Central American gov-
throw the government of El Silva- ernment.,
-- ?or..-__-, _ A similar measure cutting off
But critics have charged that the ! covert aid and establishing $90
U.S.-backed cover activities are million in overt ber sponsored by
Sen
improper and violate the charter of . Dave Durenberger (R-Mina ).
the Organization of American is Pence in the Senate Intelligence
States, which forbids any member Committee, where it faces an uphill
to fund any group attempting to VDte. ..
overthrow a sovereign government
in the Western Hemisphere. .
"What this committee has done is
in the Interest of our government. I
think that what we were doing in
that (covert) area was counterpro-
ductive," House Intelligence Com-
mittee Chairman Edward P. Boland
(D-Mass.) said-after the vote.
.Fowler -said U.S. funding of the
forces seeking to overthrow the
Sandinista regime has actually
backfired and is strengthening the
Sandinistas' popularity in Nicara.
ua.
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4 May 1983
House Panel 'Clears Ban on All Covert Acts
By U .S. in Nicaragua, Rebuffing Reagan
By a Wwt.i. STREET J ouRNwl. Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON-The House Intelligence
Committee brushed off high-level pleas from
the Reagan administration and passed a bill
outlawing all covert operations in Nicara-
gua.
The bill's passage was a clear sign of
concern that the administration has ignored
an earlier congressional mandate by co-
vertly helping armed bands try to overthrow
the leftist Nicaraguan government,
But the measure faces an uncertain fu-
ture in Congress. It still must clear the full
House and Senate before it can be signed
into law. Support for the bill is lower in the
Republican-controlled Senate, and even if it
passed there it could be vetoed by President
Reagan.
The House committee passed the bill af-
ter two long, closed-door meetings yester-
day. William Casey, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, and Thomas Enders,
assistant secretary of state, appeared before
the panel to argue against passage of the
bill.
But the bill passed anyway, after only
minor modifications. The vote was 9-5, with
all Democrats in favor of the measure and
all Republicans against it.
The bill goes well beyond a measure Con-
gress passed late last year, which allowed
coven activities in and around Nicaragua
but specified that the activities couldn't be
aimed at helping ovC;ti.:-ow Nicaragua's
government. That left the administration
free to conduct covert operations designed
to cut off the flow of arms from Nicaragua
to leftist rebels in El Salvador.
Administration officials insist that aid be-
ing given to dissident Nicaraguan paramili-
tary groups is provided only so those groups
will help in arms interdiction. But anti-gov-
ernment rebels have been openly attacking
the Nicaraguan regime in recent weeks,
raising congressional suspicions that U.S.
aid was being used in an overthrow effort.
The bill approved by the House panel
bans any covert support of groups conduct-
ing military campaigns against Nicaragua's
government. Instead, the bill authorizes the
administration to begin an open, public
.arms-interdiction effort by enlisting the help
of friendly governments in the region.
Under the open effort, the president
would be empowered to give aid to friendly
countries in Central America so they can try
to cut off shipments of arms from Nicara-
gua, Cuba or elsewhere to rebels trying to
topple with U.S.-backed government in El
Salvador.
The bill authorized $30 million for this
new arms-interdiction effort this year, and
an additional $50 million in fiscal 2984, which
begins Oct. 1.
The committee approved the bill after de-
feating a Flepublican-supported amendment
offered by Rep. C.W. Young of Florida that
would have modified it :significantly. Rep.
Young's amendment would have required
Nicaragua to sign a verifiable_ agreement
stating that it isn't arming, training or aid-
ing rebels in El Salvador before covert ac-
tivities would be cut off.
Mr. "Young complained afterward that
the committee's bill will give "quite a moral
boost" to Nicaraguan-supported rebels in El
Sal vador.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has
been considering similar porposals to cut off
covert activities in and around Nicaragua.
The panel met in closed session yesterday,
but staff members said the issue wasn't de-
cided.
The committee is likely to meet again
Friday, and it may act on the Nicaraguan
issue then. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.,
Ariz.), chairman of the Senate panel, has
said he is convinced the administration's
court actions aren't aimed at overthrowing
Nicaragua's government. But other panel
members want at least to tighten up restric-
tions on covert actions.
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4 May 1983
Panel Votes Halt
Of Covert Aid for
Nicaragua Rebels
By Patrick E. Tyler {
Washington PostStatr Writer
The- House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence yesterday,
defied the Reagan administration
and -voted along party lines to stop
financing and to prohibit by law any.
U.S. involvement with guerrilla
forces fighting the leftist government
.of Nicaragua,
The vote of nine Democrats
against five Republicans . followed
five hours of closed committee de-.
liberations and a last-minute warn-
ing from CIA Director William .3.
-Casey that forcing the CIA:to stop
supporting the guerrillas4nside Nic-;
aragua could lead to a "bloodbath." '
Republican and Democratic com
mittee members said later that
Casey offered no evidence to support
.his warning. Rep. -Wyche Fowler Jr.
(D-Ga.), chairman of the panel's
oversight subcommittee, said the
committee took great -care to give
the administration time to provide
for an "orderly disengagement" from
about 3,000 to 4.000 guerrillas cur-
rently making- hit-and-run raids
against targets inside Nicaragua.
At a reception for the diplomatic
corps last night, Reagan told reporters: "What we're doing is. perfectly
proper. We'll.keep right on fighting.
If they (the committee members)
want to be irresponsible, that's their
business."
As introduced last week, the bill
would have cut off funds for the CIA"!
operation 45 days after passage of
the legislation.
'The legislation, sponsored :by.-Bola d,
and: House Foreign Affairs 'Committee
Chairman Clement ..Z,ablocki (D-Wis.,
-snow will be referred to 2ablocki's-panel,
which would have -jurisdiction over,the
'..overt" arms-interdiction assistance pro-
r,vided in the bill,- icno,unting to.$30 mil-
;.lion in this budget :year and $50 million
-in the budget year beginning Qct. 1.
Boland said he expects quick action in
the Foreign Affairs Committee, which
;would put the bill.: next week on . the
House floor, where a -secret sesssion has
'been authorized by House Speaker
`T'homas -P. '(Tip) _ O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass:).
At a meeting ow ithreporxers'. yeyesterday,
O'Neill endorsed -~be -Boland-Zablocki
proposal.' . " ..
In reporting 'the bill,'the House intel-
ligence committee reiected an amend-.
ment by Rep.. C.W. (Bill) Young (R-Fla.)
that would cut off covert funding. for the
anti-Sandinista guerrillas only after ? it
could be determined that .the Sandinistas
have stopped supporting the rebels fight-
ing.the Salvadoran government.
Young said enactment of the legisla-
tion would bring about "an exciting day
for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua ... and
would give the Sandinista-backed-insur-
gency in El Salvador areal morale boost."
No Reagan administration offer of
compromise surfaced wring the, five-
hour :committee session, yesterday, al-
though Young said, Casey brought .a
"complete rewrite" =of -the Boland bill
ready for introduction. The rewrite would
allow the coven operations to continue,
Young said.
-Casey and Thomas 0. -Enders, assist-
ant secretary of state for inter-American
be done, was to cut off covert operations
But it was amended yesterday to affairs, spent most of the morning- with
The legislation' would amend the
1983 budget bill "to prohibit United
`States support -for . military or pars-
military operations in Nicaragua and
to authorize assistance, to be openly
provided. to " governments of coun-
tries
in Central America, to interdict
the supply to military equipment
from Nicaragua and -Cuba to indi.
viduals, groups, organizations, or
movements seeking to overthrow
governments of countries in Central
America."
The intention, according to Dem-
ocratic committee members, is to
provide El Salvador and Honduras
with open assistance to stop any il-
licit flow of arms to leftist insurgents,
from -Nicaragua while ending .eovert
support ' for the guerrilla -campaign
against Nicaragua's Sandinista govern-
- ,meet.
? The CIA has claimed the covert oper-
+ation is succeeding. But critics said it is
driving the Nicaraguan government to.
ward greater repression and,is harming
V.S. credibility in the region.
The Senate Select Committee on In-
?stelligence met for two' hours yesterday
:rafternoon to consider similiar legislation,
rrbut recessed without taking .action. Corn-.
c 'nittee -sources said that the administra-
ttion - appears..-to have enough support
s`rthere to defeat the measure, which could
nleave Congress split over one of the ad-
tministration's most sensitive foreign -pol-
icy ventures. '
After. the House committee vote, chair- .
.man Edward -P. Boland (D-Mass,) said,
. c"What this committee-has done, what the
--majority of the members.believed had to
.substitute a period slightly longer in Nicaragua:" the committee and then caucused with
than 45 days, which woul p}~,r}~ Boland said CIA pressure on th a its five Republicans during a. luncheon
secret to prevent the guerr rf om Fo4d1 t*ar*1ZQ0?f1sf 8 -00'00400080002-7 ,
being routed by Nicaraguan govern- leftist insurgency in El Salvador had be--,-
1
ment forces. -come "counterproductive". and against ~x,,,_
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AGAINST NICARAGUA
4 MAY 1983
[America, in a speech intended 'to" fairs
ore reaches strengthen support for Administration , i House floor. On Friday, the Senate ln-
~policips in Central America ...., telligence comra}ttee is scheduled to
C discuss a Similar Measure,
Republican Effort Rejected Senator David P
berger, Republi-
?Wha_rhis comr,.ittee has`done'is in can of Minnesota.
the`frnesests of .our coon Government As -ori ginally
," would have drafted, the measure Representative Edward P. -Boland; banned operatiaa in or
Democrat of Massachusetts :and chair- against" Nicaragua, but the phrase or
against? was deleted. The purpose of
m
an of the committee, said :after the the deletion, committee members said,
vote. "What we were doing tn 1hsft-&reft I
SETBACK FOR 'WHITE HOUSE Mr. nd ssaid he ' la'-seek a
I closed:session of the :House of Repre-
sentatives.,already requested 'by Re-
$80 Million Voted for'?F.riendly'
diSQW.'the:meaSUre and provide , t
`Nations Blocking Weapons fieclinformationused by thecommittee,
for Salvadoran Rebels . Representative Bill Young,=Republi-
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Special toTheNew'YWtTkWW
WASHINGTON, May 3 - The Rouse ,
Select Committee on Intelligence, in a
setback for the Reagan Administration,
voted today to cut off funds for the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency to conduct coy-
? ert military actions in Nicaragua.
Instead, by a party-line vote of 9 to 5,
the committee authorized $80 million
for overt aid to "any friendly country in
Central America," to help interrupt
weapons flowing through such nations
from Cuba or Nicaragua to El Salvador.-
. The committee action may prove
more symbolic than real. It is attached
to a fiscal 1983 authorization bill, which
may expire before Congressional action
is completed, in the face of an expected
Presidential veto. The committee
would then have to vote again on the
ban, in the 1984 authorization bill, but
today's action indicated that a renewed
ban would be preordained.
Six Days After Reagan Speech
The measure provides that 'none of
the funds appropriated for fiscal year
1983 or 1984 for the Central Intelligence
! Agency or any other department,'agen-
cy, or entity of the United States .in-.
volved in intelligence activities may be
obligated or expended for the purpose
or which would have the effect of.sue
porting, directly or indirectly, military
or paramilitary operations in Nicara
gua by any nation, group, organization;
movement or individual:"
The committee's action cause '.sin
days after Mr. Reagan addressed a
joint session of Congress cs Central
gun for.the Sandinistas -- a,great mo-
the vote, "It is an exciting day in Mana-
ahe eorpmittee previously rejected, 9
covert aid, which the Administration
contended was needed to interrupt the
flow of weapons into El Salvador.
Last fall it was disclosed that the Ad-
'rainisfrationhuvugli the .:,-had ;
been supporting a force of 2,000 Nicara-
Iguan rebels. This action was under-.
!taken with the knowledge of'the House
and Senate Intelligence committees.
The disclosures elicited widespread
Congressional concern, and fear. that
the United States was becoming in-
I volved in another Vietnam. Last
December, Congress adopted a meas-
ure that_prohibited the United 'States
from providing covert aid to military
groups "for the purpose of" overthrow.
mg the Sandinist Government.in Mari.
gua.
Congressional concern-continued - to-
mount, however, and, Mr. Boland de-
clared last month that the Administra-
tion had been in "apparent violation" of
the Congressional prohibition, setting
the stage for today's action.
The vote in the closed session came
after a day of deliberation in which the
committee heard last-minute appeals
by William J. Casey, Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, and Thomas 0. En-
ders., Assistant- Secretary of -State for
Inter-American affairs.
.The authorization for overt aid will
now be considered by the Foreign J f- .
was w permit such operations in the 1
event that the Saadini-sts invaded an-
othernation.
Also, the draft measure provided that
the prohibition "shall take effect 45
days after she date of enactment of this
'session"' Bin, by .amendment, the ef-
i festive datewas classified.
Representative Wyche Fowler Jr.,
-a I
Georgia ISemocrst, said the reason for
the classification was that .`the com-
mittee wanted to do everything possible
to prevent prior notification that might.
k
ma
e an orderly disengagement-impos
sible."
The political complexion of the com-
mittee's Democrats, all of whom are
moderates, heightened the impact of !
the resolution. Committee members
said they believed that the Administra-
tion would heed the committee's action.
"The impact of the committee's action,
the-strength of that action and the rea-
sons for that action indicate that the
committee will be listened to," -.Mr.
Fowler said.
in a final modification; -the commit-
tee inserted -the phrase ? or any other
country" in the provision that .read,
`The President i authorized to furnish
assistance, on such-terms and
lions as he may determine, to the Gov_
ernment of any friendly country in Cen-
tral America in order to provide such
country with the ability to prevent use
of its territory, or the use of interna-
tional territory, for the transfer of mili-
tary equipment from or through Cuba
or Nicaragua or any other cocmtry to
any individual, group, organization or
movement which the President deter-
mines seeks to overthrow the Govern-
ment of such-friendly country or the
Government of any other country in I
Central America.,,
The committee members stressed
that they shared the Administration's
objectives in Central America, but dis-
agreed with Administration policy.
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ou se Rallies
Poatcv,
..'It ~
His four-day tour of the region con-
to the house Permanent Select -l:ommrttee ,.~ "1T-LGtt I-TMU -71 V1 =are supporting is strengthening the position
on Intelligence for relief. But that :group of the Sandinista government, -thereby de- I
'mal be about to vote the first. formal in avin.g.the democratic reforms weg)rofess'to
., _,
American nolicv`bv.closina ?down the -CIA r' .. . - . . - - -: -
the nre_sident made a iagt-ditch''~tmtd
:little war in licaragua rre of Bolands-staunchest all>es s +ia= save they operation, Fowler told' Fi.e gain
dust haw this silent consensus built rp. rioflty Dea'de'r-James C Wright .Jr j D3, -a th at:=it s aunderniining our policy `ir-teri ,
public a year ago, . cannot:;be detailed be I 'Ib ersanally betrayed -by ?they.Sandimstas, The ;rebels :are offering 'an alternative to
,,pause .of the iron ,rules under which 4he om he once' befriended. Wright is pre the doomed-covert enterprise It bears the
ommittee operates. House:,members: bate dicting that'the :House will follow the"com- - 'l
.to- defy= a president on forei olicy;-oar-1 names ofiCharrnian Boland arud of3Clemen.
:p 1 : nittees .lead end abut-down the overtco .,; J. Zablocki (D-Wis.), chairman 0f ?the For-'
ticvlarly when he has warned them'he as w e r t ? o p e r a t i o n . - eign Relations Committee, and it provides
prepared to charge them with "losuig" El Never suspected :.of any rad6 Eamt, _ 'open -appropriations for El Salvador, Costa
+alvador. .:. 71~hst ~weekrefurbished his establish-., help themtpp.arms
j. What' gives them courage on a long rent credentials by iraising the president's shipments into their territories. =
smoldering thing" rs''the lopsidedness of Latin American; and :takin xce--1
speech p Fowler is trying to write in a provision
-public--opinion against Central. American' t-on to :the-Democratic: response :of. Seri: ,.for "diplomatic activity." Reagan, in?wbat
fadventurism and a' widespread skepticism :Christopher.3 Dodd (D-i nn) sounded like a footnote to his speech, ad
ibout.'Reagan's readiness to undertake-the The third-out-front leader nf?the aevolt' :vocated negotiation, then made-.it a-oke by
negotiations which have,been urged on`hlm p e F.oaler Jr. (D Ca3~ -juniornaming former Democratic senator Richard
by-tur Latin neighbors and most reritl. member of the- ommittee, whp nade an B. Stone of Florida as his chief negotiator.
by.-the distinguished Inter -American Dia- 'Easter trip to Nicaragua and -came :back Stone, who has confronted the . Ni
`=logue, a group "headed by former ambassa paying; 'with typical southern circumlocu- caraguans publicly and once worked-for the
`don"Sol Linowitz. Lion, that he thought "the law was 'not Guatemalans, will; senators mumble on the
e success of the-rebellion in the House being.-fully adhered _to record; be. confirmed. Off the record they,
-derives ;in part fromm.its. sponsorship. "The Fowler, who likes" to describe himself as give unflattering views. An ex-brother said,
derweittee part fro n, -Rep. Edward P. "a flaming moderate"-he says that "any "He is a pompous windbag who will.not.
-mmm Boland (D-Mass.),: whose name is on he liberal type activity can make you a 'com shutuplong enough to hear what the other
current amendment to forbid the CIA from $,_3' ! rn his part of the country-volq~- side is saying."
ttrying. to overthrow: the Nicaraguan govern-_, accred for:the on-site inspection because she Only House : Speaker Thomas P_ (Tip) rent; is known n.Ahe House ;asa patriotic is-s`bacheiar, and didn't have to take any O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) blurted out what oth-
onformist, not given'Ao giving grief to4he ;children to. an Easter parade or an egg rolls ens were thinking... Stone, he said, is 'not up
$oland-was facing increased 'pressure fr?om the job' It was another sign that the
agency. - ~L 4 Hto-
ouse is where
you when.eveningtelevrsron_beganshow- mmitteemembers who Protested thattthe i you have to go for strong
frig Nicaraguan; contras" publiclyahankrrrg ,siwation -was out of hand. = 1 opinions and strong action on Latter Amer-
tthe'United States.-for its help.in .bringing.; ;Fowler,. lawyer, took .particular excep- icon policy.
blown the .Sandtr istas, Boland'sxoncern for on?tothe insulting, shameful legal jingo
?the-House's reputation; as well as:his own, s~srim..-sf administration apologists, such as
U 1 L . mbassador Jeane J.. Kirkpatrick,
came into play. 3ie?shockedTis;colleagues
when he stood tip /to Secretary .bf-State : who- aim -that our only purpose is to stop
George P. Shultz and S~IA:Director William 'the: flow.-6f arms from Nicaragua to El Sal-
J. Casey. Shultz called .him7the other day, vador:and that we are not responsible for
from the, Middle East, but;Boland is now`, the intentions of the riflemen who 'are
shooting. up .the hills of Nicaragua. _
-.beyond reach. .- _ ~:.'