SYNFUEL CHIEF BACKS PEAT PLAN WITH NOTED GOP INVESTORS

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THE WASHII`TGTON POST
22 Decer.ber 1982
Svnfuei Chief Backs Peak F am
an
With Noted GOP Investors
By Martha M. Hamilton
ua?htngwn PO tSLOT Writer
been abandoned because of low oil
chairman has endorsed federal back- , ...,
Trig for a 3576 million synfuels ra Ina report six months ago, the
p SFC staff concluded:
lest. despite a staff opinion that this "Commercial experience with, peat
_
kind of venture is economically "un- .resources would not, at this ' time, .-
promising" and would not add sig.' appear to add significantly too the
nificantl to the nation's energy ca- nation's capability to expand syn;
pabilit,y. thetic fuels production rapidly or to
The chairman., Edward Noble, is- a large scale in the future." The
sued a "letter of intent" yesterday staff's position on this point has not
approving !oar guarantees and price changed, officials said, although
supports of up to 5465 million for more recent staff analysis has point-
from -the
theproject, sponsored by peat ed tootenttial
id
e sa. Me+,-~.anol Associated. PMA intends
to produce methanol fuel from peat The project is expected to be in
stripped from swampy North Car- operation by December, 1985, at a
olina coastal land. Final approval by construction , cost of $576 million.
The SFC has agreed to provide a
the corraoratian board is required. _ __ ...
for several plants.
First Colony had been eliminated
from the first competition for goy,
ernmenc?,?unds and barely (by ,a 4-
to-4S--vote) was included .among the
Projects ,shat .the SFC chose to con-
sider An..its second solicitation for
proposals.
Jt, av very difficult call," said
SFf; member Robert A.G.
Monks. '.Monks initially opposed the
project but now supports it, saving it
has been improved. .
The project has drawn criticism
from North Carolina ?environmentaj.
ists and the Environmental Policy
Institute. a non-profit researckVgroup
that is a critic of the Synfuels Corp.
"I really believe that the c
orpora
-
The venture, known as the First toward the construction costs, with tion's selection of this project raises
Colony Farms project, is backed by the total amount of loan and price issues which hit to the heart of the
Some. prominent Republican invest- guarantees not to exceed $465 mil- most important debate of all-tile
ors, including CIA Director William hon.., Synthetic Fu-e s Corp.. itself," said
J. Casey and several former high- Tlie investors are expected to put 'Rick Young of EPI. "Who is it really
ranking Ford administration offi- up between $135 million and $172 benefitting and what will we get-for.
-
ciais, and is also expected, to benefit million. the money?" .
a powerful North Carolina landhold- The SFC also would guarantee a Critics also cite the potentially
er and former shipping magnate, minimum price for the methanol costly Price guarantees. Although the
Malcom McLean, whose land con- fuel produced at the plant, starting SFC would psarantee a minimum of
at. S1.05
rains the peat. p ?1.05 a gallon in 1963 prices. rising
per gallon in 1983 rides, a
Although the project has powerful
patrons. SFC officials said its attrac-
tion is in being one of a very few
synthetic fuels ventures reasonably
close to production. The SFC is re-
quired by law to see that a certain
amount of synthetic fuels are actu-
ally churned out, So far, the SFC has
not been able to fund a single pro- :'1'he staff has also concluded that
jest. and several of the biggest have Peat may be a valuable resource in
the Southeast, where there is enough
figure considerably higher than the
current price of methanol, which
ranges from slightly below 50 cents
to about,75?cents a gallon.
-Methanol is an alcohol that is re-
ceiving.only limited uses as a gaso-
line additive.and for petrochemical
and,plysvood production.
.The SFC says the prc jest will pro-
vide . valuable experience with meth-
arbl' ,conversion. that can be used
with cod} -as well' es peat, -It also says
,the,; project will -,provide important
izreari etiag experience with methanol,
'which may some day be a major
ansportation fuel;
a Percentage points above the in-
flation rate every year, methanol can
be bought on the Gulf Coast in bulk
quantities for under 50 cots a gal-
lon.
However, SFC strategic planner
James Harlan said methanol is likely
to be used increasingly as a gasoline
additive or substitute, which would
boost its price considerably.
"Any reasonable trajectory :.for
methanol prices will result in no
Price guarantees being expended by
the SPC," 'according to Robert V.
Fri, former chief of the Energy Re-
search and Development Adminis-
tration and one of the investors in
the Energy Transition Corp
(Etco)
.
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21 DECER 1982
A Loophole For The
Resolution Gives Only The Appearance Of Restraining Covert Acts
-1 Statement B. Ronald Brownstein
(If The Ralph Nader Organization
Historically, Congress has been extremely
reluctant to meddle in Central Intelligence
Agency affairs. Though the Church and Pike
committees in the mid-1970s exposed a panoply
of CIA improprieties and the 1976 Clark
Amendment prohibited aid to rebels in Angola,
Congress did not have the stomach for a lasting
diet of such confrontation.
No laws were ever passed to prohibit the
kinds of covert foreign
1 ~. activities uncovered by
i or the Church and Pike
O pV c attitude aboutCongress
covert
inion actions has been almost
o n
indistinguishable Srom
the view expressed by
CIA Director William
Casey in an interview earlier this year: "We
have the authorization to do them as authorized
by the president, we report them to Congress.
But (part from that I don't talk about them,
they don't exist."
For Congress at least, that posture has been
made increasingly difficult by the continuing
press stories of covert CIA activity against the
Sandinist government of Nicaragua. A trickle
of stories that began in March became'a torrent
in the past month, when a Newsweek cover
story, followed by other accounts, laid out the
scale of CIA assistance to former soldiers of
deposed dictator Anastasio Somoza and other
paramilitary forces harassing Nicaragua from
bases in Honduras.
These revelations have put Congress and the
American public in, an extraordinary position,
possessing detailed knowledge of covert CIA
activities against a foreign government while
they were occurring. But actions last week
indicate that even with such knowledge,
Congress is still reluctant to act.
When the first stories of the administration's
controversial $19 million plan to "destabilize"
the Sandinist government appeared in March,
Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md.), chairman of the
House Inter-American Affairs subcommittee,
introduced a resolution to bar U.S. covert
actions against Nicaragua. Barnes' measure
drew little support and did not advance.
In June, Sent Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) raised
the issue again, by seeking to delete S21 million
in funding the administration had sought for
upgrading two Honduran airfields that could be
used for strikes against Nicaragua. The
improvements would make the airfields
"accessible to U.S. aircraft limited airlift or for
up to a squadron of tactical fighter aircraft,"
said Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.); the
administration's floor manager on the bill. In
August, Democratic Rep. Tom Harkin of Iowa
offere
Ap I~
~Rty ~s1e~f@~defeaYc~(j'F g
l The November Newsweek story revived
interest and Harkin introduced a new
amendment Dec. 8 banning the use of any CIA
money to train or arm any paramilitary group
-carrying out military activities in or against
Nicaragua." Supporters of Harkin's resolution
maintained the CIA activities violated the
charters of the United Nations and the
Organization of American States and "may
lead to a violation of the spirit if not the letter of
the War Powers Act."
But Harkin, like Barnes before him, did not
have the votes. A few moments after the debate
began, Rep. Ed Boland (D-Mass.), chairman of
the House Intelligence Committee, offered a
more narrowly worded substitute amendment,
barring only aid to groups "for the purpose of
overthrowing the government of Nicaragua or
provoking a military exchange between
Nicaragua and Honduras." _
Boland's measure passed unanimously.
After months of benign neglect, the House had
apparently taken a bold step on what has been
called the CIA's "secret war."
Or had it?
In the Boland amendment there may be less
than meets the eye. One clue is the sponsor,
Boland, who voted against the attempt to
eliminate funding for the Honduran airfields
and as chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee has rarely challenged the CIA.
Another clue is that the administration did not
oppose the bill, freeing House Republicans to
vote for it.
Several House and Senate aides working on
the issue say the amendment will have virtually
no effect on CIA operations in Central America.
"In the amendment there is a loophole,"
acknowledges an aide who worked on Harkin's
proposed ban. "The line is hard to draw as to
what activity is one whose purpose is to
overthrow the government of Nicaragua. There
are many activities that are borderline ...
Since the Intelligence Committee is charged
with oversight in effect (the amendment's
impact depends on) how Mr. Boland would
regard various activities under review ..."
If the CIA says an operation is to interdict
arms shipments - not to overthrow the
government of Nicaragua - it can continue
under the language of the amendment,
maintains another Senate aide. Harkin's
amendment, by contrast, would have stopped
all paramilitary actions against Nicaragua.
The vote may impel the intelligence
committees to more vigorous oversight of the
CIA operation. But its major effect is sure to be
foreclosing any more restrictive House
legislation. In the Senate Chris Dodd (D-Conn.),
is seeking a more comprehensive prohibition,.
but that is plainly an uphill battle.
The House's action may turn out to be
al
nothing more than a jccollective~caongression
the
'-~ebff~i
Po ~o~lt " 9n I,thing but
rf9 '-
appearance, the House Last week did not violate
Congress' tradition of deference to the CIA.
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'"7' WASHINGTON TIMES
20 DECEMBER 1982
Through the keyhole:
A peek inside the CIA
By John Nassikas
SPECIA. TO THE WASH'NGTON TIMES
0 r. Aug. 7, 1981, I drove a
final time along Dolly
Madison Boulevard and
left behind two armed
guards and 10 weeks of work for
the Central Intelligence Agency.
As one of 40 interns in a summer
graduate-stu dies program spon-
sored by the CIA to assess poten-
tial full-time employees, I had a
chance to look inside the most
secret U.S. government agency.
Some things I can tell you; some
things, by law, I cannot.
I can tell you that at the end of
every workday all typewriter rib-
bons must be locked up or
destroyed. I can tell you how self-
important I felt the first time I
read a document stamped TOP
SECRET. And about the smile that
came across my face at the end of
-my first day when a secretary
came into my office and asked
L whether I had any "classified
trash"
I cannot tell you about my poly-
graph test. Or why a "syndrome
approximation test" was canceled
in the middle of a two-day period
of physical and psychological
examinations determining my fit-
ness for the job. I can, however, tell
you about the time the field man in
ci rge of my background inves-
tigation erroneously came to my
family ;s house in McLean, knocked
at the front door, and said:
"I'd like to know what you think
about your neighbor the Nassikas
boy."
"I think he's an exceptional
young man," my sister replied.
000
CIA. Everyone knows what -the
initials stand for; the rest they
imagine. I, for one, was not sure
what to expect when I first entered
the CIA compound. I shared the
common suspicion that a normal
person with normal problems did
not work there. I imagined that the
typical employee was coldly pro-
fessional, even emotion-
less, and led a life as charmed as
James Bond's.
I knew that there were taboos.
The CIA had warned me as a pro-
spective employee that, once I had
worked for the agency, I could
never join the Peace Corps. And I
knew that 1 could. not be a practic-
ing homosexual or become either
an alcoholic or drug addict and
expect to stay employed.
In the months before I applied to
the agency's graduate-studies pro-
gram, 1 heard rumor after crazy
rumor: CIA people could not
marry non-CIA people; CIA people
were ultraconservatives, fascists,
communists, closet radicals, you
name it. 1 was told that agency
employees were not permitted to
study at Cal-Berkeley or the Uni-
versity of Michigan or to travel as
tourists to the Soviet Union.
I was not surprised later to find
out these rumors were false. More-
over, when I fgwtdout that the CIA
hired people who drank alcohol, I
simply nodded my head. But the
'CIA actually hired people who had
smoked grass? Now that surprised
me. (Needless to say, habitual
users need not apply.)
? ? ?
The first time I turned off Dolly
Madison Boulevard onto the road
leading to the CIA, I felt as if I were
approaching Versailles. Flanking
the road for 300 yards, tall trees
stood like perfect sentries, and a
regiment of daffodils marched in
the shadow of the trees. At the
guardhouse gate I pressed my CIA
identification card against the
windshield and was allowed to
pass.
The card has no words on the
front, only a photo and a few letters
and numbers. From a distance, as
your car is rolling up, the guards
see the card and wave you -on. If
you don't have CIA idi`#jufidation,
you had better have a good reason
for wanting to drive past the gate.
"I'm lost" or "Isn't this the road to
Pizza Hut?" - favorites of local
teen-agers looking for excitement
on weekends - will not do. 1 know.
As a teen-ager I tried them myself.
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After parking my ca that first that would conduct "operations Rona eagan, with brief notes
day in one of the lots surrounding abroad" but would have "no police and signatures.
the headquarters building, I strode or law enforcement functions, The 499-seat auditorium is the
through two sets of doors into the either at home or abroad" The only architectural anomaly-in the
main lobby. Etched on the marble United States, in fact, is the only
facade of the wall.on my left was a country in the world with a headquarters compound. On the
biblical verse (John 8:32): "And ye bicameral intelligence system: the outside it resembles a geodesic
shall know the truth and the truth CIA is responsible for intelligence igloo with silver shingles. Inside it
shall make you free:' On the right abroad, the FBI for intelligence at resembles a planetarium, with
was a memorial, flanked by U.S. home. 'I'he F111, of course, also has large acoustical discs clinging to
and CIA flags, with this dedica- law enforcement functions. the vault. The one behind the
tion: "In honor of those members From 1947 until 1961 the `CIA podium used to be white, but when
of the Central Intelligence Agency operated out of 30 buildings in the President Jimmy Carter came to
who gave their lives in service of Washington area, including River- make a televised address, the net-
their country" Under the dedica- side Stadium, Arlington lower, works complained that the back-
side were 38 stars. Curry Hall, "The Garage:' 2210 E ground was too bland. So the disc
I got chills when I saw that 21 of St. and a headquarters complex at was painted presidential blue.
the stars had no names beside 2430 E St. ?' ?
them: 21 dead agents whose names y people have asked me how
- in the interest of protecting During the 1950s officials real- Man
"sources and methods," says the ized that the original charter for a many tennis courts there are at the
CIA - could never be revealed. central intelligence agency, "CCC" (Clandestine Country
"Your successes are unher- coordinating intelligence. to pre- Club). When I tell them none, they
alded, your failures are trum- vent a recurrence of Dec. 7, 1941, scoff and assume that 1 am hiding
peted:' said President John F. remained more a concept than a the truth. Early in the summer, I
Kennedy when presenting the reality. asked a CIA official where the
National Security Medal to Allen It was Allen Dulles who envi- tennis courts were. "Headquarters
Dulles, retiring CIA director, on sioned and oversaw the con- was built before the fitness boom;'
November 28, 1961. struction of the one-million- he said.
square-foot headquarters building The CIA does have an indoor
The art of intelligence has been on 219 acres of northern Virginia track, if that's what you call 83
practiced in the United States real estate that the CIA has occu- yards of basement corridor and a
since the revolutionary days of pied si.tce 1961. And it was Dulles rubber running surface the shape
George Washington. Ina letter to who told the New York architec- of a chopstick with curved ends.
l. Elias Dayton, his intelligence tural firm of Harrison & The track is less than three feet
Col
h on July ton. his Washington tce Abramowitz - which also de- wide (101 "laps" equal one mile).
c, . 1777,
wrote, "The necessity of procuring signed the United Nations building Nearby is a fitness room with a
good intelligence is apparent and - to projeci the atmosphere of a Universal weight set among its
need not be further urged" Wash- college campus. Agency employ- equipment. Unfortunately, the
ington, in fact, forced the surren- ees boast that there are enough Washington Color School never
made it to the basement.
der of Cornwallis at Yorktown in PhDs walking the halls of the CIA
1781 by deceiving the British into to found a major university. Until the directorship of George
assuming his major assault would The building has seven floors, a Bush, male and female CIA
be in New York, not Virginia. periodicals, nie library, with 1,700 employees vied for one locker
In this century, Pearl Harbor is pe periodicals, and a historian who room, with women not allowed to
what shocked the United States can tell you the first time the word use the facilities except during
into recognizing the need for a cmole" was used in an espionage working hours. This was
centrallycoordinated national context (1622, in Francis Bacon's inconvenient for the majority of
intelligence service. As one CIA "The Historic o1' the Raigne of the women, who, like the men,
King Ilenry the Seventh"). referred to exercise before or
office director observes in retro preferred
major corridors of the after work.
spect: "Information was available buildings form a quadrangle
but was so fragmented that there One day in 1976, Bush was jog-
was no individual or group of peo- around a courtyard of grass, ivy, grog, stopwatch in hand and his
dogwoods and magnolias. I never
ple responsible for drawing what was able to find out why no one was female executive assistant close
turned out to be a logical conclu- behind, when another woman
sion... " permitted to walk in the courtyard, approached to complain about the
Six months after the, Japanese' despite the swept serpentine paths arrangement. Within days the fit-
bombed Pearl Harbor, President of beige and white stones. ness room had coed hours before
A CIA fine-arts committee and and after work, with shower time
Franklin Roosevelt created the Vincent Melzac, former director divided fairly.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), of the Corcoran Art Gallery, are
to be headed by William "Wild' responsible for the loaned paint-
Bill" Donovan. After a successful ings that brighten agency corri- like a suburban version of Club
war effort, in which invaluable dors. The huge oil and acrylic Med. It is a lunchtime ritual to take
intelligence was collected by canvases by Alma Thomas, Nor- a stroll, clockwise, on the side-
agents (among whom included matt Bluhnt and Itoward Mehring, walks around the building. A few
present CIA Director William among others, represent the Wash- renegades always weave their way
Casey) who parachuted behind ington Color School, 'which counterclockwise. Some employ-
enemy lines, the OSS was dis- descended from the movement led ees jog. Some run across Route 123
banded in 1945. by Willem de Kooning and Jackson around the Potomac School
Donovan then drew up a pro- Pollock in New York during the grounds, and back - a distance of
posal for President Harry 11'uman 1950s. Along one corridor are oil about three miles. Others sun on
that eventually resulted in the portraits of' CIA directors. Along the many benches and simulated
0661b es scattered throughout
National SecurityAopro)Gedl9F6r Releasen2OQS /di4eiCkA4M 901R000400t' ?grounds.
which established a new agency presidents from Harry Truman to
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down Route 123 every day, often floor is a small executive dining
with trench coat and always with room for GS-16s and above. The
green army pack on his back. A director has private dining space
group of Maryland employees, for 10 next to his office.
tired of traveling the long route Bread and butter used to be
down and around Chain Bridge, served in the executive dining
have come up with an iconoclastic room, but nowadays there is only
commute. Every morning they an assortment of crackers in only
park their cars on the Maryland wicker basket on each cloth-
canoes, Potomac, step into covered table. According to lore, a
canoess, , paddle the river and climmb
the trail they have blazed to the past director thought phis super-
agency The pioneers face only one grades were getting fat.
modern obstacle - crossing the ? ?'
George Washington Parkway. (Ini- I have already mentioned the
tial plans to extend the Parkway to first time 1 got chills at the CIA.
Route 123 were amended to The second time occurred when I
include an extra mile providing a stood before the statue of rev-
back access to the CIA.) olutionary hero Nathan Hale out-
And then there are the softball side headquarters and read his last
fields up the road, at the beginning words. While trying to slip out of
of Georgetown Pike. Ever wonder New York, Hale waas captured by
where all those people come from the British and convicted as a spy.
every afternoon, and sometimes On Sept. 22, 1776, he stood on the
gallows and said: "I only regret
into the early night, with menacing that I have but one life to lose for
bats and balls but, you can bet, my country."
without their ID cards hanging
from their necks? Soviet agents My alma mater, Yale University,
who have defected, when asked has a similar sculpture of Hale -
how they recognized CIA employ- an early alumnus and during my
sec, have said, "They're so easy to four years there 1 often walked by spot; they're the ones with the his solitary figure. But I had never
chains around their necks" Thus taken the time to read the
the warning now at the exit of all inscription.
(This article has been reviewed
CIA buildings to remove badges. by the CIA to assist the author in
000 1 The CIA would not be able to eliminating classified information;
Project a collegiate atmosphere however, that review neither con-
without McLean, Va., and McLean material CIA outhentiftcation of
would not do the business it does material as factual nor implies
without the CIA. Forget about CIA endorsement of the author's
local residents Charles Robb, Pat- views,
rick Buchanan, Ethel Kennedy, The author is a second-year law
Teddy Kennedy, Elliot Richardson student at the University of Vir-
and Zbigniew Brzezinski; the CIA ginia Law School.)
is what makes McLean thrive.
Every weekday at lunchtime a
horde of CIA employees descends
on the restaurants of McLean for
temporary escape from the con-
fines of the agency as well as for
food. Thanks to the CIA, the
Mclean Family Restaurant, for
example, regularly does full-
house business. Other favorites
include George's, Kazan's, Evans
Farm Inn, and, for dessert, Baskin-
Robbins. Favorite watering holes
are O'Toole's and the Rough Rider
Lounge in the Ramada Inn.
Those who prefer to eat at the
CIA can have breakfast, lunch or
dinner at a number of dining facili-
ties run by Guest Services, Inc.
Because visitors are allowed to eat
at the North Cafeteria, undercover
employees use the larger South
Cafeteria, where a glass wall enab-
les them to keep an eye on the
outdoors. On a balcony in the South
Cafeteria is the Rendezvous Room,
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C 71! C7
MIDDLE LAST
Trying to Break the Impassee
,Rea an expresses frustratiion, but no one has new ideas
be sus, w-as rising over Washington
whet. promptly at 7 a.rri, last
Wednesdzs. Vice President George Bush
convenes 2 special hi.gb-level meeting in
the White House Siuiation Room. Na-
uona] Security Adviser William Clark
was there, along with CIA, Chief William
C. asev. TJ? lease -Creta ;pa TveiL
Bxrper and Special Envoy Philip Habib,
who had been hastily summoned home
from his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle
East. The purpose of the ga.tbering: to find
z -"ay to break the impasse in negotia-
tions to sec are the: 6Vitbdrawa] of Israeli.
Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation troops from Lebanon. The mock
was somber. "Everyone in the. Ad.uiinic-
tr~auor is angry," said a White House
aide. "Tae President himself is as angry as
everybody else over here."
If Reagan was losing patience, it was
bets,-- the failure to negotiate a with-
drawal of Loops from Lebanon was be-
corning a maior obstacle is the broader
Middle Fast peace initiative he proposed
on Sept. 1. According it, that plan, the Is-
raeb-occupied West Bank would be linked
i,: z loose confederation to Jordan. A)-
though the officials who met at the White
house last week agreed that the U.S.
sJ')ouio pu. addition) pressure or Israel to
get the stalled talks moving. they appar-
ently de cidexi on little more than what a se.-
tior diplomat described as renewed
U.S. pt>sr coupled with a very strong and
very sincere expression of presidential
frustrauort" Added the official: "There
are not really new ideas or proposal's""
The current impasse is in pan the re-
stilt of an Is:,aeli demand that Jerusalem
and Beirut be the sole venues for direct L-
a.eii-Lebanese talks. The Lebanese.. who
have aireacy mane concessions on several
procedural points., refuse to meet with the
Israelis in Jerusalem on the grounds that
to do so would be to recognize Jerusalem's
status as the capital of Israel, something
even the U.S. has not done. White House
officials seem increasingly convinced that
Israel is deliberately ;imposing impossible
conditions in order to prevent the talks
from beginning. This. in turn, would post-
pone consideration Of Reagan's broader
plan, which the government of Prime
Minister Menacbern Begin opposes. Any
delay in addressing Reagan's Sept. I plan
wound also enable Israel to pranced with
the expansion of .1ew h settlements on
the West hark, thereby gradually making
any form of Palestinian sovereifnty more
difficult to accept
The Administration was also angry
last week about a Senate: Appropriations
Subcomrnilice amendm ~yOF
.add 5.475 million to the pro T 3 bil r
lion in U.S. economic and military aid to
Larne) in 1983. Fearing that such an in-
crease in aid would signal that the U.S.
Was unable, or unwl?lin.g. to exercise any
pressure on Israel, the White House lob-
bied hard against the proposal, Israeli
Foreign ).riintst.e? Yitzhak Shamir said
last week that this White House action,
which be labeled an "unfi)end)v act,"
would be "detrimental to Mideast peace."
In response. Witte House Spokesman
Lary Speakes said that the A.dininistra-
tion was ..puzzled that Israel am call into
Question our good faith." He noted that
the Adininisuation aic request for Israel
alreadv represented an increase of 21%
more than the amount spent in 1982, and
that any further increase could come only
at the expense of other allies. "It was a
give Hu ein the necessa- mandate. Says
a sere. L.S. diplomat , The P.L.O. today
is findiat it incredibly .t-'cu1; In make
the simplest decisio>-"
I-n Israel, rricanwrji :login was still
concerneci with the corn: --i:sion of inquiry
Lnvestif:ation into the rn:.~.stcre of an esti-
rnatrc 900 Palestinian by Lebaraese
Christian militiamen _, two :refugee
camps in Beirut last Sepi-mbeI.. Although
Begin hac been warned he was "lia-
ble in be harmed" by commission's
finds. to declinec to xcrcise his right
to reappear before toe F rel. In a three-
page letter be argued tie had in his
appearance before the c,rnmissicin five
weeks agu, that Israel crrces in Beirut
"never imagined" tha be Lebanese
Christian force enter as the camps
.`would want to--or be hit io--perpe:.
tSZLe a massacre."
The urgency o' rem.:,ving foreign
forces horn Lebanon wa pointed up Iasi.
Reagan and Middle Last -'iegotiator Philip Habib exerfer at the %Wte Har
e
Trig President hinuelfi.s as angry
ac everybody else over here.
I J
etreful}v arrived at figtu.e. and we think it week whet Israeli and l etaanese troops
should be no more, no less." he said. clashed directly for the ---mi time sins
Asked if the Administration sought to Isr.-el's invasion in Jut . One Israeli
send the Israeli government a political or was wounded, and two Li nanese soldiers
an economic message, Speaker said` were killed Meanwhile. v oarnee between
"Both." lndexx1 the idea of putting some Druze fighters and Chris an militiamen
sort of economic pressure on Israel is continued in the hilly C ho.,t region tioutb-
gcin~ ink ground in Washington. Said a east of Beirut Lebanese officials con.
White House aide: "Ab&olutely do not dis- plainexi that the Israeli fo xs in the area
count the threat of an aid cutoff.'" were preventing the Labs Ar,e army it=
moving in to defuse the sit aaiion
mr be U.S. is not rtservuig all its anger ' - With King Hussein d ,r in Washing-
! for Israel. Officials in Washington are ton next week to discuss x cagan's everts
becoming increasingly disappointed by initiative directly with h,_-:: for the first
the P.L.O.'s inability to find a way to join time, it has become all the none mgemt .for
the Middle Bast peace process. Washing- the U.S. to persuade the Brach gcrverv-
ton hope that the P.L.O., which %-v-as not meni to begin negotiatint a withdrawal
invited to participate in the talks pro- from Lebanon. As a senio' c plornat said:
posed by Ream, 'will ask Jordan's }Ung "Even the nest s a'.e got only a
R IL t20 1 C 1~6~9etRDP93sD096rF~40Q, ?1;~Ar of e is getting
titan in any negotiations. Torn between n- shorter by tine day. _...E . s...a C M .
val factions within the P.L.O., Chairman Aepwrtrd b> D O U S U S s b?,... ,,,,,,,,,4-no, a
Ya_SSer Arafat has So far been atnahae to
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U. S. NEWS & WORLD RE
20; DECEMBER 1982
Interview With Vice Adm. Bobby R. Inman, Former Deput
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
"Still Suffering From Scars"
It has taken a severe buffeting in recent
years, but the nation's intelligence community
now is bouncing back, says a top authority
In this size-up of the Central Intelligence
Agency's strengths and weaknesses.
Q Admiral Inman, the American Intelligence community Is
emerging from a decade of turbulence-scandals, investigations'
and other embarrassments. Just how does It stand today?
A We have not yet recovered from all the buffeting of
the last 10 years. We are still suffering from the scars.
If one only had to worry about the central front of Eu-
rope and the danger of massive hordes of Soviet troops
crossing that line, then our intelligence is good. Not just
good-superb. But if you believe, as I do, that the next
decade will be dominated by competition for raw materials,
markets and influence in unstable Third World nations, our
capabilities are very marginal at best.
Q What do you now see as major strengths and weaknesses
of the intelligence community?
A We're at our best in picking up warnings about a
major use of Soviet force outside their borders. We under-
stand Russia's military establishment. We can count what
they have, understand how they operate it, how they train,
how they use it. That, essentially, is the good news.
Q And the bad news?
A When you turn to the rest of the world, we are very
restricted. We're reasonably good in parts of the world
where there's been conflict for a number of years-the
Middle East, Korea. But when you move away from there,
to our allies or neutral countries, our knowledge is very
thin-at times pathetically thin.
Q What specific example of this weakness can you cite?
A If we had known in more detail the economic situa-
tion confronting our allies, the government might have
handled the Siberian-natural-gas-pipeline problem some-
what differently. The intelligence community did not
know enough, or speak strongly enough, about the econo-
mies of France, Germany, Britain, which were going to
dictate their reactions. You've got to get detailed informa-
tion in front of policymakers before a decision is made.
Trying to block the pipeline was a sound idea but
one that should have been pushed three years ago-
before contracts were signed, equipment produced
and ships ready to sail. We did not have the in-depth
knowledge to prompt smart decisions.
Q What is the administration doing to remedy prob-
lems at the Central intelligence Agency?
A When the new administration came to office in
Vice Admiral Inman, 51, resigned from
the CIA in June. Before holding that
post, he directeru~l~a
Agency. During i areer he also ea
Y
ed naval intelligence and was vice direc-
tor of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
was that he didn't see
these things and that it
The investment rang
tine human intelligenc
various technical appro
in the technical-espiona
failure, we won't-suddenly lose all capability.
We are emphasizing analysis of information more than
collection of it. You can collect all that you want, but,
ultimately, it's the number and quality of analysts in CIA
and the other agencies that are going to make the differ-,
ence in whether you really can provide high-quality, fin-
ished intelligence to leaders.
This rebuilding cycle is going to take a long time, simply
because you do not have skilled analysts waiting out there
to be hired. They must have great in-depth knowledge on
countries all over the world, with language abilities to read
the local press. You have to develop that kind of talent, and
it takes years.
Q Are you concerned about charges that the Reagan admin-
istration Is drawing the CIA too deeply Into what are essentially
political matters?
A I think we have to run the risk of politicization to
make certain that the intelligence being produced is rele-
vant to the critical issues we face. If you leave it to its own
devices, the intelligence community will write scholarly
tomes that can fill your walls. The political leader has to be
pretty critical of what he reads; otherwise, CIA reports will
become longer, more abstract, more academic and thus
have little value.
So I'll run the risk of having a very close dialogue be-
tween the decision maker and the one who is going to
produce intelligence. You have to have faith that the CIA's
professionals are strong enough to make straight calls.
Q Some say that CIA Director William Casey is practicing an-
other form of politicization-pressuring analysts to tailor reports
to support positions already taken by political leaders-
A I've seen the charge, and it's just false. I never once saw
any effort to force the analysts to go back and redo their
analysis to fit some view picked up somewhere else. Bill Ca-
sey is a man of strong views, and on any given day he may
well arrive at the office with a strong view on an issue from
having read something the night before. He will
ask: "Is this right, or is it not right?" If the report
comes back saying, "That's not right; here are the
actual facts," his view changes.
Q What do you think of assassination, overthrow-
ing foreign leaders or milder forms of covert action?
A The CIA performs three functions: Foreign
intelligence-espionage in other na-
tions; counterintelligence-blocking
some other nation's espionage effort,
and covert action. I have no difficulty:
with the first two functions. But the po
1 Rd WCy Wfj.rert action is greatly
overemphasized and problems tend to
be neglected. I am not an enthusiast.
Cl. What are your objections to the use
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20 December 1982
CENTRAL AMERICA
Congress and the CLA:
Reinin~.g In a Secret War
After the Reacan administration author-
ized its major covert operation in Central
America last year, Congress was told that
the only objective was to cut the arms trail
from Nicaragua through Honduras to reb-
els in El Salvador. Now congressional
sources say the CIA is no longer denying
reports that the operation evolved into a
campaign designed to harass and destabi-
lize Nicaragua's Sandinistas (NEwSWEEK,
Nov . 8). Last week the House of Represent-
atives signaled its intent to tighten the
CIA's reins. By a vote of 411-0, the House
adjusted an appropriations bill with an
amendment barring the CIA and Pentagon
from spending funds "for the purpose of
overthrowing the government of Nicaragua
or provoking a military exchange between
Nicaragua and Honduras." And the House
Intelligence Committee summoned CIA di-
rector William Casey to a secret hearing this
week to explain the agency's operation in
Central America.
The House amendment was a watered-
down alternative to a tougher version pro-
hibiting use of the money for any military
activities in Nicaragua. The compromise
language did not endanger the CIA's fund-
ing for approved operations. But its warn-
ing could not be ignored. Some Intelligence
Committee members suspect that in the
past the CIA has offered less than candid
briefings on its aims in Honduras. Casey
will face a House committee heavily loaded
with congressmen who oppose on principle
any covert attempt to overthrow standing
governments. Their mood suggests that the
agency will have to make its case for covert
action more explicitly-and to keep secret
wars under closer control.
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Covert CIA. Plo
By PHILIP TAUBMAN
WASHINGTON -- In the 1950's and 1960's, the Central
Intelligence Agency, had license to do pretty much what It
pleased. Generally, the White House didn't want to know
the details of the agency's covert paramilitary and politi-
cal action operations, the better to preserve the Presi-
dent's "deniability"; Congress didn't really care; and
rigorous secrecy kept the public in the dark.
Lately, after news accounts of the agency's wide.
ranging operations in Central America, senior intelli-
gence officials in the Reagan Administration have prob-
ably looked back at those earlier times with some envy.
William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence,
and his aides have been reminded that for a variety of rea-
scros this is an era of limits for covert operations. Mr.
Casey, a veteran of Allied intelligence operations during
World War II, took office determined to increase the use
of such activities.
Mr. Casey and other national security officials in the
Administration felt that the United States, by not mount-
ing more paramilitary and political action operations,
was missing a chance to further its interests in regions
where conventional diplomacy wasn't successful and the
Adm. Bobby R. lnman,
Mr. Casey's top deputy until he
quit earlier this year, partly
over differences about policy,
was struck by the doubts in the
18 months he helped run the
C.I.A. "Concern about the ex-
tent of covert operations is
found in substantial depth
among intelligence profession-
als, " he said in an interview
earlier this year "They are
overwhelmingly concerned
about the quality of this comi.
try's foreign intelligence, and
they worry that secret opera.
lions, especially when they are
exposed and criticized, impact
adversely on the more impor-
tant job of foreigrs intelligence
collection and analysis."
Debate about undertaking
the Central American opera-
tion was intense within theaa-
C:.:"A iv,-il_,-D
open.use of military force was unacceptable.
The Administration chose Central America to test the
approach. A year ago, according to national security offi.
cials, President Reagan approved plans to develop and
51
Wort at least one paramilitary force in the region that
would be used to interdict the flow of aims to guerrillas in
El Salvador. The C.I.A. reported that Cuba and the Soviet _
Union, with assistance from Nicaragua, were providing
weapons and ammunition to Salvadoran Insurgents. The
plan also called for identifying and helping Nicaraguan
political leaders who could galvanize opposition to the
leftist Sandinist Government in Managua.
Doubters Within the Agency
But Casey and Co. Perhaps did not anticipate the en-
trenched resistance to secret operations that developed in
Congress and even in the agency's own bureaucracy fol-
lowing the disclosure In the mid-1970's of past intelligence
abuses, most of which involved activities. such as assassi-
nation plots and attempts to overthrow foreign govern.
ments. Within the agency, a whole generation of young of-
ficials moved into senior posts convinced that covert
operations, no matter how sound and necessary they
might seem, should be used sparingly tv protect the
agency from further embarrassment.
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By NILES LAT'HEM
VVAS} NGTON - CIA
Director William Casey
is on the slicis and is
expected to be the first
casualty of a reshuffle
of Cabinet members
and aides by ]'resident
Reagan,'lie Post
learned last night..
k'hite House and in.
telligence officials
claim no formal deci.
sion has been made on
any staff and cabinet
changes.
But they note that
the 7&yea- old Long Is-
land lawyer has lost
the confidence of Rea.
gan and the all-impor?
tart "old boy network" I
of intelligence profes
sionals.
Among the reasons
for Casey's impending
departure, say the
sources, are:
? 'Incompetent" han.
filing of intelligence in.
formation by agency
- officials.
? The apparent way
the CIA's covert war
against Nicaragua has
gotten "out of eontroL"
What originally was
supposed to be a police
action to stop the flow
of arms from Nicara-
gua to guerrillas in, Ed
Salvador through Hon.
duras is now on the
verge of starting a full-
scale war, say sources,
and has enraged Secre-
tary of State George
Shultz.
? Casey never recov-
ered from the Senate
Intelligence Commit-
tee's probe of his busi-
ness practices and his
appointment of Max
Hugel, a _ man with a
questionable business
past, as director of cov-
ert operations.
? The political fall-
out from Casey's de-
mands for a CIA role in
domestic spying in his
presentation of the ad-
ministration's intelli-
gence charter to Con-
^WockNed
CL4 DIrecf+a Makarn Case r nay Pnt
victitnt of President Reo9on's res ff
Casey, known as a has been chose., so far,
political operative more white House officals
than as an intelligence said.
specialist, is an out-
sider in the Reagan cir-
cle who joined the cam-
Ahgn in 1950, replacing
Reagan's chatrmaa
John Sears. The CIA
,Job was a political re-
ward.
Nomrooeasor to Casey
But the opening would
give Reagan an oppor-
tunity to put. an end to
the war betwo his top
advlsCrs, thief of staff
James Baker and
counselor -llydvtz Meese.
Baker is krxwn to covet
the top Mkjotx
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Nicaraguans
warn Honduras
on aid to rebels
By Oswaldo Bonilla
LMwed Free -nre.nalfonW
MANAGUA. Nicaragua -- Nicara-
gua yesterday accused Honduras of
aiding rightist commandos staging
attacks acrossti;the border and
warned that a "more open conflict"
could erupt between the two.;coun-
A Foreign Ministry statement*sent
to Hondura6 and broadcast by radio
stations here said "many wounded
counterrevolutionaries" were being
treated in Honduran hospitals..-.,
"We only can call it open complic-
ity by Honduran military and-civil-
ian authorities in the border zone,"
the statement said.
"They threaten to unleash a more.
open conflict, with consequences
tliiat cannot continue to be ignored:".
.The statement, signed by Foreign
-Minister Miguel d'Escoto and sent to
Edgardo Paz Barnica. Honduras' for-
eign relations minister. said rightists
had been retreating into Honduras
after staging attacks on Nicaragua,
which is ru)ed.by a leftist junta.
"They regroup their forces Iin Hon-
duras) and prepare to launch new.,
aggressions, with neither the Hondii
ran military nor authorities of your
illustrious government taking any
steps to control and limit these crim-
inals." the statement said.
The statement said there had been
seven attacks recently by the right-
ists, the latest staged Monday ,near
the Nicaraguan border -hamlets--of
Cerro Nubarrones and Cerro de Je-
sus, both about 115 miles north of
Managua.
-The -statement= said the rightists
suffered at least 26 casualties, while
seven Nicaraguan soldiers were
kdlled. and 11 wounded in the two
attacks.
Michael Ratner, director of 'the
left-leaning US. National Lawyers-..
Guild, said during a news conference
here Tuesday that his 7.000-member
group -had filed a suit on behalf of
Nicaraguans wounded in attacks al-
legedly backed by the United States.
Ratner, on a fact-finding mission to
Nicaragua. said ?the suit was filed
against President Reagan, CIA Pirec- /,
torr William Casey,, U.S. Ambassador
to Honduras John Negroponte .and
several other officials in Washing-
ton.
He said the suit, filed in federal
district court in Washington, called
for the United States to pay damages
to Nicaraguans wounded by the
rightists.
'Nicaragua has accused the .United
States of funding the rightist guerril-
las who operate out of camps in Hon-
duras.
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Cii
16 DECEMBER 19
as
Congress Doesn't meant to
K' h
Our I)irtv. Little mar in Public
Last week, Rep. Edward P. Boland (D-
Mass.), chairman of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence., promised
to give the "dirty little war" in Nicaragua
his personal attention.
"I can say that the committee certainly
does understand its obligations to rein in
activities which can get out of control or
which could threaten to involve this nation
or its allies in a war," he told his colleagues.
That was enough for the House. It
passed by 411 to 0 a Boland amendment
that prohibits the CIA or the Defense De-
partment from using taxpayers' money "for
the purpose of overthrowing the govern-
ment of Nicaragua or provoking a military
exchange between Nicaragua and Hondu-
ras."
But it is a year since The Washington
Post disclosed a $19 million administration
plan to subvert the Marxist government of
Nicaragua. In all that time, Reagan offi-
cials, including the president, never have
denied the plan or its purpose and have
kissed off all queries about it.
If the House Permanent Select Commit-
tee on Intelligence was exercising its watch-.
dog function, we have no evidence of it.
Under the "reform" of the intelligence over-
sight system on Capitol Hill, the CIA re-
ports only to two select committees, whose
members promise not to tell anyone what
they have discovered about covert opera-
tions. They can't even say that CIA Direc-
tor William J. Casey went before them to
testify on Nicaragua the other day.
It was for that reason that Rep. Tom
Harkin (D-Iowa), a liberal leader in the
House, introduced an amendment that for-
bade the CIA and Defense from carrying
out any "military activities in or against
Nicaragua."
. Unlike the Boland amendment:, which
only prohibited the overthrow of the
Nicaraguan government, not all military
activities, Harkin's amendment had little
support. It's dicey to be seen as defending a
communist regime, even against illegal U.S.:
activity.
What we are doing in and to Nicaragua
we learn from the press.
Newsweek had a cover story called
"America's Secret War," in which our am-
bassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, is
depicted as the generalissimo of the coun-
terrevolution that keeps the government of
neighboring Nicaragua in a constant state,
of nerves and military alertness. Negro-
ponte, according to Newsweek, deals direct-
ly with the commander of Honduras'
armed forces, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez.
The CIA, says Time magazine, now has
200 agents in Honduras organizing follow-
ers of Nicaragua's despised former dictator,
Anastasio Somoza, for border raids, bridge
bombings, kidnapings, village burnings and
other exercises that the Reagan adminis-
tration condemns when other countries en
gage in them.
Supposedly the Boland amendment was
acceptable because it protects the CIA's,
cover story, which is that its goal is to in-
terdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to
the rebels of El Salvador. That requires
"military activity." If Boland's intelligence committee in the
past year tried to "rein in" the operation, it
has failed. The press reports stepped-uv
violence in the area. Did Boland ever won-
information-and doubts--with their col-
leagues. If they succeed in shutting down
the dirty little war, we won't even know
that
der if the situation was getting out of con-
trol-something he now promises is his
committee will not permit-to happen?
We don't know. He and his fellow com-
mittee members break their own rules if
they tell. They are sworn to secrecy about
the secrets they hear. They cannot share
The Somocistas boast to reporters of
their imminent invasion of Nicaragua, and
the bloodbath that will follow. Does the
House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence ask the CIA about things like
that?
Possibly, we will learn something about
what is going on in court. Seven Ni-
caraguans who claim to be victims of U.S.
policy have brought suit against the Rea-
gan administration. Among them is Dr.
Myrna Cunningham, a half-Indian Ni-
caraguan health official who says she was
kidnaped and raped a year ago by Miskito
Indians, trained as counterrevolutionaries
by U.S.-backed Somocista guardsmen.
Three British members of -Parliament,
who recently concluded a tour of Central
America, came through Washington this
week to tell the administration as "candid
friends" what a mistake it is to write off the
government in Nicaragua, which despite its
flaws is addressing the concerns of the
people.
When they called on J. William Midden-
dorf II, the U.S. representative to the Or-
ganization of American States, Stanley
Clinton-Davis, a Labor MP, asked him di-
rectly if U.S. policy is to overthrow the Ni-
caraguan regime. Middendorf replied, ac-
cording to the Englishmen, that "person-
ally" he would be delighted to see it hap-
pen-although, he added, it is not govern-
ment policy. Middendorf, through a press
aide, denies the statement.
Most people think that overthrow is the
Reagan policy. With a stonewalling admin-
istratagn and a gagged oversight committee,
it's hard to find out-and even harder to
McGrory
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Is US fighting a secret war in southern
SAMMY ADELMAN
continent, and there is much evi-: week before the attack on Lesothc,
On the night of Dec. 9, South Af= dente tosupport such zlaitnts: e ~- .especially when there appears to be
-r ican commandos entered Maseru. - Apart from its illegal occupation an identity of interests between
-the capital of Lesotho, and killed 42 of Namibia and much of southern Washington and Pretoria in a
-people. Most of these alleged Angola. South Africa has launched number of areas, such as the link-
"terrorists " .'were in bed at the attacks against Mozambique _and ' In of the withdrawal of "Cuban
time. = Zimbabwe. It has carried out g
troops from Angola (there to defend
The Lesotho government, in bombings and assassinations - frc against trust -such attacks as oc-
condemning this violation of its Swaziland. Mozambique, Botswa-
curred last week) with Namibian
sovereignty. pointed out that all na and Zimbabwe, and 'its agents Independence, and a common art--
those killed - including women and have bombed and burgled ANC and tulle toward a perceived Soviet
--hildren - were refugees from SWAPO offices around the-world.-., : threat in the area.
apartheid. Mozambique and Lesotho have The fact that both countries are
The attack on Lesotho was the claimed -that rebel groups aimed at- so keen on creating a "cordon sang-
latest in a long line of what South overthrowing - their governments taire ar and South.Africa is an
Africa calls "pre-emptive strikes" are :being- based and trained In -indication of the -growing threat
against states harboring guerrillas South Africa. Indeed, on the night the ANC presents to both white r n'-
from the outlawed African Nation- the South Africans 'attacked nority and American interests i-n
al Congress (ANC), South Africa's Lesotho, rebels blew up an oil refin- the region.
:major national liberation organiza- erg' in Beira which supplies Harold Macmillan's "winds of
xion. Mozambique, Zimbabwe and - change" have finally blown to the
Black states in the region claim. Malay __the Reagan tip of Africa, vet after the
n er an Admiriistra-
tion. with Its policy of "construc likes of Somata in Nicaragua and
Sammy Adelman. a South Afri- the shah in Iran. America seems
can - student who was banned tive engagement" toward Pretoria.. not to have learned that continued
from that count is now stud ~- there. has been a dramatic increase.
~' b in support for the white minority support for unjust and repressive
ino at Harvard Law Scirtregimes is ultimately inimical to its
regime: Besides supporting South own Interests.
Africa in the United Nations and With President Reagan having
the international Monetary Fund, stated that the United States will
the Reagan Administration has not abandon "a country that has
sought ways of circumventing em- stood beside us in every war we
bargoes against the export or mill- ever fought," his Administration
tarn and nuclear hardware and rapidly seems to be embroiling
technology: high-level military sin'- America in yet another unjust, nr-
t.acts have been reestablished after win situation. Indeed. US support
the cool relationship that existed for the supposedI' reformist gov-
under the Carter Administration, for th t of Prime Minister P.W.
and William Casey, director of the Botha has served as a signal to the
CIA, recently held talks in Pretoria. effect that internal repression. in
Recalling that South Africa in- the interests of "stability' , wilt be
waded Angola in 1976 at the behest tolerated - and the Increase in the
of the United States. and that nu- number of bannings and deten-
merous allegations have been made . tions without trial substantiates
concerning possible US and
however, that South Africa is iri such as that by South Africa's for
abortive coup attempt..launche Ultimately, the only solution-IV-to
from, South Africa against-the Sey-? the problems of South Africa ;are
chelles, it Is justifiable to ask political-solutions, involving facing
whether the United States essay not. up to the central question of major-
be fighting a "secret war" in south- Ity rule =in a unitary'state. By..us
ern Africa as well as in Central support for.white South Africa. the
America. - -United States, ever prepared, to
There can be little doubt that preach human rights to totaliti,-i-
South Africa's destabilization of an (but not, according to Jeane.
southern -Africa is taking place Kirkpatrick, "authoritarian")
N g imes,lis faewtati the mostro-
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AMI HERALD (FL)
11 December 1982
Casey's CIA
At It Again
By SANDY GRADY
Knipht?Ridder7iewangpcrz Writer
WILLIAM CASEY is a spy out
of the good old days, when
agents were parachuted be-
hind enemy lines or rowed ashore
at night on rocky coasts.
Never mind that Casey's World
War 11 daring was mostly confined
to a desk: .; '
Or that, too often, the agents
were caught on the spot
What worries experts in and out
of Congress is that Casey's nostal-
gia for those free-wheeling days is
rapidly getting the Central Intelli-
gence Agency into trouble in Cen-
tral America.
"Nobody really knows what
Casey is doing in Nicaragua." said a
man close to the Senate Intelligence
Cor..mittee. "But there is fear that
he's got the agency out of control."
YOU can't blame the senators for
lacking full-blown confidence in
Casey.
At 69, he is a brusque. arrogant
man with dewlap jowls. thick glass-
es, and it gravelly voice in which he
mumbles.
One Cabinet officer joked that
the CIA wouldn't need code for
Casey because "even we can't
understand him"
Except for a couple of honorary
Presidential commissions, Casey
hadn't been mixed up in real spook-
cry bbr 35 years. He'd made a for-
tune as a New York tax lawyer,
writing such profitable books as
How to Build and Preserve Execu-
tive Wealth.
There was only one solid reason
to make Casey the head of the CIA
.-+- a reward for being Ronald Rea-
gan's 1980 campaign manager. One
Republican close to Reagan's ap-
pointive process said. "It's a job
that will keep Casey out of sight."
NOT true. Casey stumbled onto
the front pages by naming Max
Hugel, a brassy politician, as his No.
2 man at the agency. Hugel quilt.
But his old, questionable business
Then in April, Adm. Bobby
Inman resigned as Casey's deeputy.
Inman was the most respected pro
is U.S. intelligence. There is suspi.
cion that he was the governor who
kept Casey from going on any wild
CIA joyrides.
Now Casey is on the verge of hit-
ting the headlines again, and riot in
a fashion that will make Reagan
happy.
Casey's new notoriety springs
from his covert operations in Cen-
tral America. which Casey has ex-
panded into the most full-blouwr
U.S. paramilitary action since tn.
early days of Vietnam.
The plot was hatched a year ago
by Casey, then Secretary of State
Alexander Haig, and Haig's assist-
ant Tom Enders, who had won his
spurs in 1970 as tht: deputy chief in
Phnom Penh coordinating,the secret
bombing of Cambodia.
Reagan reportedly signed on to
the Central American caper last De.
cember.
Ostensibly. the