TRANSCRIPT OF PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ISSUES

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• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
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• Publication Date: November 8, 1984
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ARTICLE AP EARED NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE . ?i/ 8 November 1984
Transcript of President's News Conference
on Foreign and Domestic Issues.
C.I.A. Manual
Q. Mr. President, have you received the
C.I.A. report on the manual? When are you
going to make it public? What did it say
specifically? Did it recommend disciplinary
action, and what are you going to do about it?
A. I think you're going to find that the - I
haven't received it yet, but I'm expecting to
probably before I get back to Washington.
But I have to say from whatever advance in-
formation I have that it was much ado about
nothing, that it is not a document that is
teaching someone how to assassinate, there's
nothing of that kind in it.
It was actually a document trying to help
leaders of the contras to influence and win
over the people if they came into a com-
munity down there and how they were to per-
suade the people that they were on the right
side. So we're waiting to see what's going to
be - what is in there. But I have had some in-
formation on it and have been assured that
there's not one word in there that refers to as-
sassination.
Q. Sir, if I could follow up, please..There-
I think that the report did recommend some
disciplinary action. Are you pledged to follow
the recommendations of the report, whatever
it is?.
A. Well, I want to see the report first. I'm
not going to commit in advance to anything.
Listen, with regard to the follow-ups here
though, may I point out we got a very limited
time here. Now, Chris, I said you and then
Andrea.
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