HPSCI REQUEST RE BALTIMORE SUN ARTICLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000400470075-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: February 4, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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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
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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
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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out-of-date equipm t were the main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.
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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
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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
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