PRESSPLAY ON CODELS ADDABBO AND HATFILD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000300420036-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: January 6, 1984
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJ: PRESSPLAY ON CODELS ADDABBO AND HATFILD
1. FOLLOWING IS FULL TEXT OF FRONT PAGE STORY IN GSL-OWNED DAILY
NEWS. PIECE WAS WRITTEN BY T.M. DEEN, THE PAPER'S NEW YORK
CORRESPONDENT, AND CARRIED THE HEADLINE "US CONGRESSMEN DUE ON
FACT-FINDING MISSION".
A SIX-MEMBER US CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION WILL BE IN SRI
LANKA NEXT WEEK ON A FACT-FINDING TOUR.
THE DELEGATION, WHICH IS LED BY JOSEPH ADDABBO (DEMOCRAT
- NEW YORK), WILL BE IN COLOMBO FROM JAN 12-14 ENROUTE TO ATHENS
ROME. SINGAPORE. TAIWAN, SEOUL AND TOKYO.
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE,
CONGRESSMAN ADDABBO WIELDS CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL CLOUT IN
CAPITOL HILL.
THE SUBJECT OF US MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO SRI LANKA IS
THEREFORE LIKELY TO BE ONE OF THE MANY TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
IN COLOMBO.
THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION ARE:
JACK EDWARDS (REPUBLICAN - ALABAMA), JACK HIGHTOWER (DEMOCRAT
- TEXAS), JOSEPH MCDADE (REPUBLICAN - PENNSYLVANIA), J. KENNETH
ROBINSON (REPUBLICAN - VIRGINA). AND GEORGE O'BRIEN (REPUBLICAN
- ILLINOIS).
MEANWHILE, A SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION WILL BE ON A
TWO-HOUR STOPOVER IN COLOMBO LATER THIS MONTH.
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THIS DELEGATION, LED BY SENATOR MARK D. HATFIELD (REPUBLICAN
- OREGON), WILL PAY A COURTESY CALL IN COLOMBO.
THE US AMBASSADOR IN COLOMBO, JOHN REED, AND HATFIELD ARE
TWO VETERAN REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS.
WHEN REED WAS GOVERNOR OF MAINE, HATFIELD WAS HIS COUNTERPART
IN THE STATE OF OREGON.
3. BEGIN LIMITED OFFICIAL USE:
POST HAS RECEIVED NO RPT NO PRESS QUERIES ON EITHER CODEL. IF
IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS ON COOEL ADOABBO POST PLANS TO RESPOND BY
PLAYING UP GOODWILL ASPECTS OF TRIP AND BY MINIMIZING DEFENSE
ASPECTS WITH REGARD TO SRI LANKA PORTION OF TRIP.
OPPEN
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