THE CIA SLIPPED UP ON THIS ONE

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March 18, 1982
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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/27: CIA-RDP90-00552R000606260018-4 BALTIMORE NEWS-AMERICAN 18 March 1982 s n, 1"IA s Vd.- up b n 1.he-`u ]h e PP , Hearst Feature Service ?`complicity in the Salvadoran-sham- I ing replies. . .,Napoleon?" not-bring'encourag- By John P. Roche ?? p:uritnesi-?tn demonstrate Sandinista.. The recent State, Deparrtmment- States shot itself in the foot. The "prove" Sandinista involvement to a. sponsored film, "Orlando Tardencii problem with the American people is public that is really asking a different las: Double Agent;.':, must be given. `>-not in the area of knowledge. Almost question, Comrade Tardencillas was four stags, despite the fact its produc- everybody with an I.Q. over 50 be- able to get away with his set-up. This ersarenowdemandingan"X"rating. lieves, the Salvadoran insurgency is ; is; adeinonstrationofprofessional in= It was a spectacular. The certified supported.by Moscow, Havana and competence in the intelligence net Nicaraguan trained in'Ethiopia and Managua'=Castri~said as much last 'work for which heads should roll. Is it .CubatoleadthecadresinElSalvador ._. year to a-;visiti Ge n Social possible the CIr'1 }vas. cut out of this would demonstrate once and for all to Democrat Pilgrim's Progress because .it would skeptics: the external support of the Thus turning .up one 'man, or a `delay the climax? Salvadoran rebels. When captured in battalion of characters, with Nigara- .,Tobeprecise, Tardencilla fell into Salvador, he'sang so'persuasively he guan birth certificates in Salvador is Salvadoran " and ; ;subsequently;. wasputon exhibition in agolden cage not going to.alter public perceptions - American . hands equipped with a and shipped to Washington., True, congressmen male a lot ofnois_e "legend"- an elaborate tale of train- Then, as the- State.. Department about proof, but this is -a charade. ing,in Ethiopia and Cuba which was ;officials who were producing--the cones:,; They know roughly'-90 percent of literally too good to be true. As noted fession of-'a . reformed. subversive their constituents do not, want U.S. ? earlier, he was too fluent: he obvious- gaped, he went into his real number. military. interventiorij in Salvador, ly knew exactly ghat the "''anquis His whole story -of Ethiopian- and s suspect.this kind of intervention is wanted James J_ Angleton, formerly Cuban training he said, was a fake, ;:the only kind that will work, and head of counterintelligence, would' forced from him by a combination of ` want to get out of thee1afilade.Hence have gone on red.alert when this torture-- ands "objective conditions ' 'the essenti ally preposterous demand beautiful tale reached CIA headquar- j Except for a=fewwaliartt Nicaraguan foi proof tere. volunteers like -himself, the Marti i:The problem, as Man: putit, is not , 'Jim had a quirk -he occasionally guerrillas-had no significant outside to=understand the world, but to "suspected himself of being, a KGB aidagainst,.the_"fascists"exceptthe~changeit.Itisatthislevelthatpublic "mole"-but he would have laid on revolutionary zeal of the-oppressed. ` opinion balks; Not because it is pro- '..Ethiopian' and Cuban interrogators. masses. He was one cool operator. Castro, but because it is convinced in 'No whips or electric prods - just A number of corrirrienh'come to . an inarticulate fashion that there is.' 'friendlyquestions. Where in Ethiopia tnind. First, in a clinical sense,.we... no domino in Salvador capable of ,was he, how long, how vas the bar-, have to-award a touchdown ta the-' . being propped up. vest, weren't the mouritains outside KGB for thistoruscatmg disinlbrma-. IV I Since Vietnam is rich in "lessons," :Uardere beautiful? tion coup, Mrhich was undoubtedly let. us recall one that is. relevant: Then'that camp iii Cuba. Why did stage-managed by its:whiolly owned- `strong American support for Presi-.... they have to put it in.a swamp with Cuban subsidiary,. the DGL.Tarden-. dent Diem` followed his= successful that stinking river.dropping off the cillas `was4perfectly cast; young,: suppression of various Vietnamese sewage from GuayaliaP How did he , thou tful,'sincere and fluent'Iri fact` private armies ranging from the Cao get from Entebbe, the Ethiopian cap- too: damn. fluent, but of that.' more Dai and.Hua Hoa-sects-toy the forma ital, to Cuba? The man is bright, but. later. His timing was perfect'and in .'a dable=Binh- Xuyeri: bandits. We are somewhere' along the line he would year or so, after his friends in? Maria- i idealists, but before'ive put in our have blundered. His "objectise condi- gua get his English, up toapee,d,. he ." stack.. welike.a.face-c~ dinthe hole tioning" might not have informed, should be on the U.S. college 'circuit. F . Our real trouble began .in Vietnam him Addis Ababa is the capital of Second, by putting sq`rnucls. em-.x after we sponsored` Diem's murder : - Ethiopia, it is flat at Uardere, and "phasis on'. the valuerof this vital' The c uety.stoday ."is Jose ;Duarte a . Guayabal is on the Cuban coast._ :.: Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/27: CIA-RDP90-00552R000606260018-4