INSIDE: THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

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INSIDE: THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET'
It is one of Washington's more
transparent fictions that all Cab-
inet members are created equal;
most observers rate Office of
Management and Budget Direc-
tor David A. Stockman near the
top of the heap when it comes to
influence. But by law, he is
ranked one notch below the Cab.
inet secretaries, a notch that costs
him $10,300 annually. (It is not
clear if Congress can work up
$10,000 worth of sympathy for the
man trying to cut billions from
the budget.)
With last month's pay increase,
the 13 men and women who carry
the title "Secretary"-"Level 1" in
the hierarchy-now get $80,100
salaries (along with U.S. Special
Trade Representative William E.
Brock). ' The OMB director,
though, is ranked at "Level 2," so
Stockman gets $69,800, the same
as CIA Director William J.
/ Casey, Council of Economic Ad-
visers Chairman Martin Feld-
stein, Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator Anne M.
Gorsuch, Office of Personnel
Management Director Donald J.
Devine and Federal Emergency
Management Agency Director
Louis 0. Giuffrida, among others.
For several years, Rep. Jack
Brooks (D-Tex.) has introduced
bills to make the OMB director's
job a Level 1 post. The bills then
disappear into the maw of the
Post Office and Civil Service
Committee. -A staff aide on the
human resources subcommittee,
which swallows up Brooks' bills
session after session, said two suc-
cessive subcommittee chairmen-
former representative Herb Har-
ris (D-Va.) and Rep. Geraldine
i 1 ViTASHTNGTON POST
A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.)-told OMB
that until it fulfilled its promise to
send the Hill legislation defining
the responsibilities of all govern-
ment executives, they were not
going to change the status of
OMB's top executive. No legisla-
tion, no promotion.
Brooks has already done his bit
for Stockman and OMB in the
98th Congress by introducing a
bill now called H.R. 8. (It also
would amend the federal code to
show that Stockman runs the Of
lice of Management and Budget,
not the Bureau of the Budget.) It
remains to be seen if the subcom-
mittee's new chairman, Rep.,Don-
ald J. Albosta (D-Mich.) will
share the views of his predeces-
sors.
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MANAGEMENT I#ESHUF.
FLING PONDERED ... With
Howard Messner, No. 2 in
OMB's management division
about to head off to become
comptroller of the Energy De-
partment, deputy director Jo-
seph R. Wright and associate di-
rector. Harold L Steinberg are
contemplating a reorganization of
OMB's management side. The
cards available for reshuffling are
the office of personnel policy and
compensation and the intergov-
ernmental affairs ' and financial
management divisions. Rumors
abound, but nothing seems firm
yet.
HISTORIC. PRESERVATION
... Now that a streamlining of.
state, local, and federal planning
reviews has been completed,
OMB's intergovernmental affairs
division can turn its attention to
the issue of historic preservation.
The goal of preserving history,
usually meaning buildings, is en-
shrined in several laws, and agen-
cies from the Transportation De-
partment, to the Army Corps of
Engineers to the Interior De-
partment to the Advisory Coun-
cil on Historic Preservation
have ideas or rules on how state
and local building projects should
proceed. The White House Task
Force on Regulatory Relief has
wanted this regulatory under-
brush cleared for a long time. It is
up to OMB to figure out how to
go about it. One issue OMB must
tackle: whether to appoint a "lead
agency" to determine government
policy, a move likely to put other
agencies' noses out of joint.
HOW BLUE IS MY BUD-
GET? ... One of the few OMB
calls involving esthetics, not pol-
icy, is the decision on the color of
the cover of the annual budget
books. This year the decision fell
to Stockman aide Diana Moore,
who opted for royal blue. Two
years ago, President Reagan's
budget revisions were packaged
that way and last year's books
were a screened version of that
color. "I have a shelf full of budget
books going back 20 years, and I
thought blue looked best," Moore
said. With the exception of one
year (beige), the Carter adminis-
tration budgets were covered in
green. In 1981, Moore explored
the possibility of a red-white-and-
blue cover, but decided it was too
expensive.
- Felicity Barringer
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'ByKr1ut Royce
Hearst News Service
BALTIMORE NEWS-AM
31 JANUARY 1983
l The sources said that the bulk of called, are gaining new prominence.:1
WASHINGTON -Several weeks
ago the Soviet press agency Tass ac-
cused the CIA of unleashing a.swarm
of'killer?irosquitoes around New Del-
Although demonstrably . absurd,
the charge may have enjoyed a degree
c;1 acceptance because it came at a
timewhen the CIA has been increas-
ing-its covert actions,'a few of which
lave leaked out, at a pace that wor-
ries some intelligence watchers.
The Reagan- administration has
not bothered.to conceal its support for
covert operations, which it feels are a
nEee sarv instt-ument.of national se-
I-curity. Indeed, according to knowl-
tivities, including paramilitary
..c pera'tions, are, with the exception of:.
THe upsurge is even more dramat=
is because it has come -in a relative
I 970s, following congressional hear.-
itigs' bn abuses by the intelligence
in staffing in the CIA's operations
directorate, which conducts. these ac-
tii-ities, the number of covert actions
dropped dramatically, according to'
But with the toppling of the Shah
in ? Iran and the Soviet invasion of .I
Afghanistan, the Carter administra-
tion reversed the slide and breathed
new life into the operations director-
ate. of the CIA:-'.
Zbigniew. Brzezinski, Carter's na-
tional security adviser, confirmed in
an interview that the' increase oc-
curred "some time before Afghani
stan (in December of 1979)" but re-
fused to elaborate: 1, -.
There is "a consensus in the intelli-
gence community that. the clandes-
tine activities have continued' at an
sis has been on.tFrloi
the dagger. '. :, 1
planting of stories, often substantial-
ly accurate, in the foreign press.
. * Training the palace guard or se-
curity forces of friendly foreign gov-
ernments..
. 0 The funding of friendly political
parties and officials, whether they are
in or out of government. .
Influencing policy through well-
placed contacts in foreign govern-. merits.
At the same time, however, there
are some instances, most notably in
the current efforts to destabilizi the.
Sandinistas in Nicaragua, where the:
cloak is discarded and the dagger is
unsheathed..
Some intelligence 'sources ' are
more concerned about 'what could,
happen than about what has hap-
pened. To support their argument
they point to subtle signs.
They say, for instance, that CIA
director William Casey's appoint-
ment of John Stein as the agency's
-deputy.director for operations is one,
such sign. The operations directorate-
.
is responsible for both the-gathering'.
.of foreign intelligence and covert ac-
tion.
They describeStein;. a .respected::
career officer, as a covert action spe-
cialist, one who was the CIA's station
chief in Cambodia in the early 1970s. .
"His expertise was in bombing tar-
gets," one intelligence source said.
"He was a covert action guy from way
back,. and you don't pick a: covert
action guy unless that's what you're'
-interested in."
Casey himself is widely'described'
as being enthusiastic about. covert,
operations. His intelligence roots, as a
ranking officer in the Office of Strate-
gic Services during World War. II,
lends support to that view. And within.. the CIA there is a.J,
feeling that the covert action officers,
or ."cowboys" as they are occasionally
source said. At the sane time, howev-
er,
he said that many career CIA
officers do not want to relive the t
troublesome era of the mid-1970s,
when congressional committee hear-
ings bared, with embarrassing regu-
larity, a series of C LA dirty tricks. The
attitude. of those career officers, he
said, creates substantial control over
potential abuses. Further, those widely publicized
misdeeds prompted a 'series of laws
and executive orders to safeguard
against abuses, though some of the,
prohibitions, such as domestic spying'
by the CIA, have been lifted under the-
Reagan administration'-
.. The key safeguard against abuses
in foreign' covert operations is the
requirement by the administration to
notify the two congressional intelli-
gence committees of any covert ac-
tion. This must be done in a "timely
fashion."
.The need for notification is by no
means fool proof. "Timely" is left to the-.1
discretion of--the president,. and .is-1
normally after an operation has been. l
One intelligence source with first- f
hand knowledge of the notification
process said that a single notification
will Eatisfy the law even though cir-
cumstancesin the operation can Wier-
substantially.
He said; for instance, that the CIA
could notify the committees that it is
engaged in financing and arming a
government threatened by a dissi--
dent force. But if that government is 44
toppled by the dissident force, the CLa
could, under that same notification,
work toward destabilizing the. new,
regime. `.... ,
rvert action falls into four categonos , "There's a strong potential that
S"Black propaganda," or the j the cowboys will be'`in' ," one CLa
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
30 January 1983
Bulgaria Knew of Plat reve ,"an aw
in Soviet-American relations that would have
e effects
fora decade."
After the American U-2 spy plane was shot down
on Pope, CIA Concludes
Khrushch
ev withdrew an invitation to President
Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit Moscow. It was not until
to Nixon become
Sofia Had Advance Information, but Neither' It we 5 st'~twaar U 1972, pia Richard M.
the Soviet
Nor Moscow Instigated Attack, Agency Believes {Jnioa
The extremely sensitive nature of a possible Bulgah-
an-Soviet link to the assassination attempt has led to
By ROBERT C. TOTH, Times Staff writer suggestions by some intelligence analysts that the.
WASHINGTON-The Central secret irate United States is deliberately steering away - from
police and lligence net- blaming the Kremlin for the attack on the Pope to avoid
Intelligence Agency has conclud- work, the KGB, when John Paul worsening Soviet-American relations. Marvin Kalb, the
ed-with what is said to be 99% was shot. Thus, Andmpov would
NBC News correspondent who has been in the forefront
certainty-that officials of the Bul- have had the ultimate responsibility in -reporting the "Ekilgarian connection," said in a
garian government had advance for the attack if--as some, have broadcast last week that CIA officials in Rome have
knowledge of the assassination at- alleged-the. KGB had ordered.the actively discouraged reporters from puisuing the -issue.
tempt against Pope John Paul II by killing of the Polish Pope because of
Turkish terrorist Mehmet All Agca, his support of the Polish independ Anti-Communism a Faetar?
with whom Bulgarian intelligence. ent trade union Solidarity against Administration's 'deep anti-communism and
agents were working in Rome. x; the .
CQ~mmunistregime~n ~6Taa~~a.~r antipathy to Moscow would seem likely to push it
However, the CIA' is also con , "Reagan could never niee"t An- toward exposing the Soviets for-such a terrorist act,-
vinced that neither the Bulgarians dropov if it was proved unequlvo= however, instead of trying to cover it up, a U.S. official
nor the Soviet Union instigated the cally that the 'Bulgarians,, and said And there are indications that senior Administra-
attack, which occurred .20 months therefore the ' Soviet "KGB, ::'was flora officials moved in that direction, at least initially.
ago, agency officials have said' in' behind the plot.to kill ;the Pope: a For example, Alexander. M,. Haig Jr., who was
reports within the US.government. U.S. official: said. "Even if a `suite tary.of state when the shooting occurred and who
No. "smoking gum,' or absolute: gic arms agreement,were negotiat=. -v ,ed the Kremlin as the prime proof of Bulgarian complicity has ed, it would be politically impossible supporter of ive
tional terrorism, ordered an u rat search for evidence
been found by U.S., intelligence, for Reagan to sit down with Andro- Soviet complicity even ? before the first signs of a
officials. Nonetheless. The Times Pov'? "Bulgarian connection" appeared.
has learned, CIA specialists believe 'It would be like Lhe U-2 affairin. ~ ,CIA .;Director William J. was `that Bulgarian intelligence agents sympathetic last year to Casey reportedly
knew Ages was bent on killing the Y arguments, brought back from
Rome by an influential Senate Intelligence Committee
Pope but regarded him as an aunsta tuber, that the Soviets Ultimately were-guilty of
ble person who probably would
capttu~ecl. =., ?f It Several criticisms oi`the CIA conclusions have been
'Aeeeasories Before the Feet' "'4' made by U.S. officials and others. For one thing,. very .
little evidence has been unearthed to connect Agca to
Thus, CIA analysts : have rea- gun and - drug , trafficking, unlike the other main.
soned, the Bulgarians would not Bulgarian and Turkish characters involved, it was said.
have actively involved themselves There is overwhelming evidence, on the other 'hand-
in Age's plotting, evem if they bad'
including. his admitted'.. assinatiou. of aomoderate,
`
been au. .-
Turkish editor-that Agcaiooul4 be hired to kill.
Bulgarians--and ' by iestension r.the .
Soviets; , who c ontrd ,the:; Bulgari-;
butnatverymtrclt.
>lf :ahis CIA assessment -of-,,- the
still*simmering?:,controveray-da
adopted by the-White House, Presl
dent - Reagan would, probably still
feel free to take part in',& summit
meeting with Soviet leader YudV.
Andropov-something an American.
President would have found diffi-
cult to do if direct Soviet involve-
ment in an attack on the Pope had
been established.
Andropov was head of the Soviet
W1sMPrstect 3teadLtt `" ?
'More broadly, 'critics of the CIA assessment find t-
1mplauvdble that`the Bulgarians would havepermitted,
~surch ari~60eratlon to'go forward if they believed Agca? T.c --
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6 JANUARY 1983
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5 I %"JABY 1983
Quit the Bay of Piglets
When Congress asked why the C.I.A. is waging a
secret war to overthrow the leftist regime in Nicara-
gua, the Administration said it isn't; America is
only trying to harass the Sandinist junta, not over-
throw it. This spongy distinction failed to impress
the legislators. At the bipartisan urging of its intelli-
gence committees, Congress has now informed
President Reagan that he may not use American
arms or manpower against Nicaragua.
This constitutes a second warning to an Admin-
istration that seems to be sleepwalking Into Credibil-
ity Gap. The Congressional resolution - adopted
.411-0 by the House, and approved in conference by.
the Senate - followed many press accounts of
United States help for clandestine forces raiding
Nicaragua. The publicity proves that there is no way-
to .hide such large-scale involvement with emigre
adventurers.
Perhaps such covert action is justifiable after
conventional diplomacy fails. But the Reagan Ad-
ministration hasn't made that case even to sympa-
thetic members of Congress.
New York's Senator Moynihan, vice chairman
of the Senate intelligence committee, has said it is a
serious question "whether or not the Administration
is in violation of the law for the first time since the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution." His doubts are shared by
.the Republicans' John Chafee of Rhode Island.
Any secret commitment of American forces to
attacks in or against Nicaragua would violate both
the Neutrality Act and the War Powers Act., The
laws make no exception for mere harassment.
There can now be no doubt about Congress's intent
in this affair: its resolution forbids the use of "mili-
tary equipment, military training or advice, or other
support for military activities... for the purpose of .
overthrowing the Government of Nicaragua -or
provoking a military exchange between Nicaragua
and Honduras." -
? ,.
News reports have put the number of C.I.A.
operatives among Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras as
high as 150. But Congress is said to have been as-
sured by C.I.A. Director Casey that fewer than 50
agents are involved.'It seems to have been conceded
that Nicaragua's borders may have been violated by
the U.S.-assisted insurgents, whose raids are meant
by Washington to punish .the Managua regime for .
supplying arms to guerrillas in El Salvador.
The operation isn't large enough to achieve any
military objective but it's too large to conceal
or explain away. It's a Bay of Piglets. Let President
Reagan heed the views of Congress and end this
meddling before it turns into something worse than
an embarrassment.
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LOS ANGELES TD?S
3 JANUARY 1983
Casey Shapes Up CIAO
Survives as 'dap Spy
Bv RO LRT C. TOTH, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Last summer,
several months before Leonid L
Bret oev died, the Central Intelli-
gence Agency produced a study of
Kremlin leadership politics almost
40 pages long. It predicted that a
cluster of Soviet officials would
succeed Br ezhnev, , . not a. -strong
individual leader.
After reviewing the top-secret
report before it was forwarded to
the White House, Central Intelli-
gence Director William. J. Casey
concluded that President Reagan
-would never wade through.it all. So,
in a brief covering letter couched in
race-track parlance, he boldly pre-
dicted which Kremlin contenders
would win, place and show.
Kirilenko peaked too soon, Casey
told Reagan, and Chernenko faded
in the stretch. Andropov is in the
Casey mi3term. report card
shows that. .. . . ?
-The country has experiencd no
known "intelligence failures" or
"intelligence abuses" during his two
years.
Intelligence budgets, up 20%,
have grown even . faster.,. than- 1hie
Pentagon budget
-Output of analytic studies has
jumped a remarkable fivefold over
the Last years of-the Jimmy.Carter
Administration.
-Covert activities have dropped
somewhat in number, but individual
operations have grown in size.
-And "intelligence guidelines,"
which are the do's and don'ts of the
community, have been shortened
drastically.
j Casey's former. deputy, retired
Adm. Bobby B. Ronan, believes
lead, perhaps challenged by 'Usti- Casey will be rated "very high" as a
nov, with Gorbachev the dark horse / director of intelligence for "totally
and a future comer. overhauling the process of making
As It turned out,- Casey was right
on the money:. it was Yuri V.
Andropov, not a committee, that
succeeded Brezhnev as general sec-
retary. of . the Soviet Communist
Party. But the episode is less unpor-
tant as a measure of Casey the
national intelligence esti-
mates-sharply increasing their
number, making them shorter and
more focused on problems that
policy-makers grapple with-plus
winning the President's support for
rebuilding the intelligence.commu-
.,
Wily.
Xremli?ologist than as a measure of `Substantially Better'
Casey the CIA director and of the "Under Bill, things are substan-
methods Casey has developed to run tially better than the public image
the multibillion-dollar-a-year U.S. suggests," Inman said in an:lnter-
intelligence community. view.
Casey-a scrappy, sometimes ar- / Ray S. Cline, a former senior `CIA
rogant, bulky 69-year-old, who re- official, has praised Casey for seek-
tains a trace of his native New York ing to balance, with equally high
accent-has surprised admirers 4nd priority, the need to provide accu-
critics alike by surviving as the rate, in-depth analysis with the
nation's top spy through the first need to make it timely and useful in
two years of Reagan's tenure. Even helping to answer the hard policy
more, he has managed to set and questions of government
maintain. a careful but significant On the other hand, liberal.critics
pace for rebuilding the nation's such as Morton Halperin, director of
bili
Studies, believe Casey has "moved
the CIA backward" in restricting
the release of information and in
resurrecting its covert action capa-
bilities. And some conservatives,
who asked not to be identified,
complain that Casey has not shaken
up the intelligence community as
the Republican Party platform of
1980 promised a Reagan Adminis-
tration would do.
Be that as it may, Casey-a
veteran of American intelligence
operations during World War II, a
multimillionaire with an entrepre-
neurial bent and a former senior'
federal official in financial and eco- '
nomic areas-has no intention of
leaving the job.
'Tm enjoying it," he said in an
interview, "and we're malting prog-
ress. I intend to stick with it"
Twelve months ago, it was .far
from obvious that Casey'was either
enjoying the job or was going to
keep it long.
At that point, he was reeling from
his early and almost disastrous
decision to hire a fellow Reagan
campaign worker, Max Hugel, as
chief of the CIA's clandestine
operations-a "very conspicuous
mistake on my part," Casey later
called it. Hugel quit after private
financial irregularities were alleged
in the press, but three senior Re-
publican senators called for Casey's
resignation.
The Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee re-examined Casey's financial
background, too. It grudgingly con-
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
3 February 1983
CIA role in probe of pope plot
BY A WASHINGTON TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rep. Larry McDonald, D-G&, has called
upon the administration and Congress
to investigate allegations that the United
States attempted to suppress investiga-
tions linking the attempted assassination
of Pope John Paul II to the Soviet State
Intelligence Service (KGB).
In letters to President Reagan, CIA
Director William Casey, and Rep. Edward
Boland, D-Mass., chairman of the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, McDonald said there is mounting
evidence that the KGB was either directly
involved in the attempt or at least knew
the attempted assas sination would occur.
He said there is also evidence that the
CIA tried to suppress the efforts of
newsmen and Italian authorities to link
the KGB to the attempt on the pope's
life. McDonald asked Casey to respond
to charges of a coverup, for Reagan to
order the CIA to cooperate with Italian
authorities in their investigation, and for
the House intelligence committee to hold
public hearings on the issue.
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;HTiL .,s SAIL' HE BELIEVES CASEY WILL BE RATED L IVERY HIGH' AS A LT
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DIRECTOR: FOR ' TOTALLY OVERHAULING THE PROCESS OF 'e!AK:NG NATION'Al
I; TELLIGE}SCE ESTIMATES - SHARPLY INCREASING THEIR NUMSER5 MAKING THEM
SHORTER AND MORE FOCUSED ON PROBLEMS THAT POLICY-MAKERS GRAPPLE WITH
- PLUS WINNING THE *'RESIDENT = S
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNI Ti Y. 3 7
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14, RE MAKING PROGRESS.
YEAR AGO! THREE SENIOR
MARKED BY SOME SHARP CONFLICTS
HE'S ENJOYING THE 305.
i. Ti i r I WLt3iTrT~ SAID.
INTEND ?, TO ?, STICK , WITH T? 3 1 HE a.
?EFUELI CAW SENATORS ASKED FOR CASE_ i ' _
RESIGNATION AFTER HIS DISASTROUS DECISION TO HIRE AX 111UGEL! A. FELLOW
IKEAGRN CAMPAIGN WORKER! AS CHIEF OF THE C:CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS.
rUGEL. QUIT AFTER NEWS REPORTS OF PRIVATE FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES!
AND CASEY CALLED THE DECISION TO HIRE HHUGEL A ' 4VERY CONSPICUOUS
MI STALE ON MY FART. }
AF?-NY-O:-03 O7I ES!
DID r NOT ON
DID NOT KNOW ENOUGH BE ~ TO rE ASKED FOR ADVICE .?
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PROVIDENCE JOURNAL (RI)
2 January 1983
i a aaa:~a~ % Luc . .. ,.. J -?
CT 1k be rid `attempt to overthrow nalism --- of news in this country.
If I were just sitting here reading
Nicaragua regime Rd. woman the paper every day and buying the
1 New York Times as I do once a
who worked in countryside says week - and watching network
news - I wouldn't know anything
By RANDALL RICHARD
Journal-Bunetin Soft Writer
PROVIDENCE - The former
editor of the English language edi-
tion of the official government
newspaper in Nicaragua said yes-
terday that the Central Intelligence
Agency, despite claims to the con-
trary, is continuing a covert cam-
paign to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government.
Dina O'Connell. a former Rhode
Islander who quit her post several
weeks ago as editor of Barricada
Irternacional, disputed statements
attributed to CIA Director William
J. Casey on Friday that the CIA's
chief objective in supporting covert
operations against Nicaragua is
aimed solely at stopping the flow of
arms to guerrilla forces in nearby
The perception in Nicaragua, either. I wouia oe very coniusea.
bliss O'Connell said, is that the Miss O'Connell cited a recent
military activity against the San- series of articles in the Providence
dinista government could soon es- Sunday Journal on the plight of the
calate into a full scale invasion -- Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and
an invasion that would be backed Honduras as an example of the
overtly by the U.S. government.. "one-sided" reporting from Central
The goal, she said, seems to be to America.
establish a beachhead in Nicaragua 'Basically, there are those who
- to declare a liberated zone and feel it is best to keep this country in
hold it for 72 hours in order to give ignorance and that's a political
the United States a pretense for decision ... no matter how free we
openly supporting the cottriter-rev- say our press is," she said.
olutionaries. "I argue with journalists who
* * * come down to us (in Nicaragua)
MISS O'CONNELL, who has been and want to scream about the
working in Nicaragua as a Mary- censorship of La Prensa (the news-.
knoll lay missioner since 1980, said paper that has become highly criti-
the Mary knoll community in that cal of Sandinista policies). I say
country views the Sandinistas - that even with the censorship we
not their U.S.-backed enemies - as - have on La Prensa we get more
the best hope for the people of news and a better picture of what's
El Salvador.
She called Ca usy's remarks noth- Nicaragua. happening in the world than I get
The Maryknolls in Nicaragua, sitting here in Rhode Island."
ing more -than a transparent "co- she said, have lived with the poor * *
verup" of CIA intentions. in Central America for too long and THE DIFFERENCE between the
Miss O'Connell. who is visiting have felt the tyranny from right- press in the United States and the
her parents in North Scituate but wing dictatorships too acutely to government-controlled press in
plans to return to Nicaragua soon, ever want a return to the past. Nicaragua, Miss O'Connell said, is
was responding to reports that Despite what she sees as repeat- that Barricade, for example,
Casey had met last month with key ed attempts by the Reagan adminis- "makes no bones about what it is"
Congressmen and had convinced tration and the U.S. press to dis-
them to tone down the language of credit the Sandinistas, Miss O'Con-
a congressional ban against CIA nell said the Maryknolls in Nicara-
activity aimed at overthrowing the gua continue to support the govern-
Nicaraguan government, ment there.
Miss O'Connell said it is naive to "Maryknoll is very much a part
believe that the CIA can be work- of the people in Nicaragua. and we
ing with those who seek to topple are saying - as most of Nicaragua
the Nicaraguan. government but is Is saying - that as long as this
in no way connected to their effort.
Allegations that Nicaragua is
providing military support to rebels
in El Salvador, she said, "have
never been proved to anyone's sat-
isfaction" at!" yet the allegations 1.. with the revolution come hell. or 1 _ going on every Friday for two
supposedly provide the . basis for.' high water. We are not supporting,, s in front of the Federal Build-
CIA activity against the Nicaraguan. year
it with our eyes closed. We are ing in Providence are not consid-
goveramenL
* * *.
IN THE past several months, she
said, guerrilla activity against the
'Sandinistas has increased dramati-
cally. She said she believes the goal
is clearly to overthrow the govern-
ment of Nicaragua.
"People are terrified about going
impartial publication.
"There were stories that Barri-
cada wouldn't print -- stories
about some of the good things a
few of the conservative groups
were doing down there. They
wouldn't print them because they
didn't consider them newsworthy
government continues to provide - because they didn't want to
.. for the majority of the people paint them (the conservatives) in a
- for the poor - we are with the good light ... just as the demon-
revolution. strations (against U.S. foreign poli-
saying that we've seen the other. 1. ' ered newsworthy here."
side and we've seen what this
revolution has done...." . MISS O'CONNELL said she quit
But most Americans, Miss O'Con- her post . as editor of Barricada
nell believes, are ill-informed about Internaeioval, a volunteer job, to
Latin America in general and Nica- become a freelance journalist. She
ragua In particular. The fault, she hopes to write for a number of
says. lies with the press in the publications, particularly maga-
States - a press that seems zines, 'that are willing to publish
United
out at night - or even to go out
to her to be biased against the stories that will serve as an alterna-
along the border
~ ieleR ii s5El1 3nidD Ae1R6iF4 10901iIRp00+4pC09b001p.>ifnation about
coffee crop," s e the American public ignorant of events in Latin America.
developments in Latin America. ; 'PATMTi...,i;
'7hat is not to say that we are cy in Latin America) that have been
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UNITED PRESS INTEPNATIO
2 JANURAPY 1983
Convert CIA Operations in Nicaragua Charged
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Despite claims to the contrary, the Central Intelligence Agency is
involved in a secret campaign to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, the former
editor of an official government newspaper charges.
Dina O'Connell, who quit her post several weeks ago as editor of the English
language edition of Earricada Internacional in Nicaragua, disputed statements
attributed to CIA Director William J. Casey.
Casey said Friday the agency's chief objective in supporting covert
operations against Nicaragua is aimed solely at stopping the flow of arms to
guerrilla forces in nearby El Salvador.
Casey's remarks are nothing more than a transparent " coverup '' of CIA
intentions, Miss O'Connell told the Providence Sunday Journal.
Miss O'Connell is visiting her parents in Rhode Island, but plans to return
to Nicaragua soon. The Maryknoll sister left her volunteer post at the
government newspaper to become a freelance writer.
Miss O'Connell was responding to,reports that Casey had met last month with
key congressmen and had convinced them to soften the language of a congressional
ban against CIA activity aimed at overthrowing the Nicaraguan government.
She said it is naive to believe that the CIA can be working with those who
seek to topple the Nicaraguan government but is in no way connected to their
effort.
Charges that Nicaragua is providing military support to rebels In El
Salvador, Miss O'Connell said, ''have never been proved to anyone's
satisfaction'' and yet still provide the basis for CIA activity against the
Nicaragua government.
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WASHINGTON POST
1 JANUARY 1983
Crowd
Behaving like the public trust
is you private corporation
By Robert G. Kaiser
F YOU DON'T LIVE in Richmond (where the Times-Dispatch
out the story on the front pagel you probably don't know about
Dennis . LLBianc. who earns i+58,Fa of your tax dollars each year
ior official duties that. include chopping wood and sweeping out. the
barn at President Reagan's ranch.
Improbable":Not.in this administration.
LeBlanc is a former California highway patrolman who served on
Gov. Reagan', security detail in Sacramento, and later worked for
Ronald Reagan, private citizen, handling affairs at his ranch. He
came to Washington with President-elect Reagan, worked in the
White House's office of special support. services, then last June
moved over to the Commerce Department's National Telecom-
munications and Information Administration. LeBlanc became "as-
.ociate administrator for policy analysis and development," a top-
level Job that pays S58.500.
LeBlanc spent two of his first five months on this job in Santa
Barbara, at the Reagan ranch, cutting wood, cleaning stables, build-
ing fences and "coordinating" the work of Secret Service security
and communications personnel on the ranch, whose facilities Le-
Blanc helped build in his earlier, White House job.
"I feel perfectly at ease with it.," LeBlanc said on the phone last'
week. "I look at it as just a detailee to the, White House." Lots of
government officials get detailed to the White House, he added.
Earlier, LeBlanc told John Hall of the Media General news serv-
ice in an interview published in Richmond: "Chopping wood may
seem like a vacation to some people. But the total amount of time I
spend during a year is considerable."
What about the time away from telecommunications policy
analysis? "This is not a day-to-day hotbed of activity," LeBlanc
told Hall. speaking of the telecommunications office at Commerce.
"I do call in and find out how things are going."
Reagan
ony of the president's;
Blanc is a c
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ranch.
shon the
have his company when he is out chopping ,
he is a crony earning top dollar on the peoples' payroll.
In other times. an airangement like this might have been called a
scandal. But in Ronald Reagan's Washington, it gets a shrug.
To some extent Richard Nixon deserves the credit for this. One
of Nixon's most baleful legacies to his countrymen was the "I-am-.
1)0t-a-crc+oi.- plea. Somehow Nixon managed to establish the idea
that if' a public figure can stay out of the pokey, everything else is
okay.
But. could Nixon have sti od before any audience and said, with a
straight face, "I am not a Sleaze. comtivin" ro tue?" Probably not.
He:wanted the w,vorld no-, to care about that ,ort of thing. and ti.,:a,t,
incredible degree he got ,=-hat tie v,'io.n ed. Ainericans no lop-c- g%'(-n-,
capable of outs: at beha': io,r that is simply improper or dv..hiou~.
We secn: to de. and ih? smol