EL SALVADOR 'WHITE PAPER' FLAP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160024-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HU2iAN EVENS
5 Sopteraber 1981
Pap e7' Up
The Wall Street Journal has let-an
media's reporters,on.intelligence mat-.-
ter s and Latin American. events are..
continuously- spoon-fed information:,
by far-left extremists, some of whom- -
ii':e CIA.-defector Philip Agee--are. y
dedicated enemies bf the United States.- --'
The Journal, through the obvious naiv-
etc of its executive editor; Frederick
this far from unimportant fact
Because HUMAt4 EVENTS:. attacked
t' ? Journal's s savage ~ critique of the
State Department's White Paper on-El
Salvador,. Taylor finally pelt impelled
`
to offer a.-"defense'-' in the August 2l
edition of his paper. But in so doing,
he-waded through a lot of little -land
mines that have,exploded all about the.
Journal and..Taylor.himself_-What
eerged from his defense was?that the
Journal has, in certain instances;. be
come a ., pawn of.*a -.vicious lY anti-
American element; including Agee
1- mself.
Tne unassailable thrust of the White;
Paper is. that-. the.. Soviet-bloc, with
Cuba in the forefront, has been busily
helping-'guerrillas-to:=overthrow thei
non-Communist government in El Sal-I
-,vador.- Whatever, -`flaws'..' they
`document may contain, its core point---I
supported by captured documents;
weapons and.intelligence sources=--is,
indestructible
Yet the Journal on June 8-much.to
the comfort of the radical-left both) article was _____ as _ _ _____ to .._:, .in the Washington office of au organ-;
here and abroad-published a front- tical of the U.S.-position. ' . . -?
nation that worked with Mr: Agee.
page assault. on this document, with -> But ihe:Journalpiece, it level and' that Agee's analysis .`.`was: one
the apparently .':obvious intention o oped,.was itself seriously flawed- among others that Mr. Kwitny "used to
destroying its credibility entirely. Writ1 :- and far more- than the White Pa- ,help determine the questions to ask the
ten by Jonathan Kwitny, the article: per. Not only was it factual] inac- p -
charged that the White Paper was! p y State De p ..,2
'rrt.e?t,.~r~rnP ;rn-! :curate in many places, but it was _
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Tha viciously anti-American pub?cauwr,%.c,u,+,-tyry..,a?
of information for two Wall Street Journal reporters. ;
Cloud U.S. `White Paper' on Reds. in, however was sever alluded to in.
El Salvador." The kicker reads' Tar the Journal story. And'so in our
nished'?Report?'?' (The Washington. July.11 issue, .we carried an article
Post weighed in-with a similar slam the called, The Invisible Hand of:
next day) - -Philip Agee '-. _ ! .
part'J Taylor' vigorously denies that the
By implying that the State D De
ment.had.trumped up or highly exao -Journal was a dupe of Agee or anyone
Berated.'.:Boole*-bloc..:involvement, the else, indicating A hat a primary source.
'Journal piece became .-a -godsend to' forhis-publication's criticism was an
-those opposed to-the U.S. ~pohcy ofj analysis- of the supposedly defective
White Paper itself- Well, the reader.
helping the Salvadoran government
will have to make up his own mind, but'
resist the insurgents: And, indeed, in
even Taylor acknowledges that.' .Kwit-
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