CIA SAID PLANNING AID TO REBELS WITH AN EXTRA $400

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• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 25, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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: The Reuters News Wire Service, Story 197/T8537
25 July 1986
Item No. 2
CIA SAID PLANNING AID TO REBELS WITH AN EXTRA $400
WASHINGTON, July 24, Reuter - The CIA is planning to provide
:araguan rebels with indirect support worth $400 million in
iition to a request for $100 million in direct aid now
iding in Congress, a key Senator said today.
Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd in a floor speech said
at he independently confirmed a Newsweek report that the
ltral Intelligence Agency was preparing to give the rebels
:overt logistical support, training, communications and
:elligence worth the equivalent of $400 million."
The contra rebels are fighting the leftist Sandinista
Iernment of Nicaragua.
This information was verified by a responsible American
)assy official in Honduras on July 7, 1986," the West
7ginia Democrat said.
?This official indicated that it was correct that the CIA
:ended to provide unappropriated aid that could reach that
)unt," he said, adding that it would be ?in addition to the
iuested $100 million in appropriated aid."
He said this indicated a level of potential American
iolvement that the American people are not aware of; I have
:-tainly not been appraised of, nor my colleagues."
Byrd quoted the official as saying the CIA would purchase
:erials that would be turned over to the contra rebels but to
ich the CIA would retain legal title.
'This would appear to be a kind of capital investment
)gram," Byrd said.
The House last month approved Reagan's request for $100
.lion in mostly military aid for the rebels, who seek to
arthrow Managua's Sandinista government.
The aid package is pending before the Senate, where liberal
locrats have threatened to wage a marathon debate -- called a
.ibuster -- to block a vote on the funding.
Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas has been trying
work a deal in which Democrats would promise not to
.ibuster on contra aid in return for promised votes on two
ler issues of great importance to them -- South Africa
Ictions and the SALT-2 arms control treaty.
So far, no agreement has been reached.
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