REAGAN'S TOPIC: CUBA AND NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100670007-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 25, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM N i g h t w a t c h
April 25, 1983 2:30 A.M.
STATION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
Reagan's Topic: Cuba and Nicaragua
MARY JO WEST: Central America will be the topic when
the President makes a rare speech before a joint session of
Congress on Wednesday. He thinks Cuba and Nicaragua threaten the
stability of the region.
Congressman Clarence Long flew to El Salvador on Sunday.
His subcommittee votes Tuesday on a Reagan request for more
military aid for that country.
Five other congressmen are in Honduras today, guests of
Charles Gomez reports.
CHARLES GOMEZ: The congressmen arrived in Tegucigalpa
on their CIA-orchestrated tour and were taken to an off-limits
military section of the airport, far away from the American
press. The purpose of the tour is to bring some members of the
House Intelligence Committee to Honduras to convince them that
CIA involvement with counterrevolutionaries falls within con-
gressionally-approved guidelines and is not in violation of U.S.
law.
The congressmen were whisked to the U.S. Ambassador's
residence for private briefings with CIA and Honduran officials,
but were not taken to the border, as previously planned, where
they were to have been shown the scope of CIA involvement with
the counterrevolutionaries.
Under U.S. law, the CIA is allowed to help the counter-
revolutionaries if the sole purpose is to stop the flow of arms
from Nicaragua to the leftist rebels in El Salvador. But the CIA
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has been charged with changing its role from token assistance to
daily direction of the counterrevolutionaries, who say they are
fighting to topple Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. The CIA is
forbidden from using government funds to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government.
The CIA is asking Congress for an additional $20 million
to continue its operation here into 1984.
The House Intelligence Committee's concern about the
CIA's covert activities here is prompting some congressmen to
call for proposals which would reduce or cut off funding for the
CIA's operation with the counterrevolutionaries altogether.
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