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• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600420013-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2005
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• Publication Date: October 28, 1984
• Content Type: TRANS

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DATE October 28, 1984 1:30 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
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DAVID BRINKLEY: Over the years, Central and South
America have received from the United States loans from banks,
loans from the U.S. Government, cash grants, Peace Corpsmen,
various experts offering advice, cash payments for such commodi-
ties as lumber, shoes, steel, bananas, coffee, cocaine, plus,
once in a while, visits by the United States Marines, and now
military advisers in Central America and a sort of tutorial
explaining how to fight a civil war and how to neutralize leaders
on the other side.
Well, what is going on? Is the CIA again out of
control, as it. once was said to be? Are our elected leaders
aware of what it is doing?
We'll ask today's guests: Senator Barry Goldwater of
Arizona, Chairman; and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New
York, Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Intelligence.
Admiral Stansfield Turner, former Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. William E. Colby, also former Director of
the Central Intellligence Agency. Some background from our man
John Martin. And our discussion here with George Will, Sam
Donaldson, and Hodding Carter.
BRINKLEY: It may seem that none of the fighters in
Central America on either side, any side, need any instruction in
how to commit murder. They have, after.all, been committing
murder in more or less wholesale numbers for years. Neverthe-
less, the law says that the CIA or.any other agency of the U.S.
Government may not commit, encourage, or support assassination
for any reason, even among fighters who, whatever we do or say,
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