LACK OF INTELLIGENCE ON GRENADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404230007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 2, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Morning Edition STATION WAMU-FM
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DATE November 2, 1983 6:00 AM CITY Washington, DC
Lack Of Intelligence On Grenada
BOB EDWARDS: A frequently raised question about the
U.S. invasion of Grenada is whether U.S. forces had adequate
advance information about the situation on the island.
Administration officials say U.S. forces encountered
.more resistance than expected, especially from Cubans on the
island. Once there, a U.S. intelligence failure.
report.
NPR's Ted Clarke explores that question in this
TED CLARKE: In responding to charges that there was
an intelligence failure, the President's supporters do some-
thing rather unusual. Instead of refusing to talk about
intelligence sources as is customary, they say quite openly
that the U.S. had no agents on the ground in Grenada.
Here's how National Security Advisor Rotsert McFarlane
put it last Thursday.
ROBERT McFARLANE: Well, I think when you don't have
any intelligence resources there at all something can't fail
that isn't there.
CLARKE: And yesterday, House Minority Leader Robert
Michel left the White House meeting prepared, like McFarlane,
.to tell reporters that no one was gathering intelligence for
the U.S. in Grenada.
Michel speaks with some authority as an ex-officio
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