THE US AND ARGENTINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100370003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 16, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRann Jack Anderson STATION WEAM Radio
Syndicated
DATE September 16, 1982 9:00 AM CITY Washington, DC
SUa~ECT The US and Argentina
JACK ANDERSON: Will Argentine animosities toward the United
States continue?
I'll tell you tomorrow's headlines today right after this
message.
The Falklands Islands crisis put a rift in relations between
the United States and Argentina. But my CIA sources tell me that
won't last. You see, the Argentines must look to the United States
to seek a British withdrawal from the islands and eventual Argentine
sovereignty over the Falklands.
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STATION WJLA TV
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SATE September 18, 1982 7:30 PM CITY Washington, DC
JACK ANDERSUN: It's been a tragic week for Lebanon;
tragic, too, for the United States. Lebanon's charismatic young
President-elect Bashir Gemayel is dead. He had the eloquence,
the brains and the guile to become a forceful leader. And
Lebanon needed a forceful leader.
Last month I spent. several hours with Gemayel in Beirut.
His compound was surrounded by sandbags and body guards. He
spoke of his two year old daughter who had been killed in a bomb
meant for him.
On August 30th, I reported that he was marked for
assassination. Now it has happened, and Lebanon is leaderless.
CIA sources tell me no other leader has the strength to end the
chaos in Lebanon.
Well, it's true that Gemayel was controversial. But he
was also pro-American. And the rivals who killed him are anti-
American. I'll tell you later what the CIA expects to happen now
that Gemayel is gone.
ANDERSON: The most publicized man in America, Ronald
Reagan, is still a mystery to millions of people. There's an
all-American quality about him that compels trust and con-
fidence. Perhaps it's his open face, his quick grin. He also
has an easiness of manner, an engaging sincerity. But is this
all an act? After all, he is an actor who made movies before he
turned to politics. As a politician, he's been tough, even
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harsh. Does he hide a mean spirit behind his amiable manner?
What`s President Reagan really like?
Well,. to find out, I borrowed one of the CIA's methods.
The CIA carefully studies and psychoanalyzes world leaders in
order to understand them better. So I asked a team of
psychologists and psychoanalysts, headed by the world famous
Dr.Michael Macabee, to analyze the President for me.
They believe Reagan, of course, was influenced by his
childhood. His father was an unsuccessful shoe salesman with a
drinking problem. But the son was encouraged to make good by his
strong-willed mother. He got ahead by developing a pleasing per-
sonality, by selling his Midwestern charm. As a movie star, he
found himself adrift in the world of make-believe. He tended to
adopt the attitudes of those around him, to look to heroes for
guidance. One of his first heroes was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
So Reagan became a New Deal liberal. And he was elected
by liberals to be president of the Screen Actors Cuild. In this
capacity, he came into conflict with hard-core communists posing
as liberals. The experience soured Reagan on liberalism. He
began to question his beliefs. Then he married Nancy Davis, a
firm conservative, and came into contact with conservatives.
Again, Reagan adopted the attitudes of his associates. But this
time his circle of friends were self-made millionaires. He
accepted their vision of America.
Let me quote directly from the psychoanalysis.
"Reagan's political beliefs remain simple and inflexible. He
believes that the government should do the minimum. His sym-
pathies do not extend to the victims of social and technological
change, people he doesn't know and hasn't seen. He sentimen-
talizes successful people who follow the model of Horatio Alger."
But the psychoanalysts find nothing mean or vindictive
about the President. They describe him as a tolerant, amiable
man. Those close to him probably find him a soft touch. Yet
he's a leader who sets his own goals and makes his own decisions.
Still, he can delegate authority, and he listens to the advice of
those he trusts. The psychoanalysts say he makes political con-
cessions, but doesn't re-think his basic views. He longs for a
simpler society and has trouble coping with rapid change.
So here is Dr. Macabee's conclusion. I'm quoting.
"Ronald Reagan has the leadership style and engaging person-
ality that could make him an ideal modern leader. But his
backward vision does not focus on the realities of our time."
Now as to the Middle East. President Reagan believes he
can bring peace to this embattled area. Here's what he told me
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the day before Bashir Cemayel was assassinated in Lebanon.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Just as Egypt signed a peace
treaty, there are other Arab nations, and I believe they're ready
to come together and negotiate agreements so that we can find the
Arab nations and Israel in the Middle East sure of their borders,
sure of their neighbors, convinced that they can live in peace
with each other.
ANDERSON: CIA analysts take a much more grim view of
the peace prospects. They tell me that the Palestine Liberation
Organization did not live up to its agreement to evacuate Lebanon
and give up its arms. Thousands of PLO troops stayed in Lebanon
in hiding. They stashed their weapons in underground bunkers.
Those who pulled out turned over their weapons to the Lebanese
radicals who had been fighting with them.
Now some of the evacuated PLO guerrillas are sneaking
back into Lebanon. The assassination of Lebanon's President-
elect Bashir Cemayel also eliminates the only real leader whom
the Israelis trusted. So the Israeli operation has failed. The
PLO are still in Lebanon. No government would now be strong
enough to unite the warring factions, bring stability to Lebanon
and sign a peace treaty with Israel. The CIA therefore expects
the Israelis to renew the mop-up operation they started. The CIA
also fears the fighting will ignite a war between Israel and
Syria.
[End of appropriate segment.]
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