US AGAINST THEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100030023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 30, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

ST Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RD
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NEI\.' YORK TIr'ES
30 October 1983
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - The' - -- ESSAY war co, , on0entS bas curtailed criti-
same vicious virus that infected the cism that the Pentagon miscalculated
Nina White House and caused Its and sent in a dangerously small initial
ruin is now raging through the Rea- US invasion force. The C.I.A. should have
t~ Administration. bad a team with a radio on that island a
'"The press is the enemy," Mr. Nixon week before the landing.
for an unelected elite led to the beaker ? to invite s we, with the;press is the
mentality of "Us against Them," and ,, - midst of two..military Campaigns? I
_tbea ao an obsession with leaks and the A g- a1 should be writing today of.the .c=esses of Watergate. The same bale. T gic importance of -this- timely iava-
fnl mood permeates the White House sion, which I favor. and,appiaud; and
.andtbe Pentagon today. here L am looking at my: old dead
But this President skillfully masks Cap Weinberger-.with dismay.4Re is
his animosity toward reporters; be an intelligent ?humsan . being
?a good
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timi4s to privatr'ooumels bis demwca- ,man, a patriot; and now.b'eJ:is declar-
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nags is "hostile":-They have crussed" impressed bysMra. T2tatcher'Ae~
of.conual.of the.mfiftar~ {onapr>ns'
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ngrscenoneaea 4 -Lie Detectors. To frighten Gov- WVeMP of- his Grenada invasion
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