IN AN EFFORT TO SCORE POINTS, SOME ISSUES ARE OVERSIMPLIFIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100420019-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 22, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/21 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000100420019-8
i
BOSTON GLOBE
22 October 1984
= an effort
to score points,
1100 T
some issues are overs ? ?
unpwiea
Tti? William Beecher ? Reagan misrepresented the
;,nd Fred Kaplan
Giobe Staff situation when he suggested the
f. I Carter Administration under-
WASHINGTON - Both Presi- mined the Shah of Iran and
dent Ronald Reagan and Walter F. turned the country over to Ayatol-
Mondale during last night's de- lah Ruhollah Khomeini.
bate seemed to oversimplify and
exaggerate at times in an effort to ? Mondale was less than accu-
score political points. rate when he suggested the Rea
? Reagan said about Lebanon gan Administration has not tried
that the United States "never int- diplomacy or political dialogue in
tiated 2nv action" in the war ex- respect either to El Salvador or
cent in direct defense of the Ma- Nicaragua.
ri: es there. Neither Mondale nor Senior State Department offi-
the panelists brought up Ameri- vials have been negotiating with
can naval gunfire against a key the Sandinista government of
mountain town above Beirut that [Nicaragua and have voiced sup-
was aimed at preventing the col- port for the Contadora effort at a
lapse of the forces of the Lebanese Central American peace settle-
,government. ment. And the Administration
o Reagan, in trying to explain supported President Jose Napo-
the coniroversial pamphlet advis- leon Duarte's dialogue with leftist
iris ani~overnmen~ orb ces in guerrillas In El Salvador.
Nicaragua on pn itica assassina-
tion another quaona a ac lvi-
ttesc7a-draft 6FTFe ~ument ***"" ** xX**?
Tian been turned over the the local
CIA had in Nicaragua who ex-
~isea some pages an error- _.
?'a3ed-7i to CIA ea quay ers in
a1s?utn on.
When a reporter noted that he
y: as ac now e ging or t e first
1ime publicly the CIA role in the
-supposedly covert war, he cau ht
imsel to thepoint of at least say-
ing the local CIA man was not in
,Nicaragua but "down there in the
area.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/21 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000100420019-8