YOUR BREAKFAST WITH REPRESENTATIVE BILL MCCOLLUM (R., FL)

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2 September 1988
OCA 88-2957
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
FROM: John L. Helgerson
Director of Congressional Affairs
SUBJECT: Your Breakfast with Representative
Bill McCollum (R., FL)
1. On Wednesday, 7 September at 8:30 a.m. you are
scheduled to host a breakfast for Representative Bill McCollum.
2. Mr. McCollum is primarily interested in Afghanistan
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Name (including party/state:) Rep Bill McCollum (R., Fl)
District: 5th District - Florida
First elected: 1981 Up for re-election: 1988 Winning %:
Past service on intelligence committee: Yes: No: X
Current service on intelligence committee: Yes: No: X
Term on intelligence committee expires:
Other committee assignments: Served on the House Select Committee
Investigating the Iran-contra affair
Major intelligence/legislative interests: '83 trip to El Salvador
interested him in the plight of refugees in Salvadoran camp. He or-
ganized private relief for these people. His amendment to an 85
defense bill authorized non-lethal aid to Afghan refugees. He's
also a supporter of guerrillas fighting Marxists in Angola and of-
fered a successful amendment to curtail new Export-Import Bank loans
to Angola until all Cuban troops left the country.
Key votes: For production of MX Missiles - yea; Voted yea for
aid to Nicaraguan contras.
Visits to CIA facilities: None
Last contact with DCI/DDCI:
Recent correspondence:
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5 Bill McCollum (R)
Of Altamonte Springs - Elected 1980
Born: July 12, 1944, Brooksville, Fla.
Education: U. of Florida, B.A. ]965, J.D. 1968.
Military Career. Navy, 1969-72; Naval Reserve, 1972
to present.
Occupation: Lawyer.
Family: Wife, Ingrid Seebohm; three children.
Religion: Episcopalian.
Political Career. Chairman, Seminole County Republi-
can Executive Committee, 1976-80.
Capitol Office: 1507 Longworth Bldg. 20515; 225-2176.
In Washington: In the flood of Republi-
can freshmen who came to Washington with
President. Reagan in 1981, McCollum did not
stand out. Neither his political background nor
his physical presence was imposing; he was a
lawyer who never had held public office, and on
first impression he seemed boy-scoutish in ap-
pearance and manner.
But in his brief House career, McCollum
has displayed a knack for operating in the
institution that has made him one of the more
influential junior Republicans. He is conserva-
tive without being inflexible, and persistent
without being tiresome.
The influx of refugees to Florida in the
past decade has led McCollum to take a hard
line against illegal aliens, and he played a
central role in the long congressional battle
over the nation's immigration laws. In 1986.
after five years of effort, Congress cleared a bill
overhauling those immigration laws.
At the heart of the legislation was a provi-
sion granting legal resident status to millions of
aliens now in the country illegally. McCollum
argued that such a move was a "slap in the
face" to would-be immigrants who wait their
turn to enter, and would encourage more unau-
thorized entries by aliens hoping for another
amnesty in the future.
McCollum led the opposition to amnesty
provisions in the 97th, 98th and 99th Con-
gresses. "We are going to be rewarding law-
breakers," he warned in 1986, as the House
spurned his amendment to strike the bill's
amnesty provision by.a close 199-192 vote. He
then voted against House passage of the bill,
although he later voted for the final House-
Senate agreement.
McCollum fared considerably better on
another immigration issue in the 99th Con-
gress, as President Reagan signed into law his
bill to tighten restrictions on weddings involv-
ing aliens. The bill, designed to curb the use of
fraudulent marriages to circumvent immigra-
tion laws, would impose a fine and prison term
for marriage fraud, which McCollum called "a
thriving cottage industry." "We need to halt a
new alien theory - buy a bride, get a green
card," he said.
McCollum combined his assignments on
Judiciary and Banking in 1986 and contributed
to legislation to bar "money laundering," the
practice by which criminals - particularly
drug dealers - convert. illegal profits into us-
able cash. McCollum and Crime Subcommittee
Chairman William J. Hughes of New Jersey co-
authored Judiciary's bill, which made a new
federal crime of money laundering; it breezed
through the House by voice vote during Con-
gress' drive to enact major anti-drug legislation.
The Banking bill addressed federal banking
law rather than criminal law. Portions of both
bills were included in the $1.7 billion anti-drug
package.
On the Banking Committee's Housing
Subcommittee, McCollum and Texas Republi-
can Steve Bartlett led conservative opposition
to the Democratic majority's efforts in behalf of
federally subsidized housing programs. In 1985,
McCollum offered an amendment to kill a $265
million program providing matching grants to
stimulate rental housing construction. The sub-
committee rejected it 26-11. In 1986 he pro-
posed to kill a program designed to help fi-
nance housing construction in distressed areas
for low-income families. He said the money
could be better spent. on rehabilitation of exist-
ing housing. The House turned back that at-
tempt 300-123.
McCollum's committee assignments do not
give him a direct entree to foreign policy issues,
but his visit to El Salvador in July 1983 led him
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Florida 5
In a state famous for its coastline, the
5th is the only Florida district without one.
But that has been no hindrance to economic
development or population growth in and
around Orlando. In fact, metropolitan Or-
lando (encompassing Orange and Seminole
counties) has a more diversified economic
base than many of Florida's beach meccas,
where the economy is skewed toward tour-
ism, condo construction and real estate
speculation.
Orlando has its share of builders and
bankers, but it also produces electronic
equipment, boats, elevators and pharma-
ceuticals. It is the base of the Burger King
empire and the site of numerous aerospace
and defense contractors working on missiles
and aircraft control systems. Tourism is also
a major contributor to the economy because
the Orlando area is dotted with theme
parks. Disney World is across the border in
the 11th District, but many of its employees
live in the 5th.
When McCollum won the 5th in 1980, it
was a much larger district, stretching from
theGulf almost to the Atlantic. But because
it had nearly doubled in population during
the 1970s, it was divided in redistricting.
The part that McCollum kept contains all
North Central - Orlando
and Northern Suburbs
of downtown Orlando and the city's north-
ern suburbs in Orange and southern Semi-
nole counties.
The affluent Orange County communi-
ties of Winter Park and Maitland are home
to Orlando's older, established elite, which
provides strong support for Republican can-
didates. Another reliable source of Republi-
can votes is Seminole County, north of
Orlando, where many of the upper-level
executives new to the area settle. In 1984,
Reagan won three-fourths of the presiden-
tial vote in Seminole. Most of the district's
Democratic votes come out of working-class
areas within the city of Orlando.
Growth has brought its share of prob-
lems to the Orlando area. The city's sewage
threatens the health of Lake Tohopekaliga
to the south, and paying for capital im-
provements to control the problem is costly.
Demand for water has increased dramati-
cally; lowering of the water table causes
occasional sinkholes to open up, swallowing
buildings, cars and swimming pools.
Population: 513,005. White 420,215 (82%). Black
84,264 (16%), Other 4,179 (1%). Spanish origin 15,041
(3%). 18 and over 373,987 (73%), 65 and over 61,889
(12%). Median age: 31.
to play a more personal role in that nation's
nffairs than do most congressmen.
Dismayed by the suffering at a Salvadoran
refugee camp he visited, McCollum returned to
the United States and organized private relief
efforts to get medical supplies to people dis-
placed by El Salvador's civil war. McCollum
helped accumulate three plane-loads' worth of
donated supplies, and he persuaded pilots from
kosie O'Grady's Flying Circus in Orlando to
volunteer time to fly the planes to El Salvador.
In the 99th Congress, McCollum expanded
hi'. foreign policy interests to include the rebels
fithting the Soviet-backed government in Af-
ghanistan. The House adopted his amendment.
ta 1985 defense bill authorizing non-lethal aid
t.. Alghan refugees.
Also a supporter of the guerrillas battling
the Marxist government of Angola, McCollum
~1-onsored a bill in 1986 that would prohibit
-- U.S. business investment in that. country.
Ile later offered a successful amendment to
curtail new Export-Import Bank loans to An-
gola until all Cuban troops left the country.
Late in 1986, McCollum was selected to sit
on the 15-member House select committee in-
vestigating the Iran-contra affair.
At Home: Spurred by Republican Rep.
Richard Kelly's near-defeat in 1978. McCollum
was already campaigning for the 5th District
GOP nomination in 1980 when it. was reported
in early February that the FBI had snared
Kelly in its Abscam investigation.
McCollum, a former Seminole County
GOP chairman making his first bid for public
office, used his early start to develop a stronger
organization than either Kelly or state Sen.
Vince Fechtel, who joined the field in April.
Since there were few issue differences among
the three men, image rather than substance
dominated the campaign. McCollum portrayed
himself as a morally upstanding family man
qualified to fill a "leadership vacuum" in the
district.
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Bill McCollum, R-Fla.
McCollum received 43 percent of the pri-
mary vote. He ran first in Seminole County and
in the Orange County suburbs of Orlando, and
also carried Pasco and Pinellas counties, GOP
strongholds on the west coast. Fechtel trailed
McCollum by 2,210 votes and Kelly ran a poor
third. In the runoff, McCollum again brought
his organizational strength to bear, carrying six
of the district's eight counties and winning
nomination with 54 percent.
Democrats chose lawyer David Best., who
two years earlier had polled 49 percent against
Kelly. McCollum, clearly more conservative
than Best, caught the district's prevailing mood
and was elected with 56 percent.
In 1982 McCollum's Democratic opponent
was Dick Batchelor, a popular Orange County
state representative who was considered a for-
Committees
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (5th of 20 Republicans)
Domestic Monetary Policy (ranking); Financial Institutions Su-
pervision, Regulation and Insurance; Housing and Community
Development.
Judiciary (6th of 14 Republicans)
Crime (ranking); Immigration, Refugees and International Law.
Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions
with Iran (5th of 6 Republicans)
1986 General
Bill McCollum (R)
1984 General
Bill McCollum (R)
Previous Winning Percentages: 1982 (59%) 1980 (56%)
District Vote For President
1984 1980 1976
D 50.693 (29%) D 51,295 (94%) D 59,891 (46%1
R 125,106 (71%) R 93,796 (62%) R 68,991 (53%)
1 5,775 ( 4%)
Campaign Finance
midable, although under-funded, campaigner.
Fearful that he might. be dragged down by
voter discontent. with Reaganomics or concern
over Social Security, McCollum did not empha.
size his party affiliation against Batchelor. He
claimed that he voted an independent line.
His main theme was one he took from the
1980 campaign - McCollum as the all-Ameri.
can husband and father (compared with the
unmarried Batchelor) who had "restored integ.
rity" to the district.. McCollum's superior fi.
nancial resources enabled him to use media
more extensively, and he succeeded in casting
Batchelor as a liberal. McCollum's strong show.
ing - he won his second term with 59 percent
of the vote- cowed local Democrats, who did
not field a candidate against him in 1984 and
1986.
Voting Studies
Presidential Party Conservative
Support Unity Coalition
Year S 0 S 0 S 0
1986 84 14 81 16 96 4
1985 80 19 82 13 91 9
1984 66 33 85 11 93 7
1983 78 17 89 6 94 3
1982 78 17 91 8 93 7
1981 67 28 83 14 85 12
S = Support 0 = Opposition
Key Votes
Produce MX missiles (1985) y
Cut federal subsidy for water projects (1985) Y
Weaken gun control laws (1986)
Cut back public housing construction (1986) Y
Aid Nicaraguan contras (1986) Y
Impose textile import limits over Reagan veto (1986) N
Block chemical weapons production (1986) N
Impose South African sanctions over Reagan veto (1986) N
Interest Group Ratings
1986
Receipts
Receipts
from PACs
Expend-
itures
Year
1986
ADA
0
ACU
82
AFL-CIO
7
CCUS
82
McCollum (R)
$165,986
$79,700
(48%)
$121,052
1985
1984
5
10
90
78
6
8
9C
BE
1983
0
100
0
89
1984
1982
10
82
10
82
McCollum (R)
$174,468
$75,110
(43%)
$85,004
1981
0
93
13
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SECRETI
Pakistan's Afghan Policy After Zia
Although President Zia's death could seriously alter Pakistan's Afghan
policy over the long term, we expect little immediate change.
--Acting President Ishaq Khan was closely involved in forming
Pakistan's Afghan policy under Zia, and available evidence suggests
that he believes, as Zia did, that a Soviet withdrawal, followed by
a resistance victory, are essential to Pakistan's security.
--Ishaq Than will rely heavily on the advice of Interservices
Intelligence Directorate chief Hamid Gul, Acting Foreign Minister
Yaqub Than, and the new Chief of Army Staff, Mirza Beg in setting
Af4n policy.
--Zia strongly supported using Pakistan's influence with the
resistance to secure a pro-Islamabad government in Kabul.
Diplomatic reporting indicates that Zia believed backing
fundamentalist resistance leader Gulbuddin Hikmatyar best advanced
this goal. Among Zia's successors, only Gui seems to strongly
support Gulbuddin.
A return to elected government could result in a more cautious
Pakistani policy on Afghanistan, although Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
leader Benazir Bhutto--whom we believe has an excellent chance to win the
November elections--has told US diplomats-that she would not alter the
government's policy toward the resistance.
--We believe that neither faction of the Pakistan Muslim League nor
the PPP--the only likely election victors--would aggressively push
for the installation of a pro-Islamabad government in Kabul. All,
however, would prefer to see the Najibullah regime fall.
--If the regime does not fall quickly after the Soviet withdrawal,
both PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Junejo
probably would settle for its continuation in power or replacement
by a coalition government containing representatives of the present
regime, provided they believed this would lead to the return of most
of the nearly 3 million Afghan refugees.
--In our judgment, the Army would be willing to tolerate such a
limited set of objectives in Afghanistan so long as the government
controlling Kabul did not jeopardize Pakistani security.
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Talking Points for the DCI
2 September 1988
Afghanistan: Recent Regime and Insurgent Activity
This month insurgents captured the provincial capitals of Bamian and
Takhar Provinces--the first capitals captured and held by the resistance.
Bamian's and Taloqan's remote locations and the regime's need to conserve
its forces to defend the major cities, such as Qandahar, and roads make it
unlikely Kabul will be able to mount a successful effort to retake either
city.
--Bamian, was captured by a combined force drawn from five Shia
insurgent parties. After a lengthy siege of about two months
regime troops abandoned the varricnn
--Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province, was captured on 12 August
by Jamiat-i-Islami forces. The regime had abandoned the garrison
there when it moved its troops to Konduz to occupy the abandoned
Soviet garrison.
Kabul International Airport has been hit by insurgent rocket attacks
twice in the past week.
--On 27 August an early evening attack damaged the runway and closed
the airfield until the next morning. On 1 September a second attack
apparently destroyed the ammunition depot north of the airfield and
may have damaged or destroyed some aircraft.
Fighting continues around Konduz city as regime forces continue efforts
to regain control of the area.
--Elements of a Soviet motorized rifle regiment deployed near the
airfield and along the Pol-e Khomri to Konduz road may be preparing
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A Role for Former King Zahir Shah?
Former Afghan King Zahir Shah's chances of playing a significant role
in an Afghan settlement--never great--have decreased over the past two
years.
--The three traditionalist resistance groups which have been promoting
Zahir continue to lose influence to the larger and better-organized
Islamist factions which oppose his return.
--Islamabad abandoned efforts to promote Zahir as a potential leader
of an interim government after he met with Indian officials in
February.
The former King does retain support in the refugee camps and tribal
areas of southern Afghanistan, but this is overshadowed by his numerous
enemies within the resistance.
--Islamists believe Zahir's efforts during his reign to increase
Afghan ties with the Soviet Union paved the way for the Communist
coup and Soviet invasion.
--Zahir has a reputation as a weak and indecisive leader who ruled in
name only and avoided vital issues.
--Zahir's attempts to remain neutral in the Afghan conflict have been
interpreted by many insurgents as cowardice. Many resistance
commanders also fear that giving a role to the 73-year-old former
King could pave the way for a coup by his widely-disliked
son-in-law, Abdul Wali.
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