SENATE PANEL ASKS FOR GREATER VOICE IN COVERT ACTIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 7, 1983
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ARTICLE APFEA Lq '- - NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAG7NAY1983
Lt tl t I1 U~ ~ ~ )I the good name ti the United. l and States.
At Odds With Flause Plan would swell the tide of political and eco.
finder current w _resident is comic instability, creating a new army
!required to inforthe intelligence com-1 'of refugees and bring danger cloeer.and
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#{ ~ p~~R .mittees of covert?actions, but the com. rlosertohome."
I ~t V-01CE 'mittees have no right to disapprove l Mr _Reagan said that ``thugs 'who
them. The committee,s action was~ trample the common man in t.heir.quest
based on its for total power" were threet El
funds Salvador. `Guerrillas teenpt
with can
IN CORRT~`'f Central Intelligence authorize
Agency
for democracy and armed to the teeth
The_ Senate committee deliberately 1 by Nicara Ctba and
whose not to embrace this week's ho the Soviets are
Plan determined to shoot their way into
fbythe House Select Committee on Intel- power," he said.
Intelligence Unit Votes .13 to L ig~enee to cut off funds for covert aid tr 3rieanwhile, Powell Moore , Assistant _
'The C:I.A: to antiSand mist rebels. The { Secretary of State for Congressional
to Give Congress a Say in use committee; _3wtiag` along Relations, reaffirmed that the-number
lines Tuesday, authorized on of American military training officers
the L.i.1 t. s Latin Plans forthe remainder of this fiscal year and in El Salvador had not exceeded 551
-$50 million for the next fiscal year for since the spring of 1981. He said, how-.
.avert operations intended to help ever, the Reagan Administration hoped
ByDAVID SHRIBMANm Inendly Central American nations stop training would not seek to restrict the
i .er.-mtee rx+. York'Jbes vtbe flow of weapons programs.
pons to El Salvador. "To the extent that .available lands
WASHINGTON, May 6 - T?1 Senate The House and Senate proposals must permit, we would be prepared to pro-
Select Committee on Intelligence ap- Dow work their- way-through their re- vide additional training at facilities out
proved a measure today that 'would en- spective chambers and, if approved, be side of El Salvador,"' he wrote in a let-
able Congress to cut off future financing reconciled in a House Sonate confer. ter to Senator Charles H. Percy, the Illi-
for covert operations in Central Ames- -voce committee. nois Republican who beads. the Senate
ice The Reagan Administration has re? Foreign Relations Committee. "At the
The cutoff-would take effect if the ; peatedly argued that the same time, we would
Pm pose of coy- Y oppose
President failed to submit a plan forthe ert operations in Central America is to any rigid legislative constraint that
would preclude. reasonable modi.fica-
region that met with the approval of the stop the flow of wen fro
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!.Congressional intelligence committees. the Soviet Union through Nicaragua to
But the committee, in a bipartisan vote . rebels in El Salvador. Critics f the
of 13 to 2, approved the continuation of , President's plan contend that the pur-
covert activities in Central America pose is to destabilize the Sandinist Gov-
through this fiscal year, which ends on ~ernment of Nicaragua.
I Sept. 30.
The action marked the first time that President Reagan, speaking in Pboe-
one of the Congressional intelligence. '=X, warned today-that tonal
committees had formally asserted what committees were ``iadfffereat to aD-
,.it considered its right to approve see- litheCommunist take 'ver as our door-
cific covert activities, according to a rstep,? and added: Running away from
member of the committee. this clear-cut r'esponsibiliry would re-
Part of the Process' ward aggress e and bring dishonor to
"We are no longer simply -t o be in-
formed," Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, Democrat of New York,
said. "We want to be part of .the pro-
cess."
According to a compromise plan the
committee adopted after three hours of
briefings and deliberations in, a secret
session, S19 million for--rert activities
in Central iAmert^ca next yearwould be
contingent hn' approval of -Presidents.
Reagan's assessments and goals forthei
region by"the House and Senate intelli-i
Bence committees. '
"We-,'want +a --redefined _program.. n-
Central America," said Senator, Barry'
Goldwater, -the chairman..of the
nom-
mittee and the author of. the compro
mise measure. "I want him to-tell us in
plain language just what'tt'xs be wants
to do relative to Nicaragua and other
lions to the structure . of our training
program that might be advisable."
Mr. Moore said the Administration
would "reprogram" 330 million in for-
eign military sales guarantees to El
Salvador, the amount approved by the
House Appropriations Committee's
subcommittee on foreign operations
and the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee. The White House had requested
$60 million.
He said, however, that the Adminis-
tration intended to proceed with allocat-
ing $140 million in economic support for
the Government of El Salvador, $25 mil-
lion more than the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee advised.
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