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• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 18, 1982
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BALTIMORE NEWS-AMERICAN
18 March 1982
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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._ :.:
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