SMITH PRESSING REAGAN TO OUST COAST ATTORNEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404520029-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON;.'Apr'ill Attorney-
t,e erat wruram.. French Smith .has:
recommended that'President'_.Reagarr.
dismiss the United,States Attorney in. -
San Diego if he refuses to resign for di3=
closing the identity of-a key American
intelligence source, Administration of-
ficialssaid
White-Hoax officials said they- ex.
petted the President. to follow, Mrr
Smith's re dation. -. Thee San. ; tmlcedPr...rne.ea.aca~1'.
Diego prosecutor, William 11 Kerinedq'
am . A..
a Rewblican appointed by Mr. Reagan ? ` States A for San Dle
Last year; has not indicated that he will ~-rri'.
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today that he
. had no comment on the latest develop;
meat in his case. ..': ,
Mr. Kennedy angered his superiors in
the Justice Department when he told
The San Diego Union last week that the
Central -Intelligence. 'Agency had
playeda role in bloclang prosecution of
the intelligence source, Miguel Nasser
Harp, in a major. criminal case; Mr:
Nassar is the former chief of Mexico's
national police the Directorate of Fed-
?eral Security..??v , .; ?;r
The newspaper's-interview 'quoted
Mr.. Xennedy quoted-as :saying that
since November .the- Justice Depart-.
meat had been withholding approval to
-indict Mr. Nasser is an $8 million case
involving automobile theft because the
agency bad advised the department
that Mr. Nassar was its ,most impor-
tant source- in- Mexico 'and -Central
America." ..". _...: { . a1.
Passible Lto Central America