SSCI REQUEST ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING AND NICARAGUA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 21, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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OLL 84-1118
21 March 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: C/PCS/PGL
ATTENTION:
FROM:
Office of Legislative Liaison/Liaison Division
SUBJECT: SSCI Request on Narcotics Trafficking and
Nicaragua
Per our conversation, attached is the article from the
March 23 edition of National Review concerning. Nicaraguan
involvement in drug trafficking. A copy has been sent to DDI
for their action; however, it would be appreciated if you would
see if further information is available in the DO.
STAT
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JAKE DARN. UTAH
JOHN H. CHAFEE. R.I.
RICHARD O. LUGAR. IND.
MALCOLM WALLOP, WYO.
DAVID DURENBERGER. MINN.
WILLIAM V. ROTH. JR.. DEL
WILLIAM S. COHEN. MAINE
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN. JR., DEL
DANIEL K. INOUYE, HAWAII
PATRICK J. LEAHY, VT.
LLOYD BENTSEN, TEX.
SAM NUNN. GA.
HOWARD H. BAKER. JR., TENN., EX OFFICIO
ROBERT C. BYRD. W. VA., EX OFFICIO
ROBERT R. SIMMONS, STAFF DIRECTOR
GARY J. SCHMITT. MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
MEMORANDUM
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
DATE:
united $tates senate
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
CIA
PETER SULLIVAN, SSCI
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING AND NICARAGUA
MARCH 20, 1984
84- dq"r5
Attached is an article from the March 23 edition of
National Review concerning Nicaraguan involvement in drug
trafficking. Would appreciate your checking to see what the
Agency has on these allegations and reporting back to us.
Thanks.
Attachment
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ilities necessary to stop ship-
r very long, and neither is
presence of a U.S. carrier
t times like this, how-
l 'is Reagan, and not
The debate over hiring -quotas :moved to a ne
January 16. '.That was when the chairman ' o
National Endowment - for-.-- the Humanities, Wil
, announced that his agency was refusing
Bennett
--comply with a directive of the . Equal Employmen
Speaking bf Amnesia
He promised the moon in New Hampshire,
NV 'e in the conservative South
He sum npns the stars and the planets
To somersault out of his mouth.
Lane Kirkland. anticipates heaven;
For teachers, e's cash in the bank.
Imagine the howl 'if elected, .
When President gndale goes blank.
Eden Pastore, who once sprung Tomas Borge from
prison during the Nicaraguan revolution, has''.lately
been announcing over his rebel radio, Voice ' d.-San-
dino, the, shady -doings of his former comrade-in-
-
arms, who is now Nicaragua's Interior Minister: In a
February broadcast, the- pesky Comandante Cero re
ported Borge's Panamanian bank-account number. For Opportunity Commission 'requiring each federal agen-
the curious, it is ##159-80027-D at the Banco-. ;de. ~`cy to'set nu ericdal goals .: in filling jobs, whether or
Santander, in Panama .City, and the deposits area from not -it_ had e r iscriminated in the past: Instead,
cocaine' :trafcking. -:By now,_' though, 'the ::charge : is Bennett.. vowed -to continue a policy'-.'of - color-blind
humdrum :' 'In`July 1983 . Canadian: police arrested and sex-blind hl ing. - What - is most notable is . not
Rodolfo Palacios ;Talavera;`~the First Secretary : at the that ,one governme t agency', . shoulddefy another, but
Nicaraguan Embassy, for:toting an. unregistered pistol that the revolt sho d begin at the: NEH,The arts
and $10,000 worth-'of cocaine-.in his briefcase: After and. humanities .endo ents, more: than the rest of
a bitter Nicaraguan protest 'claiming diplomatic immu- Washington, like to,tai . about rewarding:`pure, :.ab
nity, Palacios informed authorities that Tomas Borge stract merit for its own'- Ate. But' as Ronald Berman
had arranved through an -aide' -for Colombians 'to use- recounts in his new book, ulture and Politics; the
stop on theway to the United -States. The linchpin - political pressures to bend their rants toward -equal-
.of the entire operation is one Carlos Enrique Lehder ity of result: to. support "Senior'- cizens'- art"- instead
Rivas, a'34-year-old Colombian - who is. an admirer -.of the' most brilliant artists, and t allocate money
of Adolf Hitler and 1s worth in excess of ' $270 mil- fo histona.aa research evenly w `a6 regio s
lion. Lehder, _founder.r of -the National Latin; Civic Massachusetts doesn't get ".more. than'! its --share just
Movement in Colombia, has been linked with Robert
Vesco. The young Lebder. is known to bestow. gifts
of private planes upon those'- valuable ' to his ,opera
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tion. Last year be gave lanes to Daniel Ortega,:- 6
mfs Borge, and Fidel tro.-:'Curi ously, .Lehder sums
_ up his political philosophy .by declaring, "An incor- The: Heritage Fouri
rect image bas'.been spread of Hitler's Germany.";-,~'''' come up with a pro
featuring an under-thirty..c
news - agency,' TA'SS, widely admired fort its --light -` resented. - After the speaker's
touch, reports as follows: "Miner in the Yakutia Re- discussions take place. The me
public of eastern Siberia have fo nd a 95-karat dia- attended by conservatives of all
mood of `rare beauty' and named `The 80th Anni- ' will be collected into -a volume' a
versary of the Second Session "of th RSDWP,' rafter
the second meeting - of :the Russian S 'al Democrat-
ic Workers' Party in 1903, at ;which: ian revolu-
tionary Vladimir' I."-Lenin formed his
ment:" We'tbought?.you'd like to.know:
because it has Harvard. Now that . merit. in hiring .is
back in favor, merit in culture may- not ` be ?far `:be-
. hind. r . .
ation- in - Washington, -D.C., 'has
-
sing idea and is holding' fort
n meetings,: each of 'them'
Tservative:leader as speak
:thought have been rep-
ening remarks, lively
ngs have been well
ges. The speeches
era year. or so.
NR contributors Walter Olson and Dinesh D'Souza
have participated as speakers.
-When. you do
-.while ago -Father
the' leftist Institute fo
ever the-scenes.'.' - work on th
m_. news = that the -trendyMacA
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an' Hehir received -a medal ' from'
olicy : Studies for his "behind-, .
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