CONGRESS/SALVADORAN AID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202320015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 8, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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8 August 1984
CONGRESS/ JENNINGS: The State Department today released material
SALVADORAN AID which department officials say proves the case that
Salvadoran guerrillas have been getting outside help for-
their battle with the Salvadoran government. ABC's Barrie
Dunsmore, who's at the State Department, has the details.
D(TNSMORE: In making the case for, more military assistance
for El Salvador, the administration declassified 95
percent, of the briefing it's been giving to Congress.
This briefing sets out to prove that the Salvadoran
guerrillas are heavily dependent on the Communist bloc for,
most of their arms and logistical support.
THOMAS\PICKERING (U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador): It is
the accumulation of things not just a piece of it alone
that provides the basis for conclusions.
DUNSMORE: The administration pulled out all the stops.
Gen. Paul Gorman conducted an elaborate flip-card,
videotape and weapons show and tell, backed up by captured
maps and documents of recent vintage. GEN.\PAITL`,GORMAN
(commander in chief', U.S. southern command): The
guerrilla front is ludicrous in insisting it gets no
assistance from abroad.
DUNSMORE: In one instance, the videotapes, shot at night
by an American AC-130 using infrared cameras, is said to
show a shrimp boat, apparently from Nicaragua, loading
cargo onto smaller boats speeding away from Salvador's
coast.. Among the captured weaponry, a sight from a
Vietnamese mortar, Bulgarian ammunition and a Chinese
grenade launcher. The administration's bottom line,
Congress must approve the requested aid package. GORMAN:
The democratic government of President Duarte, inaugurated
in June of this year cannot long endure without U.S.
assistance. A guerrilla offensive is imminent.
DUNSMORE: Though it is impressive, the administration's
case may not satisfy all the doubters and it remains to be
seen if the Congress will be sufficiently impressed.
Barrie Dunsoore, ABC News, the State Department.
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