SCHROEDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605870002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 5, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
5 January 1984
WASHINGTON
SCHROEDER
Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., Thursday asked the Chairman of the Committee on
Armed Services, Melvin Price, to launch an evaluation of command problems in the
U.S. Armed Forces.
Her request followed the release of reports by the Armed Services Committee
and the Department of Defense study commision, on the bombing of Marine
headquarters in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. servicemen.
In her letter to Price, Schroeder said those reports indicated "confusion
over the command structures as one of the principal causes of the disaster.,,
''It is time for the Committee to launch a special, full-fledged evaluation
of command and control problems in the military,'' said Schroeder.
Schroeder said that in Beirut, "it remains unclear to whom the field
commander reports... For us in Washington it is a frustrating game to figure out
who wears what hat. For Marines at the Beirut airport, It is a matter of life
and death.''
Schroeder said the CIA should be included in the evaluation. The agency was
partly to blame for lax security measures at the Marine headquarters before the
bom no. he sai .
Several legislative measures mandate a high level of cooperation between the
CIA -and the Department of Defense, she said.
" Obviously," Said Schroeder, "the Central Intelligence Agency did
not perform the sort of meaningful intelligence collection in Lebanon which
would have been useful to the Marines."
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