MODERATE GOT SECRET CIA FUNDS FOR AD CAMPAIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100020107-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: May 7, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100020107-1
ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE 41
NEW YORK POST
7 May 1984
Moderate got secret c/Ai
funds for ad campaign
By NILES LATHEM _
Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON - The
Reagan Administration
did everything In Its
power - including
:using covert CIA funds
- to make moderate
Jose Napoleon Duarte
president of El Salvador
despite an official
stance of neutrality, The
Post has learned.
Administration. Con-
gressional and diplo-
matic sources told The
Post the U.S. used a
variety of methods to
help the respected
Christian Democratic
Party leader win the
election.
Covert CIA 'funds
JOSE DUARTE
Reagan backing.
helped pay for radio and
TV ads for Duarte's
said. the sources
The =administration
ROBERTO d" AUEUtSSON
Death-squad links.
'firmly believed Duarte
was more likely to bring
democratic reforms to
El Salvador and but-
tress President Rea-
gan's claim to an fri-
creasingly restless Con-
gress that U.S. military
aid is not being wasted
on a government com-
mitting human-rights
abuses.
Duarte was expected
to defeat rightist mili-
tary leader Roberto
d'Aubutison. ? and the
White House was pre-
pared to launch a major
campaign with the U.S.
public for the new presi-
dent.
Senior administration
officials said a Duartre
victory over d'Aublsaon,
who has been linked t?
rightist death-squad ac-
tivity, would be a %sig-
nificant victory.both for
El ? Salvador and for
Reagan's hotly cons
tested. Central Amer-
ican program ,
Duarte. who' during
his first tenure as pressp
dent was instrumental
in beginning several
economic and social re-,
forms. L expected to be
invited soon for a state
visit to Washington.
The purpose of the
F_ ,visit, officials say. Is, tp
generate support 'for
Duarte's regime in Con
greSso
STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100020107-1