GATES: US.S. AMBASSADOR LIKELY TO BE INVESTIGATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301270103-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: February 17, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/10: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301270103-2
17 February 1987
GATES: US.S. AMBASSADOR LIKELY TO BE INVESTIGATED
BY GREGORY GORDON
(UPI) The CIA inspector general's office is investigating
whether the agency's Costa Rica station chief worked with a U.S. ambassador to
assist in the delivery of arms to Nicaraguan rebels, CIA director-designate
Robert Gates said Tuesday.<
At his Senate confirmation hearings, Gates also suggested that Lewis
Tambs, ambassador to Costa Rica, may be facing other investigations as a result
of his role in the scandal surrounding the funneling of arms to the Contra
rebels.<
Gates acknowledged that he recently ordered an internal inquiry
reopened after learning that the former CIA station chief had lied to
investigators about his efforts to share intelligence with a private network
ferrying weapons to the Contras.<
Sources have said the station chief, who recently was placed on
administrative leave, may have violated the Boland Amendment barring U.S.
military aid to the Contras between October 1984 and October 1986. <
The CIA operative uses the pseudonym Tams Castillo the sources said.