LETTER TO NEWT GINGRICH FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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Charles A. Briggs, Director
STAT Office of Legislative Liaison
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COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
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Attached for your
signature is our response to
1?p. Gingrich regarding his
invitation for the Agency to
s_.- contribute to the Soviet
behavior program around the
l world.
Charles A. Briggs
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
House of Representatives
Washington, O.C. 20515
Dear Newt:
Thank you for your recent letter inviting the Central Intelligence
Agency to contribute to your program on Soviet behavior around the
world. While I am very much in favor of such efforts and support your
endeavors, it is not possible for the Agency to participate nor
contribute directly as you requested in your letter. The bulk of our
reporting is classified and cannot be provided for such use. The State
Department is the appropriate agency to provide the information you
desire.
Good luck in your efforts. I look forward to seeing the results of
your work.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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Central IntelIgencc Ager&N
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
OLL 85-2756/1
Thank you for your recent letter inviting the Central
Intelligence Agency to contribute to your program on Soviet
behavior around the world. While I am very much in favor of
such efforts and support your endeavors, it is not possible
for the Agency to participate nor contribute directly as you
requested in your letter. The bulk of our reporting is
classified and cannot be provided for such use. The State
Department is the appropriate agency to provide the information
you desire.
Good luck in your efforts. I look forward to seeing the
results of your work.
Sincerely,
John N. McMahon
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
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SUBJECT:
1. On the Congressman's request in para
1 of the 13 Sept letter, Chuck Briggs will
have to raise this with the DCI for clarifi-
cation as to what Gingrich means.
2. The response to Gingrich's letter on
info re Afghanistan looks alright with me.
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September 13, 1985
William J. Casey
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Bill,
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Thank you again for breakfast.
In addition to Afghanistan, I want to pursue the general
issue of how we educate Members of Congress and the news media
about the Soviet war against freedom. There is currently no
place that links together activities during the week in such a
way that they form a coherent pattern. The result is that
Members read the New York Times and Washington Post stories
about isolated incidents such as the KGB expulsion from Great
Britain or the most recent major battle in Afghanistan, but
there's no sense that it all fits together.
Nor is there any systematic way to currently link all of
this back to Leninist training, the writings of Lenin and the
basic intellectual patterns of Soviet military/diplomatic/
political behavior.
I've begun doing a series of special orders on Thursday
afternoons on the House floor in which I try to knit together
Soviet behavior. I'm enclosing a copy of my latest special
order.
We've been getting some help from the State Department in
dveloping materials and our hope is eventually to have an
8:00a.m. Thursday meeting for Members only in which the
executive branch on a de-classified basis tells us what happened
the preceeding week and what it means in terms of the Soviet war
against freedom and Soviet doctrine.
However, as an interim step, I'm trying to pull together
de-classified information that would normally be available to
the State Department, CIA or the Defense Department public
affairs offices to simply link together various events around
the planet and tie them back into historical lessons. Is there
someone in your public affairs who could work with us on simply
delivering late on Wednesday de-classified information that they
think ought to be linked together to explain the war against
freedom?
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If there is, please have them contact Anne Olsson in my
office and I'd like to meet with them.
Thank you.
NG/ao
Enclosure
Newt Gingrich
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H 7460 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE September 12, 1985
Vietnamese Embassy. The Vietnamese swaddled In red tape and subject to ^ 1715
Embassy in Ottawa closed in 1981. surcharges, taxes, and theft. THE LESSONS OF GRENADA
A Toronto company, Transsaigon Mr. Speaker. I hope all Members of
Co.-owned by a member of the Union this body will take the time to under- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
General-ships parcels to Vietnam stand the seriousness of the Issue dis- a previous order of the House, the gen-
through laser express. The company cussed this evening. I am not necessar- tleman from Georgia IMr. GINGRICal
has satellites in Edmunton, Windsor, ily certain that my legislation is in is recognized for 60 minutes,
and other parts of Canada. The owner fact the appropriate response to the Mr. GINGRICH. Dlr. Speak 'r. to-
denies that he deals with the Vietnam- problem which I have outlined. There night I am going to renew I alking
ese Government. is still plenty of doubt in my mind about the real news sand what : r haP-
The Federal Department of Employ- about the extent and nature of the peeing around the world- Th con-
cerns we hall' to face with the war
ment and Immigration, 4 months ago, problem.
gave the Union Generale a 5-month p I do believe, however, that if some of against freedom being waged by the
$20,000 grant. Soviet Union and Its Communist sales.
The Department of External Affairs these truly alarming stories have any I want to focus on tam msijor areas
and the Quebec Order of Pharmacists ring of truth, they represent a viola- one Is the ocus ohev P a of-
activists both unaware of the companies' tion of human rights that go beyond On to set re
In In attempt the stage of-
activists and activities until contacted the standards of decent behavior on a fen Is Gerdy trying
ereste an
by the Hamilton Spectator. very broad scale. I urge all my col- Cleneva. It It is which there at be
The value of money and goods, leagues to study not coy the method- e on president Reason to
shipped through Montreal is nearly ology contained in my legislation. but more pressure than there
100 times higher than the $19 million also take some time and explore the appease the Western Ihan here
statistics Canada estimates that Issue for yourself. Talk to law enforce- has Neville been C In n any y Western to r sine
l
Canada exported to Vietnam last year. ment officers. Most importantly, dis- Neville
What the Hamilton Spectator re- cuss this issue with leaders in the Viet- in 1938.
vealed is that refugees who attempt to namese communities. All of us owe it In addaditio ition offensive to talklkding what about I think the G Gor
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send money. medicine, and packages to ourselves to discover whether or not ba
face a difficult task. Much of the the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's the correct American response to that
money is siphoned off in taxes by the Controlled economic exploitation propaganda offensive, I want to talk
Vietnamese Government controlled scheme actually exists. Most impor- about recent developments In Central
savings accounts. Some of the drugs tantly, we should try to learn just how America and In particular the ways In
may be seized. Most of the goods that it effects the lives of Vietnamese refu- which the Nicaraguan Communists are
do get to designated recipients will be gees here in the United States. threatening Costa Rica. I also want to
sold on the black market. The majors- talk about the ways Is. which as the El
ty of the money that is sent back flows ^ 1700 Salvadoran Communists find they are
into the State Bank of the Socialist perhaps we are a little unable to win. they are reverting to
Vietnam through wire transfers, couri- Mr. Speaker, terrorism in their efforts to defeat the
ers and commercial credit. If a refugee bit more aware of this problem in my Government of El Salvador.
sends money through the mail it is part of the country than in others be- Let me first talk about the Gorba?
often stolen or lost in Vietnam. It can cause we have such a large number of chev peace. offensive. The fact is that
take as Vietnam long s from 3 months for a letter to these Southeast hese Vietnamese re u- Marxist-Leninist parties, in particular
get to VrttnCanaada particularly by Lenin's own writings, are very
The articles also illustrated that: geeees, but in fact it is a national prob? oriented to o psychological. intellectual
If the money Is sent through Canadian 1em. It is the height of irony, it is orie
actu- warfare. They think that words we
banks it can take up to s months a get to ally the height of tragedy that the very, very important. One of the rea-
only gives and the Vietnamese Government very same Vietnamese Government sons why in most Communist coun-
nly gives the Vietnamese relations a per- which drove these people from their tries there is a dramatic increase in
time the funds that an exchange rate 10 homeland, which required these
times lower than thhat offered through the education as soon as a Communist gm+-
Montreal operation. The rest of the money people to exit in some of the most dan- ernment takes over Is because they
is kept, by the government. In an account gerous ways to leave their homeland regard education as the key to brain-
that the Vietnamese need government per- to try to seek a little peace in the washing the population. They believe
mission to withdraw from. United States and elsewhere, should brainwashing that teaches people
Mr. Speaker, what the Hamilton now be taking advantage of these that the right words is the key teaches people
Spectator uncovered is the fact that people who now, having reached free- ling people in the long run. So it is
the SRVN is resorting to tactics dom, are attempting to do nothing nfor a Communist government
against people who are basically de- more than assist their relatives and natural
think that a psychological, political
fenseless. Many refugees say they feel their friends who are left back in Viet- offensive to a part of warfare. Indeed,
guilty about sending money by any nam. unlike the West, if you study Leninist
route through which they believe the As I said, I am not certain that my warfare or Soviet warfare manuals,
SRVN is benefiting. But each method proposal is the best proposal or the they have an entire section on psycho-
by which they can send money or only proposal. but I am putting that logical. political. Intellectual warfare.
other essentials is fraught with prob- proposal out on the table so we can see In which they have invested very heav-
lems. When a money order is sent whether or not It Is possible for us to fly and in which they train a great
through a local bank to Vietnam's For- create a set of conditions to allow the number of people.
eign Trade Bank, the rate of exchange Vietnamese who live within our midst in the past I have cited from the
of Vietnamese dong to the dollar is to do what any of us would want to do, Grenada documents, documents which
only about half the rate of other and that is to help our neighbors, help were captured when we liberated the
transfer methods, refugees say. Cur- our families, and help our friends who island of Grenada, documents that are
rent evidence reveals that: are left back in their homeland and based on a Communist government
Vietnamese who send money are who are suffering because of the ac and a Communist party in Grenada. In
In U.S. forced to arge as high fuas 26 nds peand rcent pay of a tivities of the government that re- those documents I have quoted exam-cha the amount they wish to ender quired us to leave. ples of the very serious planning that
the amount they the packages se; Mr. Speaker, I ask, can we not try to goes into a Communist government
In Vietnam x e and cen- mail create a set of circumstances which trying to mislead both the American
n heavily goed, pilfered d and en
by the the governments; allows them to have some comfort in people and the American news media
sorred b by
Packages that arrive at Tan Sam the thought that what they are doing and the careful plQ planning which goes
Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City are is not in vain? into
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It Is clear from the, Grenada docu- some editors, establishing some aca- learn about communism. because it
ments that there is a serious long-term demic centers, setting up a framework does not want to study the Soviet
Communist effort to understand the of thought. Union in reality. very little has been
American news media and to know It is I think fair to say that not since done with those documents. Only a
how to manipulate it. An effort to un- Adolf Hitler manipulated the Western few books have been written, of which
derstand American church groups and news media in the late 1930's have we the most notable was edited by Ro-
to know how to manipulate them. seen an offensive designed to convince, merstein and Ledeen and published by
In that setting. I think the Gorba- manipulate and dupe Western people the State Department as the Grenada
chev offensive is part of a long pattern as sophisticated as Gorbachev's cur- Documents. In addition, a book by
of Soviet willingness to lie and deceive rent offensive. Paul Seabury studies the Grenada
in order to try to communicate their What then should the correct Amer- Documents. But when one looks at all
values.. scan answer be? When the New York of the leftwing intellectual effort to
In the recent Time magazine Inter- Times prints an ad paid for by the discredit El Salvador, the Philippines,
view with Gorbachev, there were two Soviet Embassy, as it did recently, South Africa, Chile, and then you look
fascinating examples of the Soviet should we censor that ad? I do not and ask how many Ph.D.'s rush down
modern techniques of manipulation. think so. When Gorbachev offers to be to the National Archives to look at
The funnier of the two was a line Interviewed, should we stop the inter- these documents? How many people
where Gorbachev was quoted as view? I do not think so. have been busily studying and trying
saying, "God In His infinite wisdom." I It would be helpful If the news men to tell us what we can learn about
found It fascinating. Here you have were a little more tough minded, if communism and the Grenada lesson?
the leader of the Communist govern- they asked better questions, if they The answer, sadly, is very few.
ment, an avowedly atheist movement, were more aggressive in cross-exazni- Therefore, I think it is very, very im-
a man whose wife teaches Marxist phi- nation. But basically, if we are going
portent that we take the third meek of
losophy at the University of Moscow, to be a free society, we have to allow
on October third
2e 5, k of and
cheerfully for purposes of Western people who are going to lie to us to tell October, the he week of the
looking the
.
newsmen citing God. A God which their lies out in the open. And then we we
technically he cannot believe exists if have to hope that our Intellectuals, lessons of Grenada and asking our-
he believes the teachings of Lenin, but our news media, our politicians, our selves, what do they tell us about
because he knows that we feel com- citizens, will pay attention and learn today? What do we learn about com-
fortable with people who cite God, he who Is telling the truth and who is munism in Grenada that teaches us
about Gorbachev? Nothing could
more Is comfortable. v-ortable, flling to make us feel IyRather than talk about censorship, I better prepare America for Geneva
Secec ond. we had in the very same would like to suggest just the opposite. than to study the real nature -of com-
interview a reference which Gorba. We have an opportunity in the third munism and look at the real lessons of
chev said, "We would never start a week of October to lay out for the the Grenada Documents.
war." Unfortunately, no one on the entire world to see who the Commu- That is why I urge my colleagues to
Time magazine editorial board saw fit nists are and what the system is. cosponsor House Resolution 313,
to say to him, "What about Afghani- Rather than arguing with Gorbachev which Congressman Ixz SxsLTON of
stan, where you are currently fighting as a person or discussing whether or Missouri and I have introduced as a bi-
a war? What about Czechoslovakia, not his wife dresses well, It seems to partisan resolution. It already has over
which you Invaded in 1968? What me far more appropriate for us to look 165 cosponsors. And it is designed to
about Hungary, which you Invaded In at the underlying question of the make the week of October 25 a week
1956? What about the occupation of nature of the Soviet system, the in which high schools, colleges,
the army in Poland?" nature of the Communist government. Sunday schools, synagogue classes.
Instead, they passed over it, allowing I think there is no better time to do civic clubs, veterans groups, everyone
a Communist leader with a totally that than the third week of October, who has an interest in understanding
straight face to say to them, "We, of which is the second anniversary of the the world we live in and the nature of
course. would never start a war. I liberation of Grenada. communism, might look at the lessons
promise you that." I think it is important for two rea- of Grenada. That is why I would urge
One has to wonder how naive you sons. First of all, the liberation of Gre- every citizen to look at their own civic
must think Americans are if you can nada was the first time that a Commu- clubs, their own classes, their own op-
get away with that kind of bald-faced nist government was overthrown and portunities to study the lessons of
lie. since he is in the middle of fight- people regained their freedom. In that Grenada. I think it helps to get the
ing a war in Afghanistan. sense the experience of the Grenadian local news media to ask the question,
The pattern of this offensive is very people, now free, now with a free what have we learned about commu-
s1mvie- We know from a variety of market, now with a democracy. now nom? By getting editorial writers
worlw, of which possibly John Bar- with a free press, now with freedom of before they interview Gorbachev to
ton's books on the KGB are the best. religion, the lesson of Grenada in ceeas- study the way in which Lenin has
Moscow" -ad a Soviet senior official people all over the world. It offers news media, to look at the lessons of
telling us the Inside story is helpful hope to the Afghan freedom fighters disinformation and deception as prac-
and there have been a number of It offers hope to the Nicaraguan free- ticed by the Soviet Union, I think that
other studies. ' don fighters. It offers hope to the An- helps all of us.
We know from these works that the golan freedom fighters. It offers hope So I would urge all of my colleagues
Soviet Government systematically and to people in Poland, in the Ukraine, in to cosponsor House Joint Resolution
consistently goes after the penetration Estonia, in Latvia, in Lithuania, and 313 and help us make the week of Oc-
of Western news media throughout the Soviet Union. tuber 25 a week to learn the lessons of
A recent novel. "The Spike," is an- Second, in liberating Grenada and the Grenada Documents
other example of that. Its coauthor is saving some 800 American students
Arnaud de Borchgrave, the editor of from possibly becoming hostages, we I would also urge every group
the Washington Times. a former also captured 35,000 pounds of Com- around America that is interested in
senior columnist for Newsweek maga- munist documents, the records of the and concerned about communism or
zine. Communist government, the records about the survival of freedom to take
As you study these books, whether of the Communist Party. So we know the opportunity that week to study
they are fiction or nonfiction, you a great deal about Grenada. the lessons of Grenada.
learn that the KGB, the Soviet secret Unfortunately, because the Ameri- I would urge those citizens whose
police, spends a great deal of money can intellectual community is largely Congressmen have not yet cospon-
bribing some reporters, influencing leftwing. because it does not want to sored that resolution to contact their
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H 7462 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE September 12, 1985
Congressmen and ask them to cospon- Sabotage is destruction, the breaking have an army, reporting on three inci-
sor House Joint Resolution 313. up of the economy, the destroying of dents In which the Communist govern-
In addition to handling propaganda jobs, the wiping out of civilized amen- ment of Nicaragua entered Costa
as it relates to the Soviet Union, I !ties. Then when American reporters Rican territory. The Costa Ricans are
think it is also interesting to look at go to a major city and the power goes concerned In part because, as they
what has been happening around the out because the guerrillas have suc- look to the north toward El Salvador,
world that the American news media cessfully sabotaged the power lines, in- they have some sense of how a coun-
does not cover very aggressively. stead of reporting on guerrilla brutal- try can be torn to pie-es by Commu.
There is a tendency in the American ity, on the senselessness of their cam- nist guerrillas.
news media if an American ally does paign, of their unwillingness to vote, Communist guerrill t commander
something to put it on page 1, and if a instead the reporter talks about how Joaquin Villalobos, in a statement con-
Soviet puppet does something to weak the government is. cerning the increased tt rrorists' use of
either not print it at all or put it on Let me suggest that If we had guer- land mines and urban terrorism has
page 30. rillas trying to knock out power lines threatened more violence on the
Therefore, I have asked that we put around Washington. we could appreci- people of El Salvador.
together some major events and on a ate better the challenge to President "Our aim is to convert every road
weekly basis on Thursday I am going Duarte. Not only his daughter kid- into a river of blood with mines ? ?'
to try to link together different news naped by terrorists, but he is faced each stone into a mine and every heli-
stories you may not have seen. I'm with a guerrilla movement which, as It copter into a coffin." Villalobos said in
going to show how they relate to the loses the main war against his army, a recent rebel radio broadcast. .
war against freedom being waged by reverts more and more to terrorist tac- The Farabundo Marti Liberation
the Soviet Union and its Communist tics and to guerrilla warfare. Front IFMLN], the Communist ter-
empire. Here are some examples. To the south of Nicaragua, Costa riorist organization bent on destroying
First, the Communists have been Rica finds Itself increasingly in diffi- the democratically elected government
linked in Nicaragua to 700 Costa culty. For example, Costa Rican Presi- of President Duarte, is increasing Its
Ricans training in Cuba. At least 700 dent Luis Alberto Monge has said defi- activities due to decreased support in
Costa Ricans linked to leftist groups nitely that there will be no dialog be. their insurgency efforts over the past
have received military training in tween Costa Rica and the Communist year.
Cuba with assistance from the Com- regime of Nicaragua because the Com- "The subversives have planted a lot
munist Sandinista government of munist regime has refused to apolo- of mines in the last few months be-
Nicaragua, according to Costa Rican gize and give explanation for actions cause they can no longer confront
Deputy Minister Johnny Campos. to Costa Rica concerning their aggres-
that this is na citation army units directly," said Maj. Omar
Notice
sions directed against his government. Vaquerano, an infantry battalion com-
frfrom om a an American Ame thi Security ca source. not o Minice. a This is citation
Costa Monge referred to three separate in- mander. "The mines are a demonstra-
Deputy in which Nicaragua waged un- tion of the subversives' weakness."
Rica. He said in a recent interview in
La Nation: provoked attacks over its border into The increase in the effectiveness of
Costa Rica: The events at Las Crucitas the government's efforts against the
Campos broached the magnitude of local on May 31, when two Costa Rican civil
and foreign espionage in his country. He Communists' activities has broken up
also stated that this training had been going guardsmen died; the July 3 incident in the terrorists into small pockets ? of
on for 4 years. He divided the espionage ac- the same area when Communist subversives, taking much of their sup-
tivities into three groups which included the troops attacked the Costa Rican port base, supplied by the Masas.
involvement of the Ortega-led Communist guardsmen who were trying to recover The point I want to make is this:
government of Nicaragua. The Deputy Min- the body of one of the slain guards- Communists in El Salva-
and described the situation as dangerous men; and the July 26 incident at Barra Here
he is very concerned about it. del Colorado, when three Communist do r e a we we have
sabotage. I that quoted we are earlier, going to rely "sabotage on
An example of what has been hap- air force planes entered Costa Rica's e They have said here, w have
pening around the world: The Commu- airspace and dropped bombs. vhemictory.s" They aim
have
is to convert
nisi terrorists El Salvador are ^ 1730 every road into a river of blood with
changing ing their behavior. According to mines, each stone into a mine and
Radio Venceremos, the Communists in The point I want to make here is into a coffin.
El Salvador have again bragged about that of all of the countries in Central every helicopter
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their sabotage activities. America, Costa Rica Is the most peace- Imagine you were living in
For example, over the Fourth of July ful, the most democratic, the most tic Costa Ri a, , that t you were democrmocra looking
weekend, the Communist guerrillas open. up that road to kind of l bloody. rthat
anti-
"carried out important sabotage Costa Rica disbanded its army in the saw the he
against you
power lines in this central area late 1940's. It literally has no army civilian guerrilla warfare, sabotage,
of the country. These power outages anymore. It has been observed by one and terrorism going on. You can ap-
affected San Salvador and large parts expert on Central America that Costa preciate why the Costa Rican Govern-
of Central El Salvador." Rica is the greatest danger to Nicara- ment, the most democratic, most open
The broadcast also went on to boast gua precisely because it is a democrat- and decent government In Central
that "on July 5, guerrilla units of the is country with a free market and a America, is Increasingly angry with
Julio Armando Climaca Detachment free press. That means that every pos. the Nicaraguans, because It sees in
downed three high voltage power sible younger Nicaraguan will flee to Nicaragua a country which Is support-
pylons in (Las Gorritas) Canton, San Costa Rica, just like in Western ing guerrilla warfare with Communists
Jorges jurisdiction, San Miguel De- Europe we see people flee from East In El Salvador. A country which is
partment. Germany to West Germany, from itself a Communist dictatorship. And
"We continue with more activities to Czechoslovakia to Austria, from Hun- Costa Rica sees an increasing willing-
sabotage the war economy of Duarte's gary to Austria, and so forth. ness to launch raids against them.
government. Sabotage is victory." The point this expert had made was President Monge, in an August 13
I think every American needs to look that as long as Costa Rica is alive, as letter to Daniel Ortega, the Commu-
at that and ask themselves, these are long as it is a free country, as long as nist dictator of Nicaragua, said that
Communist guerrillas. They claim it is a better place to live than Nicara- Costa Rica was a "peaceful people"
that they are for the people, yet their gua, it will be an active threat to the and blamed "Nicaragua's warmonger-
strategy as they grow weaker and are Communist government of Nicaragua ing attitude" for the border crisis.
unable to field a military unit is to precisely because it drains away Let me emphasize this. This is the
engage in terror and in sabotage. people. President of Costa Rica, the neighbor
Imagine the nature of a group which Here we have the President of Costa of Nicaragua, a democratic country
would say that sabotage Is victory. Rica, a country which does not even which does not even have an army. His
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attitude toward the Communist Gov. This Is the third incursion the Com-
ernment of Nicaragua. he said It was munist forces have carried out on
"a warmongering attitude." Costa Rican soil in 1 week according
This is not Ronald Reagan talking; to official reports issued by the gov-
this is not some rightwing Republican. ernment of President Luis Alberto
This is the democratically elected, free Monge.
President of Costa Rica. On August 22, five Communist. air-
He went on to say that we Costa craft violated Costa Rican airspace
Ricans "are a peaceful people and and fired shots, only 24 hours after
have never attacked anyone." the Costa Rican Government de-
The Costa Rican President stated nounced an attack by the Nicaraguan
that it there is no peace in Nicaragua, Communist forces on the Boca de San
then his nation is affected by this. Carlos police post.
"However," Monge stated, "Costa Rica These events have been unfolding
is not responsible for Nicaragua's during the Nicaraguan so-called peace
peace; Costa Rica cannot achieve or dialog arop Propaganda where the Nicara-
Impose peace In Nicaragua.
In clear reference to the unprovoked guans are publicly in Interviews with
border aggressions launched by the American television. talking to Ameri-
Marxist-Leninist regime. Monge said can church groum they pretend they
that- favor peace. There are three times in I
The vai"ious border incidents on Costs. week in late August that the Nicara-
Rica's northern border. specifically the guan Communists violated Costa Rica.
painful incident at Las Cructas and the vio- and attacked Costa Rica. In fact,
lation of our national airspace by your gov- things have gotten bad enough that
eramenta military forees, can be protested Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos
as acts of aggression we will not tolerate and Jose Gutierrez said that the Inter-
which, if repeated, will force us to defend
ourselves. We demand a satisfaeto American Reciprocal Treaty ITIARI
explanation because these incidents are the he might be requested if unprovoked
result of Nicaragua's warmongering attitude Communist border attacks continue.
and of the lack of peace In Nicaragua, which citing that regime's "expansionist ob-
is an issue that your government cannot jectives" as a possible cause for these
evade. incidents.
"Therefore, steps toward peace, both "I think that. if these aggressions
inside and outside Nicaragua, should continue, we may resort to the TIAR.
be taken by your government." Monge Costa Rica has not done so thus far
said. He also stated that he considered because it believes the aggressions do
Nicaragua's "international propaganda not melt it," Gutierrez said in a tele-
aimed at tarnishing Costa Rica's real phone interview with Radio Cadena
position in relation to the Nicaraguan Nacional. Nevertheless, he noted that
conflict unjust and ill-Intentioned." "their frequency and constant repeti-
So again we have on August 13 the tion might lead Costa Rica to resort to
President of the democratic, demilita- a step of that nature."
rized, free Costa Rica complaining, Gutierrez said that the Communist
saying to the Nicaraguan Communists attacks on Costa Rica could have vari-
to "Let us alone, quit trying to pro- ous explanations, among them that
voke us." the Communist regime may be trying
Yet what happened? to intimidate the Costa Rican people.
On August 25. a Communist army "This could be one of the reasons," he
patrol from Nicaragua was spotted by said. He explained that "perhaps the
Civil Guard units Inside Costa Rican attacks seek to prevent Costa Ricans
territory In the Boca de San Carlos living in the border area from continu-
region, marking the third unprovoked ing to express support for the anti-
border Incident within a week against Sandinista.
this democracy. "Second, it might be that the at-
According to the Panama City tacks are the result of the arrogance
ACAN report from the northern of the Sandinist Army, which wants to
region of Costa Rica, the Sandinist show Its military might to its neigh-
People's Army PEPSI patrol fired at bors," Gutierrez added. "We also think
the civil guardsmen with their rifles the attacks could be part of the expan-
and the civil guardsmen fired back. sionist objectives of the Nicaraguan
Area residents told reporters that Government, which does not hide its
apparently the Communists had seized aggressive intentions with regard to
a farm but then abandoned it after the countries that border Nicaragua."
the clash with the Costa Rican public Let me make this point for all of our
forces. friends who belong to church groups
Public Security Minister Benjamin that say why can there not be peace in
Piza Carranza has explained that a Central America. Here he is, the for-
Police patrol discovered the Commu- eign minister of Costa Rica, a country
mist group in Costa Rican territory which is a democracy. A country
and, for this reason, obeyed the order which is free, a country which does
to fire at them. Costa Rica has no not even have an army. AD it has is a
standing army. He said that the Civil border patrol and a civil police, and
Guard remains on alert In the border now what is the foreign minister of
area, which has been the site of recent Costa Rica saying? He said that the
unprovoked and illegal attacks Government Of Nicaragua has, and I
launched by the Marxist-Leninist quote: "Expanionist objectives," and
regime. "does not hide its aggressive intentions
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with regard to the countries that
border Nicaragua."
In other words, the foreign minister
of Costa Rica is trying to say to all of
the world. you cannot deal with the
Communist Government of Nicaragua
because it Is trying to expand itself.
Nicaragua Is an enemy to Its neigh-
bors, and It is supporting guerrilla war.
What do the people of Costs Rica
think?
In a poll conducted by sm affiliate of
the international Gallup orgsniation,
it was found that 89 percent of the
Costa Rican population consider the
Marxist-Leninist regime at Nicaragua
a threat to peace in the ragIi i
The poll. which was publldtred In the
San Jose daily Is Won, abre lbmid
that 87 percent of the popalrtien hive
an unfavorable opinion of the Connmu-
nist government. In addition, 03 per-
cent said that neutrality ought not to
apply if Nicaragua violated the Costa
Rican sovereignty.
According to the results of the
survey, most Costa Ricans approve of
the way President Monge is handling
the Nicaraguan crisis, but are dis-
pleased with the way the Contadora
group is resolving the problem be-
tween the two nations. Also, 83 per-
cent of the Costa Ricans polled said
they were confident the United States
would help defend Costa Rica If they
were invaded.
On a similar subject. Oscar Aguflar.
Presidential candidate of the National
Union Party, has said that In view of
the new Communist attacks against
Costa Rican territory, which were con-
firmed by the Costa Rican Govern-
ment, the country should break diplo-
matic ties with the Marxist-Leninist
regime. If only temporarily. His state-
ment, which was on San Jose Radio
Relol on August 22, also explained
that "firmness does not mean aggres-
sion but that the country cannot con-
tinue to defend the national sovereign-
ty with protest notes that no one pays
attention to."
I think there are two messages here
for AmerI urn. First of all, the next
time someone says to you: "But why
do you think the Nicaraguan Commu-
nists are dangerous." ask them if 89
percent of the free people of Costa
Rica are scared of their neighbor.
should that not worry you. U the folks
who are down there, who are natives,
who are local, and who speak Spanish,
who have friends In Nicaragua. If 89
percent of them are scared of the
Communist next door, should not that
be a sign to us that maybe they know
more than the local politician or your
local reporter who once spent 2 days
there on a trip?
Second, what would our friends on
the left do to save Costa Rica if, In
fact, the Communists in Nicaragua are
violating Costa Rican sovereignty? I
have just indicated there were three
times in 1 week In August that the
Nicaraguan Communists were occupy.
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ing part or acting on parts of Costa tied in part about what they see just Adler Barryman Seal described an
Rican territory. What would we do? up the road in El Salvador. April 8. 1984, meeting at the Colombi-
Are our neighbors, in fact, the Costa As recently as late August we have an mountaintop home of Jorge Ochoa
Ricans. right when 83 percent of them seen examples of the kind of Commu- attended by several members of the
say we would help them if they were nist terrorism in El Salvador which Ochoa smuggling cartel:
attacked by Communists, or are they frightens the democratic. disarmed "They had struck a deal with some
wrong? I wonder. I wonder in this country of Costa Rica. [officials) in the Sandinista govern-
House how many of our more leftwing According to an August 24 San Sal- ment in Nicaragua " Seal said. "We're
members would, in fact, find some vador La Prensa Graflea report, new not Communists. V e don't agree with
excuse for explaining away Commu- acts of vandalism and terror have re- their philosophy, 1 ut they serve our
nist aggression, some way of indicating cently been carried out by subversive means and we serv, theirs-then they
that it was really caused by Costa groups of the Communist FMLN=FDR made gestures Indic tang money."
Rica, even though Costa Rica is un- terrorist insurgency organization. Seal. 45. said he was initially worried
armed, has no army, and could not on the highways to Santa Ana, Ati- about being arrested if he landed In a
attack anyone. quizaya, Sesuntepeque, Tejutla, Usul- plane full of cocaine in a Communist
In fact, the Costa Rican Govern- tan. Ilobasco, and other places the ter- country, but he said he was assured
ment is considering seriously breaking rorist groups attacked buses, Injuring that there would be no problems with
relations with Nicaragua. at least 20 civilians. Nicaraguan officials.
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos in another unprovoked attack, offs- United States authorities concluded
Jose Gutierrez has said that President cial reports say that on August 23 the that the operation had at least the
Monge and his administration has not Communist 'extremists machine- tacit approval of high-level Sandinista
ruled out a break in relations with gunned a bus, truck, and pick-up truck officials.
Nicaragua. in Delicias de Concepcion Canton, San The point that I think really ties to-
"On various occasions and in view of Juan. According to the report, several gether drug trade, terrorism, the prop-
repeated attacks and violations of the passengers were wounded and all were aganda offensive, and Nicaragua's at-
Sandinist Army, we have been on the taken to hospitals in that capital and tacks on its neighbors in Costa Rica is
verge of breaking relations with Nica- Zacatecoluca. that from a Communist standpoint all
ragua but the situation has always the Communist subversives were of this fits together. Gorbachev, as a
been reconsidered," the foreign minis- preparing to set the vehicle on fire, a Communist leader, sees the United
ter said. Government sources say that military patrol arrived and the rebels States as the enemy. The Soviet Union
the possibility remains, considering immediately opened fire and fled from and its Marxist-Leninist leaders are
recent territorial violations and the air the army. very open in saying that we are the
attack August 21. "We now have to
think of more drastic measures," Gu- The Communist terrorists organize- enemy. Anyone who has studied the
"The tion's goal is to overthrow the demo- Grenada documents can find the then-
tierrez signing on the to peace say: docu- cratically elected government and re- Communist leader of Grenada. Mau-
conditions said. for He went
ment do not exist," and added that the place It with a Marxist-Leninist regime rice Bishop, saying in a secret speech:
tension mentioned by Mexican For- similar to those currently in control in Of course we are Communists, of course
eign Secretary Bernardo Sepulveda " is Cuba and Nicaragua. this is a dictatorship, of course we are
Now, notice the style here. Now that against the Americans, but If we told them
not the result of the position adopted the Communist guerrillas in El Salva- the truth then they will know what we are
by Costa Rica, which is willing to sign dot cannot stand up to the army, what doing. So we are going to lie to them.
the document if it includes all the as- do they do? They shoot the civilians, It Is amazing, since 1917 we have had
peas nec to achieve pe. they machinegun a bus, they machine- an opportunity to study what Lenin
It is not a sary matter of sign eing the
on
peace document but of fulfilling all its gun a pickup truck. This is the kind of wrote in creating the Soviet state, to
provisions. If this is not done, the ef- banditry which can break down a free study how Stalin behaved as a dicta-
forts would have been useless. Each society but which is very hard for us tor, or to look at what now is almost
country that signs the peace document to fight. Where are our freinds on the 70 years of systematic warfare against
must comply with its provisions. It is left, those who are upset because the the West.
not a matter of simply signing the doe- CIA mined Nicaraguan harbors; those It is remarkable to see them spy
ument so as to form part of a group of who talked about atrocities from the against us, to have Americans who are
countries that will subsequently not right? Where is. anyone from the left arrested as spies, to see West Germans
comply with it," the foreign minister in this body standing up and saying it who turn out to be spies, to recognize
concluded. is wrong for Communist guerrillas to that the British are expelling spies
I began tonight talking about the shoot innocent civilians? We have not right this very day, to see that all over
propaganda offensive of Gorbachev heard a single person from the left in the world Gorbachev is involved in
and of the Soviet Union and that this House complaining about Commu- country after country, in systematical-
there is a parallel propaganda offen- nist guerrillas. Yet we recognize that ly spying to try to undermine the
sive by the Nicaraguan Communists. there are all sorts of terrorists from West. -
the left who are engaged throughout Similarly, we see, as we look around
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fni-
One of the comforting systematic pro-American and pro-Western gov- sThere are Russian troops thls amino
natures of communism that does not ernments.
seem to change over time, you can There is one final point I would like as I speak. There are Cuban troops In
count on it, is that they can lie with a to make tonight about events in Cen? Ethiopia, in Angola, in Mozambique
straight face. They can tell you they tral America. And that is that there is killing people who want to be free.
are for law and order while picking some evidence that Nicaragua is work- There is a Communist Government
your pocket. So it is not at all uncom- ing in concert with drug trafficking. in Nicaragua trying to Impose a dicta
mon for a Communist government like There has been considerable evidence torship on its people. There is a Com-
Nicaragua, in a peace offensive, have that Cuba works with drug traffickers. munist army from Vietnam in Cambo-
their President giving peace speeches But there has been a recent report dia trying to impose a Communist gov-
while their army and air force are vio- worth looking at in terms of the Nica- ernment on its people. There is a Com-
lating Costa Rican territory. Here we raguan Communists. munist army holding down the people
have the Costa Rican Government An agreement that allowed Colombi- of Poland.
telling us about the event. an coccaine lords to process and ship In the middle of all this, Gorbachev
Again, the Costa Ricans are worried narcotics through Nicaragua was de- appears on the cover of Time maga-
in part because of Nicaraguan Commu- scribed July 31 by a pilot working un- zine and explains that he Is really a
nist direct activity, and they are wor- dercover for U.S. authorities. nice guy who is just misunderstood. In
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the middle of all this, we have a so-
called -peace offensive. Sometimes you
have to ask yourself how naive is the
American and European news media,
how naive are our intellectual elite,
how easy it seems to be for the Com-
munists, almost by the flick of a wrist,
to change and say: "Oh, please forget
everything we are doing in Afghani-
stan, ignore the people we are killing,
the men, women, and children who are
being butchered, the villages that are
being bombed, the atrocities that are
being committed, we really mean well.
Please ignore the spies that you are
uncovering in your- country that we
send there. We really mean well. Why
don't you come to Geneva and just
talk to us in a pleasant way?"
I believe the President should go to
Geneva. I agree with Winston Church-
ill who once said: "Jaw, jaw, jaw is
better than war, war, war."
Still, we should recognize what is
going on.
Neville Chamberlain went to Munich
in 1938 thinking if you could appease a
dictator somehow things would get
better. Neville Chamberlain might
have given up radar in order to make
Adolph Hitler happy. And the British
would have lost the battle of London.
The President has the 21st century
equivalent of radar, the strategic de-
fense initiative. It is vitally important
that all of us in America, and in
Europe, and in Japan, and all of the
free countries recognize who is going
to Geneva.
On the one side, there is a Commu-
nist empire, there is a man whose
armies are currently trying to conquer
Afghanistan, there is a man who is
spying against all of us, who is sup-
porting terrorism and who represents
the dark forces of the secret police,
the Gulag Archipelago and the con-
centration camps of political prisoners.
That is Gorbachev.
We should recognize that, we should
remember it, and we should go to
those negotiations starting with a
question, since this is a man who will
lie with a straight face, who will quote
God even though he is an atheistic
Communist, who would tell us he
would never start a war even whole he
has 120,000 troops fighting in Afghani-
stan. Let us be clear what is happen-
ing.
It is vitally important the American
President talk with the Communist
leader. It is equally important that the
American President not try to appease
the Communist leader. If we can reach
reasonable agreements that are en-
forceable, that is worth doing. I hope
that on the week of October 25, we
will study the lessons of the Grenada
documents and we will celebrate, for
free people everywhere and people
who would like to be free everywhere,
the fact that for the first time a Com-
munist nation has become free again.
As we look at the lessons of that
second anniversary, it is my hope that
across America and through the U.S.
Information Agency across the world,
the people who are free will be able to
look once again at the lessons of com-
munism and the nature of communism
and what really was happening in Gre-
nada, and that that will give us a
much more sober, a much more realis-
tic, a much more reasonable balance as
we move toward Geneva.
It is vitally important that Geneva
occur, but it is equally important that
Geneva not become another Munich.
While Ronald Reagan Is a Churchil-
lian figure, a man of great resolution,
a man who understands communism. a
man who, as a former labor union
president, knows how to negotiate. It is
very important that he not have Nev-
ille Chamberlain's style news media,
Neville Chamberlain's style elite, Nev-
ille Chamberlain's style advisers. Nev-
ille Chamberlain's pressure from his
own public to make unwise conces-
sions. By asking your Congressman to
cosponsor House Joint Resolution 313,
to help us look at the lessons of the
Grenada documents, by asking your
civic club, your Sunday school, or your
synagogue group, your high school, or
college class to take time that week to
look at the lessons of Grenada, I think
it is possible to educate ourselves, and
I think that in the long run an educat-
ed, free people will survive despite the
threats of dictatorship and that we
can achieve peace through knowledge
and through information.
I thank the Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
a previous order of the House, the gen-
tleman from Iowa [Mr. Lz.ca] is rec-
ognized for 30 minutes.
[Mr. LEACH of Iowa addressed the
House. His remarks will appear hereaf-
ter in the Extensions of Remarks.]
GENERAL LEAVE
Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that all Members
be permitted 5 legislative days in
which to extend their remarks and to
include therein extraneous material
on the bill, H.R. 7, which was consid-
ered today.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Florida?
There was no objection.
KIDNAPING OF PRESIDENT
DUARTE'S DAUGHTER
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
a previous order of the House, the gen-
tleman from Florida (Mr. MCCOLLUM]
is recognized for 30 minutes.
(Mr. McCOLLUM asked and was
given permission to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I
would like to speak today about Mrs.
Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, the
eldest daughter of El Salvador's Presi-
dent, Jose Napoleon Duarte. Both
Mrs. Duran and a female friend were
kidnaped yesterday and in the process,
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a young man guarding Mrs. Duran was
murdered.
No guerrilla group or organization
has yet to claim responsibility for the
kidnaping. The clandestine rebel radio
station, Radio Venceremos, did not
mention the kidnaping during its Sep-
tember 10 broadcast;
However, it seems to me that this is
another signal that urban warfare in
El Salvador is a reality and the Com-
munist guerrillas mean what they say.
The June 19, 1985, murder of four
U.S. marines in the city of San Salva-
dor is still fresh on our minds. Only
three of the suspected rebels responsi.
ble for this attack have been appre-
hended to date. Shortly after this
murder, the Communist announced
they would continue to hunt down Sal-
vadoran and American officials in the
cities.
The clandestine radio station of the
Marxist-led Insurgents, Radio Vencere-
mos, announced yesterday, September
11, 1985, that their goal to "annihilate
American advisers" in El Salvador is
still a very high priority.
It is crystal clear to anyone who
pays attention and who keeps his eyes
and ears open as to what kind of crimi-
nal we are dealing with in El Salvador
and Central America. The Salvadoran
intelligence forces 'recently reported
that they have received information
that Salvadoran and American offi-
cials remain the targets of the Com-
munist rebels.
The crimes and threats of the Com-
munist rebels in El Salvador are not
merely directed at the Duarte govern-
ment or American advisers or officials.
These acts are designed to intimidate
the Salvadoran population and desta-
bilize that country in order to allow
the Communists to abort democracy in
El Salvador and Central America as a
whole. We must not make any mistake
about the actual purposes involved in
this series of terrorist acts that they
are now engaged in.
As the speaker before me made the
point in his presentation, the rebel
forces at this time in Central America
are conducting terrorist activities in
order to bring about a change in the
freedom that does exist in the few
countries around the area where they
now hold control in Nicaragua. The
United States, as a result, in order to
protect its own citizens and In order to
protect the officials of the democratic
countries in Central America, especial-
ly in El Salvador, and In order to pro-
tect the glimmering hope of democra-
cy that is flaming now in those areas
down there, the American Govern-
ment, the United States, us, this Con-
gress must expedite the money, mate-
rials, and support already authorized
to El Salvador to counter the Commu-
nist urban offensive going on. Just
before the August recess, we passed a
Foreign Assistance Act that contained
authority for the United States to pro-
vide training and equipment to the
police and internal security forces of
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