YOUR POWERS OF RECOLLECTION HAVE BEEN BORNE OUT AGAIN

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• Document Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 133
• Publication Date: April 14, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Your powers of recollection have
been borne out again. The attached
appears to be the article in the
Herald International Tribune that
.you referred to at the SSCI hearing.
It indeed contains the headline that
you mentioned in your testimony.
STAT
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BY.PatriclCE:=Tler the United States The.' acc:tuations Howard H. Baker Jr, Rcpublicsn
t. ' .. were .made during a debate.-on a oT Tennessee., said .".theme is a
?as~d:Doir.Oberdoift7 >,:
proposal by Honduras for a negoti-' concern" in the Senate about U.S,
War7""9wn rev savia-:::' , aced settlement of disputes in the covert activities in the region. ?
WASHINGTON.': Two mein- region through a` mating of five ._ Senator Moynihan said the cnm-
bers of the -Senate'.`.Jntdligence'tetral-Amciican..foreign:.minis= mittee has--spent a quarter of-its'.
Committee'' .have '? warned - the- ---- - ?- -? = time in the past can on in mee
Reagan administration ihat there is==: -Patrick' J:9-chy;'Democ at of "operations in Central America. He
.ooncaq shat the'. CIA' is- cart:um VCrmont and.a member of the In- said Senator Barry Goldwater, Re-
veatuig :'.a ..congressional ban on=~;telligenee;Committee said in -1b e of.Arizoaa, ?Lhc.chairman,
publican
..''IJ.Sinvolvementinefforts toOver-' Senate-thathe'bad giventhe -coin=:bad asked .or:a?new'bricfrng-from
throw .theNicaraguan government s mittee 'a ; classified ' ' rt' .that'".administration? officals next.Tues~
Senator'. Daniel ?Patnck, M on whctha'the'der
03`"":'bears asaterially?: y,T-.-?
rihan, Democrat of:New.York and' e' beet 11
o~artive branch as complying with' At: the ,OAS, Robert Martinez
-vice?' ch:a~aa-' of . _the:committee,?Y . "'"both -the letter and the spirit! of :: g
-x said'Tuesda ':ia-theSenate,that in Cordon el to from-Hondo .
Y r" the "Boland .Amendment `This : ras, called for a mewing of :frve re-
' additron to its` obligations under'=` ameaiiment_grohibits the-OA or Ronal..nations,rincluding.Nicara..
x .:.the onal 'Yhe United
L_ ~O t't. ?"'. '.: a~+ D. a se'Departmeat from provid-.?: to-bring' about a stable and
States has' a ' c obligation .mg funds or other supportto coun- 'long-lasting settlement in.theatza:
not to violate the 1948 Organza- 'terrevolutionaiy groups. for. the - Mr.:.Martin? .:
tion of American States treaty, said:..Nicaragua
Ti~tupose of overthrowing the Nicer- should participate it it.is scncns
which prohibits any OAS country= roeua goverataeat: ' ? ' 'about seldng peace-;;,-
'from interfering-in. the-affairs of = :. "If one is to believe ` the' detailed{
another OAS country. Edgar Parrales of Nicaragua no-
.:.- ~ accounts seen in the press in recent lied that the proposal was a US.~
"If weare a government of laws''-"days. the administration is actively .initiated gyp" to-outnumber Mi.:
at home, it is hoped we would be a .supporting,-and perhaps t veer quid- caragua at a regional p eting. He
government of laws - in the hemi=:;mg,' -a large-scale 'anti-Sandinist said the real problem was an armed
sphere," Scnator.Moynihan said. guerrilla movement now involved conflict "created artificially by the
While he was speaking, the OAS" in open combat inside Nicaragua," : United States using ' Honduras".'
permanent council was hearing he said - ? and he cited US. press wa?
allegations by Nicaragua against The Senate majority leader, alleging that Washington was"ppro
mottng. financing, advising and as- '
silting" counterrevolutionary
bands.
He called for U.S.-Nicaraguan
negotiations to deal with the con-
Met. In Managua, the Foreign
Ministry said it was asking Mexico,
Venezuela, Panama and Colombia
to help arrange a U.S -Nicara`uan .
dialogue and NiciraL=m-Hondu-
ras dialocse to settle disputes.
J. Williain Middendorf 2d, the
U.S. delegate, backed the Hondu-
ran call for a fiv_ e-way Central
American meeting?
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`
: Almond ;-4 '~ = .
By Peter ,i
VASMINGTONTMESSWFCR '~'-'_- .. ::. ;t?,` ;' -.,.
The administration and congres
signal Democrats squared off yes-
terday over the legality of alleged
CIA' covert operations supporting
anti-Sandinista guerrillas in N'ica-
Several congressmen said: the
administration was breaking at
least the spirit of the so-called
Boland Amendment supposedly
prohibiting such actions against
the Nicaraguan government, and a
House subcommittee proposed a
new law tightening up the
amendments.
But four top administration offi-.
cials: went before congressional
.committees and the public to deny I
any U.S. laws were being broken. At'
the same tinie,?they refused to ac-
knowledge publicly-the existence.
of -the not-so-secret' covert oper-
attons.-.__ ._..Y _
see SHULTZ, page 12
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick
said the United States'has a "moral
right" to - send ' military 'and eco-
nomic aid to groups that maybe ,
attempting to overthrow the Nica-
'. raguan government; Assistant Sec-
retary of State Thomas Enders told
the Senate Foreign Relations Cotn-'
mittee the law was not being vio-
'
- Iated; -and'. Secretary* -of State
-George: Shultz attacked those-he .;'
said were undermining the.nation's
ability to,providi a:security shield
to .America's'-- friends in 'Central I
CIA Director William Casey as-
sured the -Senate Intelligence
Committee in secret session that
the law was not being broken; U.N:
-: i D-R.I., and Paul'Tsongas, D_-Mass.,
Washington Times
April 13, 1983
From page viitx~??-
"As faras
I know,tliet~eis~tovio-
:
.
lation of.the Boland.Amendrnent;'
Shultz said at a. press: conference
yesterday. "The 'moves being made
(yesterday's congressional action)
that seem to be designed to. prevent
us from continuing to support our
friends in El Salvador and else-
where in Central America, in their
effort to provide a military security
shield so that they can go forward
with the process of democracy...
I think this is undermining our abil-
ity to provide that shield, and it is a
bad mistake."
Kirkpatrick, speaking on CBS
television, said:-"Do I think the
United States' should protect the
government of Nicaragua against
- the anger. of its own people? :No,-i --
don't think.so. I.think.:we.ha
moral ..right to.aupport'.the
Afghan freedom fighters. The Sovi-?:
ets and Cubans are supporting the
disintegration of virtually all gov-:
ernments in Central America..:. I
think we haven moral right to do
that, and, .whether it's politically---
prudent or wise in .a given situation
is another question:'.
Commenting' on-Kirkpatrick's
statements,:-Shultz'-.''said==that:
America's immediate problem with' .':
Nicaragua is "the undoubted use of .
Nicaragua as a base-from which
arms flow, largely through Cuba to
..Nicaragua, and then to El Salvador
'~7Ys the3export-of, revolution
3vitii=
C;6iliontters,_ hinkisthe_pli'rase.-
That: is the heart- ? -:tlie4ifficulty:
with which we aretrying to-cope'
In testimony; yesterday, Enders., ?:_
refused to be`drawn.by:Sens. John'
Glenn,-4D=Ohio; .Q1aibornepeI1-1
`
.into discussing:'U.S: =support -foi-
anti-Sandinista'.guerrillas, but he
described -in=detail the opposition'
groups and : circumstances :within '
Nicaragua,that-ohe:said. show the
extent of opposition:
Enders said the United States has
attempted three times to get the
Nicaraguan government into a dia-
logue with its neighbors to estab-
lish security for the region. But
since its founding in 1979, the Nica-
raguan army has grown to four
times the size of the army under
former President Anastasio
.'Somozg; and eight times as'strong.
Enders said the United States is try-
ing . to'"establish regional negoti-
: ations a fourth time, but ':the
Sandinistas have made- their con-
tempt for genuine dialogue - for
real negotiation - quite clear."
Enders pointedly referred to the
specific language of the Boland
Amendment to refute Tsongas'
argument that the law was being
broken by CIA operations. He said
the a mendment calls for U.S. money
not to be used for military aid to any
non-governmental group. ' for the
purpose of overthrowing the gov-
ernment of Nicaragua:'
He emphasized the words_ 'for.
.the purpose::of,' :implying `that .
whatever U.S. aid'may?be-given to
the guerrillas it was not for thepur-
-pose of overthrowing the Nicara=.
guan government:::. -. .
Rep. Michael .,Barnes, D-Md.'.
chairman of-,the, House. Western.
Hemisphere subcommittee, yester-
.day -pushedthrough a proposed
revision in: that =:language that
changes "for -the purpose -of" to
has the effect of ;supporting the
overthrow of.=the :government:of
Nicaragua" His amendment is,.to
:.be' considered. by.:the. House' For-
eign Affairs Committee next week.
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