HOW TO BE THE HIT OF THE NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY

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How to' be the hit of the New
Year's Eve party
ART BUCHWALD
WASHINGTON - It's New Year's Eve
Fand you're speechless. Stick this in your
wallet or purse and become the hit of the
party.
- "My daughter gave up her Cabbage
Patch doll for adoption."
"If Ed Meese thought Scrooge was the
victim of a bad press, remember what
they did to Count Dracula."
"I don't see how,you.people can cele-
brate New Year's Eve when Premier, Na-
kasone lost 36 seats in the Japanese elec-
tions last week."
"1 always cry at the end of 'Love
Boat."'
"George makes spare parts for the
Pentagon."
"Would anyone like to come over to
our house after dinner :and see a video-
tape of 'The Day After'?"
"Try this cheese. We got It standing in
lint at a government warehouse."
"My kid. managed to break into the
Chrysler computer and ordered it to ship
1000 trucks, to Lee lacocca's house for
Christmas."
"1 don't see why you have to have 'The
Right Stuff to be an astronaut."
"If you want to know what the Ger-
mans really think of us, read 'Hitler's
Diaries."'
"You'll never get a nuclear arms trea-
ty with the Soviets by sitting down and
talking to them."
"1. wish Ronald Reagan would grow a
beard." -
"Does anyone know if Andropov's
health is improving?"
"Shall we all drink a toast to Australia
for winning the America's Cup?"
"If I marry Joanna Carson, she'll nev-
er get $50,000 a month out of me."
"I'd rather have my 'kid learn how to
play. football than worry about whether
he was getting an education or not."
"I think the media are doing one het-
luva job, and I hope they keep it up."
"Does anyone want to bet that George
McGovern will be our next President?"
"Can any of you remember where you
were the exact moment James Watt re-
tired as Secretary of the interior?"
"I'd rather be nouveau riche than not
"My son is suing his female boss for 11
sexual harassment."
"We just got into a tax shelter with
William Casev, director of the CIA"
"Every time we buy land underneath
a volcano In Hawaii, the damn thing
blows up."
"Did you hear the latest about Zsa Zsa
Gabor?"
"Allan put a dump truck in front of
our driveway to stop terrorists, so now we.
have to park our car in the.street."
"No. Sidney didn't come tonight. He
got drunk at his Christmas office party,
and they called for a volunteer driver
from the Safe Holiday Motor Pool, and she
took him home to her apartment, and
now they're living together."
"I figure flying must. be safe or the
Moonies wouldn't hang out at airports."
"I got bored playing golf and tennis
ed to become a lady barber."
"I'll bet you there isn't a person in this
room who knows how much I paid for
this watch."
"If everyone will shut up for one mo-
ment, we'll tell you what our four-year-
old grandchild said to us on Christmas
Eve."
"I'll show you my American Express
card, if you show me yours.".
"'Woody had a triple heart bypass be-
fore the doctors discovered he was allergic
to Orlon underwear."
"I'd rather have a gender gap than a
missile gap."
. "Hey, everybody, it's midnight. Would
you all loin me in singing the Grenada
National Anthem?"
Art Buchwald is a syndicated colurn-
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Yp...kars der JTK-Khrush~h~v,
tuba accord haunts U.S. policy
By Ted Aore5 proceeds with modernizing its Nevertheless, Mr Reagan
re-
V"HiNG70N TIMES STAFF
The Reagan administration,
faced with a growing threat of So-
viet missiles being deployed 10
minutes from the U.S. coast,-may be
forced to decide soon whether
agreements made 21 years ago with
th e Russians are valid.-
This assessment is based on se-
cret documents obtained from the
State Department and interviews
with policymakers in the adminis-
tration and Congress.
At issue is the Kennedy-Khrush-
chev agreement, in which the Sovi-
ets promised to. remove their.
offensive weapons from Cuba in re-
turn for an American pledge to lift
its blockade of the island and not to
invade. The agreement also has
been contingent upon the Soviet
-Union not using Cuba to export in-
surrection in the region. .
The understanding has been a
cornerstone of U.S. defense policy
since the two leaders made the
agreement in October 1962.
But closely held documents,
among some 2,400 pages locked in
State Department files; reveal
widely varying opinions held by
U.S. officials over the years as to
whether the Soviets have kept their
part of the agreement. .
Now concern is growing among
senior government officials that
the Reagan administration is.un
sure how it should respond to new
Soviet threats and activities in this
hemisphere.
Three Republican senators,
James McClure and Steve Symms
of Idaho and Jesse Helms of North
Carolina, want President Reagan to
disavow the Kennedy-Khrushchev
agreement based upon Sovietabro-
gation of it. They are lirging Mr.
Reagan to use the disavowal as legal
justification for whatever military
action may be required to protect
U.S. interests in the hemisphere. .
For several months, Soviet offi-
cials have been warning that they
would deploy nuclear missiles off
the coast of the U t d St
nt
c
medium-range nuclear missile framed from invoking the
forces in Europe, targeted on Soviet Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement
bases and cities. in justifying the U.S. military ac-
Installation of these cruise and , tion in Grenada. Instead, he cited
Pershing II missiles began last concern for the safety of U.S. Sri.
month, and the Soviets have since dents on the island and the request
walked out of arms control nego- for assistance from West Indian is-
tiations in Geneva, land states.
One recent Soviet threat was de- Mr. Reagan has since incurred
livered by Gen. Nikolai Chervov, criticism from many quarters for
who warned that Soviet missiles this rationale, despite his wide sup-
would be deployed within "10 min- port from the American public.
utes" flying time of the United Secret documents relating to the
States, most certainly based in the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agree-
hemisphere. ment obtained by The Washington
Soviet spokesmen subsequently Times are part of some 500 doc-
denied that Cuba would be used to uments, totaling 2,400 pages, se-
base these missiles, but U.S. offi- questered in locked State Depart-
cials are not convinced. Nor is the ment files.
possible use of Soviet facilities in But neither the National
other Latin American countries, in- Security Council, the U.S. ambassa-
cluding Guyana, being dismissed. dor to the United Nations, the Joint
President Reagan has twice pub- Chiefs of Staff, the Arms Control
licly accused the Soviets of "abro- and Disarmaent Agency nor
gating" the agreement, citing the members of the Senate have been
introduction of "offensive weap-- allowed recent access to the doc-
ons" in Cuba counter to the under- uments.
standing. Reasons are murky. Richard
Other senior officials, including Burt, assistant secretary of state
CIA irector William Casey an for European affairs, who is said to
Undersecretary oDefense P red
be controlling access, did not re-
Ikle have likewise charged the turn
repeated calls to his office for
accords have been vio aced and
comment.
"eroded away to nothing" due to So- The documents withheld from
viet non-compliance. U.S. policymakers outline the vary-
I'heSoviets arereported tohave ing interpretations of the
on Cuba some .40 MG-23 and agreement during the past 21
MG-27"Flogger" fighter bombers years. Indeed, a secret legal analy-
with nuclear capability, 12 TU-95 sis by the Carter State Department
"Bear" heavy-bombers, nine air- in November 1978 concluded that
fields to accommodate these and the Kennedy-Khrushchev "under-
other bombers; a strategic nuclear standing ... has not been treated as
submarine base at Cienfuegos and an international -agreement binding
a Soviet combat brigade. in law"
In all, the Soviets have about 52 The Reagan administration ana-
operational nuclear. delivery sys- lysis, done for then-Secretary of
tems in Cuba, nearly twice the num- State Alexander Haig in January
ber they had in 1962. 1982, takes a different tac It ad-
But what analysts consider most mits that "we have in the pa %aken
important is that abrogation of the the position, at least interns 'that
Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement the 1962 U.S.-Soviet exchanges
gives the United States a "legal were not legally binding
right" to take military action "to agreements"
prevent aggression in the hemi- But it concludes, "It would be ill-
sphere" fomented by the Soviet- advised to continue to foster the
Cuban axis - this according to a view that these exchanges are less
a~
ges, tar secret 1982 legal memorandum by
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CIA's Blind Eye to the Pope Plo
By CLAIRE STERLING
The order of arrest for Mehmet Ali
Acca signed last night by Attorney General
Achile Gallucci accuses the Turkish ter-
rorist of "an attempt on the life of a head
of state .. , in concourse with other per-
sons who remain unknown. " This last "is
not just a precaution; it is more than
that, " he said.
(Judge) Luciano Infelisi, the examining
magistrate who signed the warrant, said
more explicitly: "For us, there is docu-
mentary proof that Mehmet Ali Agca did
not act alone."
-La Stampa of Turin. May 15, 1981
(datelined Rome)
Police are convinced, according to gov-
ernment sources, that Mr. Agco acted
alone.
-the New York Times, May 15, 1981
(datelined Rome)
He did not act alone. We know that now,
since he has said so himself and the Italian
judiciary has confirmed it. If not for
Agda's testimony, no amount of fragmen-
tary evidence would have convinced the
world that the Bulgarian secret service,
acting on behalf of the Soviet Union's
KGB, conspired to murder the head of the
Roman Catholic Church. Much of the world
still refuses to believe it: because it seems
unbelievable, and because the Western
public. deliberately deceived by its own
leaders, was led to conclude that there
never was a conspiracy at all.
It took less than 48 hours to mount the
deception. Pope John Paul 11-was shot and
very nearly killed in St. Peter's Square on
the afternoon of May 13, 1981. The first
official falsehood showed up on the morn-
ing of May 15, in the New York Times, as
cited above, and elsewhere in the interna.
tional press.
Distorted Image
Alive and in prison, Mehmet All Agca
was a time bomb, ticking' away until the
inevitable day when he would be induced
to talk. So began a singular Western effort
to discredit what Agca might say before he
said it, suppress the supporting evidence, _
dismiss him as an incorrigible liar of un-
balanced mind. Why the governments of
free rations should have gone to such
lengths to shield the Soviet Union is a long
story, told only in part here, of ingenuous
expectations and self-inflicted defeats.
How they did it is easier for me to explain
than why.
When the first arrests were made on
the strength of his confession, in late No-
vember 1982, his image was so effectively
distorted that hardly anybody was pre-
pared to believe him. Those who might
have been willing to listen were discour-
aged by semiofficial leaks to the press. A
spokesman for Whitehall in London warned
against crediting "convicts who sing to get
out of jail." German and Israeli secret ser-
vices were quoted in the New York Times
as blaming the arrests on "doubtful infor-
mation or downright disinformation." The
CIA's deputy director in Rome was quoted
in the Italian press as telling the interior
minister bluntly: "You have no proof"-
this last while rumors were spreading
through Europe that Agca had been told
what to say, secretly, in his prison cell, by
the CIA itself.
The world was left with a somewhat
confusing yet somehow comforting image
of the pope's would-be assassin that would
j never quite fade. He was a Turk: that was
something people would always remember.
It made him truly a stranger in Western
eyes, coming from an alien and indistinct
Islamic land, stirring hazy visions of fierce
mustachioed Ottomans, starving Arme-
nians, and Ambleresque Byzantine in-
trigue.
Personally and politically, Agca was
held to be everything and its opposite.
P.ianetwide headlines had made him out to
be at once an unregenerate neo-Nazi and a
Moslem fanatic consumed with hatred for
the Christian West; a cold professional
killer already convicted of murder at
home, and an irrational crackpot; a mem-
ber of Turkey's right-wing Gray Wolves,
who presumably travel in packs, and a
loner-above all, a loner.
That suited a great many people at top-
most international levels who feared-in-
deed assumed-that the truth, if uncov-
ered, would prove to be awkward, un-
timely, impolitic, inexpedient, and thus un-
acceptable.
Much the same reasoning had contrib-
uted greatly to the global expansion of in-
ternational terrorism over the previous de-
cade. The argument went that detente
must not be endangered by exposing the
Russians' peccadilloes, that scolding them
in public would merely bring out the worst
in them-in effect that the KGB would go
away if we would only be nice to it.
The results could be measured year by
year in the rising levels of terrorist equip-
ment and proficiency, assured by the Rus-
sians.. directly or through their surrogates.
By 1981, practically all Western -govern-
ments had a lengthy record of denying in
public what they knew in private to be the
provenance of these terrorists' training
and weapons. Bigger and bolder terrorist
strikes,?which they might be said to have
brought upon themselves, did not deter
them from this course. Judging by experi-
ence, the pope's assailants might logically
count on their continuing indulgence.
The operation was evidently planned to
simulate the kind of mindless terrorist hit
that has gradually been accorded a kind of
numbed acceptance, a hit designed not so
much to eliminate e victim as-to' r n
the audience. In this instance, however,
the purpose was not to frighten the audi-
ence but to eliminate the victim. It was PO
terrorist hit at all. The setting was ar, elab-
orate ruse. The assassin had been hired,
and paid. He had no passionate ideological
commitments, nor did his eri,ployers. who
were simply agents of a foreign state.
Would Western govern men+s-whatever
their past performance-help to keep a se-
cret of such magnitude?
They would, and did.
Faced with a crime of the highest in-
ternational order, against the supreme
leader of the largest organized church on
earth, a crime committed on Vatican soil
by a Turkish citizen, whose trail crossed at
least seven national frontiers, the Italians
were essentially left to deal with it alone.
Neither the six other countries implicated
directly nor any of Italy's natural allies
made an urgent point of gathering relevant
information, still less of passing it on to
Rome. The papal shooting was "not a mat-,
ter of intense scrutiny" for the CIA. said
one of its senior officials in Washington.
"It is an Italian matter, and it would be
inappropriate for us to intrude."
Vital leads were frequently ignored.
knowledge infrequently shired, indispens-
able evidence withheld. An establishmen-
tarian longing to keep the lid on was ap-
parent wherever I went. "Come., now.
Whatever makes you believe there was
any such thing as an international plot?
Our police in Germany really don't see the
attack on the pope as the big operation
you seem to think it was," I was told with
a tolerant smile by a ranking functionary
of West Germany's Bundeskriminalamt.
Agca "did not come from nowhere," the
Court of Assizes in Rome declared: "Hid-
den minds" had sent him. He was no "de-
lirious ideologue," felt "no personal hostil-
ity" toward the pope, and "not a word of
the proceedings" had shown him to be a
religious crank. Far from being crazy, he
had "uncommon gifts of mental equilib-
rium." His "spirit of discipline, profes-
sional commitment, and skill in the use
of lethal weapons" had made him an ideal
instrument for the operation in St. Peter's
Square-just that, and no more. It, the
court's opinion, Agca had "merely been
used as a pawn."
Yet the cult of disbelief died hard, sus-
tained by the one source that should by
rights have been above suspicion. If any-
body ought to be seizing triumphantly on
the Russo-Bulgarian conspiracy theory, it
was the redoubtable CIA. Precisely be-
cause it had come to be seen so widely as
the world's primeval anti-communist force
(and prime evildoer besides), its excep-
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USA TODAY
20 December 1983
Topic: INSIDE THE CIA
William Casey, 70, is
director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. He
began his intelligence ca-
reer in 'orld War II,
and then served in a va-
riety of public and pri-
vate jobs, including a
State Department post
and as a partner in a
New York City law firm.
He was interviewed
about the activities of
the CIA for USA TODAY
by free-lance writer
Morgan Strong.
Public has positive
attitude about CIA
USA TODAY: What are the
CIA's chief functions?
CASEY: The agency's chief
function is to produce intelli-
gence-on matters of national in-
terest that are important to the
policymaking and decision-
making process. We collect in-
formation through various
means, including such techni-
cal means as photography,
then evaluate, analyze and syn-
thesize this Information to
reach judgments.
USA TODAY: Is the CIA the
coordinator of all the govern-
ment's intelligence activities?
CASEY: As director, I'm
charged with coordinating the
activities of the intelligence
community, which is made up
of a group of organizations in-
cluding the CIA, the Defense
Intelligence Agency, Army,
Navy, Air Force, the FBI, the
Departments of Energy, Trea-
sury, and State. The CIA is the
primary assembler of all
sources of Intelligence. The
CIA also has a collection role,
acquiring information openly
and clandestinely, other agen-
cies also collect information.
USA TODAY: Isn't there
some competition among the
agencies, though?
. CASEY: There's deliberate
competition. We believe in
competitive analysis, in the
sense that we encourage the
components of the community
to come up with their own judg-
ments. Then we meet in the
National Foreign Intelligence -
Board to sort it out and recon-
cile differences. What we can't
reconcile, we flag for the atten-
tion of the policymakers. In
that sense, we encourage com-
petition.
USA TODAY: Is there any
tension among the intelli-
gence agencies?
CASEY: Very little. Today,
I'm going to meet -with the
heads of the agencies. We'll
spend a full day sorting out
problems. We meet each week
to approve National Intelli- -
gence Estimates. We look for
differences and if they are sig-
nificant, we make clear that
they exist The only turf I have
to protect is our objectivity.
USA TODAY: There were
differing estimates of the
strength of the defenders dur-
ing the Grenada invasion. Do
policymakers sometimes ig-
nore or misinterpret informa-
tion provided by the CIA?
CASEY: I don't think the
Grenada example is a good
one. Although there were no
CIA officials on the spot, we
had a number of sources on the
island providing 'information
regularly. There was never a
difference in the intelligence"
community (regarding Cuban
strength) of more than 200. In-
telligence is not an exact sci-
ence, and there will be differ.
ences. That's why we try to
bring out the significant areas
of disagreement and deter-
mine the rationale and reasons
for them. There is a danger if
intelligence is ignored, but
we've done a lot to minimize
that.
CASEY: We brief principal
officials in government every
day. We've. increased the num-
ber of National Intelligence Es-
timates to about 50 a year, up
from about 12 a year in the late
.1970s. These estimates are on
the table when decisions are
made. Sometimes this intelli-
gence isn't given sufficient
weight by policymakers, but
there is a good give and take
that provides assurance that it
will be looked at and under-
stood. The best assurance ...
rests in a good relationship be-
tween the intelligence people
and the policy people. Now-this
relationship is very close.
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PARIS, Dec. 15 - For years now,
U.S. foreign policy in Central Amer-
ica has been undermined by private
or semi-private U.S. groups encour-
aging the extreme right to disregard
official Washington warnings.
A senior State Department official
said not long ago that it must be
dreadfully confusing for the local
politicians. They are told publicly
that the U.S. supports democracy and
reforms, and opposes death squads
and wanton murder of peasants.
But then they hear whispers from
Americans who seem influential that
all this talk is for public consumption,
and that the U.S. backs anyone who
fights Communists. The contradiction
is widely knoax, in Washington.
The private activities probably vio-
late the Logan Act, passed in 1799 and
still on the books. It forbids unauthor-
ized ~U.S. citizens to deal with foreign
governments in an attempt to influence
foreign policy, which well-placed peo-
ple were already trying to do in the
earliest days of the Republic. Aaron
Burr was an example. The act is con.
sidered virtually unenforceable now.
But there are disturbing signs that
private involvement in covert actions
has substantially expanded well be-
yond Political and economic meas-
ures, exemplified by the I.. T. in
Chile before the Pinochet cp, to
paramilitary activities.
Whether or not this subverts U.S.
policy depends on what the policy
really is. In any case, such involve-
ment-shields participants from the
legal,-oversight mandated for spe-
cially cleared Congressional commit.
tees. According to Adm. Stanfield
Turner, former C.I.A. Director, it
also, probably blocks CLA.. control
once operations are launched, risking
runaway disasters.
There is an argument in Washing-
ton about whether the Administration
is deliberately disguising an attempt
to overthrow the Sandinista Govern-
ment-in Nicaragua and help the far
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Left Hand,
Right
Hand
By Flora Lewis
right elsewhere, or whether it is lax in
reining in its own supporters.
John Carbaugh, the busy former
aide to Senator Jesse Helms, said flatly
that the C.I.A. was totally in charge,
sometimes through private contracts
or by Accepting "contributions." These
seem to include planes and possibly
U.S. mercenaries sent to perform sabo-
tage. Mr. Carbaugh has intimate
knowledge of devious moves in Central
America, but be doesn't hide his con-
tempt for what the C.I.A. Is doing.-
Philip Taubman-and"ff Gerth of
The New York Times recently tracked
several privately owned American
planes involved in secret operations,
but they haven't been able to pinpoint
the source of the orders or the money.
Argentine soldiers helped train "con-
tras" in Honduras and plan attacks in
Nicaragua before the Falkland war,
but they are no longer available, Con?
gressional sources say.
The U.S. military and paramilitary
network is now expanding through
the region.' The Administration says
it endorses the efforts of the Latin
Contadora group to demilitarize Cen-
tral America and promote negotiated
settlements. But U.S. actions cast
doubt on the declarations, even as
Henry Kissinger and his commission
tour the area preparing to recom-
mend hugef economic aid to
evolve moderate regimes interested
in negotiating.
It is easier to'see the political un-
derpinning for the conflicting drive to
the right. There are conservative
"think tanks" in the Washington area
that make a point of having good rela-
tions with such ultras as Salvador's
Roberto D'Aubuisson and Guatema.
la's Mario Sandoval Alarcon, who are
officially shunned by the U.S. because
of their murderous reputations.
Among them are the Council on
Inter-American Security, the Ameri-
can Security Council, and the Na-
tional Strategic Information Center,
the last organized in the 1960's by Wil-
liam Casey, now C.I.A. Director. Re-
tired U.S. military officers and for-
mer C.I.A. officials are among their
active members.
They travel to Central America,
and arrange high-level meetings for
their friends when they come to
Washington. These sessions are then
used by the Latins to spread word
that they have confirmed secret U.S.
Government backing, despite public
denunciations. U.S. ambassadors
have confided that they are powerless
to reverse the impact.
If the policy is what the Adminis-
tration announces, to promote moder-
ate, democratic regimes capable of
social and economic development
that will head off Communist ad-
vance, then it is being flouted by its
servants and friends. If that is only lip
service, it is not only deceiving the
country and wasting a lot of money, it
is compounding the danger.
The jungle of intrigue, undercover
attacks and provocation has helped
make Central America the mess it Is.
There have been no successes, More
militarization, in collusion with cor-
porations, covert or open with U.S.
troops, diminishes the prospects of
both security and freedom. Mr. Kis-
singer should take the hidden side
into account in his report. -
STAT
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ADMINISTRATION EXEMPT FROM NEUTRALITY ACT, GOVERNMENT SAYS
BY SUSAN GOLDFARB
The U.S. Justice Department, claiming the Neutrality Act does not apply to
the administration, says the Attorney General has the authority to decide
whether the President broke the law in telling the CIA to conduct covert
activities in Nicaragua.
Attorney David Anderson of Washington D.C. asked a U.S. District jud
e
g
Thursday to revoke his court order requiring the Attorney General to investigate
whether Reagan violated the Neutrality Act. The federal lawyer said he would
appeal to a higher court if the judge denies the request.
Anderson argued that the Attorney General -- not the court -- has the
discretion to decide whether or not to prosecute, even before any investigation
is conducted.
''The department's judgment on the law of the Neutrality Act is that it does
not apply to executive officials conducting foreign policy on behalf of the
United States,'' Anderson said.
U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel said he would consider the matter and
issue a ruling later.
Anderson said he would.appeal to a higher court if Judge Weigel rules against
him.
Judge Weigel issued a ruling Nov. 3 ordering criminal investigation of the
President and other high government officials in a case brought by Rep. Ronald
Dellums, D-Oakland, and two other plaintiffs. If found guilty, the President and
his -key advisers face up to three years in prison and fines of $3,000 each.
The suit alleged President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA
Director William Casey, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other high
government violated the Neutrality Act, which prohibits training civilians to
overthrow a government with which the United States is not at war.,
Dellums earlier had asked Attorney General William French Smith to
investigate the President for criminal activity but Smith refused, and Dellums
went to court.'
''We assumed the Attorney General would conduct a good faith investigation,''
said Dellums' attorney, Jules Label. ''He has refused to do that. Instead, the
government argues the President is not subject to the Neutrality Act, that he is
above the law.'
The United States has been conducting military training of Nicaraguan exiles
in Florida since 1980, the lawsuit claims.
Nicaragua is not a declared enemy of'the United States.
According to Dellums, the plan provided at least $19 million -to 'finance
covert paramilitary operations against the people of Nicaragua; train armies
of ;10,000 to 15,000 Nicaraguan exiles in the United States and Honduras; conduct
CIA intelligence activity and send hundreds of CIA agents and government
officials to Hunduras" to assist in attempts to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government.
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Utl
sta probers run '
Hearin s k1)SeS
But re set case cans have been interviewed, thou-
sands f d i
h 1
t
of Carter papers
By Nancy J. Schwerzler
Washington Bureau of The Sun
Washington A'House subcom-
mittee investigating how Carter ad-
ministration documents. ended up in
the Reagan campaign is faced with a
series of memory lapses by witnesses
and. suggestions of partisan bickering
over the way hearings next month on
the panel's findings will be conducted.
After nearly six months of investi-
gation that began in a flurry of pub-
licity laat summer, the House Human
Resources Subcommittee, under
Chairman Donald J. Albosta (D,
Mich.), is near the end of its inquiries
and is scheduled to hold hearings be-
ginning January 26.
The work of the subcommittee,
which oversees ethics laws covering
government employees and is prima-
rily concerned with how those stan-
s
' ocumen ave accumu a
-
.'ed from the campaign .and .personal
files of top Reagan administration of-
.ficials, and conflicting versions of paign official, and Paul Corbin, a
events and conversations have been Democrat with ties to the Kennedy
=uncovered. -family who was paid for some cam-
one of Mr. Albosta's main con paign work for the Reagan organiza-
,cerns is that there may have,beenun won. Mr. Albosta, however, said he
Authorized disclosure of sensitive ?na `mentioned the Corbin-Casey link pri-
tibfial security data
rluring theranr m
closed
di
nl
b
it h
b
_
a
y
ecause
as
een
s
,.an crisis that could have jeopardized .previously in media reports and that
the safety-of American hostages. It>was, simply one of many matters
Richard V. Allen, -President Rea-, 'being examined.
gan's former national security advis- ._Mr. Corbin has been cited by some
er and a former Reagan campaign of- 'witnesses as claiming credit for ob-
ficial, has said publicly that he found taming the Carter briefing book, but
in his files excerpts of material pre- he has denied it. Mr. Casey has denied
pared by the Carter National Security !';receiving the briefing book from any-
Council staff, but he has character- hone, but-other Reagan aides have said
ized the material as "innocuous" and the briefing book came to the--cam-
unclassified. .. .
However, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Mr. Albosta said one of the prob-
-former Carter security adviser, has , lems investigators have faced is
claimed that the staff reports usually memory lapses by witnesses. "I don't
-contained highly.sensitive and classi- know really how you resolve it," he
fled data, especially at a-time when said One of the functions of the hear-
hill, who has participated in the start
interviews of witnesses, acknowl-
edged that he is not privy to the ma-
jority staff's discussions.
Mr. Albosta also said that investi-
gators were looking into possible
links between William Casey, the CIA
dards might be improved, could be the Carter admnistration was con- tngs will be to highlight the "con-
overshadowed, however, regardless sumed with the -hostage situation in flicts"between witnesses' versions of
probe conducted by the FBI. 'The'FBI Reagan :campaign 'officials have - them.
has-not yet released the findings of its also acknowledged that they were ex- Reagan administration officials
investigation, although' it is believed tremely-concerned about what they - have often displayed detailed "memo-'
to be near completion. called an October surprise" - a ry capacity" in other matters, he
"We're not going to oversell it," sudden -step by President Carter,tosaid, but "all of a sudden they can't
Micah Green, staff director of the win the freedom of-the American hos- remember something as important as
subcommittee, says of the forthcom- tages and thus ride to reelection on a this."
ing hearings. "We don't want to make crest of popular support The Repub- Although both sides say they are
a mountain out of a molehill." --lican officals have maintained there not trying to turn the probe or next
"I think it will prove to have much were no improper efforts to obtain se
less interest to the press and public cret information, however. -
thin when it began," Steve Hemphill, -` Mr. Albosta -said in an interview
.counsel to the panel's Republicans that -his investigation was examining
who has been monitoring the probe, whether unauthorized disclosures of
said of the subcommittee investiga- sensitive security materials "could
tion. have endangered the lives of the -hos-
Those associated with the panel's tages?"
investigation are reluctant to discuss "We're looking at that very, very
or draw conclusions about the sub- "closely," he .said. "The public would
stance of the inquiry how a brief- be very opposed to a group or individ-
ing book intended. to prepare Presi- uals getting that type of information"
dent Jimmy Carter for the October, and potentially using it for political
date Ronald Reagan ended up in the
possession of Mr. Reagan's campaign
staff. The panel is also probing the
apparent transfer of other materials
from the Carter White House to the
Reagan campaign organization.
During the investigation, about 200
witnesses most of them Republi-
a partisan battle, there are already
signs of political tensions.
Mr. Hemphill, the Republican
counsel, has been keeping a tally of
the political affiliations of the wit-
nesses called .by the majority staff
and says there have been twice as
many Republican or Reagan-affiliat-
ed witnesses as Democratic or Car-
ter-affiliated witnesses.
Mr. Albosta acknowledged that
more Republicans had been inter-'
sel for the subcommittee's .parent cause "that is where the statements
Post Office and Civil Service Com- seem to be coming from."
mittee, says that although the inquiry
has focused on the hostage question,
"I do not perceive it as being a very
time-consuming portion of the inves-
tigation." Nevertheless, Mr. Heinp-
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asked )MMr. Brzezinski and Jody Pow-
ell, the former Carter administration
press secretary, about "any leads
they could give us on the Democratic
side." He added, however, that "it's
been very difficult at best to get any-
thing from those people; I felt they
really didn't know."
"I don't see any gain for me or for
the Democratic Party in this," the
Michigan Democrat said of the probe.
"Obviously, there is just as much
fault in the Democratic camp for
somebody to give out material as
there is on the Republican side" to re-
ceive it.
Mr. Hemphill said Republicans
were reserving the right to call their
own witnesses at next month's hear-
ings and that under committee rules
they were entitled to at least a day of
such testimony. The Democrats' wit-
ness list has not yet been established.
"I'll not turn this into a three-ring
circus to please the minority," Mr.
Albosta said. Although he hopes to
work with Republicans in organizing
the hearings, he said, he "will not
yield to pressure" to turn them into a
partisan event.
"I think it strange they would
consistently oppose this type of inves-
tigation," Mr. Albosta said. Republi-
cans on the panel have questioned the
necessity of the probe, saying that if
changes in ethics laws are truly the
chairman's goal, they could be made
by simply "assuming the worst" and
rewriting the law accordingly,. -...
Representative Donald J. Albosta
(D, Mich.) has been working on
probe for nearly six months.
Assd.:.iatad Press/1980
CIA Director William Casey, for-
mer Reagan campaign ride, has
denied receiving Carter papers.
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WASHINGTON TIMES
15 December 1983
'New York's super-social .
by Democratic Rep. Bob Mrazek,
has been brooding about taking
another dive .at the twig. Well, dar-
dings.' His last poll shows a 48 per
cent "Negative" response, even.
from His Kind of Folks. On
the sunny side: Pals say this
means that the adorable Larry
Casey will take a shot at that very
seat. Larry's not only an old Jack
Kemp sidekick and a whizbang on
the staff of Rep. George Wortley;
he's also the nephew of CIA super-
star Bill Casey who actually
'pitched for. that very seat back in
,'66, but never grabbed it. What
aincredibly weeny world. Watch
that space.
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Decision to Get
Tougher Led to
Bombing by T.S.
By GEORGE SKELTON,
Times Staff Writer
orces, a White House official said.
"No one in those meetings real-
ized that, come Saturday morning,
we would be faced with a classic
attack on our forces," said the
official, Robert B. Sims, public af-
fairs director for the National Secu-
rity Council.
a" Reagan's decision to "generally
toughen up the U.S. position" in
.Lebanon, Sims noted, coincided
WASHINGTON-The U.S. retal- Lebanese President Amin Gemayel.
iatory attack on Syrian anti-aircraft ~'r? .ln his meeting with Gemayel,
positions Sunday resulted from a Reagan urged that the Lebanese
decision by President Reagan latex: become'more-aggressive and
last week to get tough militarily in fake control of territory not occu-
Lebanon in an effort to bolster the -pled by Muslim, Syrian or Israeli
morale of the Lebanese government forces. This would assert Lebanese
and army, Administration officials authority and help persuade the
said. - ' Israelis that they could safely with-
After having refrained for six draw their forces without having
weeks from retaliating for the ter- territory near their northern border
rorist bombing attack that killed 239 '.fall into the hands of pro-Syrian
American servicemen at Beirut-air- elements, Reagan contended.
port on Oct. 23, Reagan decided =, 'Here we were asking them to be
during meetings Thursday and Fri- more forceful and we really hadn't
day with his top security advisers tone 'very' much ourselves;' . said
"to respond vigorously and prompt- one Administration official, who did
IY" to the next assault on U.S. not want to be identified by name.
"There was question of. our resolve
by Gemayel and the Lebanese. The
'Lebanese probably are pleased now
that we have taken decisive, con-
crete action and shown we are not
ina cut-and-run mood."
'Redouble Efforts'
Sims said Reagan decided to "re-
double our efforts in the spirit, of
showing Gemayel.we are not giving
up on Lebanon,"
He had also said that after an
unsuccessful Nov. 17 attack on U.S.
reconnaissance-planes, the Admin-
istration had used diplomatic chan-
nels to warn Syria "in forceful
terms" that a similar future assault
'could prompt American retaliation.
The U.S. representatives also told
the Syrian government that the
American planes will continue to fly
reconnaissance missions, Sims said.
The attack Saturday morning on
two U.S. F-14 aircraft by Syrian
anti-aircraft weapons, and 10
surface-to-air missiles, was stron-
ger by far than any previous assault
,-on American planes in Lebanon,
Sims said.
Reagan's national security advis-
er, Robert C. McFarlane, consulted
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and.
Pentagon officials, and by late Sat-
urday afternoon was ready with a
retaliatory plan for Reagan's ap -
proval. The President quickly ap-
proved it. .
McFarlane sat in on the Thursday
and ay White House meetings,
with Reagan, as;Bd Defense secre-
ar Weinberger, ecre
tary
? of State eor e - .' tz,
Director William, J. Casey -an en.' '
John essev r., rmano e.
to
Joint hie sot
A inistration officials said the'
Israelis were neither consulted -nor
advised about the retaliatory-attack.
before it took place. Neither-did the
Israelis consult with the United
States before they hit Syrian targets
Saturday, they said.
The U.S. military, however, 'con
suited in advance with the- Leba-
nese and the other three nations
represented in the multinational
peacekeeping force Lebanon-ita-
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Air raids viewed as part of
U.SAsraeli:acc~rci
By Peter Almond
WiSHW GTON TIMES STAFF
LONDON - The Israeli and
American air raids against Syrian
targets in Lebanon are described
here and in Israel as the first evi-
dence of a U.S.-Israeli pact to force
Syria to withdraw its troops from
Lebanon.
For the record, Israeli officials
said yesterday they knew of no such
pact, which would have been made
by President Reagan and Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in
Washington last week.
The Observer, a London Sunday
newspaper, quoted "well-placed
Western and Arab intelligence
sources" as saying the United
States and Israel have agreed to cut
Syria down to size "by war if need
' be."
The apparent political disarray
caused by the mysterious illness of .
Syrian President Hafez Assad has
encouraged hawks in Israel and the
United States to seize this moment
to move against Syria, the news-
paper says..
The Sunday Times quoted a
"highly placed Middle East -
source" as saying the new pact
means the United ' States would
come to Israel's aid in the event
Moscow intervened in a Syrian-
Israeli clash.
The Sunday Times quoted its
.source as sayin Secretary o State
expand its authority outside Beirut
days. Syria, he said, would receive and its suburbs increases the like-
a "sharp blow." The Reagan-Shamir lihood of a nation permanently
meeting, he said, would be critical divided between hostile religious
for the. plan to go forward. factions.
U.S. and Israeli planes hit Druze The illness of President Hafez
positions in the Shouf mountains 10 . Assad of Syria compounds the
and 11 days after that meeting. uncertainty with confusion.
(Radio 'Moscow yesterday also Mr. Assad has not been seen in
tied the escalation of U.S. and public since Nov 13, when he was
Israeli air raids in Lebanon to said to have been taken into a hos-
agreements purportedly reached pital for appendicitis surgery. But
between the United States and sources in the Middle East say Mn
Israel in Washington last week. Assad's appendix was removed in
("Observers connect the escala- Cairo in 1958, and that he may, in
tion of the fighting by.the United fact, have suffered a serious heart
States and Israel in Lebanon with attack.
the new strategic agreements He appeared on Syrian television
reached during the visit to Wash- last week, provoking such delight
ington" of Mr. Shamir, the among his nervous supporters that
Yesterday in Israel, the.newspa_ celebratory automatic gunfire, but
per Ha'aretz reported a- similar the authenticity of his television
version of a U.S.-Israeli agreement. appearance was doubted in Israel.
Regardless of whether Israel and One Israeli source said the film,
the United States actually signed a which did not record.his voice, also
formal agreement last week in showed a senior Syrian military
Washington, diplomatic and mili- official who was believed to be on
tary sources said, .both nations military maneuvers elsewhere.
could find several compelling rea- In London, The Observer said
sons to act swiftly and decisively yesterday that Mr. Assad's condi-
now against Syria: tion was serious enough that his
? For President Reagan, going family wanted to take him abroad
into an election year, the continued for treatment - perhaps to Swit-
presence of 1,600 U.S. Marines in zerland - but that the family had
Beirut might be politically intoler- been unable to persuade Syrian
able if there's no favorable end in intelligence experts, who fear he
sight. The deaths of 239 Marines - may be assassinated.
and now eight more, killed yester- Mr. Assad and his brother, Rifat,
day - make the withdrawal of the his likely successor, are, hated by
Marine contingent necessary. the' fundamentalist Moslem
os
d t
- - - _
? For Tcranl also
exp
e
o
atta
k
i
d it
c
s an
h
ts than once to assassinate them. Mr.
White House Chief of Staff James
own dead to mourn, maintaining Assad crushed the Brotherhood's
Baker III versuaded Dreg dear troops in southern Lebanon is uprising in Hama last year without
Reagan to endorse the agreement becoming a liability as well. Israeli
mercy.
against the advice of Defense Sec- troops, digging into fortified posi ' The new fear of assassination
retar for William Case ran CIA lions, have begun to assign respon abroad apparently stems from the
sibility for their security to discovery last year that a group of
The Sunday Times also reported Lebanese militiamen. As a result, British-based mercenaries had
that the U.S.-Israeli agreement they are increasingly resented by been paid $15,000 to make a fea-
lends credibility to remarks made Lebanese civilians. But they are'. sibility study of how to kill Rifat
by a senior Israeli intelligence determined that Israeli soldiers Assad in Geneva, where he has a
offical, to five leading Lebanese won't move back from the Awwali private home.
Christian leaders whom he met'in River until Syria. withdraws its 'The same group of marksmen
an Fast Beirut villa on Nov 23, that troops from Lebanon.. . _- _ _ also went to Damascus where they
Israel would move against Syria in ? For Lebanon, to continue in the concluded that HafezAssad would
the Shouf Mountains. in eight to 10 current situation invites disaster. b dff' 1
b
h
Damascus rang to the sound of
e a t ICU t tar et
ecause
e
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Bobby Ray Inman
Back in 1975, when
was director of Naval
Intelligence, he was
invited by some Sen-
ate staffers to come up to
Capitol Hill and discuss the
Soviet threat. The invitation
:proved to be more compli
cated than it appeared, as in-
vitations to spies often do
... but let Inman tell the
story himself:
"After the , meeting, a
staffer asked me to lunch. We
went to a little restaurant on
the back side of the Hill, and
two characters slid into the
seats next to us. They started
talking to me, suggesting that
if their companies got some
contracts, they could be of
great help to the Navy. I was
just beginning to get incensed
when one of them said, `By
the way, I work for you."'
Inman' was flabbergasted.
The man -was -Edmund Wil-
son, a hulking former CIA streaking between Washing-
agent who belonged to the se- . ton and Austin. "The thought
cret Naval Intelligence organ- crossed my mind," he says,
ization known as Task Force gazing at his wan reflection in
157, whose members gathered the blackened window of the
intelligence about harbors aircraft, "that Wilson might
around the world. While try to do me harm."
working for Task Force 157'. I -
come a rich man, .owning a the director of a consor-
Virginia horse farm, among tium of electronics and
-~ known as MCC that is
to procure illegal 'explosives .
for Libyan terrorists and at- racing the Japanese toward
tempt to have. some people the next generation of super-
assassinated, but that's an- computers. When Inman. re=
other story. tired last year as. deputy di-
"I went back to the office," j rector of the Central Intelli-
Inman ' says, ,and asked, gence Agency, he probably
`Who is this guy?' That day I ' had more varied experience
decided to terminate Wilson's in. analytical intelligence than
contract." Inman had already yone. Though not a Naval
decided to do away wit~ T kk Academy graduate Inman
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BY JAMES CONAWAY
E UL
James Conaway is a staff
writer for The Washington
Post Magazine.
budgetary requirements, but
the meeting with Wilson con-
vinced him that the decision
was sound. "Later"-and
Inman smiles the gap-
toothed smile so familiar to
congressional committees and
intelligence operatives-
"Wilson blamed me for a lot
of his troubles."
Inman was Wilson's an-
tithesis,,principled to a fault,
and so physically unassuming
that as a child he was often
beaten up in east Texas
schools (until he helped two
brawny classmates with their
homework and learned the
value of bodyguards)..
Today Wilson is in prison
and Inman is drinking Cali-
fornia riesling in the first-
class cabin of a Boeing 727
worked his way up through
Naval Intelligence to become
a four-star admiral, was
named deputy director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency
in 1976 and then became the
youngest director ever of the
secretive, monolithic Na-
tional Security Agency.
He tried to retire in 1981,
with 30 years of military ser-
vice, but President Reagan
personally asked him to take:
the number - two job under
CIA director William Casey.
Inman agreed, but left the
CIA a year later, to critical
acclaim from congressmen
and soldiers alike, some of
whom feared that American
intelligence was losing one of
its most valuable assets.
Inman resisted interview-
ers while in government, but
decided to talk about intelli-
gence-gathering for the sim-
ple reason that "it's an im-
portant subject." His views
on the men and the machines
in the business are instruc-
tive. Former CIA director
William Colby says Inman
"had all the jobs and never
let the bureaucracy get in his
way ... He respected the
congressional prerogative, but
was also concerned with
keeping the necessary se-
crets."
"He's a consummate pro-
fessional and a highly moral
individual," says George
Carver, who was deputy of
national intelligence in the
d O
97
s
CIA in the mi -1
now a finger while deflating some
senior fellow at the George-
CIBQ~OOltiens about spies and tech-
International Studies.
"Bobby Inman has always.
been an extremely articulate
and able advocate of the true
net interests of whatever
agency he represented.
That is a fair description of
a good spy.
"Articles saying that I'm a
master spy are pure garbage,"
Inman says. "I've never rub a
clandestine. operation.' But
I've been an avid user of what.
they produce."
Disputes over covert action
were cited as the reason
Inman left the CIA; however,
differences between him and
Casey reportedly arose.from
personality conflicts, rather
than philosophy, and the
natural differences between
generations. Casey was drop-
ping spies into Nazi Germany
when Inman was a Texas
whiz kid.
Computers are as es-
sential to the govern-
ment Inman worked
for as they are funda-
mental to his new en-
deavor, in a world where pri-
vate enterprise and govern-
ment service often overlap.
His competitors might well
be uneasy, given the admi-
ral's vita.
Inman insists he is no
.longer in the business: "I'm
not using any clandestine or
technical sources to deter-
mine what the Japanese are
doing. I do know that wher-
ever I go to speak, there are
substantial Japanese in at-
tendance."
He looks like the class vale-
dictorian, twisting a Univer-
sity of Texas ring around his
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WASHINGTON TIMES
2 December 1983
Untangling the Middle East snarls
The Lebanon crisis, President After all, as t e U. . elections Palestinian-Jordanian state includ-
Reagan's main foreign policy prob- come closer, public impatience ing most of the territories occupied
lem, has provoked some major with the Marines' presence in by Israel since 1967. But the
debates within the administration. Lebanon is likely to increase, so Mr. Saudis, the PLO, and Jordan
Since Syria refuses to reach a nego- Shultz's opportunity to face down, refused to cooperate, making Pres-
tiated agreement for withdrawing Syria may last for a limited period. ident Reagan look foolish and leav-
its troops, the problem threatens to Syria knows that the United States j ing the United States with few
drag on indefinitely, with about will not fight over Lebanon; attractive options.
1,500 U.S. Marines remaining in Damascus can merely wait until Further, contrary to State
Lebanon under periodic attack. the United States grows tired of the Department reports, the Syrians
SSecretarv of State George contest and goes away. At that showed little interest in negotiating
Shultz seconded by National Secu- point, Syria could renew its domi- their way out of 'Lebanon even if
Advisor (and former Middle nation over Lebanon - or at least Israeli withdrawal was assured.
st negotiator) Robert _ M_ cFar- the larger portion of the country A disillusioned Mr. Shultz
lane wants to take a tough stand in
outside Israeli occupation - at a ordered a shake-up in the State
Qrder to pressure Syria into some much lower cost. Department's Near East bureau
fort of compromise. Secretary of Since Syria can outwait the and called for better ties between'
Defense Caspar Weinber, er SUP- United States, Washington must the United States and Israel. Mr.
ported by C IA Dire ctor--Win give Damascus a reason to move ' McFarlane, the new national secu-
f A ev favors find, ng the fastest
possible pretext for pulling tie toward resolving the issue. ?One rity adviser, fresh from the frustra-
~RA ible out of 13f or Ming t e -way to do this might be to escalate lions of trying to negotiate with the
es jqftnL
the conflict. Former Secretary of Syrians in Lebanon, took a similar
Reagan has decided in Mr. Shultz's State Henry Kissinger publicly stand. The resignation of Prime
!avar ateeast for a time e in suggested that the United States Minister Menachem Begin, who
and this choice wi set the course should encourage Israel to stage had poor personal relations with
QI ithL&1iLX&=o13cv in operations against the Syrians-or President Reagan and other U.S.
rho months leading tin to the 1984 should even itself launch some officials, also aided improved
presidential elegy; military activities. Such ideas were bilateral ties. Thus the period of
An accident of timing helped set- not taken completely seriously by friction that began during Israel's
tle the matter. The terrorist truck- the administration itself, since the invasion of Lebanon in July 1982
bombing attack on Marine dangers of setting off a larger Mid- was quite over by the autumn of-
barracks in Beirut, killing 239 U.S. die East war cannot be taken 1983.
soldiers, took place shortly after lightly. There is still some hope in Wash-
Congress agreed to allow 18 What Mr. Shultz wants to do, and ington that the Syrian-backed
months for leaving peacekeeping this makes sense in diplomatic revolt against Yasser Arafat's lead-
forces in Lebanon. If the incident terms. is to frighten the Syrians ership in the Palestine Liberation
had happened before the legisla- Organ might
ac ushhPales -
Reagan, pressure from Capitol Hill embroiling the United States in P g Jor-tinia to remove them would have been fighting. A number of steps are danian leadership and the Reagan
much greater. As it happened, involved in this effort: increased plan. New steps were also taken to
leadership
indigenous despite public horror at the heavy U.S. flights over Lebanon, height- encourage on the West ank whi hmight
losses, he does not face a signifi ened cooperation with Israel, on the West B forward h might
cant challenge at home over the U.S Israeli and French airstrikes talks.
role in Lebanon. against the eastern Lebanon base Still, the United States is not will-
The terrorist attack against the. used to launch bloody car-bomb the
Marines was designed primarily by 4, attacks against the soldiers of all Arab-Israeli Iconflcrttswhend the
Iranian forces in Lebanon and their three states. Arab states themselves are not
small group of Lebanese sympa- In calling for the US. -Israel
willin to make co cessions are
take
thizers as part of what they deem a cooperation in Lebanon, and in the sks f r emcee co ments thatce
continuing war with the American region as a whole, Mr. Shultz has P gu
"Great Satan, but the Syrians undergone a dramatic turnaround. United have little and act when the
countenanced such actions as a At the beginning of his term as sec- P
means of pressuring the United retary of state, in August 1982, he PLO itself is split and Arab regimes
insisted that some quick solution to did relatively little to save Mr. Ara-
States calls to to pull leave out the Lebanon. Marines Ironically,only the Palestinian problem was fat from a drubbing at Syrian
hands. Re, s
encourage the Syrians to permit or needed before progress could be PLO leaders ofttheir will ne nessto
encourage more such assaults on made on any other question. g
the U.S. forces. The secretary of state made a grant the d U.S.S.R. bases any
the matter er b by developing the Rea- Palestinian state also
effort to make progress inclines Washington toward a more
the
gan plan - calling for a federated pro-Israel position.
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STAT
All the president's niensches
"See how these Christians love
one another."
TertulIian, Apologeticus
bserving from a distance
as the warring factions,
tribes and sects of central
Lebanon beleaguer and
? butcher one another with near
monotony - Palestine Liberation
Organization "rebels;' Arafat
loyalists, Shi'ites, Sunnis, Druze,
Maronites, Syrians, Phalangists,
etc. - the sentiment of more and
more bewildered Americans seems
,to be settling down to this: Let
Lebanon be Lebanon, and let's get
out.
Yet, imagine, if you will, some
Druze chieftain, high in the Shouf
Mountains, attempting to sort out
what the Americans - with their
carriers and gunboats just outside
Beirut harbor - are up to, from his
careful study of several weeks'
reports on President Reagan's pal-
ace guard.
Several weeks back, Bill Clark,
the president's confidant and
.friend,. startled Washington by
-resigning his national security
office, to escape the bloody feuding
'inside the West Wing-
Hard upon Mr. Clark's announce-
ment, chief of staff James Baker,
his adversary, attempted a West
Wing coup, supported by allies
.Michael Deaver and Richard Dar-
man, in which, it is said,' the first
lady was involved. Mr. Baker was to
move to the National Security
.Council; Mr. Deaver - the
treacherous "Lord Chamberpot" in
-the demonology of the New Right
would become chief of staff; the
"moderates" would control the pal-
ace.
Alerted. Mr. Clark rallied U.N.
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Defense Se r .tan' Ci spar Wein-
er er and CIA Director William
. C sev. who blocked the takeover
advancing Mrs. Kirkpatrick ac Mr.
Clark's successor. after a brief.
fierce struggle, the position went to
4r. Clark's deputy. Bud McFarlane.
? Before leaving for the Interior
Depai-tment, however, Mr. Clark set.
a time. bomb ticking inside the
locker of the moderates, whose
bomb took the form of a criminal
investigation -by .the FBI of a leak
from the National Security Council
which reported that Mr. McFarlane
- then Mideast negotiator - had
advanced the idea of U.S. air strikes
on some of the very parties with
whom he was negotiating, thereby
threatening not only Mr. McFar-
lane's mission, but his life.
That the time bomb threatens
the moderates would seem evident
from the fact that Ed Meese, their
old antagonist, is pressing the
investigation, while the White
House press corps, de facto allies
of the Baker-Deaver-Darman
clique, are dismissing the leak as
insignificant.
The moderates themselves how-
ever, are no strangers to ar
ThrouQ is affidavit to the A boats
Committee, looking into the. pur-
loined Carter briefing book. Mr.
Baker - who received and handled
the fruits of the breach of trust for
the Reagan campaign - pointed
the finger of suspicion directly at
CIA Director Casey Casey as the source.
Yet, Mr. Baker, who volunteered for
a polygraph test in.. the briefing-
book caper, seems less enthusiastic
over the use of lie detectors in the
NSC leak.
Meanwhile, Communications
Director David Gergen, who.leads
the White House in threatened res-
ignations (though the Kissinger
record, like DiMaggio's 56-game
hitting streak, %- will never be
equaled), has threatened 'again,
over the internal trashing he
received for reportedly having
"panicked" over the ABC film, The
Day After. Seeing the film as poten-
tial disaster for the administration,
Mr. Gergen organized a public rela-
tions counteroffensive which hyped
ABC's rating; and then shoved Sec-
retary of State George Shultz out in
front of 100 million television view-
ers to explain why President Rea-
gan's nuclear buildup was just,the
thing to prevent the Kansas City
holocaust they had just seen sim-
ulated on their screens.
Mr. Gergen is also said to have
been personally mortified by hav-
ing been cut-out of the pre-Grenada
loop and subsequently having been
Speakes is likewise reported to
have threatened resignation over
Grenada, though his deputy; Les
Janka, said to be responsible for
said report, was either fired by Mr.
Speakes or resigned on principle,
depending on whose leak you trust.
Last weekend came Mr. Meese's
turn again. Saturday morning, in
the always receptive Washington
Post, the Baker-Deaver-Darman
crowd dumped on the White House
counselor for near-terminal incom-
petence. "Civil rights. is our cham-
ber of horrors;" a "White House
official" was quoted: "As Pogo
would say, we have met the enemy
and he is us. The civil rights groups
didn't beat us. Ed Meese made a
mess of it"
A related Monday story in The
New York Times reported that
"personal insults have become
common" as a form of communica-
tion in the president's official fam-
ily.
With Mr. Reagan's approval
rating reaching, in one national
survey, 65 percent - an astonish-
ing, unrivaled figure for a modern
president late in his third year -
maybe the White House staff is less
important than it pretends, less sig-
nificant than the rest of us some-
times make believe.
aggressions had wearied him and given only scraps to feed a ravenous
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God and Man at
chair, author of The Marriage of Figaro
and The Barber of Seville.
It was Beaumarchais who persuaded
a reluctant King Louis XVI to aid the
American Revolution by making it ap-
pear that the French funding came from
private citizen Beaumarchais, not from
the French government. In a persuasive
letter to the king, which is in the CIA's
Historical Intelligence Collection, the
dramatist presented the moral case for
covert action:
"Generally speaking there is no doubt
that any idea or project that violates jus-
tice must be rejected by a man of integ-
rity. But, Sire, State policy is not the
same as private morality... .
"If men were angels, we ought no
-How Does an Intelligence Agent Reconcile A
Religion? The CIA Has Thought a Lot About It, and Has Concluded
That the Bible and God Are on Their Side.
By Dale Van Atta
After the cornerstone of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency's head-
quarters in Langley, Virginia, had
been laid in 1959, CIA Director Al-
len Dulles cast about for a suitable
inscription. What message, he won-
dered, would be most apropos to . grace
the foyer of this $46 million monument
to spying? Eventually Dulles settled on
the Biblical quotation now carved in
marble on one side of the entrance hall;
"And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free. John ViII-
XX3GI.,,
ironic words, given that the CIA is the
one American institution whose mission
often demands distortion of the truth.
The agency plants misinformation in
newspapers, magazines, and books
throughout the world; routinely its agents
misrepresent themselves to gather the in-
formational gold that is the currency of
espionage; it once encouraged its em-
ployees to he to Congress; and it has
enshrined slippery former director Rich-
ard Helms as the CIA soldier most wor-
thy of emulation. That so many CIA em-
ployees miss the irony of the Biblical
inscription is testimony to the capacity
of human beings to disregard a moral
code when they're in the service of a
cause or of a state.
Most CIA employee recruits hear the
"basic speech," during which instruc-
tors, describing espionage as a worthy
calling, proclaim that to be patriots they
must work in silence and without ac-
claim. The speech calls spying the world's
second-oldest profession ("and just as
honorable as the fast"), adding that God
Himself founded the calling when Moses
sent leaders of the twelve tribes to "spy
out the, land of Canaan."
doubt to despise or even detest politics.
But if men were angels, they would have
good among the wolves would soon be
devoured along with his flock."
The Frenchman's point that covert ac-
tion-and intelligence itself-is a "nec-
essary evil" is further emphasized by
CIA instructors who eulogize one of his
American contemporaries, Nathan Hale,
the Revolutionary War hero who, posing
as a Dutch schoolteacher behind British
lines, was captured and hanged for spying.
His statue stands outside CIA headquar-
ters today, and his words have been so
inspirational to some agents that one for-
mer senior official carried this Hale speech
in his wallet: "I wish to be useful, and
every kind of service, necessary to the
public good, becomes honorable. by being
necessary. If the exigencies of my coun-
try demand A peculiar service its
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In a less well-known reference, CIA or laws to govern them,. or soldiers to to F From Hale's day until the founding of
officials like to note that America may subdue them, and the earth, instead of the CIA in 1947, this country had re-
owe her existence to the covert action of being a living image of hell, would itself sisted establishing a full-time intelli-
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumar- be a region of heaven. But in the end we gence organization. Pearl Harbor and
Date Van Atta is a lack tpp-s eahfor R~ b1 1f28kE RDR9li4) 90'1P&U QQQQ4iWever, overcame
ape ng in national-security issues, including ng who one wished to be absolutely America's reluctance. Through public ap.
the . CIA. just among the wicked and to remain proval of the CIA has never been whole-