NICARAGUA/CIA)BROKAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301480014-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: December 5, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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5 December 1984
NICARAGUA/CIA>BROKAW: In another part of Washington today, the House
>MANUAL>Intelligence Committee finished its investigation on that
CIA manual that instructed Nicaragua rebels to kill
Nicaraguan government officials. The committee said the
CIA was. guilty of breaking the law, but it was all
unintentional. Lee McCarthy reports tonight it was not a
good day for the director of the spy agency.
MCCARTHY: CIA Director William Casey told the House
Intelligence Committee that publication of the manual had
been mismanaged by the agency, that none of the top
officials, Casey included, had seen the manual before it
was given to the rebels. That shocked the committee
chairman. REP. EDWARD BOLAND (D-Mass.): I find 'it
incredible, as did all the members of the Intelligence
Committee, that no one, that no one in the field and no
one at headquarters-had ever read the manual.
MCCARTHY:*And Boland rejected Casey's claim that the
manual does not recommend murdering Nicaraguan officials.
BOLAND: ...and the majority of us came to the conclusion
that 'neutralize' was a, was a word that one could, could
suggest assassination.
MCCARTHY: Casey'maintained that the. manual was designed
only to moderate excesses committed by the rebels in
Nicaragua, but some congressmen say it was intended to the
aid the rebels in overthrowing the Nicaraguan government,
an-act specifically prohibited by law. REP. WYCHE FOWLER
(D-Ga.): A majority of the committee did find that there
had been a violation of the law of the land, as embodied
in the Boland amendment, in the production and
distribution of this manual.
MCCARTHY: A majority of the committee also said the CIA-
did not have adequate command and control of the
Nicaraguan operation. Casey played the good soldier
today, but New York Sen. Moynihan was not impressed..
SEN. DANIEL' MOYNIHAN (D-N.Y.): I wonder if he wouldn't
stop doing things he has to apologize for later on.
MCCARTHY: Violation'of the Boland amendment carries no.
penalties. The Democrats on the Intelligence , Committee
are simply using the manual to help build public and
congressional opinion against covert operations in
Nicaragua. Lee McCarthy, NBC News, at the U.S. Capitol.
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