HPSCI REQUEST RE BALTIMORE SUN ARTICLE

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CIA-RDP90B01390R000400470075-3
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June 2, 2011
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75
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February 4, 1986
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MEMO
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90BO139OR000400470075-3 Iq Next 1 Page(s) In Document Denied Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90BO139OR000400470075-3 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90B01390R000400470075-3 OLL 86-0231 31 January 1986 MEMORANDUM FOR: EPA VIA: Chief, Liaison Division SUBJECT: HPSCI Request re Baltimore Sun Article 1. OLL received a call from Dick Giza, HPSCI staff, regarding the attached Baltimore Sun article of 29 January, entitled "Contras Using Aircraft to Drop off U.S. Supplies." 2. Mr. Giza would like the Agency to comment on the validity of the article, and if there is any substance, the Committee would like to know whose aircraft was used. 3. Please respond as soon as possible. Attachment: As stated Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90B01390R000400470075-3 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90BO139OR000400470075-3 IN THE WORLD NICARAGUAN REBELS `Contras' using aircraft to drop off U.S. supplies Nicaraguan rebels. blocked from receiving U.S. humanitarian aid through Honduras. have been drop- ping U.S.-funded supplies along with privately acquired military equip- ment into camps in Honduras and Nicaragua from aircraft flying out of 'El Salvador, according to two U.S. ofcials in Honduras. The officials said the aerial deliv- eries by planes leaving llopango air- port outside San Salvador were tem- porary in order to circumvent the 'ban placed on shipments of the "hu- manitarian" aid by former Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova. SOVIET UNION fo Th ds of tons of Soviet oil are being 1 every day because of leaks in broken tpelines, a Soviet newspa- per said y terday, highlighting fur- ther proble in the country's trou- bled Industry. Sozlaiistlc skaya Industrfa (Socialist Indust ) said rusting pipe- out-of-date equipm t were the main cause of the oil recto 's poor produc- tion over the past few ears. "The toilers in weste Siberia are in complete confusion o r the engi- neering and equipment t' ere," the newspaper said. Most of t losses had come from the Samotlo on of western Siberia, which in des the country's largest field at men. jV OUR ~9 9 CASTLE Ph a-booth encounter leads o proposal call They m in a telephone booth, he proposed to er in it. and the phone company yes relay offered the cou- ple the old-fas oned red booth as a wedding present Mark Robinso N 20, and Jeanette Hannon, 19, met y chance at the pay phone in the n east England city of Middlesbrough 1982. "She was taking long I had to knock on the window hurry her up," Mr. Robinson said. The argu- ment produced a romance, d when he was finally ready to pro mar- riage, he telephoned her f m the The couple plan to marry this year and want to put the booth in their garden as a memento. INTELLIGENCE FB has no desire to h dle defectors FBI o als are not interested in supplanting a CIA as the primary handlers off eign defectors, even though some White House aides think a shift co d remedy some blunders that surfs in the Vitaly Yurchenko affair. "It's a bucket of wo s," said one Justice official describi the task of handling and resettling d ecting of- ficials, most of whom co a from communist countri es and o may not speak fluent English 2 need new jobs, homes and, somet mes, new Identities. Justice officials say such a T9 job too high Zn'9Jmo, Czechoslovakia. cloc tower, so it hired the Prague pine Club to fix it. have been I re-ignite old rivalries CIA and the FBI that ly been put aside in the FBI, like every cy, is not looking for extra work at a budget cuts im Gramm-Rudman d law. sed by the WASHIN TON - Opponents of immediate U. . aid to Jonas Savirp- bi, the anti mmunist guerrilla leader in Angola, appeared yesterday to have won a h ted debate within Ion Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90BO139OR000400470075-3