REAGAN FAULTS PAST CIA CUTS IN BOMB BLAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440074-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: September 27, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Mr. Byrd asked of esi ent Rea-
gan, "Where's he been for the last
four years?" The senator said, "It's
one thing to be able to stage-manage
walking away from these disasters,
but it's another thing to try and
leave the impression that they didn't
even happen on your watch."
At the Timken Company's new
Faircrest computerized steel mill at
Canton, Mr. Reagan spoke against
"those who call for protectionism
and quotas, which are short-sighted
and temporary at best."
"A blunderbuss approach of
At what was billed as a foreign quotas and trade barriers" to protect
By B. arson policy forum but organized into a_ U.S. industry is "a giant step back
Chief of'rbe Sun's Washington Bureau high-decibel pep rally, Mr. Reagan into the misery of a failed past," he
told the Ohio students that the Unit-
ed States must "be patient when pro- Many of the construction workers
MILWAUKEE - Campaigning in voked," but "we must be equally who crowded in front of the presi-
the Midwest, President Reagan yes- clear that past a certain point.our dent at the steel mill wore Mondale-
terday laid blame for last week's adversaries push us at their peril" Ferraro stickers on their hard hats
anon n on the an on tthe "nneea.ar Embassy in destruction" Le of of "Uncle Sam is a friendly old man, ? and were -- restrained in their app
American spying capacity before he but he has a spine of steel," he de- plause for MMsr. Reagan's remarks.
Glared. -; But all responded when he declared
He came to office.
told students at Bowling The president's response in "a that "given the tools and equipment,
d
Green State Univ_ersitvin Ohio that question-and-answer session with we Americans can out-produce, out-
"we're feelin 'be effects today of students was the first time he had sell and out-compete the pants off
~' - - ' im lied that any part of the fault for anybody in the world.".
the near destruction of our intelli- P Y p At Bowfin Green
~enceca ~?bility ...before we cape" _:the latest embassy bombing lay with g Green, the several
here - the effort somehow to sa the Democrats. Last fall after the thousand students who jammed a
we s g is dishonest an second of the three major anti-U.S. basketball field house were at the
rid of our intelligence agents.... !'bombing incidents in Lebanon, be center of another controversy over
`-ye re ~ ~ to re~u-iTd our Intel- said that he accepted responsibility. whether Reagan rally organizers li.ge There was a dispute then over .have tinfairlrly_kept Democratic sup.-
know to wher ~ou'll find out and
know in advance what the to g t : whether U.S. forces had received in- po rters ay.
Outside the hall, several hundred
possible
mi an prepay or telligence warnings about ik anti-Reagan spectators were kept
Asked whether the resident was bombing of the Marine barracks at back behind snow fences, and could
referring cu in in ence the Beirut airport. 11 neither be seen nor heard by those
s in un Reagan concluded his re-
er i en imm~ IYir.
after, a ouse spokesman ..marks on the latest Lebanon inci- cheering inside. They chanted "Give sai et ou draw your own con- dent by saying the alternative to tak- Peace a chance," " and some c>m-
S ing such risks was to close down plained that tickets to the "Presiden-
elusions___but you __Ng~ tial Forum on World Affairs" had
moron ,American installations abroad and been distributed by local Republican
Reag`nappeared to be point- :give the terrorists a victory we're officials, through the fraternity and
not going to give them "
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administration, during which Adm. - In Washington, Senator Patrick J.
r o e ,why (D, Vt.), a member of the In-
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furrier
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Central. Intelligence Agency, cut telligence Committee, said, "How
hundreds of clandestine operatives dare he try to escape his responsibil-
trom the agency's payroll in favor of ities? If he does not immediately re-
increased technical spying. tract his statement, we should rise
--Democcatsinfrongr.ess reacted up and say, 'For shame, Mr. Presi-
angrily yesterday, arguing that the dent, for shame. You shame your of-
president should himself accept the fice,' " according to the Associated
responsibility for the security fail- Press.
tr-e. Similar anger was expressed by
Mr Reagan spoke to more than Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D,
sororitv'bouses.
3,000 cheering students at the um*- _N.Y.), who is vice chairman of the
versity before flying to Canton, Ohio, committee, _, and Senate Minority-
to inspect a new high-technology Leader Robert C. Byrd (D, W:Va.)..
steel mill being built in a" region Demanding an apolarv. r.
where many thousands of jobs have Moynihan said President Carter had
been lost in the steel industry. Later, asked for and received increases in
he came to Milwaukee to address an the CIA budget eac year. The Kew
ethnic Oktoberfest gathering before Von lSemocraf also released a let-
returning to Washington.. ter to him from CIA Director Wj)-
liam J. Cam, a_Reggap_apltee,
'in which Mr. Casey said that "the in-
crease in personnel 2r_udgetary
ski of the T gene, be g an 1979 "under President Carter.
BALTIMORE SUN
27 September 1984
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