'INTELLIGENCE IS' ONLY THE START

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• Publication Date: October 22, 1985
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ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN DAILY (MI)
22 October 1985
`Intelligence is' only the start
By David Buchen
and Mark Weinstein
One year ago, protests against the Central
Intelligence Agency here at the University of
Michigan helped to spark nationwide campus
protests against CIA recruitment. In April,
nearly 500 people were arrested at the
University of Colorado for protesting the CIA.
On campuses everywhere, the CIA has been
met with active resistance to their attempts
at recruitment.
This Tuesday and Wednesday the CIA is
returning to Ann Arbor to recruit. And again
they will be met by large crowds demanding
that they leave.
Why does the CIA get such treatment from
people all across the nation? Aren't they just
an intelligence gathering agency for the
government? What is wrong with that you
might ask?
doing things that I'm ashamed of hearing that
the United States is doing."
In 1964, the CIA mined the harbors of
Nicaragua. This action was in direct conflict
with international laws. Edgar Chamorro
recalls, "After the CIA mined Nicaragua's
harbors, I was awakened at my "safe house"
in Tegucigalpa, Honduras at 2 a.m. by an
anxious CIA agent. He handed me a press
release written in perfect Spanish by CIA of-
ficials.... Of course we had no role in mining
the harbors."
The mining of the harbors, the murder of
health care workers, the rape and murder of
wedding parties, the constant threats of in-
vasion have all been justified by the claim
that the U.S. is trying to stop arms shipments
from Nicaragua to El Salvador. These two
countries have no common border and the
bay that separates them is filled with U.S.
The CIA is the government department in wsrswps.
charge of not only "intelligence gathering" A HNrid MenMiaiask a former CIA analyst
but also more importantly overthrowing
governments they don't like, assassinating
people they consider a "threat" to our
security, training the secret police of fascist
countries to protect "democracy," influen-
cing the elections of foreign countries,
producing misinformation to manipulate
public opinion in the U.S., keeping track of
U.S. citizens opposed to government policies,
and who knows what else.
? Everything that we know of the CIA's ac-
tivities is vehemently denied by the gover-
nment. The operations of the agency are kept
secret from the U.S. public. What we know of
the CIA is only the tip of an iceberg.
The action of the CIA most prominent right
now is the training, funding, and directing of
the Somocista contra forces fighting to over-
throw the government of Nicaragua. Ac-
cording to Edgar Chamorro, a former contra
leader, the contras "have been subject to
manipulation by the Central Intelligence
Agency, which has reduced it to a front
organization."
The CIA has trained the contras to be a
highly effective terrorist force. The contras
based in Honduras and Costa Rica make
regular runs into Nicaragua with the help of
U.S. air support to destroy farm cooperatives,
health care clinics, schools. Over 7,000 people
have been killed by the Contras.
Stanfield Turner, former director of the
CIA, has said that "The people they're sup-
porting down there are committing murders
and terrorism and so on. The CIA is suppor-
ting terrorism in Nicaragua. The contras are
Buchen is an Ann Arbor resident.
Weinstein is a junior in LSA.
who had access to au reports from the region
in the time that these arms shipments sup-
posedly occurred, recently testified to the
World Court that these allegations were com-
plete fabrications.
Why then is the United States so involved in
the contra war? Stanfield Turner says,
"There's no doubt about it in anybody's mind.
All along, there's only been one objective --
to overthrow the government of Nicaragua."
OvetMvwmg the democratically elected gover-
nments may seem like a strange thing for an
"intelligence gathering" agency to be doing,
but unfortunately the CIA has much practice
in ousting democratic governments in favor
of military dictatorships.
In 1964, the CIA brought about the over-
throw of the government of Guatemala. A
man named Arbenz had just been elected and
he was "left-leaning." After he nationalized
some land claimed by U.S. corporations, the
CIA and the corporations worked together
and brought about his overthrow. There have
not been democratic elections since that time.
In 1972, the CIA led the coup which ousted,
Chilean president Salvador Allende. General
Pinochet who took over the government still
reigns today.
Of course the Bay of Pigs fiasco was a poor
attempt by the CIA to overthrow Castro in
Cuba. And in Iran, the Shah was put in power
by the CIA in 1963.
The CIA also uses more subitle ways of af-
fecting foreign affairs. In El Salvador, Jose
Napolean Duarte received hundreds of
thousands of dollars in campaign con-
tributions from the CIA. The CIA also subver-
ts foreign labor unions, student groups, and
political parties.
Of course as an "intelligence gathering"
agency, the CIA has the obligation to share
that information with our "friends." The CIA
trained the South African secret police force,
BOSS. In El Salvador and Guatemala, the
CIA trained the right wing death squads
which have killed thousands and 'disap-
peared" 38,000 people in Guatemala alone.
The CIA also has trained the secret police of
South Korea, Taiwan, Chile, and other coun-
tries such as the Phillipines.
During the Vietnam war, the CIA carried
out the Phoenix program. The Phoenix
program would identify key anti-government
dissidents and then have them assassinated.
This program alone brought about thousands
of deaths. The CIA was also in Vietnam long
before most of our troops were there. They
were there as "advisors."
R According to Ralph McGehee, a CIA agent
for 25 years, "The Agency forged documents,
planted evidence of weapons shipments, and
doctored documents to justify military inter-
vention." Sound like Nicaragua?
Here in the United States, the CIA has
illegally kept track of U.S. anti-government
activists. Ralph McGehee says that the CIA's
domestic programs often violated "U.S. law
and the agency's own charter. The Agency
also infiltrated labor, student, youth and
religious groups: It had thousands of college
professors and administrators working for it
on hundreds of campuses."
One example of the CIA gathering in-
telligence was in one program they subjected
U.S. citizens to mind altering drugs without
their knowledge. According to the Church
Commission, a mid-70s Senate committee in-
vestigating CIA abuses, the CIA opened over
28 million pieces of mail between 1953 and
1973. The CIA also has trained police forces
across the United States in special tactics.
When the CIA comes to campus on October
22 and 23, people should realize that it is not
an "intelligence gathering" agency coming to
recruit librarian and analysts.
The CIA is the largest, best funded, best
equipped, and most violent terrorist
organization in the world. A terrorist
organization which overthrows
democraticly elected governments and then
claims innocence in the U.S. media. A
terrorist organization which teaches torture
techniques to the secret police of fascist
regimes to protect "democracy." A terrorist
organization which funds the murder, torture,
and rape of people in Nicaragua. A terrorist
organization which keeps files on you and me.
These are the practices that the CIA is
ultimately recruiting employees for here at
the University.
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