DIRECTOR CASEY/EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130033-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM All Things Considered STAnoN WETA Radio
NPR Network
DATE March 7, 1983 5:00 P.M. CRY Washington, D.C.
Director Casey/El Salvador
SUSAN STAMBERG: CIA Director William Casey said today
that Americans have been brainwashed by the Soviets and their
Third World allies about events in Central America and disarma-
ment in Europe. In an address to business executives here in
Washington, Casey called on the private sector to help set the
record straight.
NPR's Alan Berlow reports.
ALAN BERLOW: Casey pointed specifically to leftist
gains in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. He said part of
the blame for the success of the Soviets and their allies has
been the failure of the U.S. to counter Communist propaganda,
propaganda the CIA Director said has brainwashed large numbers of
Americans.
DIRECTOR WILLIAM CASEY: These tiny little countries in
Central America are able to mount a propaganda program, they're
able to gather in Havana or Mexico City and lay out a program of
propaganda that has a large part of the American public brain-
washed into believing that what's happening down there is just
innocent peasants seeking their rights; and do the same thing in
Europe, where although the wea -- the Soviets have the weapons
deployed and they've carried out their military buildup, they
manage to put the West in the posture of being a threat to the
peace.
BERLOW: Casey's last reference was to Soviet efforts
designed to stop deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe. Casey
said part of the problem in dealing with Soviet propaganda has
been the inability of our government officials to offer an
alternative view.
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