LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM BILL FRENZEL

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BILL FRENZEL
TNMO D,STNICT, MINNESOTA
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
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November 7, 1986
Mr. William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
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Mr. John L. O'Neill, Jr. of the Department of Minnesota,
Veterans of Foreign Wars has forwarded to me a copy of his
recent correspondence with you regarding the authenticity of
Mr. David MacMicheal's claim to be a former CIA analyst. A
copy of Mr. O'Neill's letter is enclosed for your reference.
I would greatly appreciate your sharing a copy of your reply
to Mr. O'Neill with me.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours ver truly,
Bill Frenzel
Member of Congress
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DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA
VETERANS OF FOREI,110 GN WARS
OF THE UNITED STATES
BOX 17146, RICE ST. STATION 20 WEST 12TH ST.
PHONE [phone]
s7
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55117
VETERANS SERVICE BUILDING
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55155
00V ('t 110 October 30, 19861
LARRY ZIEBARTH
State Commander
DEAN MEANS
Senior Vice Commander
RICHARD CARROLL
Junior Vice Commander
LES ORTON
Adjutant/Ouarlermaster
MICHAEL BRAINARD
Judge Advocate
JOE SCHIRMERS
Surgeon
REV ROMAN SCHAEFER
Chaplain
LEN KELLER
Chief of Staff
KENNETH J. HENDRICKSOI
Chief Inspector
PATRICK T. BOHMER
Past Commander
JAMES HESSELGRAVE
Assistant
AdlutantOuar 1e, master
ROBERT E. HANSEN
Past Commander in-Chief
JOHN S. STAUM
Past Commander in Chief
PATRICK T. BOHMER
National Council Member
HAROLD PAINE
1st District Commander
JAMES MURTAUGH
2nd District Commander
WALLACE DICKMEYER
3rd District Commander
FRANK M. SCHMIDT
4th District Commander
HARROL D. COLLINS
5th District Commands,
GARLAND JOHNSON
6th District Commander
DALE HURDLIK
7th District Commander
MARTIN A. STEINBACH
8th District Commander
CLARENCE ANDERSON
9th District Commander
William J. Casey, Director CIA
Old Executive Office Building
17th Street and Pennsylvannia Ave NW
Washington, D. C. 20506
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Dear Mr. Casey:
I had been contacted by Tim Dunn of the Minnesota
Public Interest Research Group to debate David Mac Michael
about U.S. Policy in Nicaragua on Friday, October 17, 1986.
Unfortunately, I was scheduled to attend meetings in Detroit,
Michigan that weekend and had recommended Earl Pike.
MacMichael claims to have been "a former CIA Analyst,
a Counter-- insurgency expert, who once analyzed Central
America intelligence information for the CIA".
I have heard that MacMichael never was a CIA employee
but worked for a contract firm. I would like to know if
MacMichael was a CIA employee.
To your knowledge, does MacMichael-qualify to be a counter
Insurgency expert regarding Central America?
I believe it is time to clear the air and correct the mis-state-
ments and half truths by people such as MacMichael who seem to
prosper on their criticism of our government.
While I realize there might be reason to say such information
might violate the Privacy Act, there should also be reason to
correct any false or mis-leading statements.
National Security Chairman
Department of Minnesota
Veterans of Foreign Wars
CC: U.S. Senator Durenberger
U.S. Congressman Frenzel
VFW National Security Director Steadman
State Commander Ziebarth
Earl Pike
ohn L. O'Neill, Jr`
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plan approved by Reagan did not
G opt . lies fpecistoill for the planting of
false stories in in the U.S. media.'
According Irene Kirkpatrick Woodward cites a whole series of
to deliberately false statements by
('Journalists shouldn't be so gullib- U.S. officials linking U.S. diplomatic
$e, Oct. 14), we must hold the and military activity to action
press, not the govemment, ac- %
against Gadhafi. He quotes docu-
disinformation. Kirkpatrick equates
the disclosures about disinforma-
tion with accounts of one ambassa-
dors expenses. She claims that in
both cases, the original news ac-
counts `changed.' And she chiefly
blames the problem on ' 'authorita-
tive' but anonymous sources.'
It would take a statement of equal
length to untangle this mass of
misrepresentation. Take only one
example: the assertion that Bob
Woodward's original account of
disinformation 'changed.' Kirkpa-
trick writes that Woodward initially
implicated top government officials
in encouraging Gadhafi's assassina-
tion and targeting the press in their
disinformation campaign. With
more information, Woodward's
story changed, said Kirkpatrick.
Woodward wrote that the National
Security Decision Document ex-
cluded assassination and specified
that deception was to be directed
against Gadhafi, not the U.S. press.
Let's look at the actual Woodward
accounts. The original story ( Wash-
ington Post, Oct. 2) says almost
nothing about Kirkpatrick's first
'implication' - assassination. It
does refer to the 'presidentially
authorized, year-long CIA effort to -
oust' Gadhafi. Further, this story
clearly states that "the mid-August
ments tying these statements to the
disinformation campaign. But this
takes up less than one-quarter of
the story. Nowhere does Wood-
ward say that this campaign made
,the U.S. press the principal target.'
That is Kirkpatrick's, not wood,
ward's 'implication.'
How did Woodward's actual ac-
count 'change?" We are given an
alleged Woodward statement (but
no source) negating Kirkpatrick's
'implications." We find part of the
statement in Woodward's Oct. 5,
Washington Post report. The final
decision document on disinforma-
tion, he writes, "did not mention
assassination.' He had just quoted
a State Department working paper,
which did mention it. But the rest
of the alleged statement? It appears
nowhere in this or any other
Woodward account. It is another of
Kirkpatrick's inventions.
Woodward's story did not change.
It is not the conduct of Woodward
but the conduct of our government
that is in question. It was systematic
lying inside and outside of govern-
ment that led us into and kept us in
Vietnam. It was systematic lying,
again, that initiated and perpetu-
ated Watergate. If now we shrug it
off, because maybe we don't like
Gadhafi, we only prepare the way
for further disaster.
hostile venue. As stated in the
Daily's editorial ("Debate, at last,
Oct. 16),"War advocates ... must
be heard and challenged.' It is
disturbing when anyone exhibits a
reluctance to thoroughly examine
arguments which he or she dis-
agrees with.
Most of the questions asked evi-
denced similar views to those of
MacMichael. There was, however,
one question asked about alleged
Sandinista religious persecution and
press censorship. One could tell by
the muted hisses and hostile grum-
blings from the rest of the audience
that this was not a 'correct' ques-
tion. Although I oppose aid to the
Contras, I am glad the question was
asked. The prime focus of suc
debate should be to address
difficult issues and not merel'
provide a forum for prerecou-
Contra- or Sandinista-bashing
It is the mark of immaturity tc
desperately attached to one's
that any counter ideas are pe
ceived as an immediate threa
warranting attack. Just as the -
amined life is not worth living-
unexamined opinion is not w
having.
Charles Betz
Honors student,
Freshman, CLA
Is that what we really want?
Eric Shambach
Extension student
Both
sides now
Kudos to all who helped make last
Friday's Nicaragua debate such a
resounding success and to the
audience's respect for rational, civi-
lized discourse and debate. One
may not agree with Earl Pike's
views, but he obviously displayed a
great deal of courage in accepting
the invitation to appear in such a
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Debate,
at last
The campus is going to get its debate over the
Reagan Doctrine after all. To readers of yesterday's
Daily, the debate looked as certain as the latest CIA
denials of involvement in Nicaragua. The Minnesota
Public Interest Research Group, which in one day
had invited and then canceled a pro-Contra debater,
was sticking by its guns. It had found a critic of the
Reagan administration against whom no pro-Contra
debater could hope to stand - none, at least, that
MPIRG could find locally or afford to fly in. Rather
than risk the unpredictability of a dialogue, it
canceled its tentative invitation to pro-Contra
speaker Earl Pike, a Honeywell manager, and
scheduled instead a solo speech by former CIA
analyst David MacMichael. Fortunately - how
fortunately remains to be seen Friday - Pike is
back.
Such a debate should be of interest to the entire
campus for deciding where each person stands on
the crucial moral issue of U.S. aid to the Contras.
This was close to MPIRG's original goal when it
who gave some two dozen speeches on Central
America last year and as an advocate of the Reagan
administration's policy who maintains ties with the
pro-Contra Midwest Council for Democracy in
Central America - will probably never match those
of MacMicheal. But debates aren't won on the merit
of who has the most information. And far from
something to scoff at, Pike's credentials suggest that
he is adequate for representing his position.
Now the debate will have a voice for the abhorrent
policy of U.S. interference in Central America.
Despite this newspaper's philosophical opposition
to Pike's politics, we want to see him face MacMi-
chael. War advocates, whether in Honeywell or
elsewhere, are currently ascendant. Their voices
must be heard and challenged if for no other reason
than that public discourse is shaped outside the
conclaves or last week's Progressive Student Organi-
zation meeting. A member of MPIRG says that PSO
and the Central American Working Group (which
co-sponsor the debate with MPIRG) balked at the
initial invitation of "a right-wing ideologue" who is
"moralistic." Too bad. Surprisingly enough. more
heads are likely to be turned by hearing Mac-
Michael rebut Pike, if he can, than by staging one
more partisan attack. That is why we are glad that
MPIRG has changed its mind and will present the
debate at 12:15 p.m. Friday in the Mississippi Room
of Coffman Memorial Union. Save us the best seats.
invited MacMichael and sought a CIA representative
to debate him. Although admirable, this was also an outl
unlikely plan, since the CIA has become extremely reluctant to visit
f
campuses
or any reason other than
recruitment. MPIRG's decision to broaden the scope
or the rorum was admirable, too. But its plan to
scrap the debate because it could not rind a debater
as knowledgeable as MacMichael - admittedly a
rare species - cried out for reconsideration.
The issue is not whether Pike is the best choice to
debate MacMichael. If sheer knowledge is the
measure, Pike's qualifications - as a tested debater,
as a defense industry specialist, as a public speaker
damned spot!
A scourge along our federal highways has reached
Capitol Hill, and it's not Dutch elm disease.
Billboards, competing for our attention along high-
ways and rising on pylons from the East Coast, to the
Gulf of Mexico, have the Coalition for Scenic
Beauty and other environmental groups outraged.
This "parasitic' pollution "scars the facE
. erodes the quality of life ... undern
America's heritage and sense of place"
traffic accidents, they say. In fact, high-
lobbying efforts and loopholes in the H
Beautification Act have resulted in a rep
of obtrusive billboards. A sensible amen
the U.S. Senate Highway Reauthorizatiu
currently pending in the legislature, has
mentalists hoping for an end to 'billbo~
The Highway Beautification Act, which-
pet project of Ladybird Johnson in 196`
miserably. Intended to limit billboards
highways and prohibit them in scenic a
actually resulted in the federal governrr
out $200 million last year to owners of
signs for their removal - at the taxpavi
.And the number of billboards tripled ar
and local governments have no control
ber, kind or placement of billboards. M
billboard companies build shacks on ru
beside their signs to sidestep commerci
regulations.
The Senate amendment proposes to re,
that. But therein lies the rub. The billbc
pays a 50 cents per word honorarium t(
Congress for speeches and public appe
return, congressmen "decide" to block
legislation. The bad guys seem to residf
the House of Representatives. Their rer
they passed in August, sustain the statu
The Senate's amendment won't make a
honoraria but might clean up the lands(
ending subsidies to billboard companie
that illegal billboards be cleaned up at t
expense would ease the financial strain
giving state and local governments pow
own landscape, communities can decid
not their scenery or esthetics warrant pi
billboard removal in their area. Our sce
10,000 Lakes could only benefit from st
rebellion against scenic 'parasites.'
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The proposal from the planning
commission would rezone much of
the neighborhood from R-3, which
g>snerally allows houses to have
more than two units, to R-28,
which is more rigid and bans more
than two units to a house.
At least, if you do pass this
measure, please consider a resolu-
tion to work with the University to
provide alternative housing for
students,' Wilensky said. 'Don't
fall behind in what you're doing,for
students.'
Council Member Van White (DFL-
5th Ward), who represents the
o''er part of the Marcy-Holmes
neighborhood, supports the rezon-
ing.
The zoning study is also supported
by the Marcy-Holmes Homeown-
ers Association, a group of neigh-
borhood residents who say the city
should phase out some of the
many houses owned by absentee
landlords and rented to students.
Many of the houses, they say, do
not meet city safety codes and are
Robert Distad, the association
chairman, said it wasn't his group's
intention to displace students. 'We
want the continuation of the exist-
ing housing in the neighborhood,'
he said. 'We want to retain diver-
sity and the long-term presence of
students.' But he says unscrupu-
lous landlords in the area are
charging top-dollar rents for shod-
dily maintained housing.
One former student and resident of
the neighborhood said he sup-
ported Distad's goals.
MPIRG dismisses debater
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supporting administration
By Tim Wolf
Staff Writer
After scheduling a debate over U.S.
policy in Nicaragua, the Minnesota
Public Interest Research Group
told one side's debater he wouldn't
be needed.
inside
Liberals be gone
? Are you a-liberal? Peter Kizi-
los says move to New Zea-
land. Page 7
Turn it up
it KUOM, the University' cam-
pus radio station wants to
increase power and change to
a 24-hour format. So stay
tuned. Page 9 -
More damn football
? That slimy pigskin sage, Mr..
Football, is running off at the
mouth again. Page 19
MPIRG asked Earl Pike to defend'
the Reagan administration's Nicara-
guan policy at a debate on Friday
sponsored by MPIRG, the Progres-
sive Student Organization and the
Central American Working Group.
MPIRG asked David MacMichael, a
former CIA analyst and critic of
administration policies, to rep-
resent the opposing view.
Because Pike was dropped, the
debate will now be an educational
presentation with only MacMichael
speaking.
Tim Dunn, MPIRG campus orga-
nizer, said Pike was dropped be-
cause the debate's sponsors felt it
was unfair for him go up against
MacMichael. Pike would be less
prepared than MacMichael, he
said.
'We felt he (Pike) had no real
background in Central America or
with the CIA. Since the debate is
:specifically about Nicaragua, it
would not have been a very good
debate.'
keen and frequent speaker on
Nicaragua, I felt my qualifications
to speak on affairs there were
equal to the occasion.'
Pike has written a book about
terrorism and has spent 24 years in
the Marine Corps - 16 of which
were with a bomb disposal unit.
But Pike's experience with terrorist
bombing techniques does not qual-
ify him to speak about U.S. policy
in Nicaragua, Dunn said.
Dunn said the sponsors had
wanted both sides represented at
the debate. 'Ideally what we
wanted was the CIA.'
The CIA declined, however. They
next turned to an organization of
ex-CIA agents, but could not afford
to pay a representative to come to
the University.
Then they attempted to schedule a
local conservative to defend the
Reagan administration's policies.
Because none of the sponsors were
But Pike said he is qualified. 'As a
MPIRG to 4
said quality was lacking in the transplanted organ.
'
neighborhood.
I was charged
$250 a month to live in a living
room,' he said of his former resi-
dence. 'There was no heat in the
bathroom. It was horseshit. As a
student I felt I was being exploi-
ted.'
The rezoning would also help
diversify the neighborhood, said
Wexler, who lived there from 1984
until early this year. 'There should
be families and other kinds of
people there besides just stu-
dents,' he said.
Kirt returns
home after
being listed
as .missing
Jane Anne Kirt, the former Uni-
versity student who had been
missing for more than a week,
returned to her parents' Excel-
sior home Monday.
The 23-year-old international
relations graduate was the sub-
ject of an intense search after
she disappeared without a trace
last Monday.
The alarm was false, according
to Charlie Palmquist, an officer
of the Minneapolis Police De-
partment's 5th Precinct.
'Miss Kirt left the city-volun-
tarily for personal reasons and
was not the victim of a crime,'
Patrnn?ict read from an official
MPIRG from 1--.
familiar with conservatives, they
turned to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars for recommendations, he
said. Their original choices were
unavailable, so they decided to ask
Pike, but later decided against him,
Dunn said-
ALG prevents this rejection proces,
by killing the T-lymphocylcs or
rendering them inactive. It is given
routinely to the patient for about
seven days after the transplant
operation.
Because continued use of ALG
alone may overly suppress the
immune system, it is used in con- .
junction with cyclosporin, another
widely used drug that suppresses
tissue rejection.
Condie said that both cyclosporin
and ALG have advantages and
disadvantages, but, when used
together, doctors can take maxi-
mum advantage of each drug.
'Nobody foresaw that these two
drugs would work together so
nicely,' Condie said. 'Rather than
cvclosporin eliminating the need
for ALG, it has actually increased
the need.'
ALG is currently being produced it
Research East, a research and labo
ratory building near the East Bank,
campus. The basement of the
Phillips-Wangensteen Building,
which is part of the medical schoo
complex, was also considered as a
site, but the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration requires that the
drug be produced in a separate
facility.
Pike said that by rescinding their
offer to him, MPIRG has acted a,
partisan advocate rather than the
non-partisan organization it mair
tains to be.
'MPIRG staffers could reclaim
some semblance of objectivity if
they would return to the debate
originally established,' Pike said.
But Dunn denied his organizatioi
was partisan. They had tried to
secure a pro-administration de-
bater, he said. Also, the debate is
non-partisan because no political
parties are represented, he said.
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The U.S. has always demanded
hegemonic control over the gov-
ernments of Latin America.' Mac-
Michael said. It wouldn't matter if
the Nicaraguan government was
made up of vegetarians.'
When the Reagan administration
took office in 1981, one of its goals
was to overcome the Vietnam
Syndrome, he said.
The Vietnam Syndrome refers to a
perceived reluctance on the part of
government officials and the Amer-
ican public to use force to stem the
tide of communism after the
wounds incurred in Vietnam, Mac-
Michael said.
The Reagan administration saw
Central America as an opportunity
to stand up to the Soviet Union.
MacMichael, however, called the
administration's policies an 'egre-
gious failure."
But Pike cited a Gallup Interna-
tional poll indicating that over 90
percent of the Central American
population sees Nicaragua as a
Ex-CIA analyst,
author debate
aid to Contras
By Tim Wolf
Staff Writer
Administration proponents and op-
ponents had it out over U.S, policy
in Central America in Coffman
Memorial Union Friday.
The debate featured David MacMi-
chael, a former CIA analyst and
outspoken critic of U.S. govern-
ment policy and Earl A. Pike, a
speaker, author, and advocate of
the Reagan administration's Central
American policy.
Included in the debate on Central
American issues were: U.S. aid to
the Contras, CIA activity, the Sandi-
nista regime in Nicaragua, Cuban-
Soviet involvement, and specu-
lation on the future.
The debate produced applause,
laughter, and some hissing from the
standing-room-only crowd.
MacMichael said continued sup-
port of the Contras fighting the
Sandinistas will eventually bring
about a large-scale conventional
invasion by the United States. He
called the Reagan administration's
support for the Contras a 'policy of
state terror, directed and funded by
the U.S. government.'
Pike countered by calling the Sand-
-.inistas an aggressive threat to the
rest of Cerltral, America. On the
American continents there isn't a
more repressive regime.'
Continued support of the Contras is
the only chance to combat an
aggressive world-wide marxist revo-
lution and establish a representative
democracy in Nicaragua, he said.
Pike said international reports com-
pletely document Sandinista re-
pression. The 6,500 political prison-
ers in Nicaragua, the oppression of
the Miskito Indians and the shutdown
of La Prensa, an opposi-tion newspa-
per in Nicaragua, illus-trace this re-
pression.
MacMichael questioned the accu-
racy of the reports Pike cited. He said
a "very sloppy job" was done on the
reports, which were com-pleted in
only a week.
After the debate MacMichael said, if
every police force in Latin America
acted like the Nicaraguan police, you,
would not see thick volumes of
human rights abuse in the area.'
MacMichael said the Reagan ad-mir -
istration is only continuing the tradi-
tional policy pursued by both
Democrats and Republicans for the
last 1q0 years. Whether it's called
gunbodl diplomacy, good-neighbor
policy or supporting the `freedom
fighters" - the same actions con-
tinue.
Debate to 5
threat and that approximately 70
percent of the people favor U.S.
aid to the Contras.
The Central American debate was
sponsored by the Minnesota Public
Interest Research Group, the Cen-
tral American Working Group and
the Progressive Student Organiza-
tion. -
Monday, October 20, 1986
Volume 88, Number 19
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Kevin Lovely from the Alternative Demo Teich showed off his high-
technique Friday In front of Coffman Union, The team is sponsored
Alternative Bicycle Repair Shop.
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Fornjpianalyst expects
escalation in Nicaragua
"' Nicnoias w. Pillugin
Staff Writer
attempt to seize territory, they will
be immediately surrounded by the
A former CIA analyst predicted in o~ the Bay of Pigs invasion ofsCuba.
St. Paul Friday that Contra rebels He believes that direct U.S military
may try to seize territory in Nicara- involvement will then be likely,
gua, an action that could lead to starting with a naval blockade,
direct U.S. military involvement, followed by U.S. troops.
David MacMichael, a counter-in- "Believe me, 'a lot of Minnesotans
surgency expert who once ana- will be coming home in plastic
lyzed Central American intelligence sacks." MacMichael said U.S. mili-
information for the CIA, came to tary involvement in Nicaragua
the Twin Cities Friday campaigning would continue for some time
for Democratic U.S. House candi- because the Nicaraguan army is
date Ray Stock, who's running well trained.
against incumbent Bill Frenzel (R-
3rd District). MacMichael called the recent
'if this thin downing of a cargo plane in Nicara-
MacMichael sagoes into ,' a 'an id, referringttoeU.S. he five-year-old war. Helatio aid that
support for the rebels, "there will while this was the 17th aircraft to
be a very great pressure on the be shot down over Nicaragua, it
Contras to seize some territory." was the first aircraft downed with
He said the Atlantic coast, around also noted that there has been
Puerto Cabezas, was the most "frenzied recruiting" for American
likely point for such an attempt aircrews by air cargo firms such as
because it is where the Sandinista Southern Air Transport, the com-
government is weakest. pany that owned the downed
MacMichael said if the Contras
plane, that fly to Central America.
Local Democrat Stock
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uses Nicaragua crash
as campaign.issue
By Nicholas W. Pilugin central theme of his campaign.
Staff Writer When the Reagan administration
to k ff' ~
Former CIA analyst David MacMichas thinks.d arrypaet of tine Co
Nicaragua will eventually bring a large-scale invasion by.tt as {Mind Slane
0 ice in 1981, one or its goals
The cargo plane shot down over Since the Nicaraguan government was to overcome the Vietnam The Reagan administration saw threat and-that approximateh
downed the C-123 cargo plane, Syndrome, he said. Central America as an opportunity
Nicaragua two weeks ago directed Stock has used the publicity over
favor I.
attention to U.S. Policies in Central in.,..i.,e.,.e.,. ,.a y up to the Soviet nion.
to stand u std to the Contras.
A-'- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/22 : CIA-RDP88GO1332R000901030004-5
Another indication of impending
escalation in the conflict is the
sudden doubling in Southern Air
Transport's fleet and government
contracts. For 1986, Southern Air
Transport received government
contracts totaling $42 million,
about double th amount received
in any of the lasifive years.
MacMichael said that while these
contracts are for above-board serv-
ices for the military and govern.
ment agencies; he believes they are
"well-padded" to cover clandestine
operations.
Southern Air Transport was once
owned by the CIA, and MacMi=
chael charged that when the firm
was sold to private owners, the
agency agreed to use the airline for
such missions.
MacMichael entered public debate
over U.S policy on Nicaragua 2!
years ago when he revealed that as
a CIA analyst he had seen no .
evidence or alleged arms shipments
from Nicaragua to Salvadoran re-
bels.
Debate from 1
"The U.S. has always demanded
hegemonic control over the gov-
ernments of Latin America." Mac-
Michael said. it wouldn t matter if
the Nicaraguan government was
made up of vegetarians."