HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100370006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 23, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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House Intelligence Committee Study
MORTON DEAN: The House Intelligence Committee has
released a staff report that is critical of U. S. intelligence
agencies.
Robert Pierpoint has the story.
ROBERT PIERPOINT: The report points out that when
former Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged last March that
the civil war in El Salvador was controlled by non-Salvadorans,
the intelligence community gave the committee no facts to back up
that charge. Instead, the report says, during an extensive
closed committee briefing by intelligence experts, the CIA was
only able to confirm that the El Salvador guerrillas used sites
in Nicaragua for certain logistical operations and were supported
by Nicaragua and Cuba.
The briefing, which was designed in part to reinforce
Haig's charge, did not even address the issue of the extent of
control by non-Salvadorans, a point which the report explains
remains subject to differing interpretations.
The report strongly implies that some analysis by
intelligence experts on Central America was slanted to fit policy
rather than the facts. The committee, while praising the U. S.
intelligence community for overall competence, expresses concern
that the faults it did find, quote, "may signal an environment in
which decisions occur is under pressure to reinforce policy or to
oppose it rather than to inform it."
Robert Pierpoint, CBS News, Washington.
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