'REALISTIC' STRATEGY AGAINST SOVIETS URGED
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ST. LOUIS-GLOBE-DEMOCRAT (MO)
31 October 1983
Realistic' strategy
against Soviets urged
-Globe-Democrat-Los Angeles Times.
News Service
FULTON, Mo. - ..The United
States should develop "a realistic
counterstrategy" to. combat Soviet
disruption in the Middle East and
Central America, CIA Director
William J. Casey has urged.
"The priority of less-developed
countries in our overall foreign
policy needs to be raised and
sustained," Casey said in delivering
a lecture Saturday at Westminster
College, the same platform from
which Winston Churchill warned in
1946 that an "Iron Curtain" had
descended on Eastern Europe.
"We have too often neglected our
friends and neutrals in Africa, the
Middle East, Latin America and
Asia until they became a, problem or
were threatened by -developments
hostile to our interests," Casey said
in accepting an honorary doctor of
laws degree from the college.
IN ADDITION to paying greater
heed to Third World countries,
Casey said, the United States should
train its allies ."in
counterinsurgency tactics and
upgrade their communications,
mobility, police and intelligence
capabilities."
He called for relaxing U.S.
roreign military sales V taws so "our
friends" can be provided. ;self-
defense arms more quickly.
Casey said the. United States
should "demand firmly but tactfully
and privately that our friends
observe certain standards of
behavior with regard to basic
human rights." American,principles
and domestic political support
require such an approach, he said..
. Talking directly to Third World
countries about land reform and.
anti-corruption steps is required to
block foreign exploitation of such.
'problems, Casey said.
"WE NEED. to show how the
Soviets have exploited such
vulnerabilities elsewhere to make
clear that wearen't preaching out of
cultural arrogance," he said.
Casey said the United States
'should devise a means of mobilizing
private business, which he described.,
as America's greatest asset in the
Third World.
"Investment is the key to
economic success or at least
survival in the Third World. And we,
our NATO allies and, Japan need to
develop a common strategy to
promote private investment" there,
he said. "The Soviets are helpless to
compete with private capital in
these countries."
William J. Casey: Spoke
at Westminster College.
Casey said . the Soviet Union
recognizes that power rests with the
military in most Third World
countries and has thus sought either
to win over the officers' corps in
those countries Qr to help replace
them with military men more likely
to do the Soviets' bidding.
"Having for a decade denounced
'the merchants of death' (the United
States), the Soviets have become the
world's leading supplier of arms,"
Casey said. In recent years, their
arms shipments to the Third World
have' been four times. greater than
their economic assistance, he said.
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"Realistic' strate
gy
_against Soviets urged.
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News Service :.
FULTON, Mo. The United.
States should develop "a realistic
counterstrategy" to combat Soviet
disruption in the Middle East and
Central . America, CIA Director
William J. Casey has urged.
"The priority of less-developed
countries in our overall foreign
i policy needs to be raised and
sustained," Casey said In delivering
a lecture Saturday at Westminster
College, the same platform from
which Winston Churchill warned in
1946 that an "Iron Curtain" had
descended on Eastern Europe.
"We have too often neglected our
friends and neutrals in Africa, the
Middle East, Latin America and
Asia until they became a problem or
were threatened by developments
hostile to our interests," Casey said
in accepting an honorary doctor of
laws degree from the college.
IN ADDITION to paying greater
heed to Third World countries,
Casey said, the United States should
train its allies "in
counterinsurgency tactics and
upgrade their communications,
mobility, police and intelligence
capabilities."
He called for relaxing U.S.
foreign military sales lama so "our-
Casey. said the United States
should "demand firmly but tactfully
and privately that our friends
observe certain standards of
behavior with regard to basic
human rights." American principles
and domestic political support
require such an approach, he said.
Talking directly to Third World
countries about land reform and
anti-corruption steps is required to
block foreign exploitation of such " . William J. Casey: Spoke
problems, Casey said, at Westminster College.
"WE NEED to show how the
Soviets have exploited such
vulnerabilities elsewhere to make
clear that we aren't preaching out of
cultural arrogance," he said.
Casey said the United States
should devise a means of mobilizing
private business, which he described
as America's greatest asset in the
Third World.
"investment is the key to
economic success or at least
survival in the Third World. And we,
our NATO allies and Japan need to
develop a common strategy to
promote private investment" there,
he said. "The Soviets are helpless to
compete with private capital in
these countries."
Casey ,said the Soviet Union
recognizes that power rests with the
military in most Third World
countries and has thus sought either
to win over the officers' corps in
those countries or to help replace
them with military men more likely
to do the Soviets' bidding.
"Having for a decade denounced
"the merchants of death' (the United
States), the Soviets have become the
world's leading supplier of arms,"
Casey said. In recent years, their
arms shipments to the Third World
have been four times greater than
their economic assistance, he said.
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iIA INQUIRER
31 October 1983
What U.S.
didn't know
is a concern
By Doyle McManus
Los Au9e4e, rimes Servsu
WASHINGTON - The.-discovery of
huge arms caches and Soviet-bloc
advisers- on Grenada, coupled with
unexpectedly strong resistance.: by
Cuban and Grenadian fighters, ,has
given Reagan..administration offi-
cials a sobering lesson in the -limits
of U.S. intelligence operations.
The disclosures about the extent of
operations on Grenada by. Commu-.
nist-bloc personnel have provided
the administration with additional
justifications for its intervention.
But it has also raised ;questions
about the adequacy of U.S. intelli-
gence efforts on a strategically locat-
ed island that has long been idei)',ti-
fied as a potential security problem
for this country - especially be-
cause large numbers of Americans
lived on Grenada.
CIA explanation -
The Senate Select Committee oa
Intelligence, in a closed session Ff-
day, asked CIA Director William J.
Casey to explain the CIA's perfor-
mance before the invasion. A com-
mittee source said Casey
.acknowledged that intelligence had
been deficient. He also told the sena-
tors that "meaningful. intelligenoe
was extremely difficult to come by;"
according to Sen. David Durenber-
ger CR., Minn.).
. -Administration :officials said that
commanders of the U.S. invasion
force had estimated that they would
face about 600 Cubans and 1,200
Grenadian troops; they found them-
selves fighting as many as 1,100 Cu-
bans, with heavier weapons and
better.-training.. than: ad,.been
expected.
"From my standpoint, I didn't have
enough intelligence," Adm. Wesley
McDonald said. "Resistance was
much greater than expected due to
Cuban military, involvement.
"We didn't anticipate Cuban fight-
ing units," Gen. John W. Vessey Jr.,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said earlier.
As one result, McDonald, com-
mander-in-chief of U.S. Atlantic n--
val forces, increased the original U.s.
fighting force of 1,900 to about 3,000
troops by. Thursday and 6,000 on
No useful intelligence
"From my standpoint, I didn't have
enough intelligence, but I don 'l
think there was a failure there," he
told a Pentagon news conference. V!
think you have to look at the tolal
perspective of what we were trying
to gather. To concentrate intelli-
gence for an assault on an island
such as Grenada is something we are
not -geared -to do under normal
circumstances."
."We were looking at Grenada in
the broad aspect of what was .going
on, but on the details fora planned
incursion into the"country - to evac-
.uate_American-citizens by_ force -
.,wassomething.that.we-did-not hav4
as imuch intelligence. as 1, as :fleet
.commander,-would like to. have, ' he .
said. I,think we just didn't.have the
t+n,e to concentrate on it."
Administration officials said the
problem- was not -a failure -of -intelli
t genoe-t but, instead,. a =situation in
which the .United States had few op-
portumities to gather-. -.tsef.ul
intelligence: , _ -
-tThe United States ? had m perma-
,nent,-Tepresentatives in...=Grenada,-
and "The leftist regime permitted few
-visits byLl S. diplomats, officials said.'
'The CIA had no spy network on the,
island and as as result. they said, the
United States had general . informa-
tion on political and military devel-
opments in Grenada, but little.
specific tactical information.
Under questioning about a possible
intelligence "failure," White House
spokesman Larry Speakes said Thurs-
day, "When you don't have any intel
ligence -resources there at all,
something can't fail that isn't there."
The United States did have satellite
photographs of the 10,000-foot air-
strip the Cubans were building oft
the island, but US intelligence offi-
cials apparently failed to detect the
buildup of Cuban troops or the num-
ber of weapons they were bringing
ashore.
Casey reportedly acknowledged
that the military planners' informa-
tion had been deficient, but noted
that "intelligence is not an exact
jscience?
".Durenberger said much of the in-
formation the United States was us-
ing apparently came from Eastern
Caribbean countries that joined the
invasion.
McDonald also defended the intel-
ligence effort.
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ON PAGE WASHINGTON TIMES
Casey calls for `realistic' strategy
FULTON, Mo. - The United States has failed to
properly confront the challenge ofsthe Soviet Union
in Third World countries and needs to develop "a
realistic counter-strategy" for the newest ideological
battleground, CIA Director William Casey said.
"It is past time for the American government -
executive branch and Congress - to take the Soviet
challengein the Third Worldseriousiyand to develop
a broad, integrated strategy for. countering it;'-Casey
said in a speech?over the weekend 'at Westminster.Col-
Casey's message also reinf ce tithe Reagan }
administration's rationale forkeepg?troops m Leba'-
-non and Grenada: that they.arelessentiai to hold .
back Soviet , influence and allow?citizens.xo`freely-
choose their own governments ;'
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US NEIL'S F WORLD REPORT
31 October 1983
Washington ~T
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One of Robert McFarlane's first tasks
as,Reagan's new national-security
aide, insiders say, will be to convince
Defense Secretary Weinberger and
CIA Director Casey that he is not a
"captive" of the State Department
and will fairly present to the Presi-
dent their hard-line views on foreign
and defense issues.
'1r ik it
U.S. intelligence analysts are baffled
by Soviet President Yuri Andropov's
long absence-more than six weeks
-from public view. One theory is
that Andropov has been sidelined by
serious illness.
STAT
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Feelings of Hurt and Betrayai\
Kirkpatrick suspects she was done in by her friends
W W hen U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirk-
patrick, who had been accompany-
ing the Kissinger Commission in Central
America, flew to Washington for a speak-
ing engagement two weeks ago, she had
no indication that a major staff change
was about to take place. National Security
Adviser William Clark said nothing about
it when they met at the White House, and
it was only because she had a bad bron-
chial infection that she canceled her. re-
turn to Latin America. She did not hear
about her trusted colleague's nomination
as Interior Secretary until an aide,called
the following day.
-Thus began a process that, at least in.
the eyes of the proud and prickly' U.N.
Ambassador, TIME has learned, laid bare
the backbiting and power struggles within
the White House. Kirkpatrick was not up-
set primarily by her failure to be tapped for
the National Security'Council (NSC) Post.
But she now views what happened to her
as a shabby betrayal by people she consid-
ered friends within the Administration.
Whether or not the slights she perceives
were in fact intended, her experience pro-
vides a glimpse of the personal rivalries
that have long undermined Ronald Rea-
gan's policymaking apparatus and of the
human toll such struggles exact.
When Clark finally called her to tell
of his move, Kirkpatrick urged him to re-
consider. She feared there would be no
one left in the Administration with clout
enough to pull together American policy
around the globe. Secretary of State
George Shultz, she felt, was too absorbed
in international economic policy, East-
West issues and crisis management in the
Middle East to develop strategy else-
where. Until now, she and her hard-line
allies, Defense Secretary Caspar Wein-
berger and CIA Director William Casey,
had been able to fill the gap, but only be-
cause Clark listened to them-and Rea-
gan listened to him.
Although he later let it be known that
he had sought the Interior job, Clark told
Kirkpatrick that he was simply doing
what the President asked. Be assured her
that there would be no ill effects on policy
if she were to succeed him at the NSC. It
was an idea sewn. e by Casey, when he
called the same evening.
Kirkpatrick had not at that point har-
bored any real hope of taking over at the
NSC. A few months before, noticing
that Clark seemed overburdened,. she had
offered to give up her U.N. post and come
to Washington as his deputy. He had
turned the suggestion aside, adding that
she might become National Security Ad-
viser if he ever quit. Just before she left for
Central America, Clark confided that he
was tired of the disagreements with
Shultz. The NSC job was taxing his health,
and he wanted her to succeed him. But
she filed these conversations away as idle
sneculatinns
Senior White House aides say that
Clark in reality never thought Kirkpat-
rick was the most suitable replacement.
All along, Clark's deputy Robert McFar-
lane was considered by most of Reagan's
advisers, and even by Reagan, as the obvi-
ous choice. But as in-other foreign policy
personnel disputes' during the pasty three
years,'Reagan allowed the uncertainty to
linger and leak. What should have been a
clean change of command became anoth-
er running story -similar to the one-that
accompanied the departure of Secretary
.
of State Alexander Haig-of struggles be-
tween Administration pragmatists and
ideologues. The recriminations from the
dispute are still reverberating. "Those
who fought McFarlane," says one con-
summate White House infighter, "did not
help themselves."
As the President delayed announcing
his choice, the maneuvering among his
aides quickened. Kirkpatrick was too ill
to attend a White House foreign policy
meeting, and Clark phoned her afterward
to reveal that a new succession plan had
been discussed. Chief of Staff James Bak-
er and Presidential Assistant Michael
Deaver seized the opportunity to propose
a radical plan that would have made them
the undisputed joint czars"of the White
House staff: Baker would take the NSC job
and Deaver would become chief of staff.
Clark immediately opposed the move, ar-
guing-that the President's motives would
be suspect since Baker was his top politi-
cal adviser and had no foreign policy ex-
perience. Weinberger and Casey strongly
agreed. Moreover. Reagan's more conser-
vative supporters considered Baker the
leader of the pragmatists, and hence
evil incarnate.
The strongest opposition to Kirkpat-
rick came from Shultz. He implied to a
few associates that he would resign if she
got the NSC post, and that word was
rV D_
d4`
passed to the White House. But the ques-
tion in the minds of the White House staff
soon became not whether Kirkpatrick
would get the job, but how to assuage her
disappointment about her loss to McFs./-
lane and the decline of her influence now
that Clark was gone.
Kirkpatrick had expressed her frus-
trations with the U.N. and the need to
commute to New York City from her
home near Washington. But in seeking to
let her down gently about not getting the
NsC job, White House aides gave her the
impression that they wanted to oust her
from the U.N. post. When Clark called to
say that McFarlane would be appointed,
he told Kirkpatrick that she had three al-
ternatives: becoming the Deputy Nation-
al Security Adviser, taking over the Agen-
cy for International Development, or
coming into the White House as a Presi-
dential Counsellor, atitle now held only
by Edwin Meese. She quickly rejected
these options, feeling that without a base
of power she would be easily bypassed by
Shultz and McFarlane.
Meese was also uncomfortable with
the idea of bringing Kirkpatrick in as a
Counsellor, feeling that the new post
would dilute his own power and title. So
too were McFarlane and Shultz. But oth-
ers tried to persuade her to take a job in
Washington. Casey called and asked if he
could come by for a drink. Pulling herself
from her sickbed, k atrick drove to
pharmacy for a cold remedy and then re-
ceive the CIA director at her Bethesda,
home. He urged her to take the
Counsellor's-job. Weinberger talked to
her on the phone for an hour the next
morning trying to persuade her to become
McFarlane's deputy. She told them both
no. As a close friend later put it, "What
would she do at national security brief-
ings? Chime in and correct McFarlane?"
Kirkpatrick was invited to meet with
the President on Monday before his an-
nouncement of McFarlane's appointment.
Clark, apparently wishing to keep the en-
counter secret, suggested that she use the
diplomatic entrance, where the press was
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not allowed. She refused, saying that she
would enter the White House publicly as
she always had. In contrast to the chilly
dealings she had been having with most of
his staff. the hourlong meeting with Rea-
gan was friendly. He offered her the Coun-
sellor's title-or another Washington job,
and again she refused. But he seemed gen-
uinely eager to have her stay on at the
U.N. if she wanted.,She promised him that
she would wait until the end of the year to
reassess her position.
What most upset Kirkpatrick, upon
her return to her official residence in the
Waldorf Towers in New York, was the im-
plication of White House aides that she'
would be leaving the U.N. Although many
no doubt thought they were accommodat-
ing her own expressed wishes, the feisty
Kirkpatrick viewed their urgings that she
"move" to Washington as an attempt to
remove her from her job. "Why `move' to
Washington?". a friend quotes her as -say-
ing. "Don't they know I live'there?"
S he was particularly upset by a story in
the Washington Times by Reporter
Jeremiah O'Leary, a former aide to Clark,
that said Baker might take over her U.N.
post. (If the story was indeed intentionally
planted, it seemed aimed at undermining
both Baker and Kirkpatrick, since such a
scenario would require that she be fired
and he be moved from the White House.)
Baker termed the story "baloney" and
Clark called to deny it. but Kirkpatrick
now fears that she is being humiliated
through the press like others who have
been unceremoniously dumped from pow-
er. Her speculations about the motives of
those spreading such stories have become
quite byzantine: perhaps they want to ma-
neuver Jim Baker out of the White House,
or to signal a shift to a more moderate for-
eign policy prior to an election year. There
was no evidence that there was in fact any
serious desire in the White House to ease
her out of her job, by week's end senior
aides had concluded that her determina-
tion to stay at the U.N. was best for all
concerned.
'0M,0 n 1H AtNISER- AVASE uS Now K GGI' JEANS KIRKFRIRICK DOw? OFF 714E CEIUN6
Feeling harassed and still popping cold
pills, Kirkpatrick last week lamented that
her sense of propriety had been violated-
not only by her detractors but also by those
she once thought were friends. She feels
that she has been too "trusting," and con-
fides to intimates that she now knows bow
Alexander Haig, once her archenemy,
must have felt when he was forced out. To
her mind, the only person above suspicion
is the President, whom she considers a de-
cent man, largely unaware ofhis staff's ma-
nipulative ways. Yet when an aide last
week told her that the President's press
conference was on television, she turned
away, as if not wanting to be reminded of
the 'pain he had unwittingly caused. She
said she never watches television, and
asked the aide to tell her if anything impor-
tant came up. -By Walterlsaecson.
Reported by L euence I. Barrett and Gregory
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now must develop "a realistic counter-
rat 4ideological battleground,
Worm Briefs
, aoUntersstratec?t rge+ :.:;
VAS CsTON"The United States has
the Soviet Union In third-world countries and
: Vernment - executive branch and
"it is past"time for the Ameri'an
y said Saturday.
third **Id seriously and to :develop a\
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strategy for countering it,"
'U,nited States thirst raise':
irelgp;poif4y, advise them "firmly but
human rights and government honesty and
,mobilize wh4t:he called "our greatest asset in
tl. thud world- private business."
ctfully" about the need for standards of
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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
30 October 1983
CIA Head Urges Strategy To Fight
Soviet
Influ
ence In Third World
By Girard C. Steichen
Of the Post-Dispatch Staft
FULTON. Mo. - The United.States
must develop a realistic cmunter-
strategy to stop growing Soviet
influence in the Third world and at the
same time help developing nations
establish stable economies and
democracies.
That was the message that the
director of the central Intelligence
Agency, William J. Casey, delivered
Saturday in an address at Westminster
College here.
"It is past time for the American
government - executive branch and
Congress - to take the Soviet
challenge in the Third World seriously
and to develop a broad, integrated
strategy for countering it," Casey said
in his lecture.
Casey was invited to the college to
deliver the 40th John Findley Green
Foundation Lecture, made famous by
Winston Churchill's 1946 "Iron
Curtain" lecture.
Casey called Soviet involvement in
Third World countries creeping
imperialism. He said the Soviet Union
or its proxies were promoting violence'
and revolution in El Salvador,;
Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica.
Casey also cited another example:
"The early reports from Grenada
indicate that in addition to Cubans and
Soviets, there are Bulgarians, East
Germans, North Koreans and other
Communist bloc nations there.
Working from the Soviet embassy,
they were working to establish a
permanent military base in the
eastern Caribbean."
Referring to Churchill's warning of
Soviet expansion in 1946, Casey said:
"How much more alarmed would {
Churchill be if he looked around the
world today and saw how the Soviets
have grown in strength and how far
they have exter-ded=-their power and
influence beyond the Iran Curtain he
so aptly labeled."
He said the Middle East and
Central- America are areas most
heavily targeted by the Soviet Union.
"Soviet power is already solidly
established in Cuba and Nicaragua,"
Casey said.
The' Soviet Union also , has
attempted to consolidate its influence i
in Afghanistan, Africa and Asia,
threatening the West's vital oil
eroding American
security- closer to home, he said.
To counter growing Soviet influence
in the : Third World, Casey said, the,
United States must raise and -sustain!
the importance of developing nations
in foreign policy planning.
Tbe: 'United States, must advise
developing nations firmly but-tactfully
about the need for standards of human
rights and government honesty, Casey
said.::
"'We have to be willing to talk
straight: to those we would help about
issues, they must address to block
fore, exploitation of their problems
- -issues such as land reform,
cortuption and the like," -- :.? .
He urged changes in laws governing
foreign -military sales to permit the
United States to provide arms to allies
morequickly while continuing to give
economic assistance.
..American influence in central
America will -be damaged if the West
is unable, to sensitively and
constructively assist the people of
Central. America and Mexico in
defending 'themselves as well as
solving _ their social and economic
problems on their own terms," Casey
said.
He said the United States could play
a vital role in helping Third World
nations develop better'
communications, mobility and more
effective police and intelligence
capabilities.
Private businesses also can play an
important role, he said.
i `? Investment. is the key to economic
success or at least survival in the
Third World and we, our NATO allies
and Japan need to develop a common
strategy to promote investment in the
Third World," Casey said....
He, said that, although the Soviet
Union. is the largest exporter of arms
in the world, it cannot deliver
sustained economic support.
"The Soviet Union is crippled. It is
crippled in having only a military
dimension. The Soviets are helpless to
compete with private capital in these
countries," Casey said.
He said only an integrated,
multidimensional foreign policy will
succeed in dealing with Third World
nations and stop Soviet expansion
there.
"Without a sustained, constant
Policy over a number of years, we
i cannot counter the relentless pressure
of the USSR in the Third World. The
less developed nations of the world
will be the principal U.S.-Soviet
battleground for many years to
come," Casey said.
About 30 protesters from Columbia,
Mo., picketed the lecture on a sidewalk
near Champ Auditorium. Theycarr;ed
placards denouncing U.S. involvement
in Grenada, Nicaragua and ether:
i Central American nations.
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U.S. must stop S~viet ambitions
By Ed Ante
Missourian staff writer
The third world will continue to be
the "principal U.S.-Soviet battle-
ground for many years to come,''
CIA director William, Casey said Sat-
urday, and the United States needs
to recognize the pressure that the So-
viet Union is exerting there and
needs to decide how to stop it.
Casey sounded like Winston Chur-
chill - freely' quoting from Chur-
chill's 1946 "iron Curtain" lecture -
as he gave the 40th John Findley
Green Lecture at Westminster Col-
lege Saturday afternoon.
Speaking in Champ Auditorium,
Casey said Churchill would be
"much more alarmed if he looked
around the world today and saw how
far the Soviets ... have extended
t1he:r power and influence beyond the
iron Curtain he so aptly labeled."
During the 1970's, Casey said, the
Soviets began their offensive "on a
new front -- the Third World,"
where they have effectively used
proxy nations to advance their inter-
ests.
"Yet the Soviet Union is crippled,"
he said.
Because the Soviets have "only a
military dimension," Casey said,
they must rely solely on the subver-
sion of governments to gain influ-
ence in Third World countries.
"But in the long run, it is econom-
ic, financial, scientific, technical and
cultural relationships which attract,
deliver benefits, and maintain close
relationships with less developed
countries." Casey said. "The Soviet
Union can not compete in these
areas."
The United States must capitalize
on the fact that the Soviet Union can
not compete with investments made
by private businesses, "our greatest
asset in the Third World," the direc-
tor said.
Casey also looked to Churchill to
justify recent actions of the United
States.
If Churchill were alive today, Ca-
sey said, he would be relieved to
know that the United States was
countering the attempts of the Soviet
Union to influence Grenada and Leb-
anon.
Some do not agree.
Marc Wutschke, a member of the
Committee Against Intervention, a
Columbia group which demon-
strated in Fulton Saturday against
U.S. activities in Central America,
said earlier this week that the inva-
sion of Grenada may be President
Reagan's way of testing the waters
to see if he can invade Nicaragua.
Other protesters included at least
four professors from Westminster.
Before the lecture, the faculty had
voted to request Casey's invitation to
the Green Lecture be withdrawn be-
cause they say Casey has operated
on the margins of the law numerous
times as a private businessman.
Three-fourths of the Westminster
faculty did not attend the lecture,
said John Langton, political science
professor.
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30 October 1983
rges concern
?
for. Tnwird
By RONALD J. OSTROW
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON --- CIA Director
William J. Casey urged the United
States Saturday to develop "a real-
istic counterstrategy" to combat
Soviet disruption in the Middle East
and Central America, which he said;
is vulnerable because it relies too
heavily on military aid.
"The priority of less-developed
countries in our overall foreign pol-
icy needs to be raised and sus-
tained," Casey said in delivering a
lecture at Westminster College in
Fulton, Mo., the same platform
where Winston Churchill warned in
1946 that an "Iron Curtain" had
descended on Eastern Europe.
"We have too often neglected our
friends and neutrals in Africa, the
Middle East, Latin America and
Asia until they became a problem
or were threatened by develop-
ments hostile to our interests,"
Casey said in accepting an honor-
ary doctor of laws degree from the
college.
In addition to paving greater heed
to Third World countries, Casey
said, the United States should train
its allies "in counterinsurgency tac-
tics and upgrade their connmupica-
tions, mobility, police and
intelligence capabilities."
He called for relaxing bars on
U.S. foreign military sales laws so
that "our friends" can be provided
arms for self-defense more
quickly.
Casey said that the United States
should "demand firmly but tact-
fully and privately that our friends
observe certain standards of behav-
ior with regard to basic human
rights." American principles and
domestic political support require
such an approach, he said.
Talking directly to Third World
countries about land reform and
anti-corruption steps is required to
block foreign exploitation of such
problems, Casey said.
"We need to show how the Soviets
have exploited such vulnerabilities
elsewhere to make clear that we
aren't preaching out of cultural
arrogance," he said.
The CIA director said that the
United States should devise a
means of mobilizing private busi-
ness, which he described as
America's greatest asset in the
Third World.
"Investment is the key to eco-
,nomic success or at least survival
in the Third World and we, our
NATO allies and Japan need to
develop a common strategy to pro-
Imote private investment" there, he
'said. "The Soviets are helpless to
compete with private capital in
these countries."
Casey said that the Soviet Union
recognizes that power rests with
the military in most Third World
countries and has thus sought either
to win over the officers' corps in
those countries or to help replace
them with military men more likely
to do the Soviets' bidding.
Casey contended that the Soviet
Union "is crippled" by having only
a military dimension in its relations
with the Third World. While mili-
tary support can establish a rela-
tionship between a superpower and
a small country, Casey said, eco-
nomic, scientific, technical and cul-
tural exchanges maintain
relationships.
Because the Soviets cannot com-
pete in those areas, according to
Casey, they "rely on subversion and
,disruption of stable political and
economic relationships to weaken
Western relationships...."
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By PAUL ROBEYMS
of the Tribune's staff
Fi'UI.I'ON -- Director of Central Intelligence Wil-
liam Casey yesterday decried Soviet attempts to ex-
ploit and overthrow shaky governments but support-
ed his own govenunent's use of fonce in the Caribbe-
an and Central America.
Casey delivered the 40th John Findley Green Lec-
ture to an audience of about 2,000 at Wes= nster
College. Former Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce
introduced him as the "hottest of Cold War war-
riors."
The college announced weeks ago that Casey
would discuss the role intelligence gathering plays in
national security. Instead, he focused on "creeping
Soviet imperialism."
Casey said the late Winston Churchill. who deliv-
ered his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 at Westmin..
ster, would be alarmed today to see Soviet domin a-
Lion threatening "'the Caribbean and Central Ameri..
en on the very doorstep of the United States."
Through the "Cubanization of Central America,
Casey continued, "the Soviets can calculate that a
greatly increased! military threat on our southern
flank-,and the internal disruption that would result
if millions of ]Latin Americans walked north-would
distract the United States" from military commit-
ments elsewhere in the world.
Casey attacked the Soviets for truing to "destabi-
lize and subvert other countries by f ostering internal
insurgency."
He did not address, however. Central Intelligence
Agency funding and training of Central American
guerrillas oppecl to the Sandinista regime in Ni-
caragua.
Rather, he ,said, "We must foster the infrastruc-
`'i s
tare of democracy, the system of a free press,
unions, political partieL., universities w;ruich allow a
people...to reconcile v,s own dL'ferr'n-al Ameri-
ca, were gone when the audience er e: ged from
Champ Auditorium after the sr+eech.
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30 October 1983
35 march to protest CIA director's visit
By JOEL BLEIFUSS
Staff writer
About 35 people demonstrated against
CIA Dirbctor William Casr "';'visit. Satur-
day. The protest was peaceful, which suited
Bill Reifsteck of the Fulton Police Depart-
is nt~ and Westminster Director of Develop-
ment Jack Marshall just fine. = -
As the demonstrators marched a circle
between the sidewalk markers that defined
the area of protest adjacent to Champ Audi-
torium. where Casey was to speak, Reif-
steck poured out words of assurance to Mar-
shall.
"We've got a bull horn and if they get on
the grass we will give them adequate time to
get off. There will be no problems. We're not
going to harrass them in any way," Reif-
steck said.
"We hope its going to be a very peaceful
demonstration. They have a right to demon-
strate as well as anyone has a right to give a
speech." he added. Some of the demonstra-
tors' children did make it on to the grass,
however, but were allowed to stay.
The pickets circled and chanted, "Hey,
Hey Uncle Sam, We remember Vietnam,"
"Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Ronald Reagan has got to
go." and "US troops out of Grenada." Ac-
companying the voices were signs that read
"Honorary Degrees only for Honorary Peo-
ple," "We know who invited Casey here, but
who invited the CIA there?," "USSR out of
Afghanistan. US out of Grenada," and
"Revolution wasn't a dirty word when we
had ours."
At one point, a spectator, a Westminster
student dressed in clean battle fatigues,
could no longer contain himself. -That's
right! Give it to the Cubans. Smart. Real
good."
Sharon Stinson, visiting her son Scott at
Westminster's Parents' Day, noted, "I think,
the man has a right to come and speak and
they have a right to protest?I don't neces-
sarily--agree-with their protests though."
John Fuquay's father, who declined to
give his name, said, "What I think you
wouldn't print. Your editor wouldn't let'
you."
"I think it brings attention to our school.
It's good for it," said Jim Hill. "I like it that
people have the guts to speak out."
John Scribner added, "I think it is good to
have controversial peo ple."
Coming back from tie gym. Don Bartell
and Randy Clark were also pleased to see
the demonstrators. "I think it is great," said
Barthell. "They should be protesting. I don't
think he should even be speaking," said
Clark.
The Casey demonstrators said were mo-
tivated by different concerns.
Jay Magner said, "I'd like to see the
Caseys and Reagans stop intervening mili-
tarily in other nations of the world. I would
have hoped they would have learned that
lesson in Vietnam.. I learned as a Vietnam
veteran that we can't go around and change
the political destiny of the world."
Kathy Bakich. a law student at the Uni-
versity of Missouri, speculated on the Rea-
gan administration's reasons for military
involvement in Grenada, Central America
and Lebanon. "It's a ploy or tactic to divert
public attention away from the economic
and domestic policies that are affecting peo-
ples' ability to live and work. It is also a di-
version from the changes in national policy
Reagan has made in areas like the environ-
ment that are permanently damaging our
society."
Carolyn Britell brought her children to the
demonstration. "I'd like to see them
brought up in a country where it their gov-
ernment says they ,re a democracy, they
act like one. I'm trying to teach my children
not to be hypocritical. The U.S. says we're
for freedom, but we don't want other
countrys to freely determine their own
fates," she said..
Protest organizer teve McIntire said, "I
hope Mr. Casey can someday realize that
when thousands of people die in Central
America it is not a conflict to be fought out
between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. The question
for the people of Central America is not
which superpower o ally with, but where
their next meal will come from.
"I want to make sure you know there are
no Westminster students in the demonstra-
tion." one local student told reporters.
The demonstrator, were. however, joined
by four Westmins'er faculty members.
"There's my pohtirai science professor,"
said one student, wi o noticed Peter Leo.
English department's David Collins said,
"It's been a long tine since I felt it was nec-
essar-ly to join a demonstration. not since the
end of the Vietnam Nar was over. But I felt
it was worthwhile to make a statement
today not just abona William Casey's ap-
pearance on camp.is. but also about the
grow trig commitment of U.S. troops in the
Middle Eaast and C' ntral America and now
in the Caribbean."
After stepping off, ht, line, Professor Hank
Ottinger said, "I'm i oing home."
'?11 e've got important things to do this af-
ternoon," added Ti rr,' Mitze of West.min-
ster` English deprtrrtent, who also left
early
Westminster Chat lam Bill Young. also de-
cided to miss the spy eeh. "For the faculty. it
has never been a ree speech issue. The
question is do we t,nor a man like Casey
with the college's h.:est honor?"
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About 36" demonstrators, playing to a
large Parents' Day audience, protested
the visit of CIA director William J.
Casey to Westminster College Satur-
day. (Photo By Joel Bleifuss)
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Third world
strategy urged
by CIA head
FULTON, Mo. (AP) - The United States
has failed to properly confront the
challenge of the Soviet Union in third world
countries and needs to develop "a realistic
counter-strategy" for the newest
ideological battleground, Central
"How much more alarmed would;
Churchill be if he looked around the world-,
today and saw how the Soviets have growd:;
in strength and how far they have extended:.
their power and influence beyond the Iron:'
Curtain he so aptly labeled," said Casey,
pointing to communist power deployed-
`from Vietnam to Africa to Central:;
America.
He said that beginning in the mid-1970s:
the Soviets launched a new strategy aimed:
at developing countries. "And theit
strategy has worked."
Much of that strategy, - Casey said,
involves use of surrogate forces from
Cuba, East Germany, Libya and Vietnam
in roles from combat soldier and terrorist
to teacher and administrator. And the
Soviets have become the world's leading
supplier of arms, he said.
"Yet the Soviet Union is crippled,"
Casey told the college audience. "It is
crippled in having only a military
dimension. It has not been able to deliver
economic, political or cultural benefits at ,
home or abroad."
Intelligence Agency director William.
Casey said Saturday.
"It is past time for the American
government. - executive branch and
Congress - to take the Soviet challenge in
the third world seriously and to develop a
broad, integrated strategy for countering
it," Casey said In remarks prepared for a
speech at Westminster College. .
Casey said the United States must raise
the priority of developing nations in its
foreign policy, advise them "firmly but
tactfully" about the need for standards of
human rights and government honesty and '
mobilize what he called "our greatest asset
in the third world - private business."
The CIA director addressed the same
issue first raised at the small college by
Winston Churchill, who delivered his
famous "Iron Curtain" speech there in th4
same lecture series in 1946.
Casey's message also reinforced in
general terms the Reagad
administration's defense for keeping.
troops deployed in Lebanon and Grenada!-,
that they are essential to hold back Soveef:
influence and allow citizens to freel3t' i
choose their own governments.
Casey said the United States must begin
to pay greater attention to the problems of.
third world nations, which buy 40 percent
of U.S. exports, "before our attention is
commanded by coups, insurgencies or
instability."
"We have to be willing to talk straight to
those we would help about issues they must
address to block foreign exploitation of
their problems - issues such as land
reform, corruption and the like."
And, he said, the United States needs to
compete with the Soviets in furnishing
arms and counterinsurgency training to.
developing countries, including loosening
foreign military sales laws to permit more
rapid shipments overseas and keeping
stockpiles of basic weapons on hand.
"The less-developed nations of the world
will be the principle U.S.-Soviet
battleground tor many years to come,";,
Casey said. .
STA1I
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~~4 director
points to threat
in Third World
Fulton, Mo.--CIA Director William
J. Casey urged the United States
Saturday to develop "a realistic
counterstrategy" to combat Soviet dis-
ruption in the Middle East and Central
America.
Mr. Casey said the Soviets were vul-
nerable because they rely too heavily on
military aid.
"It is past time for the American gov-
ernment-executive branch and Con-
gress--to take the Soviet challenge in the
Third World seriously and to develop a
broad: integrated strategy for countering
it," Mr. Casey said in remarks prepared
for a speech at Westminster College.
Mr. Casey said the United States must
raise the priority of developing nations in
its foreign policy, advise them "firmly
but tactfully" about the need for stan-
dards of human rights and government
honesty and mobilize what he called -our
greatest asset in the Third World-pri-
vate business."
The CIA director addressed the same
issue first raised at the small college by
Winston Churchill, who delivered his
famous "Iron Curtain" speech there in
the same lecture series in 1946.
Mr. Casey's message also reinforced in
general terms the Reagan administra-
tion's defense for keeping troops de-
ployed in Lebanon and Grenada: they
are essential to hold back Soviet influ-
ence and allow citizens to freely choose
their own governments.
"How much more alarmed would
Churchill be 'if he looked around the
world today and saw how the Soviets
have grown. in strength and how far they
have extended their power and in-
fluence beyond the Iron Curtain
he so aptly labeled," said Mr.
Casey, pointing to communist
power deployed from Vietnam to
Africa to Central America.
Beginning in the mid-MM, he
said, the Soviets launched a new
strategy aimed at developing
countries. "And their strategy
has worked."
Much of that strategy involves
use of surrogate forces from
Cuba, East Germany, Libya and
Vietnam insoles from combat sol-
dier and terrorist to teacher and
administrator, he said. And the
Soviets have become the world's
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leading supplier of arms, he said.
"Yet the Soviet Union is crip-
pled," Mr. Casey told the college
audience. "It is crippled in having
only a military dimension. It has
not been able to deliver economic,
political or cultural benefits at
home or abroad."
Mr. Casey said the United
States must begin to pay greater
attention to the problems of Third
World nations, which buy 40 per-
cent of U.S. exports. "before our
attention is commanded by coups,
insurgencies or instability.,.,,We have to be willing to talk
straight to those we would help
about issues they must address to
block foreign exploitation of their
problems-issues such as land re-
form, corruption and the like."
And he said the United States
needs to compete with the Soviets
in furnishing arms and counterin-
surgency training to developing
countries, including loosening
foreign military sales laws to per-
mit more rapid shipments
overseas and keeping stockpiles
of basic weapons on hand.
-The less developed nations of
the world will be the principal
U.S.-Soviet battleground for
many years to come," Mr. Casey
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Casey Calls for Policy to Counter Soviet Disruption
By RONALD J. OSTROW, Times Staff Writer'
WASHINGTON-CIA Director William J. Casey ment" there, he said.. "The Soviets are helpless to
urged the United States on Saturday to develop "a compete with private capital in these countries."
realistic counterstrategy" to combat Soviet disruption in Casey said the Soviet Union recognizes that power
the Middle East and Central America, a region that he rests with the military in most Third World countries
termed vulnerable because it relies too heavily on and has thus sought either to win over the officers' corps
military aid. In those countries or to help replace them with military
"The priority of less-developed 'countries in our men more likely to do the Soviets' bidding.
overall foreign policy needs to be raised and sustained," ' "Having. for a decade denounced 'the merchants of
Casey said in delivering a lecture at Westminster death,'--the Soviets have become the world's leading
? College. in Fulton, Mow the same platform where -supplier :of arms.," Casey said. In-re centyears, their arms
Winston Churchill warned in 1946 that. an, "Iron shipments to the Third World have been four times
Curtain" had descended on, Eastern Europe. A text of greater than their economic assistance, he said.
Casey's speech was made available here... . Casey contended that the Soviet Union "is crippled"
"We have too often neglected our friends and neutrals ? by having only a military dimension in-its relations with
in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia until: the Third World_ While military support can establish a
they became a problem or were threatened by develop- relationship between a superpower and a small country,
ments hostile to our interests," Casey said in accepting Casey said, economic, scientific, technical and cultural
an honorary doctor of laws degree from the college. exchanges produce benefits and maintain relationships.
In addition to paying greater heed to Third World Because the Soviets cannot compete in those areas,
countries, Casey said, the United States should train its according to Casey, they "rely on subversion and
allies "in counterinsurgency tactics and upgrade their disruption of stable political and economic relationships
communications, mobility, police and intelligence capa- to weaken Western relationships and create a condition
bilities." of chaos in which their surrogates and internal allies can
military sales laws so that "our friends" can be provided
arms for self-defense more quickly.
Casey said the United States should "demand firmly
but tactfully and privately that our friends observe
certain standards of behavior with regard to basic
human rights." American principles and domestic
political support require such an approach, he said..
The CIA director said the United States should devise
a means -of mobilizing private business, which he
described as America's greatest asset in the Third
World.
"Investment is the key to economic success, or at least
survival, in the Third World; and we, our NATO (North
Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies and Japan need to
develop a common strategy to promote private invest-
Private Business: Greatest U.S. Asset
seize power."
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Casey says U.S. might
essential to Third World,
By ROBIN BENEDICK
Staff writer
United States forces in Grenada
and Lebanon are essential to check
Soviet influence in Third.. World.:1
countries, and will allow, those ua
-ions to freely choose their own gov-
ernments, Central Intelligence.
Central America. The United States;'
therefore, can no longer neglect de-,
r-o
advise them "firmly but tactfully"
about the --need forstandards . of I
human rights.
"We must find a way'to mobilize
and use our *greatest asset in the'
Third World - private business," he
said.
Since the mid-1970s, the Soviets
have launched a new strategy aimed
at developing countries, Casey said.
"And their strategy has worked."
Using forces from Cuba, East Ger- I
many, Libya and Vietnam in roles
from soldier and terrorist to. teacher'
and administrator, the Soviets have
become the world's leading supplier'
of arms, Casey said.
"Yet, the Soviet Union is crippled.
It is crippled in having only a mili-
tary dimension. It has not been able
to deliver economic, political or cul-
tural benefits at home or abroad,"
he said.
Moreover, Russia can not compete
in economic, financial, scientific,
technical and cultural exchanges,
which attract and maintain close re-
lationships with Third World coun-
tries, Casey charged.
"We need to be ready to help our
friends defend themselves. We can
train them in counterinsurgency tac-
tics and upgrade their communica-
tions, mobility, police and intelli-
gence capabilities," he said.
By loosening foreign military
sales laws to permit more rapid
shipments overseas, and keeping
large supplies of basic weapons on
hand, the United States could better
compete with the Soviets, Casey con-
tended.
"We have to be willing to talk
straight to those we would help
about issues they need to address to
block foreign exploitation of their
problems - issues such as land re-
form, corruption and the like," he
said.
Casey, like previous John Findley
Green lecturers, alluded often to
Churchill and the problems he faced
alerting the world to the Soviet ex-
pansionism. "How much more
alarmed would Churchill be if he
looked around the world today and.,
saw how the Soviets have grown in
strength, and how far they have ex-
tended their power and.. influence .
beyond the iron Curtain he so aptly
labeled," Casey said.
The United States must pay more
attention to the problems of Third
World nations, which buy 40 percent
of U.S.' exports, "before our atten-
tion is commanded by coups, insur-
gencies or instability. The priority of
less-developed countries in our
overall foreign. Policy needs to be
raised and sustained," Casey said.
"The chief threat posed by the.So-
viet Union, therefore, is not neces-
sarily in the vastness of its military
forces -.though vast they are - but
in the relentlessness of their:assault
on our values and on our freedom,"
Casey concluded.
Clare Boothe Luce, former Am-
bassador to Italy and the 37th Green
lecturer, introduced Casey before he
received an honorary doctor of laws
from the college.
"As my personal friend, Bill has
an uncanny ability to make money
easily in a variety of ways - as a
publisher, author. lawyer, business-
man and speculator," Luce said.
Casey became CIA Director in
January 1981, and was the first
director to be appointed a cabinet of-
ficer by the president.
The John Findley Green Founda-
tion was established in 1936, and pro-, vides for annual lectures designed to
promote understanding of economic
and social problems of international
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Speaking at Westminster College
in Fulton, Casey said he would not
reveal any of the details behind the
recent invasion of the island of Gren-
ada by U.S. forces. However, he
said. "Grenada is a vivid illustration
of how the Soviets practice creeping
imperialism by proxy. Earlier re-
ports showed Cubans on the island.
The Soviets, North Koreans, Li-
byans, East Germans and Bulgari-
ans, all working out of the Soviet
Embassy, were establishing a mili-
tary base in the eastern Caribbe-
an.,'
Casey used the 40th John Findley
Green Lecture series at the college
to address the same issue first I
raised by Winston Churchill, who de-
livered his famous "Iron Curtain"
speech there in 1946.
"The U.S. needs a realistic
counter-strategy. . .Without a sus-
tained, constant policy applied over
a number of years, we cannot
counter the relentless pressure of
the USSR in the Third World.
"It is past time for the American
government - executive branch and
Congress - to take the Soviet chal-
lenge in the Third World seriously,
and to develop a broad, integrated
strategy for countering it. These
less-developed countries of the
world will be the principal U.S.-Sovi-
et battleground for many years to
come," the CIA director said
Reiterating the Reagan adminis
tration's defense posture, Casey
pointed to new communist threats
have developed in Vietnam, Afghan
istan,' Africa, the Caribbean and
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U.S. needs better strategy
to fight Soviet inroads in
Third World, Casey says
By RONALD J. OSTROW
Los Angeles Times Service
WASHINGTON - CIA Director
William J. Casey urged the United
States Saturday to develop "a real-
istic counterstrategy" to combat
Soviet disrup- '
tion in the Mid-
dle East and
Central Ameri-
ca, which he
said is vulnera-
ble because it
relies too heavi-
ly on military
aid.
"The priority
of less-devel-
oped countries
_
in oiu over-all Casey
foreign policy
needs to be raised and sustained,"
Casey said in delivering a lecture at
Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.,
the same platform where Winston
Churchill warned in 1946 that an
"Iron Curtain" had descended on
Eastern Europe.
"We have too often neglected our
friends and neutrals in Africa, the
Middle East, Latin America and
Asia until they became a problem or
were threatened by developments
hostile to our interests," Casey said
in accepting an honorary doctor of
laws degree from the college.
In addition to paying greater
heed to Third World countries,
Casey: said, the United States should
train its, allies "in counterinsurgen-
cy tactics and upgrade their com-
munications, mobility, police and
intelligence capabilities."
- He called for relaxing bars in
U.S. foreign military sales laws so
that "our friends" can be provided
arms for self-defense more quickly.
Casey said the United States
should "demand firmly but tactfully
and privately that our friends ob-
serve certain standards of behavior
with regard to basic human rights."
American principles and domestic
political. support require such an ap-
proach, he said.
Talking directly to Third World
countries about land reform and,
anti-corruption steps is required to
block foreign exploitation of such
problems, Casey said.
"We need to show how the Sovi-_
ets have exploited such vulnerabili-
ties elsewhere to make clear that
we aren't preaching out of cultural
arrogance," he said.
The CIA director said the United
-States should devise a means of mo-
bilizing private business, which he
described as America's greatest
asset in the Third World.
"Investment is the key to eco-
nomic success or at least survival in
the Third World and we, our NATO
allies. and Japan need to develop a
common strategy to promote pri-
vate investment" there, he said.
"The. Soviets are helpless to com-
pete with private capital in these
countries."
Casey said the Soviet Union rec-
ognizes that power rests with the
military in most Third World coun-
tries and has thus sought either to
win over the officers' corps in those
countries or to help replace them
with military men more likely to do
the Soviets' bidding.'
"Having for a'decade denounced
'the merchants of death,' the Sovi-
ets have become the world's leading
supplier of arms," Casey said.
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CIA Chief Would Counter Soviet
Third : World Strategy 'Off ere
By George Lardner Jr. . Essential ingredients of that:strat-
-w&MIngwn Pwt..SWt Write egy, Casey;argued,-are:
CIA. -Director.-Walliam J.. Casey. -Greater. attention to "our Hiends,
said yesterday; -;that,; the United-: and -,neutrals" around the world be-'
States must -: Counter the =Soviet .forelS. attention is/?commanded ?by
Union in -the Third .Wprld with :a: coups, -insurgencies or~instabihty.N
human rights" and thevirttles of.de- 1y'"delivered., hat ~ur'`~fnends-`aib-
;: government=execwtive_ branch tend
Congress-to take"the. Soviet ?chal
lenge in 'the Third World seriously;:
and develop a. broad, -integrated
strategy. for countering it,"- Casey
said.
Casey made his remarks at West
minster College in Fulton, Mo.,
where British prime minister Win-.
ston Churchill held forth 37 years.
ago with his famous speech about..
the "Iron Curtain" that the Russians
were drawing down. in Eastern Eu-
rope.
Invited-over faculty dissent-to
deliver the 40th John Findley Green
.Foundation lecture, Casey gave a
remarkable speech that in many
ways sounded like a text from the
Carter administration.
To deal with all the threats the
Soviets pose, from - nuclear missiles
to "creeping imperialism," Casey de-
clared,."We must maintain a strate-
gic posture that convinces the Sovi-
ets that the risk of -any attack on the
United States or its allies far out-
weighs; any possible -benefits. But
more than that is necessary."
Warning that "a Cubanization of
Central America would quickly cre-
ate new refugees by the millions,"
the CIA-director said that the Unit-
ed States needs "a realistic counter-
strategy" there as elsewhere, one
that would "represent a sensible
American approach to the 'Third
World whether or not the U.S.S.R. is
involved."
and:issues'such as `land=:reform,ktor 'J
rup;'ion and the like.".
+Meadiness `.`.to 'helpbur:friends==
defend7 themselves,"-, including -coun-
terinsurgency -training - and changes
.in. U.S. laws?to -permit quicker pro-
vision of arms for self-defense.
Mobilization of "our greatest
asset in the Third World, private
business."
But the final .weapon, Casey :sub-
mitted, is one "we-can-deploy around
the. :world ..... we -must foster.the-
infrastructure -of democracy, the sys-
tem of a free press, unions, political
parties, universities, which allows a
people to choose its own way .... "
Casey said Grenada "provides a
vivid illustration of how the Soviets
practice 'creepting imperialism' by
proxy. Early reports indicate that, in
addition to the Cubans on the is-
land, Soviets, North Koreans, Lib-
yans, East`Germans and Bulgarians,
mostly working out of the Soviet
embassy, [were] working together to
establish a military base in the east-
In -a meeting Oct. 4, the Westmin-
ster Faculty Council, some of its
members asserting that Casey's past
business dealings raised questions
about his honesty, passed a resolu-
tion calling on the college to with-
'draw the invitation. However,. the
board of trustees voted to stand by
the invitation.
Special correspondent Scott Gor-
don contributed to this article.
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CASEY SAYS THIRD WORLD TO BE BATTLEGROUND FOR U.S. FOR YEARS TO COME
CIA Director William Casey said the Third World will continue to be the
principle U.S. battleground for many years to come and the United States needs
to decide how to stop pressure there .from the Soviet Union.
In the 1970s, the Soviets began their offensive " on a new front - the Third
World,'' Casey told the more than 1,000 gathered Saturday at Westminster
College, where about 30 students and professors gathered to protest CIA's
involvement in Nicaragua.
The Soviets have effectively used proxies or nations acting unofficially on
their behalf, citing the actions of East Germans in Africa, Cubans in Latin
America and Vietnamese in Asia as examples, he said.
''Yet the Soviet Union is crippled,'' Casey added.
Because the Soviets have 'a-military dimension'' they must rely solely on
subversion and disruption of government to gain influence in Third World
coutries, he said.
''But in the long run, it is economic, financial, scientific, technical and
cultural relationships which attract, deliver benefits and maintain close
relationships with less developed countries, " he added. "The Soviet Union
cannot compete in these areas.''
Casey also said Winston Churchill, if he were alive, would be relieved to
know that the United States was countering attempts by the Soviet Union to
influence Grenada and Lebanon.
The CIA director looked to Churchill several times during his lecture.
' 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has
descended across the continent... " Casey quoted from Churchill's 1946 ''Iron
Curtain" speech. "The Communist Parties which were small... have been raised
to preminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to
obtain totalitarian control.''
Churchill would be ''much more alarmed if he looked around the world today
and saw how far the Soviets... have extended their power and influence beyond
the Iron Curtain he so aptly labled,' the CIA director said.
The threat of nuclear holocaust is the object of most of our fears and the
reason for much of our strategy against the Soviet Union, said Casey, who has
been CIA director since 1981.
Casey said the U.S. has made the mistake of only becoming involved in the
Middle East, Latin American and Asia when hostile interests become a threat.
Because of 40 percent of our exports go to these areas, they should receive more
attention in our foreign policies, he said.
He said laws governing foreign military sales need to be relaxed, and the
U.t. should make military training more available to these countries.
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The U.S. must capitalize on the fact that the Soviet Union cannot compete
with the U.S. in investing in private business, "our greatest asset in the
Third World,'' Casey said.
Before Casey's speech, protestors, mostly students from the University of
Missouri but also four professors from Westminster College, sail q '' No drafts;
war; U.S out of El Salvador; William Casey out of Nicaragua . " he protestors,
members of the Committee Against Intervention, said they were not protesting
Casey's speech but CIA's activity in Nicaragua.
''If Reagan can get away with the invasion (of Grenada) on the specious
claims he has made, then that might embolden him to invade Nicaragua --
something he wants to do,'' said Marc Wutschke, a member of the group.
The faculty of Westminster early this month had presented a resolution to the
college's board of trustees to-withdraw the invitation to Casey to speak.
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Senators Serest Adniinistration
Exaggerated Its Cuba Assessment
WASHINGTON, . Oct 29_ Demo-
cratic and RePublican.members of the
Senate. Select :Committee .on intelli.
gee said today that the.Reagan.Ad-
ministration had exaggerated Cuba's
Based on' intelligence information
they have received, including a brief- the near future, bringing the tonal nun
mg Friday by two senior Administra- `l her of, Cuban troops on the .island :16
lion officials, the Senators-said thatmorethan5,000
. On Friday, Aden. -'Wesley L McDon-
ald, commander in chief ' of "United
-States forces., in. the Atlantic region,;.
said that Cubar4 military.documents
found in Grenada. showed that -Cuba
; 'asplanning to send 341:additionalioff_'<
Admiral McDonald said that -there
were more than 1,100 Cubank in Gre-
nada when, the invasion begani 7`ues_
day-Re said more than 600 had been
captured, and the rest are presumed to
have fled to the hills, where resistance
to the American invaders is continuing.
The Administration has also said
that several warehouses full of modem
Soviet and Cuban weapons were dis-
covered in Grenada, including suffi-
cient ammunition to supply thousands
of troops fora month of fighting.
Reporters who were permitted by the
'Defense Department to visit Grenada
on Friday toured several of the ware-
houses and 'found that they contained
rather than offering instant conclu- ammunition, including AK-47 rifles as
lions an TV.., 11 well as large quantities of antiquated
A Republican Senator, who asked
that his name not be used, said, "The
Administration has rushed to judgment
about the Cuban Presence in Grenada.
Yes, there were more Cubans and
more Soviet and Cuban weapons than
we thought, but we need to know 'a lot
more before I'd be willing to accept the
assessment that Grenada was about to
become a Cuban proxy."
The Reagan Administration initially
said it had ordered the invasion' of the
small Caribbean island Tuesday to pro-
tect the lives of United Stites citizens
on the island and to restore democratic
iwt~s in the wake 'of a bloody
coup earlier this month. Administra.
tion officials have increasingly cited
the Cuban presence in Grenada as the
reason for the invasion; Mr. Reagan
said Thursday that the United States
move prevented a planned "Cuban oc-
cupation of the island."
dues not support clams that Cuba was'
the verge of occupying the island or
.turning it into a base for the export of
terrorism and revolution.
Senator Daniel Patrick ,.Moynihan,
Democrat of New York and vice chair-
ma of the said: -We ss imply don}w enough
yet to draw any firm conclusions about
Cuba's role or intentions. Nothing has
been discovered so far that would show
with any certainty that Cuba was plan-
nmg to take over Grenada."
'Serious Analysis' Needed
He added; "The Government owes it-
self and the public some serious analy-
SpecW107 blWyarkTlmr
wSe~tor Moynihan and other mem-
bers of the committee questioned the
Administration's statement about the
arms cache. "On Friday we heard that
Grenada was a Soviet and Cuban ar-
senal," Senator Moynihan said.
`Today I pick up the newspaper and
read that. many of the weapons kept in
storage were made 100 years ago and
are valuable historical pieces, includ-
ing 19th-century carbines."
A second Republican Senator on the
intelligence committee, who also asked
not to be identified, said that' after
hearing Friday from William J. Casey,
the Director of Central Intelligence,
and Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth
W. Dam, most members of the panel
believed that more information was
needed before conclusions could be
reached about Cuba's role in Grenada.
This reaction, several senators said..
reflected a general. air of anxiety in
Congress about the invasion of. Gre-
nada and the Administration -claims
about Cuban activities.
not surprising that the White House and
Pentagon would make the most they
could out of the Cubans, but in fairness
we've got to say the case isn't that
black and white," the Republican Sena-
torsaid.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy,-Democrat
of Vermont, said: "The. general atti-
tude on the committee. was wait-and-
See. There isn't sufficic `t information
yet -to:; make an informed judgment,
.and what is available keeps changing.
Every'tiale someone'from1be Admin-
i istratioae'speaks :there seems to be a
new -totalI fforthe :number of. Cuban
tt V161~Y4:' A..... a ?. .
':-teemembets said that. the panel plans
to conduct -a formal examination of
whatthe United States knew-aboift-the
Cubanpresence in Grenada before and
after the invasion. ?
One Republican Senator said: "I can
'understand that there wasn't time to
provide the kind of intelligence infor-
mation you'd like to have before
launching an invasion, but if it turns
out .that Cuba was in fact planning to
turn.the island into a base, that Castro
was moving massive amounts of arms
and, large 'numbers .of troops to Gre-
nada, then I'd like to know why our in-
telligence agencies couldn't detect that
until we :landed 6,000 troops on the ,is-.
land."
Senior military officers have com-
plained that a lack of intelligence infor-
mation about Cuban forces in Grenada "
left invading troops unprepared for the
intense resistance they say they' en.
:countered from Cuban soldiers.
'Several committee members said
Mr. Casey said the Central Intelligence
Agency did as good a job as it could,
given the limited time it had io. help
-prepare for the invasion,*: Administra.
Lion "officials have said that serious
planning for the invasion .began late
last week.
The Senators said Mr. Casey also
told the committee that there was no
truth to widely circulating rumors that
the St. George's University School of
Medicine in-Grenada, where hundreds
of United States citizens were enrolled,
was used by the C.I.A. to provide ficti-
tious, or cover, occupations for United
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Casey Sees a Soviet Challenge',
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (AP) -Wil-
liam J. Casey, the Director of Central
Intelligence, said today that the United
States had failed to properly confront
the challenge of the Soviet Union. in
developing countries and now must
adopt "a realistic counterstrategy."
"It is past time for the American
Government - executive branch and
Congress - to take the Soviet chal-
lenge in the third world seriously and to
develop a broad.,integrated'strategy
for countering it," Mr. Casey said in a
speech prepared for delivery at West-
minster College in Fulton, Mo. A text of
the speech was released by his Wash-
ington office.
Mr. Casey said the United States
must raise the priority of developing
nations in its foreign policy, advise
them "firmly but tactfully" about the
need for standards of human rights and
honesty in government and mobilize'
what he called "our greatest asset in
the third world - private business
It was at Westminster College in Ful-
ton that Winston Churchill delivered
his now famous speech in which he'
coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" in
reference to the Communist bloc coun-
tries of Eastern Europe, and Mr. Casey
referred to that speech today.
The Director said that since Mr.
Churchill's day, new Communist
threats have sprouted around the
world, from Vietnam to Africa to Cen-
tral America.
-Mr. Casey said that beginning in,the
mid 1970's, the Soviet Union undertook
a strategy aimed at developing coun-
tries.- "And their strategy has
worked," Mr. Casey said.
"How much more alarmed would
Churchill be if he looked around the
world today and saw how the Soviets-
have grown in strength and how far I
they have extended their power and in-'
fluence beyond the Iron Curtain he so
aptly labeled," Mr. Casey said.
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CIA lapse hinted as Grenada
resistance surpasses
By Terry Atlas
Chicaco Tribune
WASHINGTON_U.S.-military planners working
on the invasion of Grenada were told by the
Central Intelligence Agency to expect about 600
Cubans on the island; mostly construction workers
building a major airstrip on the southern tip of
the island.
Instead, U.S. marines and Army Rangers going
ashore Tuesday encountered at least twice as
many Cubans, who put up much stiffer resistance
than intelligence anticipated. "They were heavily
armed and militarily trained," said a White
House spokesman on ?riday. -
The CIA's estimation od the Cuban military
build-up on the island has led to sharp questions
in Congress and elsewhere about the accuracy of
intelligence preceding the invasion. "Our military
intelligence wasn't as good as we .had hoped,''
said the House minority leader, Rep. Robert
Michel [R., I11.].
In his nationwide broadcast Thursday night,
President Reagan himself said that military plan-
ners. "had little information about conditions on
the island." He said he and others were surprised
to find what constituted a "a complete base with
weapons and communications equipment which
makes it clear a Cuban occupation of the island
had been planned."
THE APPARENT lack of detailed information
came as a surprise, because Reagan repeatedly
has pointed to the Eastern Caribbean island ana
its former Marxist prime minister, Maurice Bish-
op. as an example of the spread of Soviet and
Cuban influence and subversion in the region.
In March, Reagan showed satellite photographs
documenting construction of a 10,000-foot runway,
which he said could handle Soviet military air-
craft. and construction of military facilities.
In the days preceding the invasion, the CIA and
other intelligence agencies apparently had to
scramble to assemble what sketchy information
they had about conditions after the overthrow and
murder of Bishop by radical Marxists in the
Grenada military during the preceding weeks. It
is unclear whether the number of Cubans in-
creased in the days between the coup on Oct. 14
and the U.S. invasion Tuesday.
A gap in information is all the more surprising
because U.S. military personnel hit the island
with maps locating the homes of each American.
There were reports on Capitol Hill that CIA
agents were among the passengers on the first.
plane evacuating Americans from the island.
A WHITE HOUSE spokesman, breaking the
usual policy of silence on intelligence matters,
said Friday that "there was no [American) intel-
ligence operation on the ground in Grenada."
estimates
But the spokesman, Larry Speakes, denied that.
there was a breakdown in inteiligence-gathering,
as happened four years ago before .the Iranian
revolution. -He said that conclusion would be
"erroneous" and rejected the idea that faulty
intelligence might have prolonged the,mission and
cost American lives.
"We .:had twice as many Cubans there as we
thought were there," he said. "But it wasn't a
force of Cubans we .weren't prepared to deal with
militarily."
Adm. Wesley McDonald, overall commander of
the invasion forces-which also included about 300
soldiers from six other Caribbean nations-said
Friday, "I didn't have enough intelligence. but I
don't think there was a failure there. I just think
we didn't have the time to concentrate on it."
McDonald is also commander in chief of U.S.
forces in the Atlantic.
"WE WERE looking at Grenada in the broad
aspects of knowing what was going on," he said
during a Pentagon news briefing. But for the
invasion to evacuate American citizens, he said,
"we did not have as much intelligence as I
would like to have [had]."
CiA director William Casey met behind closed
doors Friday with members of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence to brief them on activi-
ties in Grenada and Beirut. Asked about the
failure to estimate accurately the Cuban presence
on the island. he reportedly said that "intelligence
is not an exact science."
Afterward, several senators who attended the
meeting said they were satisfied with the CIA's
performance. The agency reportedly had pre-
pared a covert operation to overthrow the pro-
Cuban Bishop government in 1981 but dropped it
because of congressional opposition. Bishop, a
pro-Castro Marxist, was murdered Oct. 19 by the
more militant Marxists who had deposed him..:
ADMINSTRATION officials said that although
Reagan was short of definite information on
Monday, the day before the invasion, he did
receive intelligence reports that the radical new
Grenadian government might hold American
medical students on the island hostage. Reagan
has justified the invasion on grounds that he was
trying to avert. a repetition of the Iranian hostage
situation of 1979-81.
"We did have one" or two intelligence reports,
that the Cubans on the island were starting to
kick the idea around," said one official.
Speakes said Friday that officials, were sur-
prised that the American forces found not only 49
Soviets and their dependents on the island, but
also Bulgarians, East 'Germans and North
Koreans. "The presence of these came as ..a
surprise to us and a shock to the governor-
general" of Grenada, he said.
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CIA DIRECTOR: U.S. MUST CONFRONT SOVIETS IN THIRD WORLD
The United States has failed to properly confront the challenge of the Soviet
Union in Third World countries and needs to develop "a realistic
counter--strategy" for the newest ideological battleground, CIA Director
William Casey said Saturday.
"It i5 past time for the American government Executive branch and Congress
to take the Soviet challenge in the Third World seriously and to develop a
broad, integrated strategy for countering it," Casey said in a speech at
Westminster College.
Casey said the United States must raise the priority of developing nations in
its.foreign policy and advise them "firmly but tactfully" about the need for
standards of human rights and government honesty.
Casey's message also reinforced the Reagan administration's rationale for
keeping troops in Lebanon and Grenada: that they are essential to hold back
Soviet influence and allow citizens to freely choose their own governments.
Grenada "provides a vivid illustration of how the Soviets practice creeping
imperialism by proxy," Casey said. "Early reports indicate that in addition to
the Cubans on the island, Soviets, North Koreans, Libyans, East Germans and
Bulgarians, mostly working out of the Soviet embassy, work together to establish
a military base in the eastern Carribbean."
Beginning in the mid--19705, the Soviets launched a new strategy aimed at
developing countries, "and their strategy has worked."
Much of that strategy, Casey said, involves use of surrogate forces from
Cuba, East Germany, Libya and Vietnam in roles from combat soldier and terrorist
to teacher and administrator. And the Soviets have become the world's leading
supplier of arms, he said.
"Yet the Soviet Union is crippled," Casey told the college audience. "It is
crippled in having only a military dimension. It has not been able to deliver
economic, political or cultural benefits at home or abroad."
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29 October 1983
Grenada provides a good example of the Soviet Union's attempt to promote
violence in Third World countries, CIA Director William J. Casey said tonight.
Casey said intelligence reports indicate the Soviet Union or its "proxies"
were promoting violence and revolution in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and
Costa Rica.
In an speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Casey called on the United
States to react to the Soviet threat.
"It is past time for the American government -- the executive branch and
Congress -- to take the Soviet challenge seriously and to develop a broad,
integrated strategy for countering it," he-said.
Addressing the same issue as.Winston Churchill in his famous "Iron Curtain"
speech in Fulton in 1946, Casey said, "How. much more alarmed would Churchill be
if he looked around the world today and saw how the Soviets have grown in
strength and how far they have extended their power and influence beyond the
Iron Curtain he so aptly labeled?"
Casey said the Soviets began in the mid-1970s a new strategy for developing
nations, "and their strategy has worked." The new tactics involved use of forces
from other nations with close ties to Moscow.
"The early reports from Grenada," he said, "indicate that in addition to
Cubans and Soviets, there are Bulgarians, East Germans, North Koreans and other
Communist-bloc nations there. Working from the Soviet Embassy, they were working
to establish a permanent military base in the eastern Caribbean."
Casey said the United States must "raise and sustain" the importance of
developing nations in foreign policy planning.
Washington must advise those nations "firmly but tactfully" about the need
for standards of human rights and governmental honesty, he said.
He also urged changes in foreign military sales laws to permit the United
States to provide arms to allies more quickly.
Casey said that although the Soviet Union was now the largest exporter of
arms in the world, it could not deliver sustained economic support.
"The Soviet Union is crippled," Casey said. "It is crippled in having only a
military dimension."
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By FRANK GREVE
Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON- forces
seriously underestimated.. Cuban
Castro sent colonel
Cuban President Fidel Castro did
not send reinforcements to Grena-
da, the sources said, but he did dis-
patch an Army colonel to direct the
island's defense.
STA
geste rena ian troops were moo-
estly armed and that the military
operation might be' concluded in 24
hours... .
`Terrence Daly, 21, of. Alexandria,
Va.',? one of the 6,000, troops in-
volved In the assault, -called his
' This went --utilietected 'bf tTS. mother Tuesday night _. from Fort
forces, :and the reason, according to Bragg. N.C.
three congressmen, may:hav_e been "They're shipping me to Grena- _
this: The Central intelligence-Aged- r da,N-.- 'd :Daly, unaware of. the
cy had no -spies on:-Grenada_:until tough combat ahead. "They've
Monday. According to two other given. me a flak jacket, a.rifle and
- 100 rounds of ammunition."
sources close: to _Caribbean Intellf But servicemen returning from
strength on Grenada, based-their as- gence operations. the .'one 1i s: spy ! the front said recounted the stiff re-
saults on tourist maps and, at least on. Grenada was captured and,dis- s-sistance -encountered. lst 'Lt. Mi-
in some cases, didn't' know which appeared sometime between Oct.. 14 chael Andre Menu, 34, of Portland,
side the Grenadian.army was on, and Oct 21. Maine,-recalled, "We'were fighting
American officials :and returning Another story offered -privately against very: highly-armed people,
troops now acknowledge. ' by administration officials is that with armored personnel carriers
Further, Cubans on the island re- the United States had an informant that were lammed full of aminuni
portedly were tipped off to the in- among the medical students at St. `tion, said Menu, now recovering at
vasion 24 hours in advance, greatly George's College of Medicine. But the naval hospital at Charleston;'
adding to the danger faced by U.S. the medical'students were confined S.C., from a shrapnel wound 'to'bis
'
troops. to the school's two campuses after, arm. "Yes, sir, they were waiting
O
ct. 14. The beefing-up of Grena-
The problems,- say members of -
Congress and the- invaders them- da s defenses came after that date,
included a lack of intelli- Pentagon officials say.
selves
,
gence about the size, arms, commit- Whatever the reason for III-pre-,
ment and location of enemy forces. paredness, these, were among the
? hazardous and comic results:
Those shortcomings may have ? A Marine platoon. leader ap.
-led U.S. invasion leaders to drop. proached his commander, saying'he
paratroopers into- anti-aircraft fire, : had a man in. his unit ' who could
to have, slowed operations on the help "with the ?native . language,
ground, and to have made adminis- according to, a Washington Post re,
tration leaders overly optimistic port. Grenadians speak English.
that U.S. troops could be removed ? Another platoon leader, ' at
within a week. -- midday Tuesday, approached Miami
Asked ' Friday why U.S. troops Herald correspondent 'Don Bohning
expected 500 Cuban construction . to ask, "Can you tell us what's
workers on Grenada but encoun- going on? Is the Grenadian army
tered instead an estimated 1,100 with us or against us?"
well-armed Cuban combatants, De- ? Some invasion -units patrolled
fense Secretary Caspar Weinberger I rwith only tourist.maps of the rug-
acknowledged the intelligence 'ged, complex Grenadan terrain for
weakness. guidance, according to ABC News.
"I suppose because it [the armed ? Army Ranger paratroopers
buildup of Cuban forces] was car- , apparently dropped Into hostile and
ried on clandestinely,' said "Wein- unexpected anti-aircraft fire Tues-
berger. "We don't have any repre- day at Point Salines airport
sentation on the Island. We did not ? Initially, 'top Defense Depart.
have-any way of really determining ---- - - -
this. ment officials. described the Cuban
In addition, U.S. intelligence forces on Grenada as "construction
sources told the Associated Press workers" who would be treated as
that Cuba had been tipped off to the neutrals. On Friday, after they had
,US. attack . 24 hours before It-! offered' strong' resistance, Adm..
-began. Wesley McDonald, commander of
Th
s
for Us."
Other injuries, and perhaps
deaths, may have resulted from the
rparachute drop into enemy.fire;.the
Defense Department has, not re-
leased details of how casualties
happened. The normal procedure
when dropping parachutists is to si-
lence hostile fire first, a course
readily available in Grenada had
gunships from the nearby carrier
USS Independence been employed.
Not enough intelligence
McDonald admitted here Friday,
"I didn't have enough intelligence."
But, he continued, "I don't 'think
there was a failure there. You have
to look at the total perspective., An
? assault on an island such as Grena=
da is not something we are geared
to do. We did not have as much in=
telligence as 1, as force commander,
woyjd like to have."
McDonald and White_ House
Spokesman Larry Speakes`ori Fri-
day became. the first administration
officials to admit that the United
States might face protracted resist-
::ance. from. Cuban and Grenadian
troops in the island's hills and jun-,
' glee. '
How they. did so well, and the
e. intelligence
ources, speak- the Grenada operation, described) United States so poorly, is a ques-
ing on condition' they not be identi- ?them as "well-trained, professional tion for William J. Casey, director
'fled, told the AP that the tip was an soldiers" who had been "imperson- of the CIA. He will discuss the ade-
"unintentional" leak from one of atina.constru,cion workers. quacy of intelligence in Grenada
-the six Caribbean nations. that 24-hour estimate with some skeptical senators next
joined the United States In the ven. week, at the invitation of Sen. Dan-
ture. They. refused to say which of And there were serious conse- iel Patrick Moynihan (D;, N.Y.),
the six - Antigua, St. Lucia,.Domi- quences. In initial briefings Tues- vice chairman of the intelligence
nice, St. Vincentp 6b@Fftc Pele ~t 0901 ROVS 10003-8
bados -- was to bI ien dat~lf f n`Ce egc sVi
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CASEY WARNS CENTRAL AMERICA ''CUBANIZATION'
Soviet backed ' 'creeping imperialism'' threatens Central America and a
Cubanization ' ' of the area would send millions more refugees toward the United
States, CIA Director William Casey said Saturday.
In a lecture at Westminister College at Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill
coined the phrase " Iron Curtain' 47 years ago to describe the Soviet bloc,
Casey said Churchill would be ''alarmed" to see -how Soviet power has been
extended
" He would see Soviet power ... in Vietnam, along China's southern border and
astride the sea lanes which bring Japan's oil from the Persian Gulf, in
.Afghanistan, 500 miles closer to ... the Strait of Hormuz through which comes
the oil essential to Western Europe, on the Horn of Africa overlooking the
passageway of Suez ... in southern Africa, rich in minerals, which the
industrial nations require, and in the Caribbean and Central America, on the
very doorstep of the United States," Casey said.
''Soviet power is already solidly established in Cuba and Nicaragua," Casey
said. ' 'This threatens the Panama Canal and the sea lanes of the Caribbean.
Insurgencies and revolutionary violance are unleashed to topple governments in
El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala."
The major Soviet threat in Central America, he said, "is something we might
call creeping imperialism. The kremlin uses a variety of techniques to exploit
economic, racial and religious divisions around the world, to destabilize and
subvert other countries by fostering internal insurgency. "
''A Cubanization of Central America would quickly create new refugees by the;
millions," he said. ''The Soviets can calculate that a greatly increased
military threat on our southern flank and the internal disruption that would
result if millions of Latin Americans walked north would distract the United
States from dealing with what could be more lethal threats elsewhere in the
world.''
Casey said Washington should. counter Soviet subversion by promoting U.S.
investment in the Third World and expanding abilities to provide weapons and
military training to friendly Third World nations.
He also noted the United States "must be prepared to demand firmly but
tactfully and privately that our friends observe certain standards of behavior
with regard to basic human rights."
Casey delivered the 40th John Findley Green Foundation Lecture and was
awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The Green Foundation lecture series
began in 1936 and has brought a number of world leaders, including Presidents
Ford and Truman, to Westminister.
In 1946, Churchill gave his famous ''Iron Curtain'' speech at the Missouri j
college, which Casey quoted liberally.
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Invasion in Grenada: Flawed
'Intelligence Debated: ___
U. . Now Puts the Sfre fit'
gin Administration avxsbezjncreased
s. its estimates-of:the number of Cubans
In Grenada today amid growing debate
about why intelligence agencies'-failed
.tomeamire Caban'strength moreaccu-
ratelybefore Tuesday's invasion.
Administration officials said the'dat
est figures showed,more than .1,100
Cubans were in -Grenada, 10 percent
more than reported by the Government
on Thursday and almost twice as many
as estimated before American and
Caribbean assault forces invaded.
At the same time, some military
scarcer, said privately -that reports
f om Grenada -today indicated that 610
Cubans were being held prisoner and
800 to 1,000 wet still at large.
'Adm. Wesley' L McDonald, :Com-
mander
in Chief of American formes in
the Atlantic region, said at a Defense
Department news conference that 638
Cubans, including a colonel, are being
held prisoner at Point Salinas and
Pearls airports in Grenada. He said 17
Grenadians are also being held cap-
tive.
Admiral McDonald said the Defense
Department did not know the where-
abouts of the remaining 500 or more
Cubans, but assumes they have fled
into the bills where invading forces
cc nue to encounter pockets of armed
resistance. .
case
et
y
s
ve
n
an
- Cuban Documents Cited prised, "aseniormilitary offircersaid.
Of Ccrbcrns *on Isle at 1,1:01
WISHINGTUN, Oct.28T=The'Res~' cation- xtie5~sioa: Vfr L gaD
"I think they're going back into the' miral McDonald,:' nobing-:.'that
hills," Admiral McDonald said., "resistance was much greater than ex-
"They're fighting a delaying action or petted due to the extensive Cuban mili-
they're talons us on to defend the mill- tary involvement on the island," said,
terry areas that they have been as- "I didn't have enough intelligence but
signed to. As those places are being don't think there was a failure there."
overrun - I would say with a restraint The collection of intelligence infor-
af force - they are disappearing into' nation in places such as Grenada does
tbeinot
-not normally involve the kind of de.
Admiral McDonald. and other T Ad- tailed, tactical reporting needed to plan;
ministration officials said the figure of an invasion, the admiral said, adding:!
1,100 Cubans was based partly on door "I don't think the '
merits found at a urban ~ talkod, I just,
military insul? -think we didn't have the time to toucan.;
lotion in Grenada overrtan earlier this trate on it."
week. The estimate is also drawn from Increased
comments by Cuban prisoners,-the offi .' Intelligence Cloverage vials said. . Admiral McDonald said that .intelli.
Confusion on the ground in Grenadaz Bence coverage of Grenada was not
makes it impossible to provide 'a pre;; stepped up until several days before
cise count of Cubans, the officials said. the ft"Wheri we were invited
President Reagan and fits top aides; by?tbe Organization of Eastern-CsriS.~
have increasingly emphasized the' bean'States to intervene it became ob-
haw presence in Grenada as a.;ttsti- 'violas we had to solicit as much intelli-k
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said,lbur,al!3 that-lie ?i on l
,preveed:a. planned ~"Crbanxo?chr,
McDon 1d>said _tbodav^tbat
He added, "We were not micro-mars- :
aging Grenada inteiligencewise until
About that time frame." ..-
The Administration has. said that the
United States first received a request
-to intervene early last Saturday-
.: -..In ,an appearance today before .the
Senate Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, William J. Casey,.the Director
of Central Intelligence, said that intelli-
gence coverage of Grenada,.,including
-overflights by . American - spy, planes,
as-
was -increased over Iaasstt-~weeekeln!dl1, ?he
cording to several. senators Y.Yi.
:panel= The. senators said: #hat Mr.
4Caseybad:told tbe.committeethatthe
Cj.A":l ad,few,agenM~mtheisland be.
fa~retheiavasion. r~? rt ;=~cT~,~-,~ ;~
Admiral icDona1d; . bke.vtber,:Ad-
:ministration officials,-,said::that: esd-
-mates before-:the invasion placulithe
number of Cubans in Grenada.at 500 to
600, with =at least half-serving as. con-
'struction workers. It wasnotpparent
until after the invasion began, be said,
that?many of those were trained com-
bat troops. Nor was the United States
aware. that the actual number of
Cubans in Grenada totaled more-than
1,100, he said.
Aware of a Buildup
`The United States was aware of some
Cuban buildup }n recent weeks, Admi-
ral McDonald said.
.On Oct. 6, be said; _:a Cuban troop
transport ship "offloaded arms in St.
George's Harbor "
On Oct ?A, the day before the inva-
sion began, be said, a Cuban' transport
aircraft arrived in' Grenada with a
delegation of military personnel. He
said that President Fidel Castro of
Cuba "later announced that the delega-
tion was led by Col. Totola Comas for
the purpose of taking charge" of the
Cubans on the island.
. "Colonel Totola was sent to organize
.and supervise defense of-the island."
the admiral continued.-`AIICuban per-
sonnel were ordered toimprvve-their
'bat disposition." -
Although Administration officials
have expressed surprise at the extent
.of the Cuban military presence in Gre-
- ~'8ead~:-~ddklooal-~ad~ooo;
? rese vists to `Grenada soon: -D-,aid
" `-that"- ~ e 'C,ubans. appedied=to'be plan=
ring to take over control of the island
,and install their own government-
The documents cited by Admiral Mc-
doraald and other secret Cuban military
papers that..inistration officials
said have been found in Grenada have
notbeenmade public.
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Before the invasion began, however,
'tnne1l repot ts about the Cuban
- preseaceon-the island indicated little
dangerthat suchan occupatiaf was im-
,miaeat,.ac ording to intelligence off-
`-Gals and public?statemetrts by Admin-
istration aides.
-
Some military officers have said pri
vately that the gap in intelligence seri-
ously handicapped planning for the in-
vasion and left the troops that landed,
unprepared for the intense resistance
they faced from heavily armed Cuban
combat forces.
"One of the fundamentals of warfare
'
"sur--
w
~e badl
- thi
e
d 'i
tibn available months ago that officials
cited at the time as evidence of a large
Cuban involvement
.:..Oa March 9, for example, Nestor D.
Sanchez, the Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense for Inter American Af.
fairs, told a. group of educators, "In
Grenada, Cuban influence has reached
such a high level that it. can be can id-
ered a Cuban proteg?.?". Mr. Sanchez said, "Cuba has, for ex-
ample, constructed a military camp in
Grenada." After describing the facili-
ties at the camp in , detail: Mr. Sanhez
said, "T'he camp is built to house a bat-
talion-size unit and is being built by the
Cubans." An American battalion nor
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29 October 1983
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Grenada. In addition 'U.S. officials
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!'~~S I eports a~i21 Y
P said they were surprised to be told
,NaV1P.f-l. ~llj?t3il prPCPnr&- i .:_ f t i ,11; that 24 North Koreans, 10. East Ger.
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ere said, to have mg' ieluye in the Soviet , ission in
By_Bob Woodward and-Patrick E,? Tyler thigh technology Soviet and ; Cuban . Grenada-.,:
WasUk,gton 'ostatarf Wdtas mmunlcatlons Fear acid _weaponr ; This a?. con'.ade
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or
h~ igenee: reporEs coming From Grenada Onei senior,official Said a Cuban gen _ country -that' size ::and is certain i
after e_-I3.S: nvasion show?a stronger and ;-was believed W ,11iave been un: ~. include intell 4igeni of cers, bald A .
.b rger?Soviet-Cuban itary, and diplomatic: asland recently ~n a command or, V or ,iadintnistfa3i br officia`l j =ivho
'presence than expected, but they may .fall ursorycapacity~ 4f added that the 420 North Koreans .
sort of supporting president Reagan's as- ; = e Pentagon has tnghl~ghteci the. $lmost , equal `the 'number'; of I3ortti'
section that the-Caribbeanisland was-beiig presence:_on':..the ~sland'of e5_Cuban Koreans'inNicaragua upportingthe:
readied as a ma~or-iii itary bastion to export colonel as an indication of the im= soviet-.Cuban presence thc re
teriar' according to'aflministration and con- portance-pl'aced on the military base. At the closest., U.S. Embassy .in
gressional sources Several sources, including a ~ Pen- Bridgetown, Barbados, there have
. ... After the Senate- Intell igence Committee . tagon official and a member of the been as many as 40 to 50 American
was "briefed yesterday by CIA Director Wil- Senate Intelligence Committee, said diplomats with a . total staff o f ' 1:75
Iiam''J. Casey, a 'Republican member of the yesterday that the Cuban >colonel, personnel,` according to ' Sally A.
Pedro said that the large, combat-ready
edro Tortolo Comas, ,was ~ sint to "Shelton; a- -former amt,assador to
Cuban construction force and extensive an- Grenada the- day before_the invasion Barbados. The embassy represents
batteries-camouflaged around the to lead the resistance.."'By the time U.S. ,interests in 'Barbados and 'a
'pint Salines -a port's ngi the Soviets, and . '.Tortolo arrived, the impending in number of. other Caribbean cnun
`:"Culisus had e;;tablashed a pezn~anent base of vasion was being widely reported in tries
operations , 4 the Caribbean-. Political leaders there. .,During yesterday's Senate Inte]-
Bui'the senator. ded that the_adminis- ? were: debating whether to'endorse' ligence Committee ..briefing, accord
tration's case gibe island -was ;being the invasion p}an- by some eastern ing to one Republican senator who
readied to export"evolution and terror in the Caribbean countries. attended, Casey compared. Grenada
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.inferential and cir-
on . cumstantial" at this said the volume of weapons found in
Pentagon afficaals sei~.uesterda} they be- Grenada by invading U.S. forces far
lieved there are about 1;100 Cubans on the exceeded the defensive needs of the
island, 600 of whom have been captured by island and the only logical conclu-
U,S. forces who landed on;Grenada Tuesday.
The CIA has sent five :intern gators to
Grenada to begin_ the captured Cu-
bans, a senior. official said.
The official said the discovery of the well-' lions of rounds of ammunition, make
'estab'lished Cuban presence provided. U.S. -tire. case;" this official said.
intelligence analysts.?with a unique -opportu- Contrary to.earlier reports' .a Sen-
nity tar;study. closel. `'tie mili ate intelligence staff source said a
-- -~'- .. tart' manage
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v, a a,uanI
. state under Sovietand Cuban influ
ence.
The Cuban construction crews !
turned out to :have been equipped:',
for- combat much, like U.S. Navy
Seabees (construction battalions?.;
,according. to the official. In their bar
racks on the: southern end ofl
Grenada. the official -said, American
forces found special hooks by the
Sion was that the island was being
prepared as a - staging area by the
Soviets-and Cubans:
"The raw military photos alone
,and the raw numbers, including mil-
.Heroica"`did not resupply the Cuban
troops 'during the weekend . before;
the invasion. 'The supply ship had'
theen'in a Grenada :harbor-since-Oct:?
17 or: Oct. 18; this source said, Before;
the death of Grenada's former ,prime;
minister, Maurice Bishop. Pentagon,.-
oft icials said yesterday that; a ,troop
=transport. offloaded arms an. St.
George's on Oct. 6.
U
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.
.
arces
ave -found n49 'Soviet
Cubans' bunks from which to hang
th ? AKA' It 'fl bloc diplomats and -dependents in
ear ass
u
and Nicaragua, noting that the mix
of Soviet bloc diplomats and advis-
ers seems roughly the 'sane in each
of the two countries.
Though Casey apparently did not
mention it to the =Senate committee
yesterday, a senior 'administration
official said the-CIA has indications
that a Soviet-backed assassination
team was involved in killing former
prime minister Bishop last-week,,six
days before the U.S. invasion.
- It was reported from the region
'..-last week that Bishop and a number
of his aides were. killed after a crowd
,of supporters freed him from house
arrest Oct. 19. He reportedly was
executed after being. seized outside
'Fort Rupert on -the island by
-'Grenad'an sco
ops "then 'under .the
command of Gen. Hudson:Austin.,
': The .administration official : de-
clined'to reveal he_'.bisis'for infor-`'
mation about a Soviet assassination.'
..team. The officialcited this informa
'` tion as an .-"important - intelligence
a
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WASHINGTON
CIA CHIEF CALLS FOR THIRD WORLD COUNTER-STRATEGY AGAINST SOVIET
BY JIM DRINKARD
The United States has failed to properly confront the challenge of the Soviet
Union in third-world countries and now must develop "a realistic
counter-strategy" for that ideological battleground, Central Intelligence
Agency director William Casey said Saturday.
"It is past time for the American government executive branch and Congress
to take the Soviet challenge in the third world seriously and to develop a
broad, integrated strategy for countering it," Casey said in a speech released
by his Washington office.
Casey said the United States must raise the priority of developing nations in
its foreign policy, advise them "firmly but tactfully" about the need for
standards of human rights and government honesty and mobilize what he called
"our greatest asset in the third world - private business."
He used the speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., to, address the same
issue first raised" at the small college by Winston Churchill, who delivered his
famous "Iron Curtain" speech there in the same lecture series in 1946.
The CIA director said that since Churchill's day, new communist threats
have sprouted around the globe, from Vietnam to Africa to Central America.
He said that beginning in the mid 1970s, the Soviets launched a strategy
aimed at developing countries. "And their strategy has worked."
"How much more alarmed would Churchill be if he looked around the world today
and. saw how the Soviets have grown in strength and how far they have extended
their power and influence beyond the Iron Curtain he so aptly labeled," said
Casey.
Casey's message also reinforced in general terms the Reagan administration's
defense for keeping troops deployed in Lebanon and Grenada: that they are
essential to hold back Soviet influence and allow citizens to freely choose
their own governments.
Much of the present Soviet strategy, Casey said, involves use of surrogate
forces from Cuba, East Germany, Libya and Vietnam in roles from combat soldier
and terrorist to teacher and administrator. And the Soviets_ have become the
world's leading supplier of arms, he said.
"Yet the Soviet Union is crippled," Casey told the college audience. "It is
crippled in having only a military dimension. It has not been able to deliver
economic, political or cultural benefits at home or abroad."
Casey said the United States must begin to pay greater attention to the
problems of third world nations, which buy 40 percent of U.S. exports, "before
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S. CO'L^`:ANDER FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF MISSILES ON GRENADA
. The commander of U.S. forces in Grenada on Friday said no missiles had been
found on the island and he was "not aware" of missile storage bunkers being
built, despite a published report that intelligence photographs of the
installation prompted the U.S. invasion.
Anne. Wesley McDonald, commander in chief of the-Atlantic fleet, said U.S.
troops had fount no evidence of missiles on the leftist-ruled island and added:
"I'm not aware of missile bunkers being installed there."
Sources also quoted CIA Director William J. Casey as telling the Senate
Intelligence Committee that there was no evidence of missile sites bEiiiq built
o rena 'a.
The Knight-Ridder news service reported Friday that intelligence photographs
provided evidence that missile storage bunkers may have been under construction
in Grenada, prompting the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to urge an immediate
invasion.
The photos showed four concrete shelters 200 feet long and 40 feet wide, with
walls 12-to-18 inches thick, under construction about 800 feet from the new
airport runway at Point Salines, Knight-Ridder said. The story was carried in
Knight-Ridder newspapers.
The photographs were taken by a spy on Grenada who relayed them to sources
off .the island using a scanning device and a radio transmitter, according to
Knight-Ridder, which said the-information was compiled from Pentagon,
congressional and independent sources.
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'CIA director Casey
to lecture at college
CIA Director William J. Casey will discuss world
affairs in the 40th John Findley Green Foundation Lee-
Lure at 3 p.m. Saturday in Champ Auditorium at West-
minster College in Fulton.
Mr. Casey is the first CIA director to be designated
by a president, Ronald Reagan.`as a full Cabinet offi-
cer. He will discuss the current state of intelligence as
it applies to the security of the United States.
Clare Boothe Luce, a member of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and a former
member of Congress, is expected to attend the lecture.
She helped to arrange the visit by the CIA director and
was the 37th lecturer in the Green series.
During World War II, Mr. Casey served on the staff
of William J. Donovan, the founder of the Office of
Strategic Services. the predecessor of the CIA. Mr.
Casey received the Bronze Star for his work in coordi-
nating French resistance forces in support of the inva-
sion of Normandy and the liberation of France.
Later he became chief of American secret intelli-
gence operations in Europe. He served as associate
general counsel at the European headquarters of the
Marshall Plan, the foreign-aid support plan for Euro-
pean nations after World War II.
Mr. Casey also has been chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission from 1971 to 1973, underse-
cretary of state for economic affairs and president and
chairman of the Export-Import Bank.
The lecture is a part of the 1983 Westminster parents :
weekend. Because of space limitations, tickets will be
distributed only to Westminster students, faculty. offi-
cials and parents.
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C.I.A.'s Role to Be Discussed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27- William J.
Casey, Director of Central Intelli.
gence, agreed today to meet with sena-
tors Friday to discuss questions about
whether there was a Central Intelli-
gence Agency presence on Grenada
prior to Tuesday's invasion.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
vice chairman of the intelligence com-
mittee, said he issued an invitation to
Mr. Casey to meet with senators be-
cause a C.I.A. - role on Grenada "has
been widely reported and discussed on
the Senate floor" in private conversa-
tions.
The New York Democrat added that
he was precluded by Senate rules from
discussing the substance of the reports.
He said all senators had been invited to
the briefing with Mr. Casey, which
would be held in the secure intelligence
committee room on the fourth floor of
the Capitol.
Senator Gary Hart, Democrat of
Colorado, asked if he had heard about
reports of C.I.A. involvement on the is-
land, replied, "Nothing I can talk
about:"
Another Democratic senator said he
had received information that C.I.A.
agents were among the passengers on a
planeload of 70 American medical stu.
dents flown out of Grenada Wednesday.
His information _ came indirectly
.from the Central Intelligence Agency,
the State Department and the Defense
t
h
pa.
men .,
e said.
Some Capitol Hill aides said they
hoped that, with Cubans and Russians
on the island, the United States had a
signficiant intelligence operation. I
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Cuba was tipped off to U.S. plans to invade Grenada at lease hours before
the attack began, possibly explaining why the 1,100-man Cuban force seemed so
well prepared for the assault, U.S. intelligence sources said Friday night.
Sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said the warning came
from an "unintentional" leak from one of the Caribbean nations which joined the
United States in the invasion Tuesday.
The sources refused to disclose which of the six countries leaked the
information.
Although learning of the invasion plans, Cuba's President Fidel Castro did
not send reinforcements to the island, but did-dispatch an army colonel to
direct the island defense, the sources said.
U.S. Marines and Army paratroopers who landed on Grenada in the pre-dawn
hours Tuesday were surprised by the stiffer-than-expected defense mounted by the
Cubans and the Grenadian army. The possibility of a leak could help explain why
the defenders were able to prevent U.S. forces from obtaining their main
objectives on the first day.
Meanwhile, the Navy admiral who commanded the invasion force and a White
House spokesman disputed suggestions that U.S. intelligence had failed by
underestimating the number of Cubans on the island by about half.
"You can't know everything," said deputy press secretary Larry Speaker, who
added that there was no U.S. intelligence operation in Grenada. "You do your
best."
Adm. Wesley McDonald, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, said, "I
didn't have Enough intelligence, but there wasn't an intelligence failure. ;.. I
don't think the system failed. We just didn't have the time to focus On it.
Initial estimates put the number of Cubans on Grenada at 600, a figure that
was raised to "upwards of 1,000" once the U.S.-led invasion of the island got
under way early Tuesday. McDonald said the estimate was 1,100 Cubans, with more
than 300 still fighting.
President Reagan said he launched the invasion at the request of six eastern
Caribbean nations concerned about a bloody leftist coup on Grenada and the
possibility that violence would spread to them.
U.S. intelligence hastily compiled what it could about Cuban and Grenadian
military strength last week as final plans were put together for the invasion,
Reagan administration sources said, but the CIA estimate proved off the mark
when U.S. forces landed on the island.
U.S. officials, speaking publicly and privately, have expressed surprise at
the number of Cubans on the island and the determined fight mounted by Cuban andl
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GRENADA/COUF RATHER: Good evening. This is the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather
reporting. The United States now,has 6,000 troops on Grenada,
triple the number that took part in the Tuesday morning
invasion. And apparently many in that American military force
will be there longer than was originally indicated. Army
Rangers of the assault force prepared to return home today; no
word on when the Marines will proceed on to Beirut, where they
were headed when the invasion plane got the go-ahead. More of
the 82nd Airborne Army-division came in today. The number of
U.S. military dead from Grenada reached 11 today officially,
with 67 wounded and seven missing. Eight of the dead arrived at
Dover Air Force Base in Delaware yesterday; word of that just
disclosed late today. Pentagon correspondent David Martin
reports now on the Defense Department's version of what is
happening on Grenada.
MARTIN: President Reagan called it mopping up, and many of
these pictures released today by the Defense Department made it
look almost easy. Marines moving through northern parts of the
island were greeted as conquering heroes. But the overall
commander of the operation reported that some fighting is still
going on. ADM. WESLEY MCDONALD (Operational Commander): Heavy
fighting occurred on the evening of 27 October, at the Calivigny
military barracks area. Air strikes and artillery were used to
help our forces secure that area. They are continuing to
receive small-arms fire.
MARTIN: With 6,000 U.S. soldiers now ashore, most of the
remaining fighting is taking place in the south. The Army
shelled the area from impiacement around Pt. Salines airfield.
Navy jets from the carrier Independence made strafing runs, and
Air Force C-130 gunships unloaded their cannons on suspected
hideouts. There is strong suspicion the military barracks at
Point Calivigny housed a terrorist training camp. That could
help explain the presence of some 30 East Germans, Bulgarians
and North Koreans inside the Soviet embassy. ALAN ROMBERG
(Pentagon Spokesman): it came as a surprise because we didn't
know they were there. Ah, it's also of some interest that they
were there and what it may say about the kind of role that they
were playing.
MARTIN: That could also help explain the large cache of arms
and ammunition found earlier at Pt. Salines. U.S. intelligence
had spotted the warehouses which held the weapons but had not
known what was inside. It is now believed the weapons were
brought in by Cuban ships under cover of darkness. MCDONALD:
The overwhelming evidence-from our ground troops is that Cubans,
not Grenadians, were in the forefront of the fighting.
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28 October 1983
U.S. urged to ban goods produced in
BY A WASHINGTON TIMES STAFF WRITER
Soviet imports produced . by
forced labor should be barred from
the United States, as the law
requires, the chairman of a House
appropriations subcommittee said
yesterday.
The law banning forced-labor
goods, which has been on the books
for more than 50 years, "has not
been enforced with regard to the
Soviet Union;' said Rep. Edward R.
Roybal, . D-Calif., during, House
action on a Treasury Department
spending bill including funds for
the U.S. Customs Service.
"The enforcement of that section
of the law should, of course, be car-
ried out," Roybal stated. '
Roybal's remarks were intended
as part of the legislative history
governing congressional approval
of the Customs Service funding.
The issue was raised by Rep.
Eldon Rudd, R-Ariz., who is part of
a bipartisan coalition of anti-
communist and human rights
activists.. in L_iligress seeking
tougher sanctions -against the
Soviet Union following the Soviet
downing of a Korean jetliner carry-
ing 269 people.
The forced labor import matter
has taken an ironic twist, in light of
Pregident Reagan's tough rhetoric
in favor of retaliation against the
Soviets.
It has been learned that Secre-
tary of State George P. Shultz and
other senior administration offi-
cials.are fighting backstage to stop
an intended ban against about three
dozen specific Soviet imports that
Commissioner of Customs William
van Raab planned to invoke as soon
as it had Treasury Department
approval.
More than 5227 million worth of
Soviet metals and manufactured
goods, largely produced by forced
labor including political prisoners,
are imported here each year,
according to a State Department
Soviet Gulag
report issued last February.
Opponents of the ban within the
department have prevented Raab's
ruling from being published in the
Federal Register by sidetracking it
-to the Senior Interagency Group
for International Economic Policy,
according to administration
sources.
The group, which includes all
Reagan department heads with
jurisdiction over world economic
and intelligence matters, "is
stacked in favor of big business
interests that oppose trade sanc-
tions," one source reported.
Officials at the State and Tl-ea-
sury departments said everyone
involved in the top-level review of
Raab's intended Customs Service
action was under orders not to talk
about it.
Dennis Murphy, director of pub-
lic affairs for the Customs Service,
would only say that the ruling had
been referred to the Senior Inter-
agency Grou
"f
i
"
p
or rev
ew
because it "has such sweeping
implications."
One official said "there is no
timetable for action" on the import
ban, but denied that the review pro-
cess was a bureaucratic way to stop
the ban from being implemented.
However, another senior official
said he expected the review to
include an update of the intelli-
gence data used as.the basis for the
State Department's earlier assess-
ment that "forced labor, often
under harsh and degrading condi-
tions, is used to execute various
Soviet developmental projects and
to produce large amounts of pri-
mary and manufactured goods for
both domestic and Western export
markets. '
During yesterday's House
debate, Rudd pointed to official
documentation of widespread
Soviet forced-labor practices
,
which Sen. William L. Armstrong,
R-Colo., had printed in the Congres-
sional Record on Sept. 15.
The documentation included an
extensive CIA list of Soviet indus-
tries-and products "in which forced
labor is used extensively" The list,
compiled last May, was "based on a
variety of intelligence sources and
open u cations with informs n
from former prisoners, CIA
15irector William Casey told
Armstrong.
The list included wood products,
electronic components, glassware,
automotive parts, raw minerals and
mineral products, clothing, petro-
leum products and chemicals, food,
construction and household goods.
According to the State Depart-
ment report, the Soviets use a net-
work of some 1,100 forced-labor
camps comprising about 4 million
forced laborers throughout the
Soviet Union. The system includes
at least .10,000 political and reli-
gious prisoners, the report stated.
When Congress passed the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, it
included a provision banning
importation of products "mined,
produced or manufactured wholly
or in part in any foreign country by
convict labor and/or forced labor."
The measure has been used to
bar certain imports from Cuba and
Mexico, but never has been invoked
against the Soviet Union, according
to government officials.
- George Archibald
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GRENADA/COUP JENNINGS: Now the Senate has approved a bill which says the War
Powers Act does pertain to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. A
House Committee passed it yesterday, and it would require the
withdrawal of American troops from the island by January 23rd at
the latest, the end of a 90-day period. As Brit Hume reports,
today's vote does not mean most of_sthe Congress has turned
against the president.
HUME: CIA Director Casey came here today to brief the Senate
Intelligence Committee on Grenada. Afterward, one member who is
normally a leading critic.of Reagan foreign policy said what-he
heard was good enough for. him. SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D-Del.): Now
I've seen facts sufficient to put me a position of saying, I
think the president was right.
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Golf, a Tragedy and Secrets
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Spad'toTbe New YatTtms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 - At mid- Oval Office, a working enclave, while
day Saturday, as President Reagan .. be briefed them on the military action
was in the midst of a round of golf at tote launched by the following dawn.
the Augusta National Golf Course in The secret of the invasion was
Georgia, he'.had under active consid- kept; official spokesmen were at that
eration a secret request from Carib- time using such replies as "prepos-
bean nations to join in the invasion of terous," and "untrue" to rebuff news
Grenada. Inquiries, characterizations ordered,
The President, already a legend in. :according to one informed source, by
the Administration for keeping his. the President's National Security
own counsel, bad ,.begun the ;Inost
secretive and momentous week of his `-'Pxesident Reaganfinally told the
incumbency with a . if club is his nation at 9:07 this morning, emerging
into-the White House briefing room
One of his golfing partners,'Secre most grueling days of his Administra.
tary of State George P. Shultz, -was tion.
receiving the latest details of Gre- Speakes Is Abashed
nada plans going on back in Washing-
ton, and discussing them with the He had averaged .about five hours
President on the golf course, accord- sleep Friday and Saturday nights as
ing to White House officials. Caribbean and Middle East bulletins
At the same time, the Presidents
National Security Adviser, Richard
C. McFarlane was monitoring the
situation nearby as the President
sttoked away.
On Sunda morning, the Grenada
issue was f laid out in A minfs-
tration study papers as Mr. Reagan
made a sudden return home and ap.
peared standing in the ram outside g
nouncing the Grenada regime at one
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the White House, grief-stricken an
d
mourning the marines who had died
in the sh ng Beirut explosion a few
.hours earlier.
The national security meetings that
followed were ostensibly devoted en-
tirely to the Lebanon crisis, but today
it became clear that they also ad-
vanced the Grenada invasion decision
still further.
At 8 o'clock Monday night, as Ad-
-ministration- officials were publicly
.denying reports of an imminent inva-
sion of Grenada, the President's sen-
ior advisers personally rounded up
Congressional leaders, asking them
not to use their phones, not even to
break dinner dates with their wives,
and to drive in White House limou-
sines to an urgent meeting with the
President.
Mr. Reagan was waiting in his resi-
dence 'upstairs at the White House
and they sat with him in the yellow
In watching the President's de-
meanor through the two days of
events, some politicians said they
were struck by the fact that he did not
immediately address the nation by
television on either or both subjects.
Privately'they questioned whether he
is trying to avoid the instant personal
identitification with crisis events that
marked the Administration of his pre-
decesor, President Jimmy Carter.
Graphic Pictures of Reagan
At the Congressional leadership
gathering on Grenada in the White
House =Monday night, Speaker
Thomas '. P. O'Neill Jr. reportedly
brought up the subject. of a Lebanon
address, and this evening the White
.House finally -announced that the
President would speak about both
subjects'Thursday night in a nation-
1 widebroadcast.
In the meantime, the White House
offered the public some graphic tab-
leaux, snapped by the White House
photographer during the weekend,
depicting the President at the center
of various conferences. He is seen in
bathrobe and slippers being briefed
by Mr. Shultz and Mr. McFarlane,
then out on the Augusta fairway,
pausing at the wheel of his golf can as
he receives another -dispatch. Mr.
Shultz is getting the latest word in an-
other, holding the special security
phone with a golf glove on.
Perhaps the most fascinating of the
many questions left unanswered by
the Administration as the day of the
invasion announcement unfolded
floated up at a "background" briefing
given at the White House by an anony-
mous diplomat and an anonymous
general. "Where's Bill Casey right
now?" they were asked, referring to
the director of Central Intelligence.
They said they did not know.
were mulled over, according to White
House workers. He finally yielded to
some nap time Sunday, as basic deci-
sions were made on the Beirut explo-
sion and the Grenada invasion.
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"He looked the same as ever to
me," one White House worker said,
summarizing the President's per-
sonal demeanor through all this, a de-
ravely de-
meanor that had him
hour ("a brutal group of .leftist
thugs") and talking about the
weather the next with a visiting offi-
cial from Bangladesh ("You left the
dry season in your country to come
.hereto the rain"),
The President had kept the Gre-
nada operation - covert to ''most
everybody" in the White House, ao-
cording to Larry Speakes, the Presi.
dent's spokesman. "It was a very
-narrow planning opeS8tion," he said,
appearing abashed at having misled
news reporters - unknowingly, be in-
sisted. "A man who stands here is
only as strong as the guidance he is
given;" he said when asked whether
the Administration had lied.
The measure of the announcement ?
this day at the White House can be
taken by the fact that one of the few
questions on the Beirut explosion, an
enormous topic the preceding day,
was not asked until an afternoon
briefing at 1:47. Mr. Speakes said he
had nothing really new to report.
"The latest death toll?" s reporter
asked. Mr. Speakes looked back at an
aide, "What was it?" he said. "Two
hundred-seven."
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - During
Mr. Reagan's autumn press confer-
' d a -so"
e
t
when they were launched - in the comes before Doomsday. Within the
"boost phase" - rather than rely Administration, most of the former op-
on the threat of a retaliatory attack. ponents of an active defense are in the
Said Mr. Reagan: "Better to "R & D forevi" set, demanding de.ay
o on
ence (we re own
now), the answer that revealed a Boost flow of paper into the Oval Office had to do with a recom-
m
outer endation , for missile defense in Nothing has actually been pre- ]Phase
sented to me as yet,-the President-
said. "I'm fascinated with reading all
about it, but I haven't seen it. . ." 'Intercept ?
Two weeks ago, a senior inter-
agency group consisting -of the na-
tional security adviser, the Secretary
of Defense-and a couple of other guys
sent a reportto the President that ob-
ESSAY .
By William Safire
until lasers are available with a zap-
page accuracy of 3949 out of 400 shots. -
in the report, which seems to be
stuck in the White House interoffice
mail and which the President could
read by picking up the current issue
of Aviation Week, the. tilt is toward
starving present technology in favor
of feeding future technology. What lit-
tie support is given chemical laser
development came at the urging of
William Clark and his resident Na-
tional Security Council expert, Cols"
Gilbert Rye.
Now that Mr. Clark is being put out
to pasture, Robert McFarlane, his re-
-placement at the N.SiC., is 'likely to
-put this project under his .Protege,
Ron Lehman, who is said by hawks to
.be an "R & D forever" man. That is
one illustration of the profound
change in strategic mind-set brought
about by the President's selection of
the apparatchik option at the N.S.C.
(Cap Weinberger and Bill Casey, now
at the far periphery of power, are put-
ting out the story that the damage to
the hard-line cause could have been
worse - that they saved the Republic
from James Baker as national se-
curity adviser. You can buy their
face-saver if you like.)
Here is a case where the Presi=
dent's common sense is sound, where
establishment thinking has become
muscle-bound and outdated, and
where Mr. Reagan is willing to.re=
sound to a press conference charge,
that he is starting a defensive arms
race with a disarming "Would that be
all bad?" Yet be is unable to get his'
proposal off the ground and out of the
bureaucratic gravitational field; his
aides yes him to death with plans so
long range as to throw open a new
window of vulnerability in the 1990's.
"Taking a chop off your plate today.
because you think you'll have a steak,
tomorrow," says Malcolm Wallop,
"is a way to stay hungry." Mr. Rea:
gan's "active defense" has few.othe=
active defenders.
t
viously never made_j}t to his Came ; 4.: eve lives than- to -avenge them." .
David briefcase.. For the last six months, his Admin-
"X-ray lasers, chemical, excimer -` -motion has been straining to come
and free electron lasers, particle - up with a "bridging document" to
beams and kinetic energy bit-to-kill plan the - construction of space-to-
devices," the report concluded, "all , boost-per weapons. The G.I.A. has
have high potential for boost-Phase estimated that the Soviet Union will
intercepts."
I can just bear Mike Deaver saying
to Dick Darman, "We're not going to
bother the President's head with that
kind of stuff." in this case, however,
they may have underestimated their
boss's level of interest.
At the 1980 Republican convention,
candidate Reagan approved an item
in the platform that Senator Malcolm'
Wallop of Wyoming had been lobby-
ing for: an "active defense," with
outer-space lasers in nunc.. Cn: March
23, 1983, the President - pretty much
on his own - inserted a couple of
paragraphs in a speech daring to sug-
gest a departure from the generation-
old theory of nuclear defense known
as "mutual assured destruction."
In his speech, which was promptly
dubbed "Star Wars" and ridiculed
by the arms control establishment,
-the President called fora study of
have a laser-beam satellite in place
within four years. Such weapons do
not violate existing treaties (though
that would scarcely trouble Moscow)
because they are not "weapons -of
mass destruction" just the oppo-
site, they destroy such weapons. -
The internal debate has been be-
tween those who want to begin sys-
tems integration soon, so as to have
an operational test within a decade,
and those who want `to wait until
sometime in the next millennium
when lasers an be developed that
would be able to blast missiles that
are 75 times "harder" than any we
have in our arsenal today.
The let's-get-started crowd. empha-
sizes chemical lasers, for which we
have the technology now; but the "R &
D `forever" crowd wants lasers with
-shorter wavelength beams that could
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22 October 1983
Meagan Advisers Block Staff Ploy
By Lou Cannon
Washington Post Staff writer
A group of longtime Reagan advisers last week
thwarted a power play by White House chief of staff
James A. Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael
K. Deaver to make Baker President Reagan's national
security affairs adviser and to move Deaver into Bak-
er's job, administration officials said yesterday.
These officials said Reagan tentatively had agreed to
the plan, but discarded the idea at the urging of his
outgoing national security affairs adviser, William P.
Clark, who was backed by White House counselor
Edwin Meese III, Secretary of Defense Caspar W.
Weinberger and CIA Director William J. Casey.
The disclosure of what one official called "the Baker-
Deaver option" provided a glimpse into the tangled
power politics of the Reagan White House, where bitter
policy disputes and personal feuding have been com-
monplace.
Clark, Meese and Weinberger have been trusted
Rea=an associates since his first term as governor of
California, beginning in 1966. Casey was Reagan's cam-
paign manager in 1980.
When Clark arrived at the White House early in
1983, he and Deaver were friends and allies.
But their relationship deteriorated in recent months,
and Reagan took note of this "friction" when he grant-
ed Clark's request to be named secretary of the inte-
rior. None of these officials would comment publicly
about -the maneuvering, except for Weinberger, who
said he "played no role" in the president's decision. But.
several officials confirmed the discussion of the plan.
They said that Baker, who has been chief of staff j
throughout the administration, long has talked of ac-
quiring experience in a foreign policy post and that
Deaver, the aide closest to the Reagan family, would
like the chief of staffs post.
However, those opposed to the idea cited Baker's
lack of experience in foreign affairs, coincidentally
using the argument that Baker's allies had made
against Clark. They also questioned whether Deaver
had the background in substantive issues-for the chief,
of staff's post, where even Baker's adversaries acknowl-
edge his competence. One official said the Baker-
Deaver option arose quickly as "a target of opportuni-
ty" after Clark decided that the pressures of the na-
tional security adviser's job had become too severe and
asked Reagan to name him as the replacement for out-
going Interior Secretary James G. Watt.
'The obvious choice to replace Clark was the man
who Reagan eventually selected, Robert C. McFarlane,
who had served as deputy national security affairs ad-
viser before becoming the U.S. special envoy to the
Middle East.
When Clark resigned last Thursday, administration
:officials said that McFarlane would be named national
security adviser. But they backed off this-prediction on
~Frida saying that conservatives were mounting a cam-
paign to a e I- Ambassador, Jeane J.: Kirkpatrick
the national security adviser. The
Kirkpatrick boomlet, strongly sup-
-ported by Casey, did not make
headway because she was not ac-
ceptable to Secretary of State
George P. Shultz, officials.said. It
was at this time, on Friday, Oct.
14, that Deaver and Baker came
up with their idea.
One official said Shultz had
"signed off on the Baker option,"
which he said was offered in the
form of Baker as an alternative to
Kirkpatrick. But it was not known
if Shultz, who has complained
about White House dominance in
foreign policy decision making, was
enthusiastic about the idea.
Reporters had been advised on
Friday that the McFarlane ap-
pointment was likely to occur over
the weekend, but the maneuvering
had the effect of delaying the de-
cision. Reagan reportedly con-
sulted with all his senior advisers
and went with what one of them
called "the safe choice" of McFar-
lane.
"Baker would have driven the
conservatives, up the wall, and
Kirkpatrick would have provoked
a crisis with both the White House
staff and the secretary of state,"
said one official. "Bud [McFarlane]
is less abrasive than Jeane and
more acceptable than Baker."
Reagan met privately with Kirk-
patrick before announcing McFar-
lane's appointment last Monday
and persuaded her to stay on at
the United Nations at least
through the end of the General As-
sembly session in December.
Kirkpatrick's name was prompt-
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Infighting at the White House
By Benjamin Taylor
Globe Staff
WASHINGTON _ A report in the
Washington Times that James A.
Baker 3d, the White House chief of
staff, is being con-
NEWS sidered by President
ANALYSIS Ronald Reagan as a,
replacement for
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the chief US
delegate to the United Nations, was
adamantly denied yesterday by the
White House.
The denials were so adamant
that they served to highlight once
again. the rather sharp ideological
schism and bureaucratic infight-
ing that has marked the Reagan
White House over the last three
years.
Larry Speakes, the White House
spokesman, said the story "ap-
pears to be wishful thinking on the
part of those who would like to see
Jim Baker elsewhere."
Baker was not returning tele-
phone press calls yesterday, but
one of his aides called the article "a
bunch of baloney that was leaked
to;the Washington Times by some-
one who is obviously not one of Jim
Baker's best friends in this Admin-
istration.
The Washington Times is a con-
servative newspaper founded in
1982 by Rev. Sun Myung Moon of
the Unification Church after the
Washington Star folded a year ear-
tier.
The newspaper is not widely
read by the movers and shakers in
Washington. But it does carry a
number of conservative colum-
nists, and to some extent, it has be-
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ment and rumors about where con- Meese's apparent-deaiine
servatives think or hope the Rea
gan Administration is headed. With Clark's departure, the oon
The 52-year-old Baker is the servatives were particularly upset
deader of the so-called pragmatist that, outside of Meese, whose clout
group of White House aides who seems to be on the decline anyway,
have constantly been battling more there would not be anyone in the
traditional conservative Reagan- highest levels of the White House to
ites during the last three years. -represent their point of view.
There was much- speculation in--
The Baker-Bush connection side and outside the White House
Conservatives outside the Ad yesterday about, who leaked the
story to the Times. Jeremiah
ministration have long held a dis- O'Leary, the author, attributed his
trust for Baker because of his ties Information to "well-informed Ad-
to Vice President George Bush. ministration sources."
Both Bush and Baker are from Some observers sus
pushed
Houston, and Baker ran Bush`s Clark, who, b even though campaign for the GOP presidential for McFarlane as a successor, was
nomination in 1980. reportedly unhappy with the su
Early in the Administration;- rethat the Baker th the finally had
squabbles at the White House fo-
cused on the internecine battles be- House.
tween Baker and Edwin Meese 3d, Others suggested that William
counselor to the President.
Earlier this year, there were sev-
eral reports that Baker and his fol-
lowers were at odds with William
P. Clark. then the national security
adviser.
Clark had access to Reagan any
time he wanted, a fact which was
said to upset the deputy chief of
staff. Michael Deaver, a Baker ally
who controls who gets in to see the
President.
Casey, the director of Central Intel-
ligence, may have been the source.
Casey, who ran Reagan's 1980
campaign, and Baker, who helped
to prepare Reagan for his debate
with Jimmy Carter, have given dia-
metrically opposite stories to the
FBI on ,how the Carter briefing
book for that debate fell into the
hands of the Reagan campaign. Ba
ker has pointed the finger at Casey.-
Casey has said he never knew any- !
The infighting also reportedly thing about it.
stemmed from concern. among the! -- Jn any event, only a handful of
pragmatists about Clark's rather! Reagan's original top White House
Ideologically rigid approach to for- aides remain. These include Baker. ~
eign policy and the need for dra- Meese, Deaver, and Richard G. Dar-
matic increases in military spend- man and Craig Fuller, presidential
ing. assistants. And with the exception
Clark's sudden and Surprising. of Meese, the conservatives in the
come an outlet for right-wing senti- move from the security adviser's
job to be Interior Secretary kicked
off yet another round of squabbling
between the pragmatists (the popu-
lar term in the Reagan White
House these days for describing a
moderate) and the conservatives,
some of whom wanted Kirkpatrick
and not Robert C. McFarlane to re-
place Clark in the sensitive foreign
policy job.
top White House jobs - Richard V.
Allen, Clark, Martin Anderson,
Lyn Nofziger - have left.
Perhaps that is why one top_
Reagan aide said, "Outside the'
White House we may have prob-
lems, but inside the White House,
the working situation has never
been more harmonious."
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KISSINGER COMMISSION
Central American animosities grow
By Daniel Southertand this in mod--some administration of- against covert aid - a long and difficult
Stafl writer of The Chnstian Science Monitor ficials .argued that the aim was to put legislative process lies ahead. The Senate
Washington
In the midst of a new debate here
over Central America, critics and de-
-fenders of Reagan administration
policy alike agree on at least one mat-
ter: Hostility among nations in the
region is growing; thus increasing the
chances of a wider war.
The critics claim that the adminis-
tration has contributed to this "po-
larization" by funding the so-called
secret, war conducted against
Nicaragua's Sandinista-led regime.
Adrninistration officials respond that
the Sandinistas themselves are re-
sponsible for provoking the hostility
,of their neighbors and increasing the
risks of widening the war.
Administration officials also ar-
gue that pressure from the US-sup-
ported opponents of the Sandinistas
has caused the Sandinistas to con-
sider moves aimed at securing peace
in the region.
. This argument over a polarization
of forces is one of the issues at the
heart of the current debate in the
United States Congress over Ameri-
can funding for rebel forces in Nica-
ragua. The House of Representatives
voted 227-194 Thursday to halt, such
aid At the end of J ulv the House
pressure on the Sandinistas. Among can be expecto vote next week in favor
rebel leaders themselves, some said of the secret aid. Then a House-Senate
the aim was the overthrow of the conference committee would take -up the
Sandisusta regime. But .administra- matter. Finally, the Democrats, in an ef-
tion officials continued to insist that fort to block-the aid, could still holdup the
this was not their -aim. ? entire appropriation bill for all intelligence
Requesting anonymity, - one ad- programs.
ministration-official said earlier this At his press conference on Wednesday,
week that parallel to the debate in the President. Reagan defended such aid as
legitimate:
Congress, there is a debate within the ad- "I do believe in the right of a country,
ministration itself as to how far the US when it believes that its interests are best
ought to go in putting pressure on the served, to practice covert, activity," said
Sandinistas. William J. Casey, director of Reagan. But the President added that it
the Central Intelligence Agency, was re- would be impossible to let the American
ported to favor ever-increasing pressure, people know what was happening in Nica-
apparently in the hope that the Sandinista ragua "without letting the wrong people
regime could be overthrown. But the-ad- know - those that, are in opposition to
ministration official insisted that this was what you're doing."
not the policy the administration -had The Sandinistas, however, claim to
adopted. know fairly well what is going on. They
Meanwhile, the Kissinger Commission charge that the administration has de-
on Central America was reported to have Glared a -w 'r on Nicaragua that-involves
returned from its trip to the .region struck the United States ever more directly:
by the degree of polarization that has A source close to the Nicaraguan gov-
taken place. In meetings with the commis- ernment said, meanwhile, that Nicaragua
leaders i
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uras an
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on
Rica were said to have advocated tough
action toward Nicaragua.
"Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador,
and Guatemala are building toward a war
with Nicaragua," an administration offi-
voted 228-195 to end further aid to cial said. "But this is not our fault; .... 99
the rebel forces. The Senate did not percent of the reason for this polarization
act, then and must. act on this week's is Nicaraguan intransigence. The Nicara-
authorizing bill in order to change guans started all this before we put any
pressure on them."
policy . p In a letter to House leaders delivered
As House debate began on Thurs
day, Intelligence Committee chair- prior to Thursday's congressional debate,
man Edward. P. Boland, a Democrat Secretary of State George P. Shultz ar-
m Massachusetts said that with geed that to cut off CIA support to the
that
fr
,
o
the anti-Sandinista rebels would "undermine,
rebel attacks on oil depots and
Managua airport, the conflict inside "the cause of peace and democracy" and
Nicaragua had intensified since the vitally destroy? chances for a negoti-
Nicaragua - -- ated settlement in Central America.
vote in July. But House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill
One of tale administration's prob- Jr. (D) of Massachusetts argued that Mr.
lems is that the rationale for the se- Shultz was requesting support for a.policy
cret aid to the rebels has shifted of arming rebels seeking the overthrow of
along with the intensification of the. a legitimate government_
conflict. Administration officials at If the House vote goes as expected
first claimed that the aid was de-
signed to build a program to interdict
Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto
Brockman was planningto present a new
Nicaraguan peace plan Thursday to US
Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne
A. Motley. The source said the plan
would be in the form of draft treaties and
would cover in detail specific American
concerns, including verification proce-
dures to control the flow of arms and the
withdrawal of foreign advisers'-from the
region.
the flow of weapons from Nicaragua Shultz argues for aid to Nicaraguan rebels
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Flight 007: What We Know NOw
Why don't we all allow ourselves a sec- have. not, caught up with this viev,.
and look at the American response-to the One trouble was that the Soviets adtied
downing of the Korean airliner? As hap- the charge, still not in the slightest sub-
pens. a pattern of events has belatedly, .start"rated, that -the --Korean plane was,
come into focus in the news, but it has not doing . espionage duty. Many Americans in
yet come into-focus in the general political. and oot-of the government. -.have found it
consciousness. It could make a difference. easier to shoot that. particular'.-fish in a
The pattern fell into place in.a New-York., __ barrel ;than ,to .:cope squarely with the
Tunes stun of Oct. 6 that went straight to .^Soviets?assertion of mistaken identity.
the central question of what.did they=know ""So at;tleast-=until -Oct:',?-.6 --during the
and when did -they know it,-Amer-icau Lintel-
ligence officials, the Times -said,-had _re-
viewed all avail tibie evidence and found no
indication that Soviet. air defense. personnel
knew the plane they were firing at-'w'as a
commercial airliner. This judgment was said
to have gone to the White House two weeks
after the attack. -
The pieces of this story had been pub-
lished earlier but-for me .and many
others-the assembly of the pieces per-
mtted a clear view of a critical difference
previously'fuzzed: the difference between
shooting down a plane knowing it was an
airliner and shooting it down suspecting it
was a military reconnaissance aircraft. It is
not the who le. difference .between.guiltand
exoneration.-hut it is the partial difference
between an act reflecting unforgivable
cvnicism,and explicable hard hall.
11)-other word,. .American intelligence
fairly early came to a View consistent With
iht- Soviet,' claim that theyhad taken the
i;nrean pia))(- fur a military RC135. one of
*Whicit had been oft,.he.ir coast a few hour,
earlier. But. American policy and opinion
wholg month-plus when -American policy
..,and j ublic opinion'were most-deeply -en-
..gagedTfhe dominant view was.:that the
Soviets shot. down the airliner deliberately
and wittingly. >F'rom ." that. - perception
flowed-any number of epithets and con-
demnations, which in turn contributed to
the Soviets' further responses and, with
those responses, colored the atmosphere
in which the missile Talks were unfolding.
It seems to -me that had the dominant
view been that the - Soviets committed
"'only" .a heartless paranoid act. by shoot -
ing down an airliner -oleo thought-was a
spy plane, our words.snd:hearts would not.
have so;hardened, and tlie-resultant politi-
cal damage would have keenless, :.:
Many -will -recall that. .after Israel -,no-
down a plane it acknowledged it. knew to
be a Libyan airliner. with 1.1:3 lives lost,
the United .States -t;,ok if. in stride as .lust
one of those unfortunate things.
Imagine if President Reagan, after gel-
ting the straight word-let's hear it for
Bill Casey, by '.the way-in mid-Septem-
her, had-gone on television,,_
" We have sifted the intelligence and
concluded that, contrary to our earlier
suspicions, the Soviets might have
'thought. they were shooting at, one of our
intelligence planes. -WWe .think the Soviets
were negligent.-infot.identif'ing the plane
correctly, .unjustified in shooting it down
-without knowing,xwhat it was, and tenden-
,tious in -accusing us,-of-using the Korean
plane for spying. But_-"
Reagan did.go,:forward -with the arms
7.alks, of course:' But: she. did-ao.to' the ac-
?companimentof.-angry; abttsivb cross-cut
Ling comments,-which continue:
The administration-could -have used the
Oct. 6 Time.,, report tosre'066on the United
States in public diplomacy. for the next sub-
stantive steps to private -diplomacy. Instead.
the Stale Department., chose a -stay in the
familiar defensive debate mode. The United
States does -not and may never know "for
.sure" whether the.Soviets thought KAL (1(17
-was a civilian plate; the' spokesman said:
anyway, the .\, should have known. _
When William Pfaff wrote a good col-
umn 1Oct. 13) in the International Herald
'Tribune criticizing the administration for
not facing up. to :the implications of the
Times report, a U.S, Information Agency
official said (Oct. 191 the column "must
delight, Soviet propagandists' and . rt--
peated the assertion that. tht~ -shouting was
.an act of"unprovokerl aggression,''
Is there not ono person in the United
States g
s overnment who can publicly talk
traight.about, this.affair? --
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Trustees of Westminister College to 1'
Fulton, Mo., say CIA Director William
Casey can speak at the school as sched-1
pled even though a majority of the faculty
is opposed to his appearance. A college
spokesman said faculty criticism of
Casey primarily is the result of allega?~ .
tions of financial misdealings by the CIA
director. Casey is scheduled to deliver the
John Findley Green Founda4gfLecture4
Oct. 29.
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'Vindication' Rewards Six-
By Carole Murphy A man of medium build whose oval head
t r nguOnvos.Vrnt.T once had "so much black hair," according to
For Elias P. Demetracopoulos there are no its 54-year-old owner, Demetracopoulos is
tasks. Only missions. Whether it is hounding gregarious and enthusiastic, with a self-
the former Greek military -junta, spoiling mocking sense of humor. There is a Euro-
WWWashingt.on's relations with the Greek cot- pear accent to his manners and speech,
oriels, ferreting out secrets or clearing his which like his mind are obsessively precise.
reputation, Demetracopoulos pursues his He neither drinks nor smokes, and one of his
dragons with doggedness - and ?ezcrutiating passions is chocolate milkshakes.
thoroughness. "He's a lobbyist by birth..... He's good at .1970 until 1974, when the colonels were
Very often he gets what he is after, and meeting, people, shaking hands, getting them ousted.
recently he has claimed another victory. Six to knoi~' him," said C -congressional aide. But it was not only the junta that Deme-
years -after The New York 'Times-published But even those who know him as "Elias"
an article that the Greek lobbyist says sullied sap they do not know him well. He has no
his name, he has wrested from the Central family` and no formal organizational ties in
Intelligence Agency a letter disassociating, his ethnic community. "He's kind of a mys-
itself from the story and saying it has "no tery person. He kind of likes that role. That's
'hard facts" in its files to support the allege- my impression," said one acquaintance. "He
Lions, attributed to the CIA. that were kind of creates this air of mystery about
printed about him. him."
Demetracopoulos calls this `"yindicatiun." After arriving in Washington, Demetraco-
The New York Times, which published a poulos lived at the Fairfax Hotel (now the
story about the iecent CIA statement. that. Ritz-Carlton), then owned by Louise Gore, a
some readers took as a retreat from its earlier prominent figure in the Republican Party in
account, says, "The source u1 the retraction is Maryland who had befriended the Greek
the CIA, not The New York Times," accord- exile. Almost immediately after arriving, he
inc to-. Assistant Managing Editor Cram landed a job as a foreign consultant for a
W'hitnev. The CIA declines to elaborate on Wall Street brokerage firm called Brimberg
its August statement. & Co. A divorce whose former Wife is now
IT is a fitting: epilogue to the career of one dead, he often escorted well-known Wash-
o? Washinmon's more enigmatic figures. ington women to social functions.
Among foreigners who have migrated to this But this rather glamorous facade evapo-
politica mecca with causes to plead, this rated, according to one acquaintance, with a
Athens-born son of an archeological guide visit to Demetracopoulos' one-room flat in
has negotiated a unique and controversial the hotel. A sofa bed, telephone, table and
swath through Washington's political and few chairs made up his furniture. The rest of
social thickets. the room was swamped with the inventory of his past. Demetracopoulos learned, about the
Demetracopoulos was a wvell-known -posit- Demetracopoulos' trade: piles and piles of memo from a congressional aide and, after
ical journalist in Athens in the 1950s and files. he made heated protests, the State Depart-
1960s whose reporting on occasion provoked "When you walked in you probably saw ment retracted it and sent him an apology.
clashes with L.S. officials in Greece. His rep- `20,000 pieces of.paper," said Elias Vianton, a Demetracopoulos says Nixon administra-
utation in this city took seed when he fled friend and activist in the Greek-American tion officials, including Attorney General
Greece after the 1967, military junta and community. 'It. was not elegance. It was John N. Mitchell, directly and indirectly
began a one-man' crusade on Capitol Hill dedication. -:.. I think this was his only in- threatened him with deportation because of
against the Greek colonels, terest in the world-information about what the Pappas affair. Gore confirmed Mitchell
He took to Washington like a fish to wa- Greece was doing, about what the United made such threats to her about Demetraco-
t.er, ouickly making high-level connections in States was doing, what Turkey was doing. Poulos. Mitchell said that allegation was
both Republican, and Democratic circles by That's all he cared about." "nonsense" and "totally ridiculous."
building on contacts he had made during his During the junta period, Demetracopou- In addition, Demetracopoulos says, the
journalistic-career. los, who describes his political views as "cen- Justice Department. began asking questions
trist-liberal," provided information to news- about him. He eventually obtained a memo
papers back home, but says he was not. paid
'for it. _ ;;~Oh'ZI1V71D
"Demetracopoulos was every night on the
phone dictating to roe very exciting reports
from congressional meetings and news which
-helped our cause of getting rid of the colo-
nels," said Louis Danos, then editor of a
small antijunta paper and now press coun-
selor at the Embassy of Greece.
For his antiiunta efforts, Demetracopoulos
was stripped of his Greek citizenship from
tracopoulos-angered.
In 1968, he went to the Democratic Party,
and, he says, told them that the Greek junta
was funneling money to the NixonAgneww
campaign through a Boston-based, Greek-
American businessman -named Thomas Pap-
pas. Later, in 197, 1, he made similar allega-
tions to a congressional subcommittee inves-
tigating Greek-American relations. Though
these allegations made their way into the
press and the political lore of Washington,
they have never been proved.
Soon after, Demetracopoulos says he
began to feel the heat. In 1971, an anony-
mous memo written in the State Department
was given to House Speaker Carl Albert. It
stated that Demetracopoulos' reporting while
he was still in Greece had caused "consider-
able embarrassment" to Queer, Fredericka
and King Constantine and that. he "caused
friction in Greek-American relations... by
publishing highly classified documents."
The memo went -on to challenge Deme-
] tracopoulos' veracity by raising doubts about
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Capitol Punishment
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By A-rt Buchwald
Who says there aren't heroes left in
Aunerica am-more? Just-the-other .day,-
in a surprise ceremom , the CIA
awarded. I-A .Director _..W L'iam., J.
Casey the "Distinguished Intelligence
Medal," the agency's highest award.
Casey was cited for "outstanding lead-
ership' and for restoring the credibility
of the CIA and bringing "imagination
to our operation."
in the "past, a decoration of this
magnitude was usually reserved until
the director retired or resigned from
the job. But apparently the people
who wort, for Casey couldn't. wait. I
am not privy to how these awards are
made, but I know they're not easy to
get.
They must. have an awards commit-
tee out at Langley that goes over every
one of the citation nominations to
make sure the person 'is deserving of
the honor.
"Gentlemen, our first nominee is
James Blickstein, who. in a clandestine
operation, dropped behind enemy lines
in Afghanistan and delivered needed
radio equipment to the rebels. He then
walked barefoot 500 miles across Rus-
sian-held territory back to Pakistan.
Does he get a medal?"
"He's paid to do that. Why should
he get an award? If we give out the
'Distinguished Intelligence -Medal' to
..every Tom, Dick and Harry involved
in a clandestine operation, it will de-
flate its value."
`Okay, let's forget Blickstein. The
second nominee is Hiram Cope, who
managed to go over the wall at, the
Soviet's submarine base at Murmansk
and steal all the U.S.S.R.'s naval codes.
He then swam to Norway in a frogman
suit."
"Big deal. I'll admit. it wasn't a bad
operation, but is it worth a medal?"
All in favor say aye-all against,
nay. The nays have it. Scratch Cope."
"We now come to Nicaragua and
H onduras!,AWAXO rt ,
the Spi,:,__ Love
managed to get around all the restric-
tions the congressional Committee on
Intelligence laid down 'for covert, op-
?erations, and got his people to bomb
Nicaraguan soil" V.
"He should-,get a medal."
"But do we want to give him, the
highest one?-
. "I-don't think we do, because we
have to make him the fall guy in case
Congress starts raising a ruckus. Let's
give _him the CIA's Good Conduct
Award. We can always give him the
biggie just before we fire him."
"We're all agreed then on T.L. Now
I have a CIA person that I am proud
to nominate. I propose that we give
the 'Distinguished Intelligence Medal'
to none other than, our revered direc-
tor. William J. Casey."
"1 have no quarrel with that. The
man certainly has gone beyond the call
of duty,"
"You won't hear a nay from me.
He's the bravest of the brave.".
'The smartest. of the smart."
"His outstanding leadership has
made This organization what it is to-
day."
,If it wasn't for his imagination I
don't know where we'd all be today."
1 take -it then there is no opposition
.to awarding the director our highest.
decoration."
"I've still got five years to go before
retirement. You won't bear any objec-
tion from me.'
.Good. Then I'll write up the ci-
Cation and we'll get Deputy Director
John McMahon to present it to him in
a full-fledged formal ceremony, with
the CIA Undercover Band."
"It's the least we can do for the old
man."
"No one in the CIA deserves it
more."
"How did you ever think of it, Wil-
loughby?"
.'"When -you're in the, intelligence
business you HAVE to think of every.
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Trustees at W.estrniris'ter
College in Fulton, Mo., say fac-
ulty opposition won't stop CIA
Director William Casey from
speaking at the school Oct. 29.
Reported by Susan Older,
Timothy Kenny, Michael
Clark and Marta McCave
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BRIEFLY / Capital
`New leads' in brie"ing..book probe
Rep. Donald Albosta, D-Mich., said yesterday "new
leads ... which could play a significant role" have
delayed his House subcommittee's hearings into how
Carter White House materials reached Ronald Rea-
gan's 1980 campaign.
In a three-paragraph statement yesterday, Albosta
made no mention of any other specifics of the panel's
investigation.
Ina related development, federal law-enforcement
sources said the FBI is nearing an end to its parallel
investigation into who leaked or stole Carter mate-
rials, including portions or all of a debate
briefing book.
The FBI probably will turn results of its investiga-
tion over to the Justice Department by late October
or early November for a decision on whether further
action is necessary, law-enforcement sources said.
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in Fulton despite faculty protests
CIA Director William J.' Casey is
scheduled to deliver the John Findley
Green Foundation
Lecture at Wes-
tminster College at
Fulton despite
opposition from a
majority of the
faculty and a
grandson of
Green's:
The college
board of trustees
has reaffirmed the
invitation to Case
y and
and announced
plans to present him with an honorary
degree. Casey will deliver . the 40th
annual lecture at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
29, in the college's Champ Auditorium.
Faculty criticism of Casey centers
on allegations - of improper financial
dealings, according to Bruce
Hackmann, the college's director of
press relations.
A spokesman -for, Casey. in'
Washington said Tuesday that the
Casey was aware of the issue and
would present the speech in Fulton.
ALL OF THE faculty allegations
against Casey were reviewed by the
U.S..Senate Inelligence Committee in
1981 and 1982 and found "absolutely
untrue," CIA spokesman Dale
Peterson said.
Other faculty criticism contends
Objections to the talk
by William J. Casey
center on allegations of
improper financial deal-
ings.
selections, Hackmann said.
Casey is to discuss the role
intelligence plays in the security of the
nation and the world. The college has
announced that "due to space
limitations," admission will be limited
to Westminster students, their parents
and faculty members.
Clare Boothe Luce, the 37th Green
lecturer, helped arrange the Casey
appearance, and she is expected to be
at the college for his lecture,
Hackmann said.
that several recent Green lecturers
have been conservative rather than
covering a spectrum of political
positions, Hackmann said.
St. Louis lawyer John R. Green II, a
grandson of the lecture founder, was
present at the board of trustees
meeting Oct. 10 and noted his
opposition to Casey's appearance for
the lecture.
Green, a ..1947 graduate of
Westminster, said he noted published
reports 9f-. Casey's alleged financial
dealings and told the trustees that he
believed it "inappropriate to attach
my grandfather's name to a lecture
given by this man."
GREEN SAID that despite his
opposition to Casey's speech, he would
continue to support the college in other
endeavors.
College President J. Harvey
Saunders announced that a committee
of faculty, . alumni, trustees and
students would be appointed to advise
the school on future speaker
OTHER GREEN lecturers have
included former British Prime
Ministers Winston Churchill and
Edward Heath, former Presidents
Truman and Ford, former Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey, and
Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger. -
Casey was on the staff of William J.
Donovan, founder of the Office of
Strategic Services, during World War
II. He helped coordinate French
resistance forces in support of the
Normandy invasion and liberation of
France and later was chief of
American secret intelligence
operations in Europe.
Casey has been chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commission,
secretary of state for economic affairs
and president ? and chairman of the
Export-Import Bank of the Unite
States.
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Trustees of Westminister College say CIA Director William J. Casey will be
allowed to speak at the school as scheduled even though a majority of the
faculty is opposed to his appearance.
College Spokesman Bruce Hackmann said faculty criticism of Casey primarily is
the result of allegations of financial misdealings by the CIA director. Casey
.is scheduled to deliver the John Findley Green Foundation Lecture on Oct. 29.
St. Louis lawyer John R.'Green II, a grandson of the lecture founder, also
said he was opposed to Casey's appearance.
College trustees at a recent meeting reaffirmed their invitation to Casey and
their decision to award him an honorary degree.
Admission to the lecture at Champ Auditorium was to be restricted by "space
limitations'' to Westminister students, their parents and faculty members,
college officials said.
CIA Spokesman Dale Peterson said allegations against Casey were
investigated by a Senate committee in 1981 and 1982 and found ' 'a bsolutel y
untrue.' '
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Trustees of Westminister College say CIA Director William J. Casey will be
allowed to speak at the school as scheduled even though a majority of the
faculty is opposed to his appearance.
College spokesman Bruce Hackmann said faculty criticism of Casey primarily is
the result of allegations of financial misdealings by the CIA director. Casey
is scheduled to deliver the John Findley Green Foundation Lecture on Oct. 29.
St. Louis lawyer John R. Green II, a grandson of the lecture founder, also
said he was opposed to Casey's appearance.
College trustees at a recent meeting reaffirmed their invitation to Casey and
their decision to award him an honorary degree.
Admission to the lecture at1Champ Auditorium was to be restricted by ''space
limitations'' to Westminister students, their parents and faculty members,
college officials said.
CIA spokesman Dale Peterson said allegations against Casey were
investigated by a Senate committee in 1981 and 1982 and found ''absolutely
untrue. "
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Kirkpatrick
,:John Maclean
K ON
Storer. Rowley
ego Tribune
- ,?..WASHINGTON-After President Reagan chose
foreign. policy -professional Robert McFarlane
over Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the
''t$' 'rted Nationsas his new national security
`-athiser Monday, Kirkpatrick indicated she might
"leave her UN job before the end of Reagan's first
brtn.
Hardline conservatives had pressed the can-
didacy of Kirkpatrick, whose hawkish,views often
"nrrirror?their own.
=` Reagan's choice' of McFarlane indicated he
pre1`ers a quiet, well-run foreign policy for the
coming election year rather than a controversial,
ideological -stance. -Secretary of State George
"Shultz, who" has been on the losing end of policy
Tattles with a more conservative White House,
tip ared to be the main beneficiary of the Pre-
i-s1dnt's choice.
Conservative spokesmen were quick to react,
labeling McFarlane's choice "a mistake" and
"`another disappointment" from a President who
,they believe has become too moderate for their
diking.
, PROMINENT conservatives, among them Rich-
~arid Viguerie, publisher of Conservative Digest,.
also expressed dismay last week when Reagan
announced that he would nominate his :then-
; national security adviser, William Clark, to re- -
lace James Watt as Interior Department secr"e-
tary. Clark, who is awaiting confirmation, was
,oonsidered one of the few genuine conservatives
:;iii -the White House and the President's ; inner
;circle:
"Passing over Jeane Kirkpatrick may be a
mistake on a number of points," said Craig
,Slii,rley, a spokesman for the National Conserva-
tiyeg Political. Action Committee, a powerful, right-
is a
woman. lobbying group. is a career bureaucrat who
once. said, 'We do not seek. superiority over the:
Soviet Union,' which flies in the face of what
Reagan said in 1980."
McFarlane said he will seek to be a "coordina
tor" of foreign policy rather than an "advocate."
He added that he expects no battles with Cabinet
officers over the fundamentals of policy.
SOME OF THOSE close to Kirkpatrick said she
badly wanted the post. She met privately with
Reagan before.he made the announcement about
McFarlane,-which had been widely reported over
In a statement, Kirkpatrick said: "The Presi-
dent. of course has the right to appoint to any
position in his administration. As always, I sup-
port the President's decisions.
"I am committed to remaining at the United
Nations through the current session of the 38th
General Assembly [which 'is scheduled to con-
clude in December]."
- future. But they also said she was handlin-her
feelings without rancor. "She's a tough lady,,' one
said.
IT HAD BEEN widely speculated that Kirkpa-
trick, a leader of the so-called neo-conservative
movement, would have stirred up disputes rather
than calmed waters as national security. adviser.
A White House official said senior administra-
tion officials, including Shultz, Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William
Casey, had not advocated her candidacy for the
.post.
Asked if she had been offered a new job as
:-consolation, ;Reagan would say only that she will
remain at her post'at-the UN. He also . praised. her
performance; there as "invaluable." Reagan said
she has done "'as magnificent a job as;anyone who
has :ever held that post and, probably, more so
than-most."
"I was.Iookin for more than experience in
filling this post, Reagan said during a White
House ceremony. "I also wanted someone of
strong principle, someone of keen judgment and
someone who could effectively manage the affairs
of the NSC [National Security Council]."
McFARLANE promised he would do his best to
smooth over differences within the Reagan for-
eign policy team, which has plagued the adminis-
tration from its first days. As a sign of continuity,
he said he will appoint as his deputy John
Poindexter, a retired Navy rear admiral who has
been on the national security staff as military
assistant since 1981. -
McFarlane also indicated his choice to replace
him as special envoy to the Middle East is
Richard Fairbanks, who has been his deputy in
Middle East diplomacy. Reagan said he would
rely heavily on McFarlane's .advice in this mat-
ter.
McFarlane is Reagan's third national security
adviser in only three years in office. Richard
Allen, the first, resigned during a controversy
over accepting gifts from Japanese businessmen,
and Clark is the nominee to replace Watt,
i Relations. between the NSC and State Depart-'
ment were strained under both. Asked if his views
will collide with Shultz's, McFarlane replied, "Of
course. not." McFarlane said the media have
exaggerated the foreign policy spats.
"I THINK the President, from his opening days
here in the White House, has expressed his
confidence in Cabinet government," McFarlane
said. "And I think more than many of you allow,
Cabinet government has been the name of the
game in national security affairs."
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McFarlane named national
security adviser
By Gilbert A. Lewtbwaite
Washington Bureau of The Sun
Washington - President Reagan,
ignoring conservative opposition and
moving to establish policy continuity
while avoiding personality conflict,
--appointed Robert C.:,McFar3.ane-yes-.
terday to be his national security ad--
Mr. McFarlane, a - low profile
operator, was deputy to the man-he
replaces, William P. Clark, who -was
nominated last week to be James G.
'Watt's successor-at the Interior De-
partment.
"Working closely with me, be will
provide the leadership and spirit of
teamwork we value in this adminis
tration." said Mr. Reagan, noting Mr.
McFarlane's background as a deco-
Tr rated Marine, scholar, adviser to
three presidents. congressional staff-
er, and counselor at the State Depart-
meat. -
Mr_' McFarlane, 46, who most re-
centlc has been the administration's
special emissary to the Middle East.
stated his own commitment to the
form of cabinet government pre-
ferred in the Reagan White House.
Asked whether his appointment
would mean a shift. of foreign policy-
making back to the State Depart-
ment, be said: "If the point of your
question is - do I intend to seek to
promote a personal point of view, or
in any way to establish some confron-
tational status with the secretary of
state? - of course not."
Relations between Secretary of
State George P. Shultz and Mr. Clark,
a close friend of.-Mr. Reagan, had be-
come increasingly strained over Mr.
Clark's independent conduct of for-
eign affairs.
Mr. McFarlane -said that be did not
anticipate any problems with Mr.
Sbulm or the other main adrainistra-
tion players in national security, De-
fense Secretary Caspar W. Weinber-
ger, Cent al Intelligence Agency di-
rector William J. Casey, or U.N. Am=
bassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. -
Press reports have suggested that
Mr. Weinberger and Mr. Casey were
concerned that their viewpoints
might not be put as forcefully to the
president by Mr. McFarlane as they
were by Mr. Clark, a conservative
hardliner.
.Mr. McFarlane acknowledged that
he might have "disagreements" with
other top officials, but contended that
his role -would be as an "administra-
tor," not-an-advocate.- His job, be
said, would be "to see all the -options
are there," to ensure that decisions
were properly implemented, and to
oversee the national security com-
munity.
Asked if he would enjoy the same
access as Mr. Clark to Mr. Reagan, be
said: "The importance of that access
is clearly understood. The continuity
of that access was reaffirmed [by Mr.
Reagan) today- I have no reservations
about it."
Conservatives have questioned
whether Mr. McFarlane will be as in-
fluential as Mr. Clark inside the
White Rouse, and favored Mrs. Kirk-
patrick, an outspoken advocate of
tough diplomacy, for the post.
Mr. Reagan said yesterday that
Mrs. Kirkpatrick would remain at the
United Nations, where she "has done
as magnificent a job as anyone who
has ever held that post."
"As far as I know, she is happy,"
said Mr. Reagan, responding to re-
ports that the ambassador was tired
of commuting between Washington
and New York and wanted a job in
the capital.
[But the Associated Press reported
that Mrs. Kirkpatrick was making no
promisesto stay.beyond this year.
["I am committed to remaining at
the United Nations through the 38th
session of the General Assembly,"
Mrs. Kirkpatrick said in -a statement
issued by her spokesman, Joel Block-
er.
'[She had no words of congratula-
tion for Mr. McFarlane, the wire ser-
vice reported. Her statement said
"the president has the right to appoint
anyone to any position in the adminis-
tration and, as always. I support the
president's decision.")
Mr. McFarlane's appointment was
quickly endorsed by two key Senate
Republicans. Senator Charles H.
Percy (R, Ill.), chairman of the For-
eign Relations Committee, said Mr.
McFarlane was "an able and effec-
tive adviser who has the confidence
of the president."
The appointment brought prompt
criticism from the labor-backed
Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a
constant opponent of administration
policy in Central America.
It said that Mr. McFarlane's rec-
ord "hardly suggests that Latin
America can expect a modification of
current Reagan administration policy
- seeking military solutions in Cen-
tral America."
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The McFarlane Choice
Reagan Decision on New Security Adviser
Is Viewed as a Setback for Conservatives
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - The ap-
pointment of Robert C. McFarlane as
national security adviser and the likeli-
hood. Hutt Jeane J.' Kirkpatrick will
leave the United Nations
News were widely viewed today
comer-
Analysis as a major blow to conser-
vatives in the Reagan Ad-
ministration.
A key foreign policy official said that
Mr. Reagan was being seen increas-
ingly as shaping a "traditional Repub-
lican Administration," with a more
pragmatic and flexible approach on
such issues as arms control and rela-
tions with the Soviet Union.-The hard-
er-line conservatives have been less.
willing to make concessions in arms:
talks or to listen to the European allies;
on curbing trade with Moscow. The
allies have generally favored the con-
tinuation of trade relations.
Other officials said they expected
that Mrs. Kirkpatrick's departure -
White House officials said today she
was undeterred in her intention to
leave the Administration at the end of
the year - and Mr. McFarlane's in-
stallation at the White House would
lead to a less assertive approach in
Central America.
orientation of our foreign policy. "
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, an outspoken and
acerbic advocate of a hard line against
the Soviet Union, was hoping to be
named national security adviser in
place of Mr. Clark, according to sev-
eral friends. In the last several days,
conservatives in the Administration, or
allies of it, waged a lobbying campaign;
on her behalf.
In addition, both.Defense Secretary
and William J. Casey, director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, were said to fear Mr.
McFarlane's low-key approach would,
hamper him in the bureaucratic battles
sure to face him at the White House.
Mr. Reagan was said to have settled
on Mr. McFarlane only after assuring
Mr: Weinberger and Mr. Casey that the
new adviser would have all the access
and authority of Mr. Clark. The evi-
dence today was that he had yet to as-
suage conservatives who fear that the
Administrataion is less friendly to their
,revisions in its negotiating position
with Democrats in Congress this year.
Mr. McFarlane, a veteran of the
Ford and Nixon Adminstrations, is
seen in Congress and among arms con-
trol experts as a product of the process
that produced arms accords at that
time. Mr. Reagan, however, sought the
Republican presidential nomination in
1976 charging that the Ford and Nixon
arms deals had damaged American se-
curity.
'Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who is the chief
United States representative at the
United Nations, is a major proponent of
military and economic aid to stop the
spread of communism in Central
America. Her chief ally has been Wil-
liam P. Clark, who resigned today as
national security adviser after being
nominated Secretary of the Interior by
Mr. Reagan.
Skepticism Overcome
Mr. Clark had to overcome the skep-
ticism of fellow White House officials to
win agreement to have Mr. Reagan
speak out on Central America last
spring. In addition, he. angered col-
leagues at the White House and the
State Department earlier this year by
winning approval of large-scale mili.
tary exercises in Central America.
Administration officials said that
A senior White House official said he even if Mr. McFarlane tends to agree
witt~_Mr. Clark's approach, he would
and others felt that M
M
F
l
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r.
c
ar
ane was
being unfairly misjudged as "soft" by
conservatives. "That attitude comes
by people who don't know the man," he
said, noting that early in 1981 the same
critics worried that Defense Secretary
Caspar W. Weinberger was insuffi-
ciently conservative.
"Bud McFarlane is not conserva- in drawing the lines and getting the,
five?" the official asked. "That's ridic- President excited about it. If you're
President, He is not an ideologue, but he is a , it's one thing to listen to r
hard-liner." fair-minded low-key guy, and another
. to listen to someone you've known for
The official acknowledged, however, 20 years and who's bailed you out lots of
I that Mr. McFarlane had been a leading` times."
advocate of flexibility in arms control Another top Administration foreign
talks as the Administration discussed policy official agreed that the depar-
~
Lure of Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Clark
would be viewed as "a major lurch. in
through. They said he could not possi-
bly duplicate Mr. Clark's authority,
which was derived from his long as-,
sociation with the president.
"Clark really felt strongly about Cen-
tral America," said a senior foreign
policy official. "He was instrumental
Mrs. Kirkpatrick's attitude was re.
ported to have been one of keen disap-
pointment at not being chosen national
security adviser, and high irritation at
reports over the weekend suggesting
that she might be offered an undefined
advisory post after leaving the United
Nations. She was said today to have not
changed her mind about planning to re-
ject such an offer.
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In the Middle
.Robert C. McFarlane
By CHARLES MOHR
Spedal to The 1' ea York Tirne<
Trouble-Shooter Under Baig If Mr. McFarlane's efforts as a dip-
Mr. Haig made him counselor of lamat have had no spectacular re-
the State Department in 1981, a job in stilts, he is Oven a great deal of credit
which Mr. McFarlane acted as a for saving several Reagan initiatives
close confidant and trouble-shooter that were faltering in Congress
for the Secretary of State, taking on a One example is the MX missile pro-
widevariety of tasks.gram. Congress voted to deny produc-
tion money last December and then
In early 1952, President Reagan ap- restored the money this
pointed his longtime confidant, Wil- reason is that sp~g One
NfcFazlane's
for.
liam P. Clark, to become the nationalmer chief
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security adviser. Even after a year as as chat Scowcroft, appointed
rman of a Commission o
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tate, Mr. Clark Strat
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - Since was not especialt familiar with the
Part of ? '? hDem get the
for a
early 1981, Robert C. McFarlane has minute details of forei and military moaeratc Democrats for a
played differing roles as an adminis- policy, .and :be brought Mr. McFar- developing package that included in le-the
trator, a special diplomatic envoy, an lane with him from the State De a small sirtga more
? bead missile and putting forth a more
adviser on foreign policy and military pent to the White Eloise bl
issues and a pan-time -- .-Fhprp'
in
McFarlane's promotion.
Following Familiar Steps
middle-of-the-road Democrats as
well as Republicans. He has a reputa-
tion as a Reagan Administration offi-
cial who wants to and can work
smoothly with members of both par-
ties in an effort to restore a bipartisan
policy, now somewhat tattered, on
such subects as arms control and
weapons procurement.
Strong conservatives, however,
seemed unenthusiastic about Mr.
in the "` uie .rule 01 IODDylSt ; watched the two operate, Mr. Clark' alas * of Congress
News that Mr. McFarlane has concentrated on trying-to perserve ? One of the moderates, Representa-
seemed to. have his - ideological purity in the Administra? I tive Les Aspin, Democrat of Wiscon.
greatest success. bon's national security policy and ! sin, said this summer that "more
His promotion today from deputy to-~ Mr. McFarlane handled the adminis- i than anyone else in this Adminicrrc,_
pr mciDal national security adviser to motion of the staff. Lion, Bud McFarlane is the int who
President Reagan will please many o
Mr. McFarlane, who is l mown by
associates by the nickname "Bud,"
retired from the Marine Corps as a
lieutenant colonel in 1979. Be is fol-.
lowing in the tracks of two other mili-
tary officers who left the Pentagon to
become staff assistants at the Na-
tional Security Council and ulti-
mately became the national security
adviser. Mr. McFarlane worked for
both of those men - Brent Scowcroft
and Alexander M. Haig Jr.
Mr. McFarlane was a military
assistant to Henry A. Kissinger from
1973 to 1975, when Mr. Kissinger was
national security adviser. He then
worked tinder Mr. Scowcroft from
1976 to the end of the Ford Adminis-
tration in January 1977.
After the Marine Corps returned
him to active duty in Okinawa, he de-
cided to retire. He spent the last two
years of the Carter Administration as
a staff member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.
pointed to be the President's personal
representative in the Middle East,
charged with trying to promote a set-
tlement between-is-el and the Arab
nations and to encourage all foreign
Congress. Y I
Although be was not able to work
out a compromise, Democrats also
praised Mr. McFarlane's efforts to
forces to withdraw from Lebanon. resolution cutting off covert aid to
Ctni. -Al- -., a--. - - -
u
ure with the United States position,
and Mr. McFarlane got no demon-
strable results. 4
Backed an, Expanded Role
g
errillas fighting the Nicaraguan
Government could be forestalled.
Robert Carl McFarlane was born
on July 12, 1937, and is a graduate of
Instead, his became the leading
voice for directing a Marine force and
offshore naval forces to begin direct
support for the Lebanese Govern-
ment of President Amin Gemayel.
In 1951, after Israel bombed Leba-
non. Secretary of State Haig sent Mr.
McFarlane to Israel to express Wash-
ington's desire that American-sup-
plied weapons not be used in offensive
operations. Prime Minister Mena-
chem Begin did not bend on the issue.
the Naval Academev. Be and his
wife, Jondra, have three children. His
father, Willilam Doddridge McFar-
lane, was a New Deal Democratic
Congressman from Texas from 1932
to 1938.
,Although Mr. McFarlane shuns =
personal publicity and usually dis-
plays a solemn face, several associ-
ates say he sometimes shows mis-
chievous humor in private. Last year,
when White House officials were se-
lecting a new name for the MX and
eventually chose "Peacemaker." Mr.
J'4cFarlane is reported to have said at
one point, "I don't suppose `The
Widow Maker' would be a good idea."
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Reagan Appoints
MeFarlane Adviser
O
n U.S.
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'By Lou Cannon
Washington Post8taff Writer -
President _ Reagan yesterday 1
named Robert, C: McFarlane.as is
national security affairs adviser and
persuaded Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
whom he praised for "a magnificent
job," to remain as ambassador to the
United Nations.
Reagan appeared with McFarlane
in the White House briefing room
and announced his appointment to
replace William P. Clark, named last
week by the president to be secre-
tary of the interior.
`The president praised McFarlane
as a person of "strong,judgment" and
"keen principle," and said, "He
shares my view about the need for a
strong America, an effective, bipar-
tisan foreign policy based on peace
through strength,"
Two hours before that announce-
ment, Reagan met - privately with
Kirkpatrick, who had made no secret
that she would have liked the na-
tional security adviser's post. He
urged her to remain at the United
Nations, administration officials
said.
Kirkpatrick, who reportedly was
disappointed that she was not cho-
sen to replace Clark, later issued a
statement saying she will remain at.
the United Nations through the end
of the present session of the General
Assembly in December.
Other administration officials said
she agreed to "mull over" the pres-
ident's request that she remain at
the United Nations, and one of them
predicted that "Jeane will stay as
long as the president, wants her in
the administration."
?
S-ec-u
Reagan praised Kirkpatrick effu-
'Isivtly in his seven-minute' appear-
ance in the briefing room, saying
that she is performing "a great ser-
vice to her country" at the United
Nations. and that she is "invaluable
in what she is doing."
Conservatives outside the admin-
istration had .pushed for Kirkpa-
trick's appointment on ideological
grounds, and Secretary of Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger and CIA Di-
actor William J. Casey had ex-;
rpressed reservations that McFarlane
:would not have sufficient access or
,influence within the White .House to
,represent. their agencies' views.
McFarlane alluded to these objections in a
question-and-answer session with reporters
yesterday, after a private meeting with Rea-
gan. .
"The importance of that access [to the
president] is clearly understood," McFarlane
said. "The continuation of that access wa.~
reaffirmed today, and I have no reservations
about it'
McFarlane, 45, a former Marine lieuten-
ant colonel now serving as Clark's deputy
and U.S. special envoy to the 'Middle East,
also emphasized that he would not play fa-
vorites in counseling the president.
"My role now is not. to be.an advocate but
a coordinator," he said. "I intend to do that."
Reagan told senior advisers of his decision
over -the weekend, ignoring a lobbying cam-
paign developing for Kirkpatrick. Others in
the administration were quick to climb
aboard the McFarlane bandwagon as soon a;
Reagan 'announced the decision.
Weinberger issued a statement saying lie
is "personally delighted" by the "splendid
appointment" of McFarlane, whom he
praised for "his abilities, his effectiveness
and his skill in advancing the president's na-
tional-security and foreign policies." Wein-
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Berger also criticized "press speculation"
about his own role. saying; it was "far off the
mark."
Kirkpatrick issued a more restrained
statement. saying, "I respect the right of the
president to appoint anyone he chooses" and
promising to stay on through the General
Assembly session.
McFarlane's appointment was supported
in the White House by Clark and chief of
staff James A. Baker III and also was praised
by Secretary of State George 1'. Shultz. who
spoke to reporters on his plane returning
from Canada.
"I think what we'll See is continuity."
Shultz said. "Bud McFarlane has been part
of the process for quite a while. He's excel-
lent, very good to work with, a real profess-
sional, knows the issues.- a fair-minded per-
sOn.
Shultz conceded that there have been
some problems "from time to time" in rela-
tions withClark but said he was able to dis-
cuss and solve,them, and lie predicted that
he could do the same with McFarlane.
According to aides. Shultz had a long tele-
phone conversation with Reagan about the
appointment Saturday and another this
morning while in Canada. With Clark's de-
part.ure to Interior, administration officials
are trying -to emphasize that Shultz. who is
to Spend next weekend with the president in
Augusta, Ga.. will tike the lead role in for-
eign policy.
Several officials, including McFarlane. em
phasized that Clark. a confidant Of Reagan
since 1967. will remain available for consul-
raton.
Conservatives outside the administration
were disappointed. They see Clark's appoint-
ment to Interior as no gain because he re-
placed James G. Watt, the administration's
most outspoken conservative, and McFar-
lane's appointment as a loss.
"For the first time since President Reagan
took office, the two top foreign policy jobs,
secretary of state and national security ad-
viser, will he held by someone who is not a
conservative." said Richard A.. Viguerie, a
New Right spokesman and fund-raiser.
"As a protege of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mr.
McFarlane's views are probably very com-
patible with those of the moderates and li-
berals who run the State Department," lie
said.
In accepting the appointment. McFarlane raid he fully shares the president's national-
security goals.
"They have stemmed the bide." he said.
"And they have set us on a course which 'I
believe deeply will prove Spengler wrong.
that the West can, indeed, define its inter-
ests, defend them, demonstrate freedom, de-
mocracy, free enterprise as the hope of the
future."
The reference was to German philosopher
Oswald Spengler's pessmistic book, pub-
lished after World War I and called "The
Decline of the West."
McFarlane said Rear Adm. John Poindex-
ter, No. :3 man on the national security af-
fairs staff, will serve as his deputy. Admin-
istration officials said Richard Fairbanks.
McFarlane's deputy in the Mideast, will take
over as special envoy in the region, at.least
temporarily. .- 11 McFarlane spent the day, touching base
with various power centers inside. and out-
side of the administration. In addition to his
private meeting-with Reagan, he spoke with
Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Casey, con-
ferred with Clark and lunched with former
secretary of state Alexander M. Haig Jr.
A graduate of the Naval Academy, McFar-
.lane is the son of William Doddridge McFar-
lane. who served as a Democratic congress-
nman from Texas from 1932 to 1938. The
younger McFarlane was a military assistant
to Kissinger when Kissinger was President
Nixon's national security affairs adviser.
Reagan. McFarlane and other administra-
?tion spokesmen took turns yesterday defend-
ing U.S. participation in the multinational
peace-keeping force in Lebanon despite the
increase in casualties among U.S. Marines
there.
When Reagan was asked by a reporter.
"Why are we in-Lebanon and why are we let-
ting our Marines be there to get killed every
day." he replied in a firm, voice:
"Because I think it, is vitally important to
the security of the United States and the
western world that. we do everything we can.,
to further the peace process in the Mid-..
dle East." .
White House spokesman Larry Speakes
and. State Department deputy spokesman
Alan Romberg issued statements saying at-
tacks on U.S..Marines are designed to dis-
rupt the .process of national reconciliation in
Lebanon. A sixth Marine was shot and killed
in Lebanon Sunday: and five others were
wounded.
"The Marines are there," Speakes said..
"They are there for a mission. That's where
they will stay as long as the president thinks,
its necessary for a peace-keeping effort in
the ;Middle East."
Staff writers -Juihrr Jul. Goshko and Don
Vber?dorfer? contributed to this report.
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17 October 1983
Reagan Picks
Appointment Not
Expeetet to :Alter
_ U.S. Foreign Polio
By SARA FRITZ,
'Times Stuff Writer
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WASHINGTON-President R?ea- the White House: many onset atlyesw vvho";C tge _: thhat ?}fie sus:; vat
gan has decided to appoint special However, -the McFarlane : vigorously pursued military superiority over the :Soviet
Middle East envoy Robert :C: pointment is .not expected to pro , .Union .has sought to build the MX missile one an -as McFarlane to succeed William-p. duce a significant shift in Reagan's -arms control,: bargaining chip"=and has'failedto act on
Clark as his national security advis- foreign policy because Clark :has - allegedSoviet violation of arms control treaties.
er, Administration officials -said always relied heavily upon advice .;?The' national security job. became .,vacant just- as
~runda from the Middle East envoy. In fact, : McFarlane-was-returningto, VWeshmgtonbafter,months
Sunday. _ _ _ _ ..lL:...??1.. -.-.:with 41., 4 )j. 5' I41)na ? _ - .t .L_ _.._..,__i..~......... t:?......
Clark's deputy before being sent to Reagan s policy because he has a
the Middle East last July, is expect- .- background In foreign affairs that
ed to be offered the job and accept it Clark lacks.
in the next day or two. Clark was Sb
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rd'er-t,to,mame N. Ambassador leave k:-*1rltpatriek to
k?Meny conservatives shad mounted _:'teiephone -and
telegram- campaigns-urg gthe,W,hite,Uo:me,to;appoint
another, breiga policy ob- in'Washington Casey was
lsg to:have npported her appointment,ilr
aid McFarlane-ls disliked-intensely by
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Lebanon. An admirer of met-ariane-3n:icne ?wruie house
said ne gave Reagarra ".absolutely.bri hiant":planation
of the;current problems:in Lebanon during-a-=eeting.
fiday.:{t?was the first 'in a series of White House
nieetingsan-which the'. 'resident will decide what:steps
s
a
z mmen chosen last week to replace James 'to?takein:theMiddleEast +~,fi :.<
G. Watt, who resigned as secretary' Secretary of State George...P ? at is not:known twvhether Reagan plans txo'-appoint
of the Interior Oct. S. Shultz, traveling to Halifan4 Nova arlbther"Mrddle'East efivoy a replace'iMcTFarlane, who
The President informed other Scotia, for talks .with Canadian -rortedly.,wants the *dministration'to resume earlier
.advisers late Saturday that. he had officials, told reporters that he bad efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. If
decided to offer the national securi- been satisfied with the -National .Administration?dfl5eWt'decide'diat' fifers T iio't:"hance
ty job to McFarlane. Administration Security Council system when for.progressin the Middle East,_they could decide to
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officials predicted that Reagan and Clark was presen
McFarlane would discuss the ap- dent that he would continue to-be
pointment face to face no later than satisfied- "I think the process" is
Wednesday. working- quite satisfactorily'
Advised Ford, Nimn -
Although Reagan assured Weit-
:bergerand Casey that the role" d
national security adviser would not
were _ .skeptical ;that :Mcrariane;
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confidant of -Reagan, was consid
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Shultz told reporters, as was
with Judge Clark there. Personally,
I am sorry that he is not going to be
,
working man who has served as an there."
dviser to Presidents Gerald R. Shultz, without suggesting that
a
Ford and Richard M. Nixon. was he knew that McFarlane's appoint the,MX rrussile..,
chosen to replace Clark despite went was all but certain, said ut the selection of McFarlane does not guarantee an
some misgivings expressed about Clark's successor "should be some- 'slid o- turf battles, l,hat Clark waged with.she, -State
W-tin ent- and other White house o#frcaa1 ..Shultz;,
him by Defense Secretary Caspar. body who can have the confidence -Divp
W. Weinberger and CIA Director. of those he's working with ..-or te.. F ouse Chie#' ;of Staff' James A faker III and
William .1 Casey. Officials said she's working with"-an obvious ' a ens wen Qfteag aiigered;by Clar s~,habi}#^vf 1t ealvr g
Weinberger and Casey were afraid . 'referenceto the campaign among ..
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that foreign policy would get less of conservatives to persua
the President's attention under
McFarlane because he lacks --the
close relationship that Clark has had ,
with Reagan. - ;
hard=
McFarlane a - reserved
t
Heave the?position'-vacant as -a,way of de-emphasizing
undue 1984 election year.
1McF,arlane?a =former staff member of the Senate
,,Armed Services-Committee- who as.knownto aspire:to.
riinning?for-Congress himself, is' ected:tobe a. more
,visible ,,national-.security. adviserihan-Clark. Unlike
-Clark..-be. has : a :.reputation .for working, well - with
members of Congress, which will help him in legislative
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diret'tly with the President on matters of mutual
interest without keeping 'them informed. Some officials
fear that'McFarlane will, follow this pattern, particularly,
as he struggles to establish imself in the new job.
The position of White House -national -security
adviser,--which was created 1n the "Harry S. Truman
Administration, has been"at`_the heart of `internal
dissension in every yadmuiisteation since Henry, A..
Kissinger raised it `to a h'profile position under
Nixon.
McFarlane would be the third rsnn to hold the.
national security post under Reagan,!*e to office
in 19$1; promising to elimina 5 fncti n between the;
White House and the State Dep etl2y".a1owrigrading
the job o? national security acWiserx.
Reagan's first national securltdvisex Richard V.
~-"Allen, resigned in January, 1982, - after admitting that he'
accepted $1,000: ,and two watch. 'jfrthn a .J.gpanese:
journalist.
Allen, who was succeeded by C1.tk d lot even brief
the President face to face. on foreign-policy matters.
.4thout a strong
Although Clark was the first
b _k
foreign-policy background ever to ? : he position,
`he succeeded in restoring it to its e*za inence.
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17 October 1983
Impact of Reagan Cabins
Greater involvement in foreign
affa by'President is predibed
Ey Dari& S?rFheriand
wmer of The Christian Silence Monitor
washingmn
'Strong direction of foreign policy can be expected from
.President Reagan for the remainder.of his first term in of
;
-fitce, administration officials say..
fihe officials say .that- this . is one of the
zain legacies left by. the outgoing national
security adviser to the -President, -William P .
Clark: to get Ream more-deeply involved
-m foreign affairs...
A series of crises :around the world 'from
Central America all the way to the Philip-
pines, would seem to demand ever greater
presidential involvement. So would election-
year politics. Polls show that a mishandling
of foreign affairs could damage the Presi-
dent's reelection chances should he choose-to
.run again. a prospect -which now seems
BSSUred . .. -
. _ _
At the same. time, the departure-of lunge ::Iark-fi-om
the top national security post at the White
House' would appear to strengthen, at
least tempom-Dy, the hand of Secretary of
State George P. Shultz. Clark had as-
sumed aleading -role in the fields of arms
control and Central America and some as-
peas of Middle East policy. Clark's suc-
cessor will have to go through a period of 1
settling in, during which time the State
Depaent will be expected to provide
continuity on a number of issues..
Experts outside the government are
predicting. meanwhile,' that. - Clark's de-
parture will also reinforce a trend toward
pragmatism in Reagan's foreign policy, a
trend which has not always been evident..,
in the President's 'rhetoric. A recent ex-
ample of the pragmatic..c trend -was
._Rewa.n's handling of the Soviets' -shoot-
in . g down of Korean Airlines Flight `7 on
Sept. 1, .Reagan spoke harshly of the So--',
viet Union following the incident, but his
actions were me,~. The sanctions an-
nounced -= dosing Soviet airline offices in
the United States and setting further lim-
its on cultural and other exchanges, --for
example - were limited.
Pragmatism has also been reflected in
the President's approval of a huge new .
grain agreement with the Soviet Union
duction talks going with the Soviets.
Reagan has overtuled -subordinates who
proposed denying the Soviets new Amen -
can oil- and gas-drilling equipment. The
President has made compromises with
moderate Democrats and Republicans in'
the Congress over arms control proposals.
Earlier this month,.Reaganroverrode .ob-
jections from -the Defense Department
and embraced the "build down" concept
for nuclear -arms reductions suggested by
two-key Senators. He also injected new
flexibility.: into .hfs dnhially tough propos-
als for strategic arms reductions.
At this writing, the leading candidate
for the post of national security adviser is
reported to be Robert C. McFarlane, who
is currently serving as deputy assistant to
the president for national security and as
special envoy to the Middle East. Mr.
McFarlane is .a low-key professional with
long experience in the White House. The
former Marine colonel is so self-effacing
that until be was appointed to his roving
Middle East job a few months ago, few -
photographs were publicly available.
McFarlane is regarded by many of the
Congressmen who have dealt with him as
moderate, pragmatic, nonideological and
well-informed. A similar view prevails at
the State Department. Officials there, who
have engaged in many a battle with na-
tional security advisers, including Judge
Clark, say that they would be happy with
the choice of McFarlane for the job.
But objections to McFarlane's selec-
tion as national security adviser have
come from a number of conservative sup-
porters of President Reagan outside the
administration who would like to see
United Nations Ambassador Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick get the job. Inside the admin-
istration, opposition is reported to have
come from Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger and CIA Director William
Casey, who are, said to fear that
McFarlane will not be forceful enough in
presenting their views to the President. A
close friend of Reagan's, Clark had easy
access to the President. He also shared
some of the hardline views for which
Weinberger and Casey are noted.
The president's national security ad-
viser is supposed to be an honest broker,
presenting the president with - all of the
foreign policy options proposed by the
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Conservatives Are Distressed
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Ma'4 Go to a 'Pragmatist'
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tempted to leave the administration if she ter chance r prevailing their argument
isn't moved into another job. ' that the administration should st'
eke .ac
-- Conservatives aren't uncomfortable With on cords with Congress rather than confront it
Mr. McFarlane for strictly ideological the defense issues.
Robert McFarlane's Chances
reasons. "1t isn't like he's a dove." notes Similarly, Mr- Clark has carried the Pen
one White House aide. Even d Mr. Clark has -tagon's view on arms control into the Oval
otrop i Office. Under Mr. Weinberger's guidance,
By .GERAi.p F..SEIB g y--endorsed Mtn; McFarlane as his the-Pentagon has pushed a tough, take it or .
And RoBErm S. GtcEENBERGEE successor, arguing that his deputy -is the leave-it line that challenges the Soviet Union
Scoff Repaiiers of T?aE K'wu S- RE -T JOURNAL most knowledgeable candidate. Mr. McFar
to make significant changes in its arms.poli-
WASHINGTON-The unexpected depar- lane is a retired Marine and served as a na- ; ties.
ture of National Securinv Adviser William P tional security aide in both the Nixon and The State Department, on the other hand,
Clark has rekindled the old bitterness be. Ford administrations. has argued consistently for more "realistic"
tween conservatives and pragmatists in But Mr. Weinberger and Mr. Case" and flexible approaches that stand a chance
Ronald Reagan's foreign policy
1'the apparatus. worn' that' Mr. McFarlane simply won't of. producing accords with Moscow. Mr.
: Mr. Clark called President Reagan
have the same easy, and influential, access McFarlane has acted for. the administration
at Camp David two Saturdays ago and first to the Oval_Office that allowed Mr. Clark. a in fashioning bipartisan compromises with
expressed willingness to become interior longtithe me associate of the president's to Congress on, arms issues. He was the ' fa?
Secret. ~', he wasn't acting because of na klr Reagan arguments. While then' of the administration's Seowcroh tom
tiora) security developments. Mr. Clark was has promised that Mr. Clark's mission, which reached such a compromise
simply weary of.his grueling job and tired of successor will have the same access, conser- on the MX missile. Be also was a force be-
the backbiting battles he had been involved vatives worry that more-moderate forces hind recent negotiations with Congress that
ir, with others in the administration. led by Mr. 'Shultz are in the ascendant, led the administration to adopt a new strafe-
put evens in the four days since Mr. Without Mr. Clark or such a forceful per- gic-arms strategy incorporating the concept
Clark's move to interior was announced 'son as Mrs.. Kirkpatrick in the national sect- of a "build downn," in which the superpowers
show tha, the change may have far-reaching nn' adviser's job, conservatives are con- would eliminate more old warheads than
foreign policy irnplications_ It has unsettled 'raced that their fortunes will suffer. "This they install new ones.
the administration's most conservative off) is the ball game," says Edwin J. Feulner These issues are likely to be prickle ones
ciais-including . Defense Secretary Caspar Jr., the presiden, of the Heritage Founda- anyway because of the 1984 presidential
v+%einber er and e , 1 1 i ce tree ! tion. election campaign. The administration's
for uliver Casey-w o fear they have ost The absence of Mr. Clark also could open moderates, and its political advisers, will be
their best friend in the top levels of the for. the door to more direct clashes between the more inclined to seek an arms-control treaty
eign-policy structure. As a result, they are State De artment and Messrs. Weinber er accompanied by an election year summit
bracing to wage anew old battles over Cen . -and ase. For Px2mnir meeting with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.
tral America, arms control and the defense I with the Perim-on and th e Central lntelb- . Conservatives would be quick to suspect
budget-issues that were likely to be Bence Arencv.on ntra] American strategy that such moves represent only election
marked by contention anyway in the coming Par terthisnear tippuia the balance in fa- near sellouts to the Soviets.
election
election year. The power vacuum created by vor of a more militaristic approach. Mr. -Without a person of Mr. Clark's views in
Clark's departure could well created by Shultz and others m the State Department the national security adviser's job, conser-
Mr. the tensions. (Fora report on hojDcrease w Mr. favor stressing economic and social reforms vatives will jump more readily to the con-
Clark's departure from the White House af? in the region while giving Central America clusion that Mr. Reagan is being led away
feels the power balance among residential less stress on Capitol Hill.
b presidential from his true beliefs for the sake of political
aides, see.stonl on page fi. Mr. Clark's en? On the Middle East, the departure of Mr. expediency.
vironmental record is the subject of a story Clark could lead to a change in the U.S. ap? Mr. Clark, despite his lack of foreign-po)-
on page 1&-) proach to Syria. Mr. Clark has been more icy experience, had the clout to resolve such
"The Reaganauts are gone or going," inclined in recent weeks to try to strike a disputes and thereby to squelch bickering
rets one Reagan appointee in a mid level compromise with Syria as it flexed its mus- between the conservative and pragmatist
oreign policy job. "This significantly in- c]es in Lebanon, officials say. At the same camps:
creases the, president's trouble with the time, the State Department has moved to-
right." ward a strategy of bypassing Syria and
Preraili ro p~yatth tightening ties with Israel to offset growing
Syrian strength. Mr. McFarlane,. who also
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Such' worries have led conservatives to currently is Mr. Reagan's special Middle
at?ry out an internal struggle to replace Mr. East envoy, has leaned toward the State De-
Clark with Jeane Kirkpatrick, the hard-line partment's approach, officials say. This
House official says that President Reagan McFarlane will Abe includng Mr.
e L, East
yesterday told his advisers that his choice i policy. ,
for national security adviser is Robert
-McFarlane, Mr. Clark's deputy. The taci-
turn Mr. McFarlane is far more -acceptable
than Mrs. Kirkpatrick would be to such
Defense. implications vative
also
are howCthe absen es of Mr. ClarkwWill affectbde-
r
pagmatists as Secretary of State George trol nMoon Clark defense einforcd and arms con-
Shultz. Ven-
Shultz. ber 's p g
Administration aides say that, to console ger arguments for big defense-s en din
her, Mrs. Kirkpatrick may be considered for boosts and has supported his strategy of re-
some other foreign-policy position. She is ( fusing to give ground to Congress on the is-
said to have grown weary of her UN duties, sue. Moderates in the White House, like
and friends of hers suggest she will be chief of staff James
Baker
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NO WHITE HOUSE COMMENT
Mrs. Kirkpatrick Is Reported
Angered by Move and Set
to Shun New Position
"What position could they give her?"
he said. "She's in the Cabinet, rsbe's in
the National Security Council. There's 11
no way institutionally that she could be
guaranteed access."
There were no public announcements
of any changes in position in the Ad-
.ministration today. Mr. Reagan de-
However, it was learned later that
Mrs. Kirkpatrick considered that any
newly created advisory post would be
meaningless because her being passed
over for the national security job
meant that she could be shut out of the
foreign policy process by Secretary
Shultz and others.
Administration officials had re-
clined to discuss any personnel or other j ported this weekend that Mn. Kirkpat-
matters when he walked past reporters rick had already informed the White
after returning to the White House by ! House of her intention to resign from
helicopter from a weekend at Camp the United Nations post after this
David,' Md. year's session of the General Assem-
bly. The session is due to end in mid-
The reported decision to name Mr. December.
McFarlane to the national security However, the Administration aides
post was precipitated by Mr. Reagan's Sidered it possible that she would
decision, announced last Thursday, to ? ~ stay in some other capacity. Much of
name William P. Clark, a longtime as-' Mts. Kirkpatrick's disenchantment
sociate and champion for rnnserva with her job was said to stem from her
fives. as Seeretarv of rhp Intot-inr Thn' dislike of having to commute from
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Special xa TBe New York Tito
WASHLNGTON, Oct. 16 - President
Reagan has chosen Robert C. McFar-
lane as his national security, adviser, a
White House official said today. The se-
lection was reported to have angered
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the chief United
States representative at the United Na-
tions, and to have persuaded'her to re-
ject any offer of another post in the Ad-
rninistration when, she leaves the
United Nations position this year.
Cabinet Aides Given Assurances
'A White House official said Mr. Rea-
gan had selected Mr. McFarlane, cur-
rently the deputy national security ad-
viser and special Middle East envoy,
for the national security post after as-
suring Cabinet members that Mr.
McFarlane would have access and au-
thority equal to other top White House
aides.
Presidential aides said further that
Mr. Reagan was hoping to offer Mrs.
Kirkpatrick a post as a senior foreign
policy adviser in Washington, where
she lives. Mrs. Kirkpatrick had been
the choice of conservatives within the
Admini-ation
curity post.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was pictured as
being angered at the reports that she
would be offered another job and as
planning to reject it. She was under-
stood to have felt "blocked" by Secre-
tary of State George P. Shultz and
others for the national security post.
Position Still Undefined
Earlier today a foreign policy official
close to Nirs. Kirkpatrick said that she
would be "silly" to take an undefined
advisory position in Washington..
selectiob stunned members of the Ad-
ministration and touched off a competi-
tion for the national security job.
White House aides let it be known
today that Mr. McFarlane's selection
was imminent They said Mr. Reagan
decided the issue after spending part of
the weekend a surfing conservatives
that their views would be heard. Mis.
Kirkpatrick was reportedly informed
of the choice of Mr. McFarlane on
Saturday.
There were reports that James A.
Baker III, the White House chief of
staff, was being considered by Mr.
Reagan to succeed Mrs. Kirkpatrick at
the United Nations. But Larry Speakes,
the White House spokesman, said to-
night that he had spoken to Mr. Baker
and that Mr. Baker regarded the re-
ports as being "without foundation."
Mr. Reagan also reportedly assured
both Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger and William J. Casey, di-
rector of Central Intelligence, that Mr.
McFarlane would have the necessary
access and clout to keep foreign policy
matters at the top of Mr. Reagan's
agenda.
Nevertheless, the appointment ' of
Mr. McFarlane, a retired Marine
Corps lieutenant colonel who served on
the national security staffs of Presi-
dents Nixon and Ford, was seen by
many in the Administration as a signif-
icant loss for the conservative wing.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was pictured as
York.
Farmer Professor in Capitol
Before taking the United Nations job,
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was a political sci-
ence professor at the Center for Inter-
national and Strategic Studies at
Georgetown University here.
White House officials said todaythat
Mr. Reagan had wanted to appoint Mr.
McFarlane national security adviser
all along, but that he had wavered be-
cause of the last-minute drive by con-
servatives on Mrs. Kirkpatrick's be-
half, and because of worries by Wil-
ham J. Casey, the current national se-
curity and Defense Secretary Caspar
W. Weinberger.
The departure of Mr. Clark sparked
a strong outcry by conservatives -over
the weekend. An Administration -offi-
cial reported that various conservative
.groups had begun organizing a- cam_
paign on behalf of Mn. Kirkpatrick.
Some conservatives favored such
other choices as Mr. Weinberger him-
self, John Lehman, the Secretary of the
Navy, or Fred C. Ikld, an Under Sec're-
tary of Defense for Policy.
.having been angered by reports that
Mr. Reagan wanted to offer her an-
other foreign policy post in Washing-
ton. She was reported to regard these
reports as "devious" and an attempt to
mollify conservatives after she was
passed over for the national security
post. .
New Position Suggested
White house officials said early
today that Mr. Reagan had not yet de-
cided what sort of post Mrs. Kirkpat-
rick might be offered, and that he
might create a new position in the
White House or the State Department.
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Rowland-Evans and Robert Novak
The High Cost of Shifting
Soon after national security ,adviser Kirkpatrick's concern is ironic. She
William P. Clark telephoned President sent a note to Clark several weeks ago
Reagan at Camp David Oct. 8 for a containing an eyebrow-raising sugges-
Saturday morning briefing on troubled tion: with Robert McFarlane, Clark's
Lebanon, Reagan turned the talk to his deputy on an open-ended assignment
burning concern about James Watt and in the Middle East, she might?serve the
the Interior Department=a .change of adminnistration better if she left the
subject that was shortly to cause alarm U.N. and became Clark's deputy. Kirk-
for the
president's foreign allies and do-
patrick's.move was quietly in the works
mesticsupporters I when the Watt affair triggered its na-
'Almost as one," an -insider ,told us, { tiQFial security chain reaction.
Reagan and his closest friend came to. an Republican conservatives mounted
answer.-Nailed down six-days later in an an eleventh-hour campaign for Kirk-
Ova Office chat, Clark replaced the
fallen Watt, but at high cost The second Patrick as Clark's replacement. Clark's
turnover of national security advisers in -sponsorship could have installed Kirk-
21 months exhibits presidential disregard Patrick in the White House, but he de-
not only for the role Clark filled so well cided not to choose between two of his
bin. for foreign policy in general closest associates these past two years.
Reagan's private advice to Clark to Kirkpatrick's feisty idiom and trench-
"star, wearing your Stetson again, Bill" ant policy positions, though admired
results from no conspiratorial power enough by Clark for him to want her as
play by Secretary of State George his deputy if not successor, are a source
Shultw in his struggle with Clark, of fear in the State Department and
though Shultz surely was pleased. Nor West Wing. ,Shultz, Baker and White
.did it climax quietly acrimonious rela- Hots deputy chief of staff Michael
Lions between Clark and White House Deaver were determined to follow the
Chief of Staff James Baker III, who ac- regular order with McFarlane's.succes-
tually opposed the move as a bad idea. sion. They want no part of another
Instead, it revealed a presidential strong figure at the NSC who would
mindset. that bewilders and worries guarantee more of the disorder that has
U.S. allies.-Their emissaries here were dogged the administration national se-
astonished that. the point man of Rea- curityapparatus from the start.
gan's national security policy could so All this could mean faster unraveling
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p
y con- i of 'Reagan's once rock-like foreign
tract; is inconsequential. followk'
But the alarm of America's allies was ePolicy hite. H ingse bass departure from
nothing compared to the consternation presidential basement. A special
of Reagan's conservative friends, Presidenti al directive keeps Clark in
particularly in the Senate. Still in the national security loop, but that can
.agony over the Watt affair, such con ! never substitute for the lack of his
physical presence. As Shultz once re-
servatives now perceive a new suprem- marked privately, ".When the president
acy for Shultz 'S State Department,
working in league with Baker's West and Bill are in the same room, it's not
Wingers 'on arms control and other ef- necessary for them to say many
forts to soften. East-West tensions be- words.''
fore the 1984 election. To fix a problem at Interior, Reagan
They are not alone. From the United has given up more than he knows.
Nations, U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirk- Quiet-spoken Bill Clark is telling his
Patrick quietly friends that "I've gone wherever he's
passed along concerns pointed me ever since '66." But despite
that without Clark at the NSC helm, his own fatigue acid frustration, his trip
Reagan's tough positions on arms con- to Interior is one time he should have
troy Soviet relations and Central flashed a caution light to his chief.
America will be submerged under a
resurgent Foggy Bottom. Defense Sec- w,iess, t ieltl Enterprises, inc.
retary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Di-
rector William Casey both registered
similar fears wit t e White House,
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Briefing
P resident Reagan really loved it.
William J. Casey, Director of
Central Intelligence, loved it.
Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former
Secretary-of State, has seen it;three
times and loved it because the good
guys win. The object of this affection.
is a newly released English motion
picture, "The Final Option" ; the ac-
obunts of high-level enthusiasm come
from the conservative writer Victor
Lasky, who held private previews of
the film here and in California as a
favor to the producer, Euan Lloyd.
The film is a thriller in which Brit-
ish commandos recapture the Ameri-
can Embassy in London from terror-
ists who manipulate an antinuclear
peace group that is covertly financed
by the Soviet Union. The peace advo-
cates infiltrate the embassy dis-
guised as a dance band and take hos-
tages at a diplomatic dinner, includ-
ing the Secretary of State and the
British Foreign Minister. Almost
without exception, the hostages sur-
vive and the terrorists are extermi-
nated.
On the other hand, The Washington
Post called the film "ill-timed, ill-ti-
tled and more than a little ill-con-
ceived," which is probably just about
what Mr. Lasky and General Haig
would have predicted.
James F. Clarity
Warren Weaver Jr.
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CIA: Casey Responds
I am pleased with the way the article
"The Secret Warriors" (NAT)ONAL AF-
FAIRS, Oct. 10) conveys the dedication and
quality of the people here at the CIA.
However, I cannot let stand statements
and impressions which are simply not
true and which can damage American inter-
ests and relationships around the world.
As you know, it is established policy not
to comment on intelligence matters so I
cannot go into detail. I can only state that I
have been provided with a list of some,30
inaccuracies and things that never hap-
pened that appeared in your article. One-
which I can specifically deny because it
would be illegal, and CIA does not violate
the law, is the allegation that CIA is provid-
ing covert aid to the insurgents in Angola.
In a lesser vein, the degree of inaccuracy
is illustrated in the statement that I am
"traveling at least 50 percent of the time."
This is a 700 percent distortion of the truth.
On a personal note, I would have hoped
in associating my name with Robert Vesco
that you would have acknowledged that it
was I, as chairman of the SEC, who acted
to stop Vesco's worldwide looting of stock-
holders' moneys and took unprecedented
and successful initiatives to protect the in-
vestors he defrauded. In my confirmation
by the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Stanley Sporkin, SEC enforcement chief
at the time the Vesco case was broken,
spelled this out. He stated that I "directly
involved [my]self in aggressively pursuing
the investigation .. pressed the staff to
complete the investigation and to proceed
with the appropriate enforcement action as
soon as possible... had the foresight to seek
the cooperation of other affected govern-
ments. " He concluded that the Vesco action
is "one of the most impressive and impor-
tant enforcement cases in which the SEC
has ever been involved" in which "over 400
million dollars have been recaptured for
investors throughout the world."
WILLIAM J. CASEY
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C.
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President Reagan has chosen
Robert C. McFarlane to succeed
William P Clark as his new national
security. adviser and is expected to
make the - formal announcement
soon, probably today.
At- the same time, informed
administration sources said the
president also has decided to bring
U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpat-
rick to Washington as head of one
of the semi-independent national
{ securir'-oriented agencies. Kirk-
patrick has been anxious to leave
the United Nations to return to
Washington and Reagan has wanted
her closer than New York because
of his high regard for her advice
and counsel. "The president wants
her to be his adviser in Washington
as she has been in New York" said
d senior official last night.
Reagan now is trying to decide
where to place her so that she has a.
power base .instead . of being a
supernumerary, of high rank. She is
expected to retain her place in Rea-
gan's Cabinet. Reagan made these
decisions over the weekend at
Camp David and made them known
yesterday to Clark and a few others.
Administration sources said
Secretary of Defense Caspar W.
Weinberger and CIA Director Wil-
liam'J. "Casey were among those at
White House meetings Friday and
Saturday arguing that McFarlane,
now Clark's deputy at the NSC,
should have the same access to the
Oval Office that Clark has enjoyed.
At . a National Security Policy
Group meeting Friday, which was
attended only by principals, Wein.
berger and Casey reportedly made
it clear they had no ideological
objection to McFarlane
at c
arlane did not fall
under control of any other White
House official in the reorganiza-
tion. Chief-of Staff James-A. Baker
1.11 also was reliably reported to -
have favored appointment of the
46-year-old former Marine officer
and State Department counsel.
Weighing heavily in favor of
McFarlane was the full backing of
Clark whose advice Reagan prizes
above all others on critical deci-
sions. McFarlane was handpicked
by Clark to be his deputy at the
National Security Council but is
detached to be the president's spe-
cial peace envoy to the Middle East.
Meanwhile, The Washington
Times has learned that Clark last
week promoted his military assis-
tant, Rear Adm. John Poindexter, to
fill McFarlane's job as deputy
pational security adviser. This
cleared the way for McFarlane to
take either the new position or
remain on the gruelling Mideast
assignment.
Reagan now will have to fine,
another troubleshooter for the Mid-
dle East crisis as well as a new
ambassador to the U.N. Officials
said Reagan has not yet gotten
around to considering possible can-
didates for the U.N. ambassador.
ship and there is no clue as to who
may be considered. It is expected
that McFarlane's assistant, Rich-
ard Fairbanks, former assistant
secretary of state for congres-
sional affairs, will likely take over
the shuttle diplomacy task.
The national security adviser is
nc subject to Senate confirmation
bi Clark, the preside;:t'r nominee
to replace James G. Wait as sec-
retary of the interior, is expected to
face rugged questioning on envi-
ronmental issues when he appears
at Senate hearings on his nomina-
tion. The White House is not
expected to send Clark to Capitol
Hill until Congress adjodrns in
November to give Clark more time
to prepare for what are expected to
be contentious hearings for which
he is hardly prepared at this junc-
ture.
The same forces who unceas-
ingly sought the scalp of Watt
because of his policies and his
unfortunate phrase-making are
expected to zero in on Clark, a con-
servative of the same beliefs as
Reagan and Watt:
Some officials anticipate a delay
in the hearings until January so
that Clark can prepare himself for
a heavy quizzing from anti-
administration senators.
White House insiders say it was
sheer coincidence that McFarlane
was in Washington for consulta.
tions when the Watt resignation
was followed by the bombshell
Clark nomination. But McFarlane
is well known to the president and
thoroughly trusted by Clark and
that was enough for Reagan. In
addition, the State Department and
Secretary George P Shultz sup-
ported McFarlane because they
were not anxious to see the strong-
willed Kirkpatrick move into the
powerful NSC position..
The only argument against
McFarlane was that while he was a
Marine major, he served in the NSC
under Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and
then-Col. Alexander M. Haig Jr.
But McFarlane is an expert on the
nuclear arms negotiations now
reaching a critical stage in Geneva
and is more current than anyone
else on the boiling crisis in the Mid-
east.
Poindexter, a Naval Academy
graduate, is a capable administra-
tor inherited by Clark. from Rich-
ard V. Allen in the NSC. He is still
on the active Navy list but does not
have the rank for dealing with the
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? completely settled late Saturday, a focusing his attention Saturday on
Reagan Firm on formal announcement of the ap- lobbying for McFarlane within the
ppointment could be expected soon. Administration rather than polling
? ? ~+ The officials said the White outside opinion.
u ' '[7 Au" set . House is not seeking recommenda- The officials also-said the ques-
t . tions from Congress on the appoint- tions raised by Casey and Wein-
C~at'~vIle Despite ment because Reagan considers it berger- about McFarlane were less
Wants an internal Administration issue. ideological than practical, reflecting
opposition ' Aides s Appointment of a national security concerns "that the guy would be
adviser does not require con
gres- more of a bureaucrat than a strong
sional confirmation. figure like Clark has been."
By DAVID WOOD But conservative spokesmen, de- In a White House meeting Friday,
and GEORGE SKELTON 'Glaring that the appointment of in which McFarlane briefed top
Times Staff WritersMcFarlane would be the ?"
final ;national security officials on the
WASHINGTON-Presi$enf Rea= straw". in what they described as situation , in Lebanon, those con-
their declining support for, the Ad- cerns appeared to have been eased.
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national security adviser despite;ins effort to steer , the White .House :.;ppo~rs described as a"-brilliant"
away from choosing him.
really impressed
..strong ,opposition of conservatives They said their hopes for derail-. geverybodeybody ion. He
the official said
outside the
overnment and some ;
.
g
doubts...by _high-ranking Admirals ing^the appointment ~were buoyed Weinberger was said Saturday to
vials said.Saturday .,,of the Administration's most out- appointment, and Casey was said to
McFarlane, a key national securi- spoken conservatives-raised con- be lobbying for Kirkpatrick. But,
ty assistant and Reagan's chief cerns about McFarlane on Friday. partly because of McFarlane's pre-
And the conservatives cited Clark's n e
Middle East negotiator, was widely decision to cancel a scheduled ap- ly willing on, both men en were reported-
.predicted to succeed `William P. ling to accept Reagan's final
Clark as national security -adviser pearance Saturday at a-Navy sub- decision. Both men were said to be
after Reagan announced.last week marine . christening . in ;Groton, seeking ' assurances Saturday that
his intention to nominate Clark to Conn., to coordinate WhiteHouse McFarlane would be able to operate
succeed James G. Wattas secretary work on the succession, as evidence as.national security adviser with the
-of the Interior. of White House .uncertainty over same degree of authority and access
But, in the wake of that an- the McFarlane appointment to Reagan as enjoyed by Clark. A
nouncement Thursday, Defense This is .one of the most critical White House official said that theme
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger decisions Reagan will ever make," ,concerns had been alleviated - in
and CIA Director William J. Casey Howard Phillips, national director extremely high-level" discussions.
were said to have raised. some of the Conservative Caucus, said.A
questions about McFarlane's suita- McFarlane appointment would Other Administration officials
questions
By Saturday, conservative freeze conservatives out of.all for- said Saturday that, although both
organizations in day, insei were vipolicy-making and would re- McFarlane and Kirkpatrick are
mounting telephone -and telegram salt in. terminal despondency for viewed as knowledgeable and able,
xampatgns urging the White House. conservatives," raising questions the U.N. ambassador is known as a
to reject McFarlane and appoint about whether conservatives would forceful advocate of her positions
instead U.N. Ambassador Jeane J -.p_articipatein efforts to reelect Rea- while McFarlane is "a known quan-
stead rick, . a conservative favor- 1, Phillips said. tity" and more of a "team player."
serveo as .a national security assist- seeking as nis national security
said, really wants McFarlane' ----
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ggested that, without such a is dislited_ntensely by many con-
nt could perhaps be persuaded to ' nof pursued military superiority'
Ouse staff Saturday was "shaping missile : only -'as . an arms control
consensus that agrees with the argainuig chip' and has failed -to
existing arms control treaties, Phil--t,
The officials, who spoke on the
l said that although the issue was not But Administration officials dis-
counted the effect of.a conservative
pressure campaign, given what they
described as Reagan's strong- feel-
ing for McFarlane and the fact,that
Clark, one of Reagan's: closest
friends, had strongly recommended
him. The officials said Clark was
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;-Pressure by Conservatives Is
Said to Slow Final Decision
on Successor to Clark
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Spedai to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - President
33eagan and his advisers were de-
iscribed today as unable to make a final
election of a new national security ad-
viser as conservatives in the Adminis-
:xration sought assurances that the