C.I.A. PLANS TO STAY IN NICARAGUA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: May 30, 1984
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NEW YORK TIMES
30 May 1984
C.I.A. Plans to Stay in Nicaragua
By HEDRICK SMITH
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WASHINGTON, May 29 Despite; chairman of the Senate Intelligence
warnings that money for the covert t'Committee, urged the Administration
war against Nicaragua will run out today not to press for more money.
June 1, the Central Intelligence Agency "The thing is that Congress no longer
plans to keep American agents in 'supports this activity," Senator Moyni-
operation until October in hopes of per- han said in a telephone interview from
suading Congress to provide more his home in upstate New York. "It
money, Administration officials said might not pass the ~ Senate, and it will
today. not pass the House."
Several officials said the C.I.A. had Senator Moynihan also said many
no more operational money to send Democrats in Congress feared the ,
arms and pay Nicaraguan rebels C.I.A. would try to get around the Con-
groups. But key members of Congress gressional refusal to vote more money
have said the rebels already have by getting third countries like Israel or
enough supplies to keep fighting for Saudia Arabia to finance the operations
some time as the operation is scaled or use funds from other programs.
down. "There's a generalized suspicion
These officials said some modest re- that they are making an end run now'
maining funds were available to keep financially," Senator Moynihan said.
American agents in Central America. George Lauder, a Central Intelli-
The White House, rebuffed by the re- gence Agency spokesman, denied any
fusal of the House of Representatives effort by the agency to circumvent Con-
last week to vote more money for Nica- gressional restrictions by getting
raguan rebels in the current fiscal
year, will make another attempt to
keep the program alive next week in
the Senate, which approved $21 million
in additional funds in early April.
"We intend to follow through on this
request," a White House official said.
"But there isn't much optimism."
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Democrat of New York, who is deputy
"it's unfortunate that Senator
Moynihan feels this way," Mr. Lauder
said. "The C.I.A. has asked no one for
funds for Nicaragua but the Congress
of the United States."
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