SUGGESTED QUESTIONS FOR CIA DEPUTY DIRECTOR MCMAHON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00274R000300020020-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Release 2007/05114 :CIA-RDP84B00274R000300020020-6
Suggested Questions for CIA Deputy Director .McMahon
1. Can you describer the political relations emerging between the different political
parties in E1 Salvador, between Assembly President d'Aubuisson, President Magana
and the army high command? What kind of political platform do each seek to
promote?
2. Can you give a brief assessment of the status of the military campaign?
Is the Salvadoran military gaining in its efforts to control the insurgency?
What was the impact of the elections on the guerrilla forces? Do the guerrillas
continue to receive supplies from Nicaragua through Honduras? What evidence
is there of. this?
3. Is it your assessment that the insurgency is spreading elsewhere in Central
America, especially to Honduras'; or does~it remain confined, more or less, to
E1 Salvador and the El Salvador-Honduras border area?
4. How effectiveYiave the various directives from the army high command, the
instructions from the International Commission of the Red Cross, and U.S. traiming
been in curtailing violence by the Salvadoran armed forces?
5. Is there a useful distinction to be made between army units and other security
force units when one assigns responsibility for violence in E1 Salvador?
6. What are the groups responsibile for evicting peasants from the land slated
for reform under Decree 207? Who provides motivation and/or remuneration to these
groups?
7. Canyouuedescribetthe~pressures on the judicial system in El Salvador? Is it
realistic to expect the system to be able to prosecute civilians or military per-
sonnel for political crimes of violence?
8. What evidence is there of systematic efforts to assassinate leaders o
parties like the Christian Democrats?
9. What efforts have been made by the~new government or by the individual
political parties to contact elements of the npposition-~outside E1 Salvador?
What message did ex-President Duarte carry to Europe in his visit'=last month (June)?
10. Friday's newspaper carried the statement that the CIA has provided intelligence
assistance and supplies of invisible ink to the Salvadorans at the time of the
elections. While the Intelligence is not available elsewhere probably), the article
in the New York Times~~says that the ink would be. Under these circumstances, why
did the Agency become involved in this transaction?
(CHP:. the article and Casey's letter to the editor says the ink. was
put on the voterxs wrist, .when it actually was painted on the index
finger... you may want to "rib" them about the accuracy of the intelligence)