PHILIP AGEE CRITIQUES U.S. WHITE PAPERS ON EL SALVADOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 9, 1981
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PROGRAM The Daily Drum
DATE April 9, 1981 6:00 PM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT Philip Agee Critiques U.S. White Papers on El Salvador
MARGARET SOMERS: At a press conference today sponsored
by the editors of the Covert Action Information Bulletin,,it was
announced that the State Department's 180-page white paper on El
Salvador is the subject of a forthcoming book entitled "Philip
Agee on the CIA in El Salvador," Eo be covered by Deep Cover Pub-
lications.
We get details from Karen Raper.
KAREN RAPER: The white papers are documents produced
by the State Department that supposedly justify American aid to
the Jose Duarte regime in El Salvador. Philip Agee's critique
of the white papers on El Salvador is an in-depth analysis that
refutes, document-by-document, sentence-by-sentence, the many
portions of the white paper that Mr. Agee believes to be for-
geries, mistranslations, and deliberately misleading analysis.
According to William Schaap (?), one of the co-editors
of Deep-Cover Publications, conclusions drawn by teh State De-
partment. on the white papers are not proven satisfactorily in
the white papers.
WILLIAM SCHAAP: The documents themselves do not prove
the most fundamental of the charges. For example, one of the
critical charges is the discussion of 800 tons of weapons and
military equipment coming into El Salvador through Cuba and Nicar-
agua. Aside from the fact that a number of military experts have
already spoken about what, in fact, a small amount of weapons
some of these figures are -- 200 tons of weapons which were sup-
posedly delivered, according to these documents, would be used up,
according to the Pentagon, by one company in one week of fighting.
But the fact is, if you read every single document in the white
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