TESTIMONY OF CONGRESSMAN C.W. BILL YOUNG BEFORE THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

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• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 30, 1980
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Legislative Counsel
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Congressional Liaison
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TESTIMONY OF CONGRESSMAN C,W, BILL YOUNG
BEFORE THE
HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
SUBCOMMI1)LE ON
INTER?AMERICAN AFFAIRS
SEPTEMBER 30, 1980
MR -CHAIRMAN, ON SEPTEMBER 12, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SIGNED
A CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 536(G) OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT IN
WHICH HE SWORE THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA "HAS NOT COOPERATED WITH OR
HARBORS ANY INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION OR IS AIDING, ABETTING, OR
SUPPORTING ACTS OF VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM IN OTHER COUNTRIES," THE
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE PRESIDENT PROVES. THE OPPOSITE.
HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE TO THE
PRESIDENT BY OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND NO REASONABLE MAN, AFTER EXAMINING
.THAT EVIDENCE, COU _D REACH THE SAME CONCLUSION CONTAINED IN THE PRESIDENT'S ?
CERTIFICATION.
As THIS IS AN OPEN SESSION, I WILL NOT QUOTE-FROM ANY OF THE. CLASSIFIED
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. I WILL USE INSTEAD THE PUBLIC RECORD WHICH IS
THOROUGHLY -CONSISTENT WITH THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND IS NOT CONTRADICTED
IN ANY WAY BY THE REPORTS OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES,
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THE SANDINISTAS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF
FULFIll ING ANY REQUIREMENTS THAT THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES HAS PLACED
ON THE. $75 MILLION LOAN. INTERIOR MINISTER TOMAS BORGE SAID ON SEPTEMBER 5,
"IF THEY COU_D -BUY. US WITH $75 MILLION OR WITH ONE BILLION DOLLARS, WE WOU D
? STOP BEING REVOLUTIONARIES. WE REVOLUTIONARIES WOULD RATHER STARVE IF
NECESSARY- BEFORE FALLING ON OUR KNEES It THEFACE OF YANKEE IMPERIALISM, LET
THEM REFUSE ONCE. AND FOR ALL TO GIVE US THE $75 MILLION. THEY THINK WE ARE
GOING TO BEG. -HOW LITTLE DO TOEY KNOW THE SANDINISTS." -(BROADCAST OVER
MANAGUA RADIO SANDING, ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1980.).
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IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 14, 1980, IN THE NEWSPAPER,LAPRENSA,
THE JUNTA MEMBER ARTURO CRUZ POINTED OUT THAT, "AT THE SAME TIME CONGRESS WAS
APPROVING THE LOAN,- THERE WERE PRECISE RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRESIDENT CARTER TO
AFFECT THE DISBURSEMENT AND THE USE OF. THE LOAN, BASED ON DIRECT AND PRECISE
OBSERVATIONS OF NICARAGUA." HE CALLED SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE CLAUSE THAT
PREVENTED THE SANDINISTAS FROM GETTING MONEY IN THE EVENT THAT NICARAGUA IS
"PROVED TO BE INVOLVED IN ACTS OF TERRORISM OR TO BE SHELTERING GROUPS WHICH
CARRY OUT SUCH ACTIONS." CRUZ CONTINUED, "I WISH TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, THAT
THIS IS A DUTY IMPOSED BY THE U.S. LEGISLATURE ON THE PRESIDENT. IN OTHER
WORDS, IT. IS 'THEIR' POLITICAL PROBLEM. THE "REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT IN NO
WAY ACCEPTS, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ANY AGREEMENT -- WHETHER FOR A LOAN OR
FOR FINANCIAL COOPERATION -- WITH THE UNITED STATES OR WITH 'ANY' COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD NOT EVEN WITH THE. .HOLY SEE, THAT CONTAINS ANY CLAUSE THAT IS IN
INJURIOUS TO THE NATIONAL DIGNITY OR THAT IMPOSES FINANCIAL CONDITIONS OF A
? .UNILATERAL NATURE,"
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DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE SANDINISTAS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY WILL
NOTACCEPT THE ? $75 MILLION IF THAT MEANS THAT THEY MUST STOP SUPPORTING
TERRORISM IN LATIN PMERICA, CRUZ CLAIMED THAT AS SOON AS CONGRESS APPROVED
? THE LOAN, $15 MILLION WAS MADE AVAILABLE AND THAT WHEN THEY SIGN ,THE ?
AGREEMENT THEY WILL RECEIVE ANOTHER ViO MILLION AND THE REST WILL COME A
SHORT TIME LATER, IN OTHER WORDS, THE FIRST 15 MILLION WAS RELEASED TO THEM
-LONG BEFORE THE PRESIDENT CERTIFIED THAT THEY WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THE EXPORT
OF TERROR I SM
THE MOSTSIGNIFICANT SUPPORT TO TERRORISM GIVEN BY THE SANDINISTAS IS THE
AID AND TRAINING THAT THEY SUPPLY TO TERRORIST GROUPS IN EL SALVADOR ? ON
.JUNE 23, RO, THE PRESS AND RADIO IN EL SALVADOR PUBLISHED THE STATEMENT OF
A CAPTURED TERRORIST JULIAN IGNACIO OTERO ESPINOSA, OTERO TESTIFIED THAT HE,
. HIMSELF WAS INVOLVED IN THE SHIPMENT OF ARMS FROM NICARAGUA TO THE TERRORISTS
IN FL SALVADOR, HE SAID, "ON SEVERAL. OPPORTUNITIES WE WENT TO THE BORDER
WITH HONDURAS TO RECEIVE ARMS COMING FROM NICARAGUA, Om OTHER OCCASIONS, WE
RECEIVED ARMS COMING DIRECTLY FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND THE SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF CUBA," HE REFERRED TO "THE ACTIVE COLLABORATION OF THE -
'GOVERNMENT OF. NICARAGUA, NOT LONG AGO LANDING EXERCISES WERE CARRIED OUT IN ?
THE CORINTO AREA AND THEY HAVE TRAINING CAMPS IN NICARAGUA."
ON JUNE 25, 1920, THE OFFICIAL MANAGUA RADIO SANDINO, REPORTED THE
UNIFICATION OF THE TERRORIST GROUPS IN EL SALVADOR, THEY STATED "A SINGLE
ARMY WILL EMERGE FROM THEIR FORCE, THEIR HEROISM, THEIR REVOLUTIONARY
AWARENESS, THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD AND THEIR
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UNITY," THE DAY BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE UNITY OF THE TERRORIST GROUPS
IN EL SALVADOR OVER THE OFFICIAL NICARAGUAN RADIO, THE TERRORISTS SENT
LETTERS TO A NUMBER OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS IN FL SALVADOR
THREATENING THEIR LIVES. THOSE THREATENED INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ?
FRENCH NEWS AGENCY, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO NICARAGUA JULIAN
LOPEZ,. IS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAS DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA, THE AMERICAS DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
PROVIDING SUPPORT TO TERRORISTSIAPJNSURRECTIONARY GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE
HEMISPHERE.
iT IS ALSO OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE THAT THE PRESS IN KUWAIT REPORTED-0N
AUGUST 23 THAT A DELEGATION FROM THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION HAD
GONE TO NICARAGUA TO SUPERVISE MILITARY TRAINING, ACCORDING TO THE ?
NEWSPAPER, AR-RAY AL-AMM THE INSTRUCTORS WERE SENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN
AGREEMENT BETWEEN YASIR ARAFAT AND THE LEADERS OF THE SANDINISTA .GOVERNMENT
IN NICARAGUA, ACTUALLY, THERE HAS BEEN A LONG STANDING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE PLO TERRORISTS AND THE SANDINISTA TERRORISTS. ON AUGUST 7, 1979, THE
KUWAIT NEWSPAPER AL-WATAN REPORTED AN INTERIVEW WITH JORGE MANDI, THE
SANDINISTA REPRESENTATIVE IN EUROPE. MANDI SAID, "THERE IS A LONG STANDING
BLOOD UNITY BETWEEN US AND THE PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION.. WE HAVE LONG HAD
CLOSE RELATIONS WITH THE PALESTINIANS. MANY OF THE UNITS BELONGING TO THE
SANDINISTA MOVEMENT WERE AT PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION BASES IN?JORDAN.AS AN ?
EXAMPLE OF OUR COOPERATION WITH THE PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION-, A NUMBER OF OUR
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COMRADES 'TOOK PART IN THE OPERATION TO DIVERT FOUR PLANES WHICH THE POPULAR
FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE SEIZED AND LANDED AT A DESERT AIRFIELD
IN JORDAN. ONE OF OUR COMRADES WAS ALSO WOUNDED IN ANOTHER HIJACK OPERATION
IN WHICH LAA KHALID WAS INVOLVED, SHE WAS IN COMMAND OF THE OPERATION AND
OUR COMRADES HELPED HER CARRY IT OUT,"
THIS CLOSE ASSOCJATION BETWEEN THE SANDINISTAJERRORISTS AND THE PLO
PERHAPS EXPLAINS WHY, WHEN THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE INVESTIGATED THE
SITUATION OF JEWS IN LATIN AMERICA IN MAY, THEY FOUND THAT THE ENTIRE JEWISH
COMMUNITY OF NICARAGUA, SOME 70 FAMILIES, ABOUT 350 PEOPLE, HAD VANISHED FROM
THAT COUNTRY, THIS WAS REPORTED IN THE JEWISH PRESS, NEW YORK, MAY 23, 1920,
THE ROLE OF THE SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA, AND THE TERRORISTS
THAT THEY SUPPORT FROM OTHER PARTS OF LATIN AMERICA, IN THE MURDER OF FORMER
PRESIDENT. SOMOZA IS OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE, ONLY THE SANDINISTAS BENEFITED FROM
? THE MURDER, AND THE ARGENTINIAN TERRORIST KILLED IN A SHOOT OUT WITH POLICE
SHORTLY AFTER THE MURDER HAD CLOSE TIES WITH THE SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT, HE
WAS A MEMBER OF THE TROTSKYITE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ERP (REVOLUTIONARY ARMY
OF THE PEOPLE) WHICH HAS LONG COLLABORATED WITH THE NICARAGUAN SANDINISTAS.
You MAY RECALL THAT MY INTEREST IN THIS SUBJECT IS NOT A RECENT ONE. 1
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN CALLING FOR THE CLOSED SESSION OF CONGRESS HAELD 25
FEBRUARY 1980 IN ORDER THAT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION COULD BE PRESENTED TO THE
FU ..L CONGRESS IN CONSIDERING AID FOR NICARAGUA. EVEN PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON
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INTELLIGENCE, OF WHICH I AM AllEMBER, HAD BEEN ENGAGED, AS PART OF THEIR
REGULAR DUTIES, IN MONITORING THE QUALITY OF INTELLIGENCE PERFORMANCE IN THIS
PART OF TETE WORLD. SO THIS HAS BEEN A CONTINUING AND ONGOING EFFORT,
I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT MAKING THE CERTIFICATION THAT THE
GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA. IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE EXPORTING OF TERRORISM OR IN
SUPPORTING THE OVERTHROW OF OTHER DULY CONSTITUTED GOVERNMENTS IN CENTRAL -
AMERICA, SINCE I HAVE HAD ACCESS TO THE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION OF THE CIA
AND THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CONCERNING. THIS MATTER, WHILE I CANNOT
QUOTE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN THIS OPEN SESSION, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS CONFIRM IN OVERWHELMING DETAIL THAT THE SANDINISTA
CLIQUE THAT RU ES NICARAGUA IS ENGAGED IN THE EXPORT OF VIOLENCE AND
TERRORISM,
I FEEL THAT YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES THAT WE HAVE
RECENTLY HAD IN OBTAINING THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT FROM THE
EXECUTIVE BRANCH,
As I PREVIOUSLY NOTED, THE STAFF OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION HAS - ?
HAD AN ONGOING STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE ON NICARAGUA WHICH BEGAN IN LATE 1978,
As PART OF THAT RESPONSIBILITY THE STAFF OFTEN MAKES VISITS TO. THE CIA TO
,TALK WITH ANALYSTS AND PERIODICALLY REQUESTS STUDIES PRODUCED BY THE CIA AND
OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IN WASHINGTON, AND IN GENERAL HAS PAID ATTENTION
TO WHAT IS GOING ON.
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ON 12 AUGUST OF THIS YEAR THE STAFF MADE A ROUTINE REQUEST TO TALK. WITH
AN ANALYST AT CIA!s NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER ABOUT NICARAGUA, THE
STAFF WAS ?TOLD THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TALK WITH. THE ANALYST AT CIA
SINCE THERE WAS "A PRESIDENTIAL EMBARGO" ON TALKING ABOUT NICARAGUA. I WAS ?
UNAWARE OF THIS AT THE TIME SINCE THIS TOOK PLACE DURING THE RECESS, BUT THE
STAFF WAS QUITE CONCERNED, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE, MR, BOLAND,. SENT A
LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR OF CENTAL INTELLIGENCE ON THIS MATTER, ON AUGUST 22.
To DATE THE CIA HAS NOT RESPON6ED TO THAT LETTER,
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I WOULD FURTHER NOTE THAT THE'STAFF WAS NOTIFIED VIA TELEPHONE ON
SEPTEMBER 10 THAT THE EMBARGO HAD BEEN LIFTED AND THAT DISCUSSIONS COULD BE
HELD WITH CIA ANALYSTS, Two DAYS LATER THE PRESIDENT MADE HIS CERTIFICATION
THAT NICARAGUA IS NOT EXPORTING TERRORISM AND/OR ACTING AS A CONDUIT FOR ARMS
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OR SANCTUARY FOR REVOLUTIONARIES IN OTHER CENTRAL 'AMERICAN COUNTRIES,
ON SEPTEMBER 15 THE STAFF OF THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE WAS BRIEFED
ON NICARAGUA, THE EVIDENCE OF SANDINISTA EXPORT OF VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM.
WAS PRESENTED, As A RESULT OF THAT BRIEFING THE STAFF REQUESTED CERTAIN
MATERIALS FROM THE CIA, ONE OF THOSE PAPERS WAS A STUDY PRODUCED FOR THE
NATIONAL .SECURITY COUNCIL. ALTHOUGH THE STAFF WAS ALLOWED TO READ THE STUDY,
AS I WAS, .WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP THE PAPER, WE WERE LATER GIVEN A STUDY
WHICH, FOR THE MOST. PART, IS THE SAME AS THE PAPER, WHICH HAD BEEN SUPPLIED TO.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, ONE OF THE OTHER DOCUMENTS IS STILL DENIED TO
US.
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AT THE SAME TIME THE STAFF WAS TALKING WITH ANALYSTS IN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY AND ALSO REVIEWING PRODUCTION BY THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO ASCERTAIN IF THERE WAS ANY KIND OF A DISPUTE
IN REGARD TO THE FACTS, OR IF THE INTELLIGENCE WAS SO AMBIGUOUS THAT
DIFFERING INTERPRETATIONS COULD BE PLACED ON IT.
THE STAFF OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION FOUND THAT THERE IS
ESSENTIALLY NO DISAGREEMENT WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ON THE ?
EVIDENCE, THERE MAY BE SLIGHT NUANCES HERE OR THERE, BUT IN GENERn_ THE
COMMUNITY IS IN AGREEMENT,
WHILE THERE IS NO INTELLIGENCE ISSUE, THERE IS A POLICY ISSUE. WHILE THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IS REPORTING ONE THING- ABOUT WHAT IS OCCURRING IN
NICARAGUA, OUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
CHOOSES TO. DISREGARD THAT EVIDENCE AND CERTIFY OTHERWISE. IT IS CLEAR THAT
EITHER THE PRESIDENT HASN'T READ THE SAME -INTELLIGENCE REPORTS THAT I HAVE,
OR HE HAD RECEIVED THEM THROUGH A FILTER, IN EITHER EVENT, IT IS A SERIOUS
MATTER.: I BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOILD EXPLORE THIS MATTER IN DEPTH WITH THE
AGENCIES.
As I MENTIONED THERE ARE DOCUMENTS WHICH THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE STAFF
HAS REQUESTED WHICH THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED, THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN VARIOUS
REASONS AND EXCUSES FOR WHY THEY CANNOT HAVE THEM. MY OWN VIEW IS THAT THEY
TOUCH ON POLITICAL SENSITIVITIES RATHER THAN SOURCES AND METHODS. LET ME SAY
THAT IN THE DELIBERATIONS OVER THE INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT ACT OF 1980, H.R.
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7658, I -WAS A FIRM PROPONENT, ALONG WITH MY COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMITTEE, THAT
THE CIA DESERVED PROTECTION FOR INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS. OBVIOUSLY
OUR NATIONS INTELLIGENCE EFFORTS NEED THIS KIND OF PROTECTION, HOWEVER, THEY
MUST NOT BE MANIPULATED BY ANYONE TO USE THE SOURCES AND METHODS CAVEAT, TO
'WITHHOLD INFORMATION WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY POLITICALLY SENSITIVE RATHER THAN
SOURCE SENSITIVE. LET ME REITERATE THAT AN EMBARGO WAS PLACED ON. DISCUSSING -
THIS MATTER WITH THE STAFF OF A COMMITTEE OF THE CONGRESS WHICH IS EMPOWERED
TO OVERSEE THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, ASSESS ITS PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATE
ITS EFFECTIVENESS, THE EMBARGO WAS REMOVED ONLY AFTER THE PRESIDENT MADE A
POLITICAL DECISION ABOUT THE 4NFORMATION, AND AT THIS TIME, SOME DATA IS-
,
STILL BEING DENIED TO US,
IT IS VERY DISTURBING THAT THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WAS DIRECTED
TO NOT PROVIDE AN ANSWER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT
COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE TO THE QUESTIONS THAT HE ASKED IN HIS LETTER OF
AUGUST 22,
WHAT WE HAVE IS A CASE OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY BEING MANIPULATED BY
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO PROTECT A POLITICAL SENSITIVITY. WHAT DISMAYS ME IS
THE POLITICAL MISUSE OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, WHICH RIGHTFULLY HAS A
REPUTATION FOR ? OBJECTIVITY. THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MUST BE FREE OF
POLITICAL BIAS SO THAT OUR DECISION MAKERS CAN USE THEIR REPORTS TO REACH
DECISIONS BASED ON THE FACTS OF THE MATTER, AND NOT ON DESIRED POLITICA!
OUTCOMES.
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I LOOK FORWARD- TO HEARING THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES FROM THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, THEY HAVE A HARD PROBLEM IN LIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT'S
CERTIFICATION, BUT, I AM SURE THAT THEY WILL BE CANDID WITH THIS COMMITTEE,
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