AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT LIMITING CIA INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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youngest in spirit any resident of domestic affairs of foreign countries is According to the Times, it is now doc-
iQrida's 13th Con ssional District. simply the other t ft le of the cc in and umented that the CIA operated the Phil-
A z old Levien ea d this honor, not deserves equal c or. . ressional attention. lipine campaign against Huk guerillas.
as w do in Congre ecause of senior- Such intervention i equally illegal and The CIA organized an unsuccessful coup
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ity, not just beta of a lifetime of is a manifestation >' the same dr
ergdhal dccomplis ents and creative unchecked power art the part of the ex- in 1958. According to Vincent Marchet-
is iibs5 deveropmen but primarily be- ecutive branch of Government. ti's book, "The CIA, the Cult of Intelli-
ea he bias target his spirit and his This committee 1, ould feel a particu- Bence," the CIA spent an excessive
olier y toward the s ice of his fellow lar obligation to limit CIA activities amount of energy in hunting down Che
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which intervene in t+ie internal affairs of Guevera in 1966-67. All of these opera-
~iese reaso , it is my privilege foreign countries. As reported in the tions clearly affected this country's for-
tA R'ser1 ins the R ORD, the Arnold Washington Post on October 2:1, 1973, eign policy.
Levie, Ufa roclam on of metropoli- CIA Director Colby in hearings on the . In Chile, according to an April 6, 1973,
tan 4 ounty. Chilean coup told Inc .that he would not Washington Post article by Laurence
CLA Tiorr" testify before this r ~,mmittee to specific Stern quoting knowledgeable official
e n has" reached the CIA operations. '2i, it is this committee sources, major intervention by the CIA
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W yours a e i t; afieT'a i1 life as a philan- which formulates reign policy, If the helped to defeat Allende in the 1964 elec-
CIA will not tell us exactly how tion for President. The CIA funded trade
tlhrQp st, h'Umah tartan d benefactor, and
a a good nefghb6f a friend to all who and in what rr sprcts the CIA is in- unions, farmer organizations, student
owlilm ancT
fluencing forcing poi%cy, this commit- groups and the media in order to defeat
,
. Wii"yeas Tluring his ng span of 11fe, to tee's only choice i to prevent the CIA and discredit Allende. According to testa-
eoil afife`w o 1}i hilailte1n les, he
was a founder oft Ai t`) instein Medical to the extent pcssi:ale from anyway af- mony given before a Senate subcommit-
ColXg e is deeply invol in the success of fecting foreign pi icy determinations. tee and printed in the October 21, 1973,
ran eTs ilniversft ail n Dade County, Is The CIA now enj4 r:is the best of both Washington Post, the CIA earmarked
a fo}lnder ofYthe tdila Beach Taxpayers worlds. It tells of its intervention in for- $400,000 to support anti-Allende news
lssocation, and an ar t suppdS er' of the eign policy only t ;) those Members of media shortly before the election. In tes-
ascom Palmer dye C1 c of ackson Me- Congress either not interested or experi- timony before this committee and
Yiioris lfospitaf and enced. in form ulati;: g foreign policy; on printed in the Washington Post, Director
rgae ArnolcTLevi has had a leading the other hand, it :ells those Members Colby refused to say that this money was
four Q as a builder an eveto ter?and "his
fouons rtfiur I enr dwaYd and Robert interested and exi, rienced in formu- not spent. The latest CIA manipulative
U ave olIowed in his boo ps aiidhavemade lating foreign policy that CIA meddling attempt exposed by the press and ad-
a tremendous' impathe construction into foreign affairs is none of their buss- matted by the Government was the fak-
indiisfry `Ii both 11yad Comity and other Hess. This clearly-( iinnot continue. ing of a letter to Bangkok government by
areas"ai the United eta s, and I envision these amendments as only a CIA agent. The agent accredited the
Whereas.- His Atma ,, eof of his a first step in rega ining for the Foreign letter to a guerilla leader in order to
recognition o his
College of llew or
philanthropies and to nical ability, will Affairs Committee i-ower over the CIA's discredit him.
bestow upon him then nal honor of being direction of fo r ei, r`ii policy. Certainly, CIA interference in other countries'
selected , Alumnus of he Year,, on Feb- full support should pie given to that part internal affairs through military assist-
Alary 17th,197I of the Bolling cnm:nittee reforms which ante has also been egregious and docu-
Nopr, therefore E if solved that I, John give the Foreign Af;,airs Committee some mented. The CIA has now.admitted that
8. Orr, Jr, mayor o metropolitan Dade oversight power, i:. regard to the CIA. it armed, trained, and operated an army
County, Florida, do here. y proclaim Sunday, Independently, it is also necessary to of Meo tribesmen in Laos during the
February 17, inal ties between the militaries of
our too countries do not end there. As
has been reported previously, six high
ranking Chilean military officers are
grades tes of the U.S. Southern Defense
Comm %nd School of the Americas, in the
Canal Zone. The administration aid re-
quest or fiscal 1975 seeks $800,000 to
continue this and other training pro-
grams. Last year, 259 Chileans were
trained at the Army school; courses for
this ys ar will include flying operations,
comnitmications, administration, and the
studiously open-ended "military tech-
niques and practices."
Seve ml justifications have been offered
for th s wide variety of military aid, a
consitliwable increase over expenditures
before the coup. Whatever logic exists
for pi 3viding more military assistance
to Chile seems to be more than counter-
bala d by the detrimental impact of
pouriu arms and munitions into the
hands of a demonstrably repressive mili-
tary junta.
Finn, the Defense Department has In-
dicated i that aid to Chile is "simply a con-
tinuat?on of the long standing and
f r iensi y relationship between the U.S.
Armed Forces and their Chilean coun-
terpar s, and reflected our mutual-
rurity interest and a Chilean preference
for coatinuing this relationship." It is
almost unbelievable that the adminis-
tratior has not been fit to reevaluate
that elationship" in light of the violent
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August 1, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORL'.~ - extensions o emar s
overthrow of the democratically elected Because of the broader based nature
government of Chile that was engineered of the military assistance planned for
by the military. Our very recent exper- Chile, it is important ;.+t enact an across-
ience in Greece during the Cyprus crisis, the-board terminat.)oi Otherwise, iom-
in which a threatened withdrawal of mercial sales and ca sales will con-
American military aid was seen as a Sig- tinue, unregulated by he Congress and
nificant factor in deterring an-out war reported only after ti fact. Otherwise,
and fostering reestablishment of civilian we will remainan act-, -e and not entirely
government, should have demonstrated beneficial force in CI- file's internal af-
that It is no longer consistent with our fairs. Otherwise, res:,; nsibility for the
national interest to blindly ply arms into continued repression the Chilean peo-
the hand's of military governnfelits. pie rests partly in ot< hands..
A related justification for our military I include the fo]iowi :
assistance toChile came from Vice Adm. AMENDMENT TO H.I. - OFh'FRED EY
Ray Peet, in hearings of the foreign aid Aft. HAREi i3GTON
bill before the Foreign Affairs Commit- Page --, after line insert the following
tee. He said that it was necessary to con- new section:
tinue our military assistance programs at " PEOHISITION OF Ass"TANCE 'TO CHD.E
the requested level In order to secure U.S. Sec. 305. Section 620 the Foreign Assist-
influence with the Chilean regime. This ante Act of 1961 is ar=s'nded by add:,ng at
same argnlnent has been posed time and the end thereof the f, mowing new subsec-
time again, but the payoff never seems trop:
"(x) All military as~Aance, all, sales of
to materialize. To gain some minimal defense articles and se-vices (whether for
foothold in the minds of the military cash or by credit, gu;.+.anty, or any other
men now running Chile seems a dubious- means), and all license with respect to the
ly small benefit compared to the moral transportation of arm ammunitions, and
and diplomatic cost of supplying those implements of war war ( ttnc! ,dng technical data
or any Other taw iovernment nt nt of Chile
leaders with the tools to'strengthen their relating g this thereto)
h i e
repressive hold on the Chilean people. ited upon the date: o. enactment of this
We can send the junta a message. subsection."
Only if we terminate our military aid to Renumber the follos!t ag sections In title
stand behind our calls for internal re-
form. It wouldbe a more positive influ-
ence to withdraw our military aid, to
show our fundamental disagreement
with the course of events in Chile, than
,to follow the unproven logic of gaining
Influence through arms sales.
A third argument that was presented
mitt by Secretary of De-
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MONTHLY NI-- WSLE'rrER
HON. WILMR MIZELL
OF NORTH MWLINA
IN THE HOUSE OF IM PRES13NTATIVES
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tense James Schlesinger during the Thursday, Ar-ust 1, 1974
hearings on this bill holds that a termi-
nation of U.S. military assistance to
Latin American countries would "simply
encourage thein to make their"military
purchases elsewhere.. This is inconsistent
with a foreign policy which seeks strong
regional associations with the nations of
Western Hemisphere." Later he states
that we ought not "leave the supply of
arms largely to those outside this hem-
isphere." The facts surrounding possible
arms sales to Chile from foreign coun-
tries clearly refute these assertions. Of
the major weapons suppliers besides the
United States, none appear'as VIlling as
this administration _to provide arms to
the Chilean junta. The British govern-
ment announced, on April '10-1 1974, a
termination of` military aid to Chile. No
now 'arms exports were to be ` licensed,
and servicing for already delivered fight-
ers has since been terminated. The new
President of France has indicated that
his country will seriously reconsider any
weaix ns sales to governme=its such as
be expected to arm a right-viing mili-
tarry government. That leaves the United
States in the unique position of virtually
controlling the supply of available weap-
ons t- the Chilean junta. At this time,
with little effect on our` policy of, in Mr.
Schlesinger's words, "seeking strong re-
giorial associations," we can drive home
to th,e Cliitean junta our' displeasure
with their policies and assert our fermi-
liatfozl of military support.
mailed my monthly iewsletter for July
1974 to my constituel ? s in the Fifth Con-
gressional District of North Carolina. In
that newsletter I disc., _ised the important
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penditures from their personal funds or the
personal funds of their immediate family in
excess of $25,000 per election.
Limit expenditures to $10 million for a
candidate for nomination for President and
$20 million In the Presidential general elec-
tion. In the Senate and the House ofRepre-
sentatives limit expenditures to 5c times the -
population of the State or $75,000, whichever
is greater.
Prohibit contributions by foreign na-
tionals.
Prohibit contributions in th$ name of
another person.
Prohibit cash contributions In excess of
$100.
Outlaw all "dirty tricks" a
stiff penalties.
Provide that each candid
and enforce the law.
Increase the penalties
law.
One proposal that h
to which I strongly o
money spent
opposes.
provide for
designate a
ould administer
cal process. The Ameri-
free expression of our
d I do not think the
r wants his hard earned
a candidate he firmly
AWARD TO SG*T. ROBERT
A JAMES POTTER
HQ1. JOHN B. BREAUX
or LOVIBIANA
IN WE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, August 1, 1974
BREAUX. Mr. Speaker, I would
ll a to take this opportunity to express
want to share with my colleagues thg
comments I made.
The comments folk w:
MONTHLY NEWSL7 -"TEE: JULY 19 74 4
CAMPAIGN Fn' B '5CE REFORD&
For the past year, s, major effort cry':'urine
has been in studying he many le% lative
proposals that have bf E n made on cOi*iPaign
reform On many of t - ese proposal I have
asked this basic qque ion: Does? to pro-
posal strengthen the itality areserve
the integrity of the e' -toral prioftE12"
Nearly three years -.go, I sttporied the
Federal Elections Can.) sign . This pro-
posal was the first ca npaign orm legisla-
tion to be enacted it o pub. law In over
forty years. Since ti-,r, ' ti , events have
shown that reform 1: stl _~needed in this
area and I would Tire i.-, a with you what
I consider to be the s legislative: needs,
which will give eoip to further safe-
guarding our great -American political
system.
It is my belief that-7 legislation should be
enacted which wotitoF
Limit contributir9ilt o $1,000 per election
per candidate per di -idual.
Limit contrib ant to $5,000 per ,election
per candidates-:" from political committee
that make ?#, ntribv ins to five or more
candidates`
Prohibit secretive ,' armarktng and laun-
dering of funds. __
Cross, the Red Cross Certificate of Merit.
Sgt. Robert James Potier, of the
Crowley City Police Department, was re-
cently called to the scene of an auto-
mobile accident involving a 2-year-old
boy. Sergeant Potier, who had been
trained in first aid, noticed that the child
was not breathing and immediately ad-
ministered mouth-to-mouth artificial
respiration and other life supportive
measures. In the time it took the ambu-
lance to arrive, the sergeant had been
successful. in restoring breathing to the
child.
According to the official announce-
ment of the award from the American
National Red Cross, the attending phy-
sician stated:
His (the young boy)
related to the first aid
scene of the accident.
survival is directly
administered at the
In our fast pace of life, we sometimes
forget the devotion displayed to our fel-
low men by those who sincerely care and
are dedicated to saving and protecting
the lives of others.
I join, with Sergeant Potter's family
and friends, in expressing gratitude for
his actions and pride in his accomplish-
ments and high standard of work.
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GRLSSIO? AL RECORD - Extensions of Remarks August 1, 1.4'774
MEW REVEALS PSRO CONTRACTS
AWARDED AMA
HDN. EARL F. LANDGREBE
ay, August 1, 1974
Mr. REBE. Mr. Speaker, at the
recent Ame Medical Association
convention, th House of Delegates
defeated a mots advocating the repeal
of the PSRO pro on of the Social Se-
curity Amendmen f 1972. 1 consider
this action exceedin shortsighted, for
it is the private practi f medicine that
is most threatened by b aucracies like
It has recently come to 34 attention
that the Department of Hea Educa-
tion, and Welfare awarded a num-
ber of contracts for the develo
nNiant of
that those who are trying to understand
the position of the AMA on this issue can
also understand some of the usually un-
seen operations that a bureaucracy per-
forms.
I Include the following article:
HEW REVEALS PSRO Coorraacrs AWAansn
AMA mo Ira Arrussass n ra Wsinc or Jtrxs
23, 2994
An HEW News Release dated July 19. 1974.
and additional data cited in the News Re-
lease, revealed the coverage and timing of
IMW-PSRO contract awards to AMA and its
aalitates,
The Release revealed a $995,635 award to
AMA on June 29 for developing screening cri-
Iaiela for P8RO,pollcitrg of medical care--anri
that $1,453,399 for training of PSRO opera-
t3vee was awarded an organis;adon represent-
s> y foundations set up by coraaponentr
Contracts below are for planning laRos,
accept those identified as (SSC) which are
for developing "State Support Centers," or
(CO) which are Conditional and Operational
I'SR.Os-
State, organization, city, and typo of
Contract Data AmoaM
Alabama: Alabama Medical Review, Inc.,
Mot'>M'nery ......... ........ ?--.---- 6/28 165,000
Alaelra:Alaska PSRO.Anchoeage---------- 6/25 12.312
AriSan,: Mona -----
Arttan as: Arkansas founds:loo for Midi-
CalCare,Fort Smith_________________ _ 6124 65.000
Canker n:
United Foundations for f4adical Care,
San Francisco, (SS ^1 . -- ?----_ 6/21 .94, 335
91MdJoaquin Area Q. Stxkton (CO))... 6127 (42. 470
Lint Central Los Angete PSRuO, Los
An eles___ - 6/28 78.750
Foun for Medical Cars of Santo
Cliffs Case ty,SanJose....... ------- 6124 74.000
Kern County l edicel Society. sellers-
Sold --------------- -- ............ 6/24 61,800
North BayPSRO,San Rafael ........ 6/24 611 200
Monterey County Medical Society Sali-
nas 6124 45.485
Ore rrration for PSR of Santa Barbara
std San Luis Obispo Counties, Santa
Barbara --------------._-...__..
Redw'oad Coast fiR8 44.700
Region PSRD. Santa
Rose------ 6124 74,500
RiveruideCounty PSRO,Ri?:erside_---_._ 6124 56,400
SanFrancisco P520 Inc.. SanFrancisco_. 6;28 57.000
PSRD of San Mateo Eounty, San Matea_ 6,25 62:09
Stanislaus Foundation for Medical Cara.
Modesto.. 629 50, 242
Venture Area PSROIDc yentura....... 6124 68,580
Colorado: Colorado Foundation for Medical
Care. Denver (CO)--------------------- 6128 2,700,600
Ceemecticut?
Connecticut Medical institute, new
Haven (SSC)---------- -- ....... 60 .47,812
Connecticut Area iI PSRO. Inc., Nov
Haven...... ........... ._... - IM V4 (tlB
SIYfe ~. ^arizatkn, lily, and type of
contract
sonar.---.. 6'24 $63,1200
iaflGsrd Csoattl i3A0_,im fr 424 sn em
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