POPULATION POLICIES

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Population Policies
Noting the attached story on the first page of today's Times about
the White House-State Department dispute on aid to population control
programs, it seems to me that proposed article, "LDCs: Conse-
quences of Rapid Population Growth" would appear to be an inappropriate
intervention into policy dispute. This particularly so because the feud
is one of long standing and the basic facts of population growth and
potential economic impact are well and widely recognized and there is no
fresh intelligent
William J. Casey
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Article, "LDCs: Consequences of
Rapid Population Growth"
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The New York Times, Monday,-"18 June 1984
Aides Assert Reaga i the -United Nations Fund for Population
n i Activities and to a number of private
organizations.
Is Determined to End The eight-page draft paper, which
the National Security Council sent out
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By PHIL GALLEY
Spdal toTh. N.w Yafc T1aaw
WASHINGTON, June 17- President
Reagan is determined to change United
States policy to eliminate aid to Inter-
national population control programs
that practice or advocate abortion,
White House officials said today.
The proposal, outlined in a draft
paper being circulated within the Ad-
ministration, comes when many devel-
oping countries are intensifying family
planning efforts to ease social and eco-
nomic stress. -
Some of President Reagan's aides
say the proposal is partly motivated by
election-year politics, but they also say
it is aimed strictly at abortion and not
other family planning measures.
The United States, according to staff
members of the Population crisis com-
mittee, contributes $2240 million annu-
ally to international population control
programs, about half of the total inter.
national expenditure in this area. They
estimate that the proposal, if approved
by' President Reagan and converted
into new regulations, would cost these
programs $100 million in United States
assistance.
Specifically, the staff members say,
the new policy would eliminate aid to.
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agencies, is the working draft of a
statement that the United -States is
preparing for delivery at a United Na-
tions Conference on Population in Mex-
ico City scheduled for August. Former
Senator James L. Buckley of New
York, who shares President Reagan's
opposition to abortion, has been asked
by the White House to deliver the paper
at the conference.
A high-level White House official said
today that the draft statement is likely
to be revised, but he added that "the
final statement will reflect this Admin-
istration's feelings on population con-
trol."
The proposal, which has come under
attack from some members of Con-
gress and population control groups
who see it as a reversal of a long-stand-
ing policy, blames "governmental con-
trol of economies" in developing coun-
tries and "anti-intellectualism" in the
Western world for the problems associ-
ated with overpopulation. It also says
that population growth could be an eco-
nomic asset in some countries if "op-
pressive economic policies" were re-
placed by a free-market system. .
"The United Nations Declaration of
the Rights of the Child (1959) calls for
legal protection for children before as
well as after birth," the draft docu-
ment says, "and the United States ac-
cordingly does not consider abortion an
acceptable element of family planning
programs and will not contribute to
? those of which it is a part.
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"Nor will it any longer contribute di-
rectly or indirectly to family planning
programs funded by governments or
private organizations that advocate
abortion as an instrument of population
control."
Existing rules ban the use of Ameri-
can funds to pay for abortions by gov-
ernments and private organizations.
Under the new policy, even programs
that use private donations or money
from other governments to pay for
abortions would, lose United States
assistance.
Congressional approval is not needed
for the policy change. Once President
Reagan formally approves the new
policy, the State Department and other
agencies would have to revise their
rules to reflect the change.
Congress could block the policy revi-
sion by passing specific legislation, but
given its reluctance to have another de-
bate on abortion in an election year, it
does not appear likely to do so.
Baker a Driving Force
The high-level White House official
said James A. Baker 3d, the White
House chief of staff,. was a major force
behind the proposed policy change. For
too long, this official said, the State De-
partment and other Government agen-
cies had followed the views of the popu-
lation control lobby and, he added, Mr.
Baker had decided "there was need to
get a handle on it."
The official said President Reagan
could suffer"political damage" if offi-
cial policy was out of line with his per-
sonal views on abortion, or, worse, if it
appeared that "he wasn't in control."
He added: "The policy statement
was a means of asserting White House
policy control over this. That's what
Baker felt was important."
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The Washington Post (da?unknown)
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'Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
The Population Policy'Battle
A White House position paper putting the
United States on record that big government, not
big families, causes Third World poverty is under '
furious assault by the population control lobby.
On May 30, the National Security Council staff
forwarded for intragovernmental review a remark-
able "draft statement" of U.S. policy fox the Inter-
national Population Conference in- Mexico City
Aug: 6-13. Departing from past policy, it contends
the United States "does not consider abortion an
acceptable element of family planning programs
and will not contribute to those of which it is
part." Nor will this country "any longer" help fi-
nance foreign programs "that advocate abortion as
an instrument of population control."
A copy was promptly leaked by outraged
State Department officials to the population
control lobby. Two former senators deeply in-
volved in that movement-Republican Robert
Taft Jr. and Democrat Joseph Tydings-sent a
passionate letter to members of Congress June 6.
Assailing the White House paper for a "`funda-
mentalist, know-nothing' political philosophy,
they charged that it "subverts the congressional
prerogatives for setting policy."
Thus, when President Reagan returned from
Europe, he found an establishment-populist de-
bate of the kind his political advisers would rather
avoid. To bow to establishment pressure by ditch-
ing the draft paper would estrange anti-abortion
supporters-Protestant fundamentalists and
Catholic blue-collar families he needs Nov. 6.
The "pro-lifers" have wanted one of their own
heading the delegation to Mexico City. In re-
sponse, the White House recently informed
them it would be headed by a distinguished
Catholic layman and, abortion hater, former
senator James Buckley.
But Richard E. Benedick, the State Depart-
ment's coordinator of population affairs and a
career Foreign Service officer renowned for
pressing population control, quickly assembled a
delegation to surround if not smother Buckley.
His recommendations include not only such pro-
control Republicans as Taft-and Rep. John Per-
ter-of Illinois but two anti-Reagan liberal Demo-
crats, Reps. James Scheuer of New York and
Sander Levin of Michigan.
What Benedick had not expected, however,
was the draft study prepared by the White
House policy development office in coordination
with the NSC staff. It would opt for people, not
governments, as the real creators of wealth.
Population has become a problem, it said, be-
cause of "governmental control of economies, a
pathology of which spread throughout the de-
veloping world with sufficient virulence to keep
much of it from developing further."
That is not the end of the paper's heresies:
"Population control is not a panacea. It will not
solve problems of massive unemployment." Rath-
er, it suggests "population, density" may actually
help economic development, adding "that as long
as oppressive economic policies penalize those who
work, save and invest, joblessness will persist."
Counterattacking, Taft and Tydings wrote
members of Congress warning of "a potential for-
eign policy embarrassment of serious proportions."
Noting that the last eight administrations have
followed population control policies, it asserted:
"No administration-Democrat or Republican-
should change that policy unilaterally."
Specifically, the two former senators protested a
ban on U.S. aid to governments or private organi-
zations "that also happen to provide financial sup-
port for abortion services." They were conceding
for the first time that financing abortion goes with
U.S.-funded population programs.
Taft and Tydings attached to their letter a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee report on
the unpassed foreign aid bill as the congressional
imprimatur. The U.S. position in Mexico City,
said the committee report, "should be in full ac-
cord with policies which have been established
by the committee and by Congress in coopera-
tion with successive administrations."
That displayed the population lobby's clout.
The committee. report's words were lifted di-
rectly from a sample letter Taft has been urging
congressmen to send Secretary of State George
Shultz (and was indeed sent him verbatim by
the Foreign Relations chairman, Sen. Charles
Percy, and the Appropriations chairman, Sen.
Mark Hatfield). / ;
The day after he received his Tydings-Taft
S.O.S., Porter dutifully took the House floor
urging the administration to reject the draft re-
port. But the president will do so at the risk of
alienating his core constituency. Jim Buckley
would be unlikely to accept his mission to Mex-
ico City unless the Reagan administration opts
for economic incentives, not human restraints as
the route to wealth for poor nations.
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