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ASSOCIATED PRESS
30 November 1982
By G.G. LaBelle
WASHINGTON
Law Sui*. - [Nicaragua
The U.S. government is illegally aiding Nicarag,to
murder and torture of the Central American nation's citizens, according to a
lawsuit filed Tuesday by a public interest law firm.
The Center for Constitutional Rights announced it filed the suit in U.S.
District Court here on behalf of seven Nicaraguans, Rep. Ronald V. Dellums,
D-Calif., and two Florida citizens who maintain that alleged training camps for
the rebel forces in the state violate its laws.
The suit seeks s2 million in damages for each plaintiff and a court order
directing the U.S. government to stop the alleged assistance to Nicaraguan
rebels.
Defendants in the suit include President Reagan, Secretary of State George P.
Shultz, Central Intelligence Agency director William Casey, five other
U.S. officials, and a number of individuals and groups allegedly working toward
the overthrow of the leftist government of Nicaragua. Reagan left Tuesday on a
five-day, four-nation tour of Latin America.
Michael Ratner, a lawyer for the center, told a news conference that _the_
Reagan administration was part of a "wide-ranging-conspiracy" to terrorize
Nicaraguan citizens and weaken the Central American nation's government.
"This is not some abstract idea of destabilizing the government," he said.
"There are people, citizens of Nicaragua who are being harmed, killed, raped,
tortured."
Sarah Wunsch, another center lawyer, said the plaintiffs included two women
who had lost their husbands in raids on Nicaraguan villages near the Honduras
border, a woman raped during such an incident, and a 15-year-old girl who lost
an arm in one attack.
The U.S. government has repeatedly refused to comment on news articles
?maintaining the it is supplying aid to Nicaraguan rebels who were attacking fro'o
bases in Honduras.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas 0. Enders, one of the defendants named In
the suit, refused to testify before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee last
August on whether the United States was aiding Nicaraguan rebels..
State Department spokesman John Hughes said on Nov. 1, "It is the United
States government policy not to address reports dealing with intelligence
questions or allegations of covert activities."
However, lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights pointed to a Nov. 2
article in the New York Times that quoted unnamed Reagan administration
officials as saying the CIA was supplying money to rebel roux
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CIN Pr GE /_1Z,,_/?
By William Safire
The N.S.C. After Clark
WASHINGTON -- Why are we read-
ing so much about the grand strategies
of former National Security Advisers?
Almost every news magazine ex-
pounds the views of "Kissco," the in-
tellectual power conglomerate elon-
gating the shadow.of Henry Kissinger,
.which now employs former National
Security Council head Brent Scow-
.-croft and is likely soon to employ the
State Department's Lawrence Eagle-
burger. Kissco both shapes U.S. policy
? and passes editorial judgment on it,
- like a playwright writing rave reviews
.far his own show.
Though Kissc o dominates, other for-
mer advisers are appearing on op-ed
pages. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy
Carter's Pole Vaulter, is feverishly
dealingChina cards to any editor who
;will play; Richard Allen, who in 1978
introduced Ronald Reagan to the men
.who now bead Germany and Japan,
produces articles on strategies toward
.that axis of our allies.
The reason guru-grabbing has come
into such vogue is that a strategy
vacuum exists within the divided Rea-
gan White House. The man of limited
foreign policy experience who today
holds the title of National Security Ad-
viser - William Clark, the deep-back.
Amy judge and crony of the
.President - is living proof that still
waters can run shallow.
According to one regular partici-
'.pant at the early-morning White
House staff meetings, Mr. Clark's
most frequent utterance is "I'll have
guidance by 10" -that is, he will pro-
vide the President's spokesmen with a
.decision on some pressing question by
,10 A.M., after a more experienced
guide has guided the adviser toward
.what guidance to eive.
Among Defense officials, John Leh-
man or Richard Perle would bring in-
tellectual force and luster to the job,
but the choice of either might be re-
sisted by George Shultz, who prefers
to quietly dominate the N.S.C.; Under
Secretary Fred Ikle, with a lower pro-
file, has a better chance.
Former Ambassador l awrence Sil-
berman has the credentials, and State
might bold still for him, but the C.I.A.'s
William Casey would probably counter
with David Absbire,'an older establish-
mentarian. If Donald Rumsfeld's name
were mentioned, Kissco would rush in
with Richard Kennedy. Richard Pipes I
is beaded back to Harvard and to book 1
contracts. Richard Burt has his hands
full getting conservative support for his
current Domination; Ambassador Ken
Adelman is a few years away; Frank
Carlucci (like Larry Eagleburger)
needs to make some money; and Ed-
ward Luttwak is too brilliant-and out-
spoken-
A signal that Mr. Reagan intended
to run again would be his choice of
U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick,
who could carry his national-security
message within and without the Ad-
ministration. Hawks admire her
brains and guts, and although Ara-
b'ists at State are suspicious, she has
shown an ability to work with Mr.
Shultz as well as Mr. Clark.
The man with the inside track to
bead a rejuvenated N.S.C. is Tom
Reed, a former Air Force Secretary
who is frequently in and out of the
White House basement; he gets along.
with- the Californians and - has
produced at least one fairly good
strategic paper. -
It seems that the Administration
must first grind to a halt before Mr..
Reagan is moved to make the Roosevelt
Room resemble the last scene in Ham-
let. After the Great Staff Shake-Up, we
will get more of our strategic thinking
from a National Security Adviser of the
The adviser's adviser is the weitan-
schauwrg-tree Colonel "Bud" McFar-
land. Because It. Clark was trauma:.
.sized 18 months ago at a Senate bear-
ing, and has not since dared to answer
questions in public, the job of expllca-
..tor has fallen to a gruff, grim-faced
marine colonel ; like many a brave
.man forced into paper-pushing work,
Colonel McFarland is maladroit at the
articulation of policy.
This curious state of affairs at the
heart of what is supposed to be for-
eign-affairs coordination will not long
',continue. The N.S.C. will get a new
bead as soon as Ronald Reagan stares
down into the chasm that'divides his
White House staff.
One Reagan White House is headed
by James Baker and Michael Deaver
(the pragmatist and the publicist) sup-
ported by Nancy Reagan; the other is
headed by the President's favorite pair
of old shoes, William Clark and Ed
Meese. The internal quaking has
reached nine points on the Sears _scale
and the policy paralysis has become
embarrassing.
Soon the President will make his
management decision with that
characteristic clomp! and It is my
guess that the Clark-Meese combo
will come out on top. (Firing Nancy
will be the hard part.) When Mr. Clark .
replaces Mr. Baker as chief of staff,,
the way will finally be clear to hire a -
real National Security Adviser.
Requirements should be (a) a cohe-
sive world view, with a mindset; close
to Mr. Reagan's (b) longestablished
international connections (c)- ability
to swim through schools of bureau-
cratic sharks. Since George Bush, the
natural choice, has political assign-
ments and ambitions, let us survey
the rest of the field:
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ARTICLE AP-FEARED 29 NOVEMBER 1982
WASHINGTON TALK
'Briefing.
Lunch at the Club
ome of the cboicest.power-trip.
ping in town often begins with a
casual, "Meet me for lunch at
the Metropolitan Club." '.
The reference is to- the-oddest and
most exclusive men's dub in Wash-'
in", where Clark Clifford, Henry
Kissinger and other celebrated fig-
ores gather to, dine, gossip and do
busingaess.
Such is the club's perceived status
that even the most distinguished men
are willing to linger for years on wait-
ing lists for an opportunity to join,-
Power, money and pedigree help
speed the membership process, but
nothing moves it taster than having a
top Administration job? -
And so it is that commerce Secre
tary Malcolm Baldxige, Transports-
tiara Secretary Drew Lewis, Michael
K. Deaver, deputy chief. of staff at the
White. House and John S. R. Shad,
chairman of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission, have all been
granted resident guest privileges. And
club members were notified recently
that Charles Z. Wick, director of the
International Communication Ageo.
cy, has just applied. Mr. Wick is being.
sponsored by William J. Casey, Direc.'
for of Central Intelligence, and Leon-
ard Marks, a lawyer. But don't expect to see Jeane K.
Kirkpatrick on the membership rolls.
Although blacks were invited into the
club 10 years ago, the only permanent
feminine presence is an assortment of.
tramed
room walls Playboy p Ire on the locker
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et nowhere
a stalemate
tary of State Shultz and-South Af'rican
ForeignMinister'Roelof Botha met for
more than two hours yesterday- but
failed ;to find a formula for independ-
ence and black -majority rule in South
African-ruled Namibia..
United States. officials said the
-negotiations have stalled on a South I
African :demand-supported by the
.
U.S.-that ? the : - estimated, 15,00040
20,000 Cuban- troops` in neighboring
Angola withdraw.`before, thereacan-.beY:
an agreement. Angola, 'supported.- by--
most other African states in the region,
rejected the South African demand and-'
insisted that Pretoria withdraw its own,
troops from Namibia (South-West
Africa).
f As he teft -the' talks with Shultz,
Botha, however, called the discussions . .Butthis summer'retoria demanded,
"profitable and encouraging." He said the: removal of ,Cuban : troops from,
the outlook for a settlement was Angola.
"promising." Since then. Vice President Bach,
The '-U.S, took , the --lead in the CIA Director William Casey and Chac.
negotiations 1? months ago, and.-It'.- ter Crocker, undersecretary of state
.appeared .the Reagan `:administration, for rican affairs have traveled to
might be able to exert leverage- to Africa to break the im asse.
achieve an agreement. Diplomatic sources here said, the
impasse on Namibia has reached the
AT THE TIME the ccu stepped in; stage . where American allies-Britain,
.South Africa was -preoccupied with its Canada, .France .and West .German -
domestic situation, right-wing extrem- Y
ists were challenging the government; are ready' to bow out of the effort,
aheticountry was deep in recession and Administration officials said South
Africa is committed to setting up an
'the guerrilla war in Namibia was cos;ternal,government _ in Namibia to
~..,ting about $675 anilhon a year,
i. as ,,,w~ ,_ r,, a ?, ~,,,.~,~,,. strengthenSouthAfri aSandagainst
.,the South-West, ,Africa Peoples
Organization,,"which. has- fought'fot'
Namibian independence. slice 1966:
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NO:
26 NOVEIV BER 1982
US fails to budge
stalled negotiations on
Namibia independence
Bush unsuccessful in convincing Africans
to link Angola-Cuba issue with Namibia
^!~ ; _= _.-- By Louis Wizultzer :.:. i
Special correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
The United States has failed to budge stalled negotiations
on Namibian independence - despite face-to-face dialogue in
African capitals this month between top-level US and African
officials.
The impasse on Namibia is so vast that the US's partners -
In a Western attempt to work out a settlement may bow out of
t-
W
es
the effort, diplomatic sources say. Failure of both this
ern contact group (US, Britain Canada,?West Germany.
and France) effort and of separate US efforts means that
prospects for Namibian independence in the foreseeable tu-
:tune are dint: say these sources
One of the key sticking points in negotiations is US insis
tense that Namibian independence be' linked to expulsion of-:
`Cuter trnf=s from Angola, Namibia's neighbor to the south.
US Vice-President George Busb repeatedly insisted on a -.
Cuban pullout as a precondition for. a Namibian settlement
d th
is
during his tour of seven African nations, which ende
week. But Bush's African hosts told-him justas firmly that
issues were separate and should not
ngola and Namibia
the
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Other officials besyerts to-their point of view.. These officials' talks with Afri-,~
provided a camouflage concealing the deep existing impasse-'
over the. wbole issue," says a high-ranking Western
diplomat ~. ;;w ..
? ,&Sties BL>s CIA chief William Casey and Under-Sec-
tary for African Affairs Chester Crocker have been in Africa.
assistant secretary of state or uman
Ilfot Abrasams
,
rights;: is due to go to 'South Africa soon. 'In addition, Mr.'
Crocker has recently visited-the capitals of the other four
contact group members..and South Africa's Foreign Minister
t
t with .Can--v
_. . . "---
o mee
week
retary of State?George Shultz:
no exits .from the present deadlocks": says a well-informed
the front-line: stakes .:(Mozamblque,'Ziinbabwe,
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la.
ngo
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Zambia, Botswana, Angola ,- Tanzania);_.indeed all of Africa?
including pro-Western. regimes such as Kenya and Nigeria,
categorically:reject linkage of Namibian independence and
u1lout of Cuban troops from Angola:
P
. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson also stated r
S cesri ty-the{age rls'i?axecePtable -privately' elm
West Germany, and Britain are known to agree. For the timeI
being, at US insistence, these contact group members have
agreed not to dissolve the group. But if the US continues to
insist on coupling a Cuban troop pullout with the Namibian
independence = and if Angola remain adamant in rejecting
that that linkage - the contact group is likely to break up. It,
3'- could break up in a matter of months, say.several informed
and involved diplomats.
- South Africa, through recent declarations by Foreign Min-
ister "Pik" Botha and Defense Minister Magnus Masan, has
made it clear that "it will-not allow the red flag to fly over
Windhoek." Namibia's capital: Pretoria now is committed to
setting up'a new internal government in Namibia. This, ana-
lysts say, is an effort to strengthen South Africa's band
against SWAPO (South-West Africa People's Organization); I
If free elections were held in -Namibia -;as has been pro-
posed in the Namibia negotiations and by the United Nations
in Security Council Resolution, 435 - It is' widely believed
SWAPO would win. South Africa, however; ~ considers
SWAPO to be "a tool in Moscow's hands."
If South Africa rejected free elections in favor 'of molding
its own "internal solution" on Namibia's, the world commu-
nity would consider the action illegal. Resolution 435 makes
the withdrawal of South African forces from Namibia and,
independence elections under UN supervision mandatory.- ` 1
The Reagan administration is 'engaged in a race against
the clock. It banks on the willingness of African states to
compromise as a result of their present economic difficulties
and need for American aid. "They may continue to disagree
with the US approach to the Namibian issue but at the same
time they are likely to mute their criticism,"-says one Africa
watcher. 5:- it
Meanwhile, the Reagan administration, while not sayingl
so publicly, reportedly hopes that the Angolan ".'Marxist"
leadership, under the pressure of its economic problems, wiil1
either agree to send the Cuban troops home or be toppled byi
Jonas Savimbi's rebellious- UNITA movement: Meanwhile,
on the diplomatic front it is playing for time'and needs to
keep the "contact group" on board, thus giving the" impres-
sion that things are still moving in the right direction even if
in.fact they are at a standstill
Angola and-the US seem to be playing. cat and mouse to-
gether. Angola's leaders -appear to be deeply suspicious- ofl
the American plan and of American assurances that were the
Cuban troops to'go home;'South Africa would no-longer in-l
wade it and try to destabilize it ' ;;--- '
"They are tempted by the American offers of aid and rec
_ognition but at the same time they are afraid to'Wen j
snared," says one European official who'ust visited Angola.)
"They suspect that the Reagan admini?tration would not beI?
content to get the Cubans out but that it would wants to even
? tually replace Angola's pro-Soviet regime with a pro-Western
one," be adds.
en its tune:.
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ARTICLE t.rP~FsR.F,D I EWSWEEK
OIL F AGg 22 NOVEMBM 1982
PER!SCOPE
The FBI Investigates the Freeze Movement
President Reagan's charge at his press conference last week that
Soviet agents are involved in the domestic nuclear-freeze move-
ment was based on a secret Federal Bureau of Investigation study.
The White House has identified the Reader's Digest and State
Department reports as Reagan's sources. In fact, after reading one
Reader's Digest article outlining a Soviet link with the freeze
movement, the president asked the FBI to confirm the charge. The
bureau reported that there is hard evidence that Moscow has tried
to infiltrate and exploit the U.S. peace movement. But according to
one bureau source, the report does not contend that the Kremlin
inspired the movement or controls its leaders. FBI counterintelli-
gence chief Edward O'Malley's recent testimony on the subject
before the House intelligence committee is under review for possi-
ble declassification. Freeze advocates, including Republican Sen.
Mark Hatfield of Oregon, have challenged Reagan's accusation.
Similar charges were made repeatedly against the anti-Vietnam
War movement; no significant Soviet involvement was ever proved.
The PLO's Missing Members
Israeli intelligence says it has discovered that the camps in
Tunisia that accommodated 1,000 PLO guerrillas after their evacu-
ation from Beirut are now empty. Israeli officials suspect that the
fighters have made their way back to the Mideast-either to Syria
or Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. American Mideast specialists say that
Syria has recently tightened its border watch to prevent PLO
fighters from sneaking back into Lebanon; they speculate that Syria
is fearful of provoking an Israeli attack.
The-CIA: In Froi_. --
The Central Intelligence Agency has boosted its influence to new
levels during the Reagan administration, by at least one measure.
Under Director William Casey, the CIA has sharply increased its
production of National Intelligence Estimates. Based on both
public and secret information, the NIE's address such topics as
Soviet nuclear strength, international terrorism and world oil
reserves. The reports are designed to be used by policymaking
officials, but they are often ignored. Nonetheless, the number of
NIE's can be a rough indicator of the CIA's standing. When Jimmy
Carter was president the CIA turned out about 12 a year. That
number more.than tripled during the first year of the Reagan
administration and will probably reach 60 in 1982.
(China Arms Iraq
China has set up a ,stall in the Middle East arms bazaar. United
States intelligence officials say that China is now a major source of
military supplies for Iraq. According to a new report, Iraq buys one-
quarter of all its weaponry from China; that accounts for half of
China's arms-export total. Most Chinese weapons are based on
Soviet models, which makes it easy for Iraq to integrate the Chinese
equipment into its largely Soviet arsenal.
How to Stop Soviet High-Tech Spies
Washington's campaign to stop the Soviet theft of technology
may handicap American businessmen more than the secret-snatch-
ers, according to a Senate study to be released this week. The
Senate's Permanent Investigating Subcommittee reports that the
Commerce Department tries to protect so many high-tech com-
modities that its limited resources are spread too widely to be
effective. The proposed solution: having the intelligence agencies
work harder to pinpoint the particular innovations that Moscow
covets most; security measures could then be concentrated on those
areas. The panel also recommends that customs officers be given
`broader powers and that the federal wiretap law be expanded to
permit easier surveillance of suspected poachers.
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ON PAGE
TIME
22 NOVZ'iBER 1982
The Soviets
TIME/NOVEMBER 22,1982
changing the Guar
After Brezhnev's 18-year rule, the U.S.S..R. gets an enigmatic new leader
The first hint came at
7:15 p.m. Moscow time
on Wednesday. Nikolai
Shchelokov, the Minister
for Public Order, had just
address to celebrate Militia Day, and mil-
lions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the
live pop concert that was supposed to fol-
low. Instead, without explanation, a film
about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9,
came Vremya (Time), the nightly news.
The announcers, who usually dress infor-
mally. wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran
to my neighbors to find out if they knew
what was going 0n,"2 Moscow secretary
said. "Everyone was excited. We all
thought somebody had died, but nobody
guessed it was Brezhnev. We had all seen
him on television three days before, re-
viewing the military parade, and he
looked all right."
The initial speculation centered on
Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 76,
who was rumored to be ailing and who
was absent from the traditional Kremlin
lineup at the Nov. 7 ceremonies marking
the 65th anniversary of the October Rev-
olution. After the news, the nationwide
first channel aired an unscheduled pro-
gram of war reminiscences. On the sec-
ond channel, an ice hockey game was
abruptly replaced by Tchaikovsky's
mournful ' Parhdtique"Symphony.
Only the next morning, at exactly 11,
did Soviet radio and TV simultaneously
broadcast the formal announcement:
"The Central Committee of the Commu-
nist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidi-
um of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet and the
Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. in-
form with deep sorrow the party and the
entire Soviet people that Leonid Ilyich
Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party Central Committee and
President of the Presidium of the U.S.S.R.
Supreme Soviet, died a sudden death at
8:30 a.m. on Nov. 10, 1982."
Brezhnev, 75, who had held the most
powerful post in the Soviet Union for 18
years, and who had been ill for nearly a de-
f
As an orchestra played Tchaikovsky,
the committee members lined up in front
of the catafalque where Brezhnev lay
amid wreaths and flowers, with row upon
row of medals pinned to cushions below
his feet. After a brief formal tribute, An-
dropov led the Politburo members toward
the dead man's family. He bent over and
kissed Brezhnev's widow Victoria, 75,
through her veil. She lifted a hand to her
cheek to wipe away tears. Andropov bent
to kiss her again, then kissed Brezhnev's
daughter Galina. Kirilenko, a leading
contender for the succession until side-
lined in the past year, burst into tears as
he spoke to Brezhnev's widow.
World leaders sent messages of condo-
lence to the Kremlin that varied in tone.
President Reagan. who had been awak-
ened at 3:35 a.m. Thursday by National
Security Adviser William P. Clark with
ft##, 4 ~$cl4ev's death, sent a re-
ec
wo-paragraph message calling
vessels. He had actually died 26/ hours . sp
for a minute of silence, he continued:: Brezhnev "one of the world's most impor-
before the announcement was made. "Leonid Ilyich said that not a single day
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A new ea was be '
gu+nin ,one that fairs of the Communist Party of the Soviet
would affect the destiny not just of the So- Union and the entire Soviet country. And
viet Union's 270 million citizens but of the that was really so."
entire world. As Brezhnev's surviving col-
leagues moved swiftly to fill the leader-
ship void, they were eager to convey the
impression of a smooth transition and lay
to rest speculation about a power struggle.
Late Friday morning, black limou-
sines began to converge on the Kremlin,
onstantin Chernenko, 71, the sil-
ver-haired party chief admi?n.is-
trator, then rose. As every Soviet
citizen knew, Chernenko had
been Andropov's main competitor for the
succession
Now
in a deft
d
ff
i
,
.
an
e
ect
ve
bringing the nearly 300 bureaucrats, gen- political gesture, the rival was moving to
erals, diplomats, scientists, academicians nominate the winner, thus symbolizing
and workers who make up the Central the need to close ranks. "Dear Comrades,
Committee of the Communist Party. all of us are obviously aware that it is ex-
Even before they entered the yellow-and- tremely difficult to repair the loss inflicted
white Council of Ministers building, they on us by the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezh-
knew what they were there to do. They nev." Chernenko said. "It is now twice,
would ratify the choice already made by three times as important to conduct mat-
the Politburo. that of Yuri Andropov, 68, ters in the party collectively." Chernenko.
to be Brezhne'\'s successor as party chief. a close protege of Brezhnev's, then pro-
The post has been held by only five men ceeded to nominate Andropov, whom he
since the Bolshevik Revolution: Vladimir described as "a selfless Communist" and,
Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov, perhaps with some reticence, as Brezh-
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezh- nev's "closest associate." The delegates
nev. Shortly after noon Friday, Andropov, approved the choice unanimously. By I
the son of a railroad worker from the p.m. the meeting was over, and the entire
northern Caucasus, became the sixth. Central Committee went to the Hall of
Andropov was, to Western experts. by Columns to open the period of national
far the most controversial of the contend- mourning, during which Brezhnev's
ers. Stern and serious behind his thick corpse would lie in state.
spectacles. he was the Ambassador to Bu-
dapest during the Soviet army's efficient
repression of the Hungarian uprising in
1956. As head of the Committee for State
Security (KGB) from 1967 to May 1982, he
had also overseen the suppression of in-
ternal dissent. But at the same time, An-
dropov developed a reputation for prag.
matism and sophistication. at least by
Soviet standards.
As chairman of the committee desig-
nated to organize Brezhnev's funeral, An-
dropov gave a brief oration extolling the
dead leader, who lay in state less than a
quarter-mile away in the House of Trade
Unions' Hall of Columns, a handsome
neoclassical building that was once a club
for the Russian aristocracy. "A most out-
standing political leader of our times, our
comrade and friend, a man with a big soul
and heart, sympathetic and well-wishing,
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of. Central Intelligence
Director, Office of xterna Affairs
SUBJECT: CBS "60 Minutes" Profile of DCI, Request for Interview
1. Action Requested: Decline or accept request for filmed interview
with "60 Minutes" .CBS for use in a profile on you.
2. Background:
a. Ira Rosen, a producer for "60 Minutes," has requested in a
telephone call to Public Affairs your participation in a filmed
interview that would be used in a. personality profile. The profile
would focus on the rebuilding of the CIA under your administration.
In addition to a sit-down interview with Mike Wallace, Rosen would
like you to take Wallace on a filmed tour of parts of the Agency
Headquarters facility, including such locations as the seal on the
floor of the main lobby and the various wall inscriptions and memorials
in the lobby. Among the topics you would be asked to address are the
magnitude of the communi t threat worldwide and the efforts you have
undertaken to confront this threat by strengthening the CIA with the
blessing of the Reagan Administration.
b. Rosen says you were asked by Mike Wallace to cooperate on
such a profile in the past and you responded that you wanted to
function in the DCI position for a while longer before considering
such a project. Public Affairs records show that Mike Wallace
initiated this request in a letter in January 1981 and followed up
with a reiteration in July of that year. He was told that his name
would be added to the list of such requesters.
c. Participation in this production would likely lead to a flurry
of similar requests from other network TV programs. You recently
demurred on a similar request from Hugh Downs.
3. Recommendation: None. Indicate whether you wish to decline or
accept this interview and authorize Public Affairs to respond on your
behalf.
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Q1 PKGE f
Reagan N' s Effort
For Improved Vies
By Lou Cannon
Washington Post. Staff Writer
'President Reagan responded yesterday to
the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev by calling for
improved relations with the Soviet Union but
turned down a proposal by his foreign policy
advisers that he take what one of them called
"the dramatic step" of attending the funeral of
the Soviet president.
Reagan, rejecting the recommendation of
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, said that
Vice President Bush would head the U.S. del-
egation to Moscow.
Shultz had proposed that Reagan take the
. precedent-setting step of attending the funeral
himself in an effort to improve U.S.-Soviet re-
lations during a time of transition. "Our. two
nations bear a tremendous responsibility for
peace in a dangerous time-a responsibility
that we don't. take lightly," Reagan said in a
statement opening his news -confe.rence last
night.
However, he emphasized-as he has many
times in the past, that he believes peace can
be built only on a foundation of military
strength.
After reconfirming his commitment to con-
t.inued negotiations with the Soviets to reduce
both nuclear and conventional forces, the pres-
ident said: "But we shouldn't delude ourselves.
Peace is a product of strength, not of weak-
ness-of facing reality and not believing in
false hopes."
When Reagan was asked whether he would
take any initiatives to reduce tensions between
East and West, he responded that "it takes two
to tango" and that he had already taken the
:first steps. The only example that he gave was
the lifting of the grain embargo early in his ad-
ministration. In
Bush to Brezhnev's funeral on Mon-
day, administration officials dis-
closed, Reagan sided with top mem-
bers of his White House staff against
the recommendation of Shultz and
other key foreign policy and national
security advisers.
The Shultz recommendation was
strongly opposed by White House
chief of staff James A. Baker III and
deputy chief of staff Michael K.
Deaver, according to administration
sources.
These sources said that, national
security adviser William P. Clark.
who was described Div others as
"broker" in the discussion, backed
S ultz. as did Central Intelligence
Agency Director William J. Casey.
Those who advocated that Reagan
travel to Moscow argued that it
would signal his commitment to
arms control and to improving
strained U.S.-Soviet relations.
However, Secretary of Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger and U.N.
Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
who have taken a hard line against
the Soviets, were described as agree-,
ing with 'the White House staff that
Reagan should not go.
"It was a philosophic thing," said
one administration official. "If
there's progress made in Vienna and
Geneva [in troop reduction and nu-
clear arms control negotiations], the
president would like to visit the So-
viet Union. But there's been no
opening, no sign of restraint from
the Russians."
Some sources said the trip also
would have been grueling for the 7I-
year-old Reagan, who is to travel to
Chicago on Saturday for a tribute to
his late father-in-law, neurosurgeon
Loyal Davis.
Reagan did not go into any -of
these reasons at his news conference.
Instead, he cited scheduling con-
flicts, including forthcoming visits by
heads of state, an apparent. reference
to upcoming meetings with Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
The president added that he
thought it was possible to continue
the "search for peace" without "my
attendance at the services."
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A T I CL E p2PE.A.rPM WALL STREET JOURNAL
ON PAC 11 N01, BER 1982
In 1977, however, the nine-yea?-old task have thousands, and I mean thousands, of I
American Spies Feel force was scrapped by Adm. Bobby Flay In people (spies) who work for Lockheed and
,old, man, then the deputy director of the Defense everybody else going to want to collect."
Lett Out in tine C intelligence Agency. Even Adm. Inman, (Lockheed Corp. won't comment on what it
who later went on to become the deputy di? says is classified information, but it is one of
Seek Fringe Benefits rector of the Central Intelligence Agency be- many companies that are known to have
fore resigning last July, praises 157's work. provided cover for U.S. spies in the past.)
+~ * He says it was just a victim of federal bud- The seed of 157 was an order from Presi-
get cuts. dent Kennedy in 1962 for the Navy to gather
Members of Secret Task Fora: Members of the task force were furious more information about Cuba from Cuban
Go to Court to %Virl Credit and still are. More than a dozen of them employees at the Navy base in Guantanamo.
agreed to interviews with this reporter, al. The. Navy dispatched an egg-bald, 6-foot-4,
For Their Years of Service though, as might be expected, almost none 290?pound veteran intelligence officer named
wanted to be quoted by name. Spying is a Thomas Duval to get the job done. Mr. Du-
secret business, and Judge John McCarthy Dal looks like Daddy Warbucks but goes by
By JI?NATn,jN KwiT:NY of the Merit Systems Protection Board, a the nickname "Smoke." The name refers to
Staff Reporter of Tnt; WALS. S- :L-r JuvKtiA,, federal employee appeals body, is enforcing the oversized stogie he usually clutches, but
It. may not be exactly the way Nathan special secrecy around 157 pending his ad- friends say it suits his character, too.
Hale would have reacted but some 3C, U.S. ministrative-court decision on the federal Pick a Number
spies who were laid off four years ago are so pay status and benefit issues. His ruling.is Originally all, enlisted man, Mr. Duval
upset at having to stay out in the cold that expected any day. The case-heard in total helped U.S. intelligence forces infiltrate Eu
they have taken uncle San, to court over secrecy-has dragged on for four years, and
their lost pension rights and other dimin coned unions the and was
the former spies say that if they lose, they co mae m maritime
an officer. His work work in Cuba
ished federal benefits, will sue in federal court. 'was admired enough by the Navy that in
The men once belonged to a super-secret There is outspoken bitterness among '1965 It assigned him to -organize a world.
Navy operation called Task Force 157 that some of the men who believe that dropping wide maritime spy effort. On Aug. 7, 1965, it
clandestinely gathered information about the task force was a maneuver of Adm. In. was designated Task Force 157 (the number
maritime affairs all around the world. To fa. man to advance his own intelligence career. was arbitra
cilitate their work, the Navy allowed the Others say it represented a victory for the
number, one ro operative e someone's room
men to set up business fronts on their own opere suggests).
?au=erful corporate suppliers of expensive About 30 0 Navy officers and 70 civilian in-
and to recruit foreign nationals as agents. "black box" satellite and electronic systems ` officers This kind of intelligence gathering was bf strategic information gathering over "hu- group. The Navy Nvck were box" satello the new
1
curtailed after congressional investigations mit" ompaniesln some dour,
a' " tan intelligence-communit Y bureau- mercial shipping companies in Alexandria,
in the mid-1970s uncovered embarrassing cratic term for information systems relying Va., to serve as employment cover for them.
abuses (not involving Task Force 157). But on human agents). They raise the possibility Task-force members were stationed in ma-
now it seems to be corning back. The Rea- that the death of 157 has left the U.S. dan- j for ports around the world. They created
gall administration has said that CIA Direr- gerously short of important strategic intelli- still other business fronts and recruited local
for William C2sev intends to use business ?ence. nationals as agents..
and commercial "'cover" much more th::r. h. Former Spy Indicted Eventually 157 encompassed "more than
the pas:. r hfudd 500 reporting human sources," Sen. Strom
Says one former 157 operative: "My job ythg the arguments both pro and Thurmond said in a letter protesting its de-
was to find out what the Soviet navy- was do- con about Task Force 157 is the fact that the miss and written at the urging of Adm.
ing here, here and here (pointing to loca- notorious former spy Edwin Wilson, facing Moorer, the retired Navy boss.
tions on a make-believe map). I had a great trial next week on federal charges of selling Besides stin
deal of leeway in how to go about it. If I fti;h technology war materiel to Libya and : Po g informers in most of the
wanted to set up a shipping company. 1 be- other alleged crimes, was a 157 operative af? a lot by principal ports
infiltrating the world, 157 also learned
came president of a shipping company." ter his official retirement from the CIA. Mr. maritime unions: Its for,
During the Vietnam t','ar, Task Force I57 Wilson joined 157 as a full-time employee in met operatives say. Adm. Moores, a strong
penetrated North Vietnam's transport indus? 1971, and his contract lapsed on April 30, tans to know ndo the task sforce says, hips , are coming imom,
is in
try, according to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, 1976, despite his efforts to continue it. Al- what want kind hof where flag ships arwhat's g, n
the retired chief of naval operations. "157 though his 15, salary is said to have been no the they're flying, y
gave us the exact schedules of ships enter- more than 535.000 a year, Mr. Wilson made hold when they y offload it. There's no
ing and leaving Haiphong Harbor," he says, millions of dollars through his various deal. way you can photograph this from satellites,
adding that this helped in planning how to Ingo and established a lavish estate in N'ir or even low-flying aircraft." Along with its
mine the harbor. gyms. value during the Vietnam War, "the system
Boon to Kissinger W IM lb will anticipanon of the Wil?
? son scandal by Adm. Inman may have led to ; ma and Pakistan war" and is missed now,
Partly because it was small and serf-con y
he adds.
tained, the task force developed such a se- his axing the task force. Adm. Inman, how- ,?,
_, It -- ..... __ F(MMPr C-os a.innw.. n1-
e ornm
nt
ste of c
s
u
.
y
ouwap that n' the budget before Mr. Wilson embar? Hess, especially compared with the cost of
forrier Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rassed the Navy intelligence from satellites-"a drop in the
preferred it to standard embassy communi The Navy won't even say why it won't bucket," says one retired admiral. _ Sources
cations when he wanted to send messages w pay the claims. Comparatively little money familiar with 157's budget say it never ex-
Pay
eign Wh itrhn~se while he was visiting for. is believed. to be involved, and the fight is needed 5.5 million a year, not counting the
- making a public spectacle of a supposedly ! salaries of 30 Navy officers and the cost of
secret operation. One reason may concern electronically outfitting some boats, which STAT
the use of business cover for spies. Says one the Navy paid for. The boats, disguised as
former Navy supervisor. "If these guys are pleasure yachts, shadowed Soviet and other
allowed to collect, then you are going to suspicious ships and lurked around critical .
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ARM= arz4RED THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ON PAGE - 9 NOVEMBER 1982
Haig says
'faceless'
steers -:.
thd ill C '
Haig said he and National Security
Adviser Richard Allen, "in coordina-
tion with [Defense Secretary' Caspar]
Cap Weinberger and [CIA Director]
Bill Casey, spent three weeks prior to
the inauguration" and developed .',with
some contention as is always the. case,
a reflection of the consensus" of the
scope of Haig's authority and duties on
foreign policy.
"It was when it left that forum that
all the controversy developed;' said
Haig, saying as far as he knew it -was
never presented directly to Reagan .but
;:,rather to "what I refer-to as.a group of
faceless staff people":.-,.:
He also said he wask'wmehow;por-
..trayed to the American press by-
.face-less people"as-a person bent on hying
"to seize control of the levers of,gov-
ernment:"
Reagan has refused to discuss pub-
licly the reasons for Haig's departure.
Haig said there is "always a range of
motivations when these, -things'~hap-
-pen: ,
Asked how he thought Itis absence
has affected U.S. policy, he replied: "If
1 thought it would serve a useful pur-
pose to answer frankly your question,
then I'd be shouting it to the housetops.
But I don't think it would.
United Press ir4WMtionel ,lam 1.r
Alexander Haig yesterday -attrib
uted his ouster as secretary of state to
"a range of motivations;' includuig
betrayal by "faceless people" iQp toe
White House staff.
But he declined to blame William
Clark, his former top State Department
aide who became White House national
security adviser, for 'forcing -'his res-
ignation last June.
Haig's remarks came in-the first pf
a three-part interview broadcast on
CBS' "Morning News..".
His resignation was accepted-June
25 after he disagreed with the press-
-dent's decision to impose sanctions on
European firms sending'U.S.-licensOd
goods to the Soviet 'Union for use in a
natural gas pipeline project.
He was not present atthe meeting
when the decision was made, he, not
perhaps because "`some people like confrontational meetings, aid
that's very understandable." He said pit
is possible Clark was saving thetpresi-
dent from a session "in which I would
have clearly taken the other side."
Haig also referred yesterday to.a
flap over a memo he purportedly gale
to the White House just hours after the
inauguration that spelled out broad
powers for him in his role as secretary
of state. '
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N WSV,'E:E K
8 NOVEMSEP 1982
Is Covert Action Necessary?
w 1;, nor destabilize Nicaragua? The
Sandinistas are no friends of ours.
They have cozied up to Castro and Brezh-
nev. They have funneled arms to the leftist
rebels in El Salvador. They are building an
army larger than they need for their own
defense. By example, if nothing else, they
pose a threat to right-wing rulers in places
like Honduras and Guatemala-bad guys.
to be sure, but ourbad guys, and arguably no
worse than the other kind. Which is the
lesser evil: to unleash a little thuggery on the
Sandinistas, who play by those rules, or to
wash our hands of dirty tricks, for fear of
getting into deeper trouble?
Why not arm the rebels in Afghanistan?
As a matter of fact, we're doing that. Why
not make trouble for Muammar Kaddafi?.
We're doing that, too. V'7hy not send secret
financial aid to Solidarity? If we're doing
that, most Americans would approve-and
would rather not know. There are worse
things than covert action. But ifa democrat-
ic nation is to meddle in the affairs of an-
other country, it must abide by certain
rules: don't violate your own principles.
Don't make things worse. Don't get caught.
Subversion: The Central Intelligence
Agency defines covert action as "any clan-
destine operation or activity designed to
influence foreign governments, organiza-
tions, persons or events in support of United
States foreign policy." That covers every-
thing from planting a pro-American edito-
rial in a foreign newspaper to staging coups
or raising secret armies. Democratic ideals
often do not square with covert action.
Some conspiracies launched in defense of
American democracy end up subverting de-
mocracy elsewhere. In Chile, for example,
the CIA destabilized the government of an
elected president, Salvador Allende, a
Marxist who eventually was deposed and
assassinated. But no coven action is a com-
plete success unless it remains a secret. and
secrets are hard to keep in an open society.
In the case of Chile, the CIA tried to cover
up by lying to Congress, and eventually a
loyal American, former CIA Director
Richard Helms, had to plead no contest to a
false-testimony charge. Covert action can
turn out for the best, but the only truly
successful operations run by the CIA are the
ones we still don't know about.
Before World War II, intelligence work
consisted mostly of gathering information
and thwarting enemy spies. The wartime
Office of Strategic Services, the CIA's pred-
ecessor, broadened the franchise to include
propaganda, political action and dirty tricks
of almost every description. After the war,
the CIA helped the democracies of Western
Europe to stave off communist subversion
by subsidizing socialists, Christian Demo-
crats and labor unions. In its heyday, which
lasted until the mid-1970s. the CIA
launched literally thousands of secret pro-
grams, most of them low-budget political
and propaganda operations. But it didn't
hesitate to stage coups and raise private
armies, especially in the Third World. There
were fiascoes, notably at the Bay of Pigs. Yet
the CIA also managed to overthrow leftist
regimes in countries like Guatemala and
Iran and to wagea long "secret war" in Laos
by transforming primitive tribesmen into a
surprisingly effective army.
Rebirth: In the wake of Vietnam and
Watergate, there was a virtual moratorium
on the messier kinds of cover, action. CIA
operatives were discharged by the hun-
dreds. Congress required that it be informed
of every covert action. It was Jimmy Carter,
the champion of human rights and open
r.,.-, , unritng paramthtary operations in
about 10 countries, including Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan mission involves only a
handful of CIA agents, but it has spent
hundreds of millions of dollars on weapons
shipped to the rebels through third parties,
such as Egypt. Two separate covert actions
have been aimed at Libyan leader Kaddafi.
One was designed to stir up trouble for him
in. Chad (Libya has since withdrawn its
occupation forces from that country). The
other authorized contacts with Libyan dis-
sidents in exile, in hopes of putting together
a legitimate opposition. Briefing one con-
gressional committee, CIA Director Wil-
liam Casey said such activities might lead to
the "ultimate" removal of Kaddafi.
As a last resort, the destabilization or
overthrow of a foreign government may be
necessary. whether it involves subtle subver-
sion or something nastier. Perhaps the same
result could be achieved in broad daylight by
military action or overt diplomacy. But if
the public doesn't want to go to war, and if
diplomacy offers insufficient leverage, cov-
ert action is the only alternative to backing
down. Such plots may offend a democracy's
sense of decency-and seem expedient all
the same. If the aim of a covert action is in
line with what Americans generally consid-
er necessary, prudent and moral, most of
them will tolerate the means.
Plot: Even so, a free society should not
sacrifice its principles lightly. Plots against
foreigners may not be as necessary as some
practitioners of the covert arts would have
us believe. In 1960 the CIA decided to kill
Patrice Lumumba, the former prime minis-
ter of the Congo, who appeared to be on the
verge of regaining power and handing his
country over to the Soviet Union. The U.S.
plan to poison Lumumba was never carried
out-in part, perhaps, because key CIA
operatives thought murder was going too
far. "I didn't regard Lumumba as the kind
of person who was going to bring on World
War III,'' CIA station chief Lawrence Dev-
lin told a congressional committee years
later. "I saw him as a danger to the political
position of the United States in Africa, but
nothing more than that." Eventually, Lu-
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e t. o ann un e m due course that he
had been killed after escaping from jail.
"Murder corrupts." said another reluctant
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NEWSWEEK
8 November 1982
I N TERFAA,t IONAL
A Secret War
For Nicaragua
A covert operation to restrict the flow of Cuban arms
to El Salvador expands into a larger plan to undermine
the Sandinista government in Managua, miring the
Reagan administration deeper in Central America.
The smoky bar in Tegucigalpa was a
cousin to Rick's Cafe in "Casa-
blanca," a nightly gathering place
for the dangerous and the desperate in Hon.
duras. Squeezed into a corner one evening
last week were four Argentine military ad-
visers, speaking machine-gun Spanish and
occasionally stealing furtive glances around
the room. A half-dozen Americans stood in
a loose line at the bar, drinking beer and
talking too loudly about guns. In the center
of the room, grouped around a table that
listed far right, were seven men drinking
rum. One of them wore a gold earring. He
explained that the seven men were Nicara-
guan exiles who belonged to various fac-
tions of 10 contra, a band of counterrev-
olutionaries trying to topple the leftist
Sandinista regime. They were ready to
move toward Managua, one of the men said.
"''e just need to hear from The Boss that
it's time to go." Who was The Boss? The
man with the earring was impatient with
stupid questions. "lie's the man you call
`Mr. Ambassador'."
The envoy in question was John D. Ne-
groponte, the American ambassador in
Honduras. Official sources told NEws-
WEEK last week that Negroponte is oversee-
ing an ambitious covert campaign to arm,
train and direct Nicaraguan exiles to inter.
cept the flow of arms to leftist guerrillas in
El Salvador. But the operation has another
objective: to harass and undermine the Cu-
ban-backed government of Nicaragua. The
project traces back to Jimmy Carter's ef-
forts to support Nicaraguan moderates.
Ronald Reagan added the task of cutting
the Cuban-Nicaraguan arms pipeline to El
Salvador. The plot, launched mostly with
popguns and machismo, now threatens in-
stead to destabilize Honduras, to fortify the
Marxists in Nicaragua and to waste U.S.
prestigealong the tangled banks of the Coco
River. Worse, U.S. officials concede there is
Cr,!vx:11'L D
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- 7 NOVEASIBER 1982
ON FAGS
NICARAGUA REBELS
BUILD UP STRENGTH
Increased U.S. Aid Reported
to Improve Performance
on Honduras Border
By ALAN RIDING
Spec Ito7beN YtatTimes
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Nov. 8 .
-Nicaraguan exile groups seeking the
overthrow of the Sandinist Government!
have sharply improved their military
performance in the last six months be.
cause of stepped up United States aid,
according to Honduran and foreign offi.
cials here.
.,They used to be a few improvised
gangs scattered along the border," a
Honduran Army officer said of the
groups, which have been operating
from camps in southern Honduras.
"Now they have well-armed columns of
up to 1,000 men penetrating deep into
At the same time, the officials said
that the Reagan Administration, while
becoming deeply involved in training
and arming the exile groups, has so far
been reluctant to work with more mod-
erate opponents of Nicaragua's Sandin-
ist Government.
The officials. also said that the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency had recently
taken over from Argentine Army off i.
sera the task of advising the groups.
Indians Are Recruited
The recruitment of many Nicaragua
Miskito Indians who fled into Honduras
early this year swelled the exile force to
over 4,000, organized in some 12 camps.
These covert operations are believed
part of a broader American strategy
aimed at harassing the Sandinist re-
gime and using Honduras to prevent the
spread of leftist influence from El Sal.
vador and Nicaragua to the rest of Cen.
tral America.
Only this year has the United States,
which has long sought to shield this
country from the turmoil in surround.
ing countries, begun to assign Honduras
a more active role in combating revolu-
tionary forces in the region. The Hondu-
ran Army has been strengthened by
United States military aid, following
the buildup of the Nicaraguan armed,
forces. The Hondurans have also been
helping the Salvadoran Army in its bat.
tle against leftist guerrillas ensconced
near the Honduran border.
This policy has been enthusiastically
endorsed by the head of Honduras's
armed forces, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez
Martinez, who is said by friends to be-
lieve that Honduras will be secure only
when Nicaragua's Sandinist regime has
been toppled and Salvadoran rebels
have been crushed.
This approach has stirred some
alarm in Honduran civilian and mili-
tary circles. Some politicians here
maintain that this long-stable country is
being unnecessarily exposed to terror-
ist.xeprisals from El Salvador and Is
being led toward a military confronta-
tion with Nicaragua
Furth er
some
.
,
After the Reagan Administration!
Honduran Army officers believe they backed Britain in its
-would not emerge the winners of a war ; iwislands1
wi ithin the Falkland
year, however, many of the
Within the e Reagan d Reagan Administration, this over
entine advisers were withdrawn,
some officials argue that Washington ro the United States to asSnme
should support a more moderate oppo- prompting
sition beaded by Eden Pastore Gomez, a more direct role in the counterrevolu.
'an exiled Sandinist hero known as Com- tionary operation. According to local of-
mander Zero, rather than remnants of
the Somoza regime's national guard
who fled here after the 1979 revolution.
"We're backing the wrong horse
again," one official said recently.
"We're playing into the hands of the
Sandinists because, if anyone is hated in
Nicaragua, it's the national guard."
In several attempts to reach agree-
ment with both the United States. and
the Honduran Army earlier this year,.
Mr. Pastora and his allies, who include
a former Nicaraguan junta member,
Alfonso Robelo Callejas, have report-
edly been rebuffed.
Somoza Link a Sticking Point
At first, according to aides to Mr.
Pastora, talks broke down because an
offer of help required him to work with
some exile groups linked to the former
Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza
Debayle.
"We recognize that we need the 1
United States," a Pastora aide said,
"but we're not going to ally ourselves
with theguard." -
rtedly renewed iMr. ts efforts to obtain
repo ain
United States assistance, at times
through American members of Con-
gress. But the overtures led nowhere.
By the time Mr. Pastora publicly de-
nounced his former Sandinist col-
leagues in April this year, the United
States was already involved in a covert
operation along broad lines reportedly
approved personally by President Rea-
gan last December. Earlier this year,
Administration officials were reported
to have said that $19 million had been
assigned to form paramilitary units. to
operate out of Honduras.
Officials here said that retired Gen-
eral Vernon Walters, an Ambassador at
Large in the State Department,. played
a key role in obtaining Argentine col
laboration in the plan, with some of the
funds sent to the Buenos Aires regime,
which in turn dispatched 60 to 100 pare-
fic ials, a director of the C.I.A., Wil=
liam J. Casey, secretly visited Hon.
duras in May this-year.-
Since then, the size of the C.I.A. sta-
tion in Honduras has sharply increased,
Honduran officials said,
Meanwhile, the United States agreed
to increase its military aid to Honduras
in fiscal 1982 from a budgeted $10.7 mil-
lion to $31.3 million. The number of
United States military advisers train.
iris Honduran troops rose sharply, with
a total of 95 members of the "mobile
training teams" here at one point in ,
March this year. I
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trovessial issues underlying U.S.'
counterintelligence performance=
the u
Coll n tpjpgV I o Bulthestud)
n~~ :lookining into o the broader, more con-
such as whether the various.agen
ties in the field should be better
coordinated, whether. they - should
-
Texas. It has been directed to cm;-
mine all aspects of the coimterintel-
ligence picture, including possible I
organizational changes.
WABHINGTON= ,?; tis ._ ^ear of Single A,geaey
brewing ? within the -government. This has raised fears within the
over efforts to-refann'US.- mter_ intelligence community that a sin-
intelligence-activities after oomple=::. gie counterspy agency may emerge j
'lion of a ,secret- study orded-by and, if given police powers and au- i
President Reagan on the 13nreat to. ihority to keep files on Americans,
the nation posed by roviet?'' - ; - 4 and would raise the specter of a national
other foreign agents " ': security organization to spy on" US
A central element intbe devirlop- citizens.
ing controversy -is the *uestion 01. ? it would become-the .focus mot
how far the United States: Should only of liberal attacks for the rest of
move -toward , cr ting :a E-single the century,. reviving ghosts of the
counterintelligence agency: Soave: FBI files and (farmer FBI chief 7.
intelligence officials believe girster Edgar) Hoover, but also a target for
centralization is needed to ;fit . penetration by the Soviets," said
foreign spying, but 'others'beiieve: fine government official who asked
that such a move would rekindle old
.fears of a Big -Brother.in Washing- .not to be identified;: ;..W .: ` . .
ton spying on private rftizens, DecentraU .,at5on lso' pa ovi -.a
The presidential study.-of .& ce- way to. get competitive analyses of the pabilities and resources in c mier: S avoid the and of other .data;: io
intelligence, overseen by Williams the government
ection eing.s wttbout'smtaadeff
Casey, director of the Central Intel in a V90119 di o=:
ligence Agency, made more than gusto review," another official said.
100 recommendations last:.August, ' On the other hand, there appears,
Administration officials said .. _~ . to. be a unanimous .view ,fin" the
Broader Issoes -government that improvement. is
ignored ' _ needed in the present decentralized
-'And the ?resident ~'haa'osde
systeni.
Casey to examine ways to imple- As now. structured, the FBI.
meat the ridings, -an ;Admieiatra spends 80% of ? the nation's total
lion official said...: "
By.-ROBERT C. Vii,
Times Staff Writes
Baffle Brews OFver been assigned to the Presidents
Foreign - intelligence - Advisory'
D1 ns to Bring U$. ? " Board, .oortxposed of 19.prrvate ati-
mot, tens under-the chairmanship of fort
'Efforts 'r i4t~ mer Ambassador and White Souse counselor Anne Arm
""- of
ed information and,...ultimatety.
whether they should be redrgat>ized
Bid-Argued. into a single central agency. '
. - `Instead, this broader examination
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Report Recommends Steps To Increase Protection Against Spies
A secret report ordered by President Reagan recommends that the United States
shore up its protection against foreign spies by adding agents to follow the
growing number of visiting foreign officials, a newspaper says.
The report also suggests cutting down on the travel flexibility of
foreigners, the Los Angeles Times reported in Sunday editions.
'In addition, it recommends measures to improve the nation's physical security
and to standardize personnel security clearance criteria among various agencies,
the Times said.
The report, completed in August, was overseen by central Intelligence
Agency director William Casey.
The Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has been assigned to consider whether
a central counterintelligence organization should be formed to coordinate
activities of disparate groups ranging from the CIA to the Department of
Energy, which oversees nuclear weapons research.
That board is headed by former ambassador and White House counselor Anne
Armstrong of Texas and includes 18 private citizens.
Some intelligence officials believe a centralized agency would better combat
spying threats. Others say it would rekindle old fears of a government which,
under the guise of counter-espionage, might persecute its critics, the Times
said.
"it would become the focus not only of liberal attacks for the rest of the
century, reviving ghosts of the FBI files and (former FBI chief J. Edgar)
Hoover, but also a target for penetration by the Soviets," the Times quoted one
unidentified government official as saying.
However, the newspaper said there is a unanimous view in government that the
current decentralized system needs to be improved.
"There was and still is no one place in our government where the president
can ask what is the true nature of the KGB threat to us, whether it is a
low-grade problem or really worrying," one source told the Times. "But he can
ask the strength of the Soviet economy, Soviet military order of battle and
practically any other thing of the intelligence community."
Currently, the FBI gathers counterintelligence information in the United
States but cannot analyze all such data collected by other national agencies.
Similar limits are placed on the CIA.
"For stopping the technology leaks to Moscow," one official said, "maybe
Casey should run all the counterintelligence efforts. But now his authority
.tops at the water's edge, while the FBI and other agencies have the domestic
responsibility.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
5 November 1982
William Casey, left, and Edwin Meese; by Craig Herndon'
Victory on
Wheels!
Gray's Party for Reagan's Two Years.
By Lois Romano
. You would have thought ii was Election Night 1980
at the Century Plaza Hotel ' in downtown Los Angeles
where the Reagan troops triumphed. Not the Watergate
48 hours after the GOP made a mediocre showing in the
off-year elections.
Everyone seemed awfully happy.
Even Victory, the Republican Robot who stole the
spotlight from CIA director William Casey, the guest of
honor.
Last night Robert Keith Gray-the relentless pub-
licist-hosted a formal dinner for Casey, campaign di-
rector for the presidential election. It was the second
anniversary of the Nov. 4 Reagan victory.-The 100 in-
vited Republican heavies were still .patting each other on
the back.
Just when all political PR gimmicks seem to be
exhausted in this town, leave it to Gray to come up with
STAT 1
Victory and Sophia Casey; by Craig Herndon
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VVASHINGTON TALK
Dinner for Casey.
N of sated by Republican election-
night revels, a select Adminis-
tration group will climb into
dinner jackets and gowns tonight and
trundle over to the Watergate to honor
William J. Casey, the Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, on the second anni-
versary of President Reagan's 1980
campaign, which Mr. Casey man-
aged.
The host for the dinner for 100 peo-
ple is Robert K. Gray, the unofficial
public relations laureate of the Ad-
ministration. A Gray aide promised
that "something special, something
very unusual and amusing" would
take place during the celebration, but
refused to divulge details.
Phil Galley.
Warren Weaver Jr.
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DATE November 2, 1982 6:45 P.M.
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DAN RATHER: Much attention has, been given to U.S.
efforts to overtly help the non-leftist regimes of Central
America. Among them, El Salvador and Honduras. Those efforts
include military and economic assistance. But there also are
covert efforts, as Bob Schakne reports.
ROBERT SCHAKNE: U.S. Government officials confirm that
the CIA has organized and is supporting a covert military
operation in Central America targeted against the left-wing
Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Officials, who ask not to be
identified, say the operation is based in neighboring Honduras,
that it involves small-scale paramilitary forces conducting raids
across the border designed to harass the Nicaraguan government.
The officials say the operation was approved by
President Reagan and is strongly supported by CIA Director
William Casey. On a day-to-day basis, it's being directed by
U.S. Ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte.
In public, State Department officials decline to confirm
or deny these reports.
The covert operation in Central America has drawn sharp
criticism on Capitol-Hill among members of both House and Senate
Intelligence Committees. Among the most outspoken is Vermont
Senator Patrick Leahy.
SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY: I've told the President
[unintelligible] he makes a foreign policy mistake, if he wants
to subsitute covert activity for a good foreign policy. And I
think that they'd find this.is a very attractive alternative to
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