RADIO - TV DEFENSE DIALOG

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DEFENSE DIALOG
RADIO TV REPORTS INC. WASH.. D.C.. SUMMARIES NOT TO BE QUOTED
TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 1982 EBROADCASTS OF MONDAY, FEB. 1, 198?1
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SUMMARY OF NETWORK NEWS IN THIS ISSUE
SEC. ENDERS ASKS MORE MILITARY AID FOR EL SALVADOR: The Reagan ad-
ministration has revived the domino theory as rationale for increased
military aid for El Salvador. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas
Enders told Congress the administration Is sending an additional $55
million in military aid to El Salvador and will ask Congress for $100
million more. If the U.S. does not help EI Salvador, he said, it
would not be long before U.S. strategic Interests would be at risk.
Reports from Bob Simon, CBS; Bernard Kalb, NBC; and B111 Greenwood
and Barrie Dunsmore, ABC. .
DOZIER RESISTS TRANSFER ADVICE: Brig. Gen. James Dozier is apparently,
resisting recommendations that he transfer to another post for his
personal safety, preferring to finish his tour of duty in Verona. The
White House announced that the general will visit President Reagan
later this week. Gen. Dozier Is winding up his'debriefing -in Vicenza,
and, because of information he has given American officials, security
procedures on American bases are being refined. Italian police sources
say they stilI have not found the mastermind of the Dozier kidnapping,
but the crackdown on terrorists in Italy continues. And the U.S. De-
fense Department reportedly used clairvoyants in an effort to find
Gen. Dozier. This is the first known time the Defense Department has
used parapsychology in an ongoing military investigation. Reports
from Dan Rather, CBS, Keith Miller, NBC, and Frank Reynolds, Peter
Jennings, Bill Blakemore, and Pierre Salinger, ABC.
DEFENSE ADVISER'S NOMINATION BLOCKED: A REagan campaign adviser on
defense charged White House officials blocked his nomination to head
an arms control committee because he opposed the administration plan
for MX deployment.
IRAN'S PURPORTED CIA DOCUMENTS: George Lewis, NBC, reported that Iran
released documents they say are CIA reports, Including one detailing
how Israel spies on other nations, including the U.S. and Eg~-pt. Former
Iran hostage Joseph Subic told NBC the Iranians have many more classi-
fied documents potentially embarrassing to the CIA.
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CBS EVENING NEWS
7:00 PM FEB. 1 .
Enders Asks More Salvadoran Aid
DAN RATHER: The domino theory
is back in the news, this time as a
rationale for increased aid to El
Salvador.
"As El Salvador goes, so goes
Central America." That sums up
what Assistant Secretary of State
Thomas Enders told Congress today.
He did so by way of explaining why
an additional $55 million worth of
military equipment is being sent
to El Salvador, and he asked Con-
gress for another $100 million in
aid on top of that.
Bob Simon reports that a Re-
publican-controlled subcommittee in
the Senate liked what Enders had to
say. Democrats in control on the
House side did not.
BOB SIMON: There have been oc-
casional massacres in Salvador, and
there's been progress in human
rights.
Such was the theme of Assistant
Secretary Enders' testimony, and,
if any senat.ors were troubled by
this logic, Enders let them know
exactly what the administration
thinks are the stakes.
ASST. SECRETARY OF STATE THOMAS
ENDERS: The decisive battle for
Central America is now underway in
El Salvador. For if, after Nicar-
agua, El Salvador is captured by a
violent minority, who in Central
America will not live in fear? How
long will It be before major US
strategic interests -- the Canal,
the sea lanes., oil supplies --
would be at risk?
SIMON: With 11 cameras, but
only one Democrat in the chamber,
Enders ran into little opposition
when he defended additional aid to
the Duarte regime, primarily by
speculating on what would happen if
US aid is terminated.
SEC. ENDERS: There would be,
very probably, a period -- a sub-
stantial period of great bloodshed
in El Salvador,. followed, quite
probably, by a victory of the in-
surgent forces.
SIMON: Neither Enders nor the
Republican senators spoke of light
at the end of the tunnel. But in
the House this afternoon, Democrat
Clarence Long asked what many had
been`thinking: Doesn't it all
sound a bit like Vietnam?
REP. CLARENCE LONG: We
became
the enemy. In other words, they
stopped hating each other and
started hating the United States.
SEC. ENDERS: I don't think
that what you're saying is correct
that we are becoming the enemy.
And I would add one more thing:
This is very close to us. This is
happening right next to us. This
it not Vietnam, on the other side
of the world. This Is right next
door to us.
SIMON: Air Force Gen. James
Aman (?) said the administration is
thinking about sending more non-
combat personnel to Salvador. Other
administration officials are convey-
ing the message that next month's
elections will be a free and a demo-
cratic spectacle and that, when
they're over, the war will continue.
Bob Simon, CBS News, Capitol
HIiI.
Dozier Resists Transfer Advice
RATHER: A US official in Italy
says that Brig. Gen. James Dozier
is resisting recommendations that
he transfer to another post for h i s
personal safety.
The official says Dozier insists
on finishing his two-year tour of
duty in Vei`ona, where the Red Bri-
gades kidnapped him. That tour end
this summer.
The official said that Dozier,
and I quote, "feels his continued
presence would help boost morale
and serve as a humiliating blow to
the Red Brigades."
Defense Adviser's Nomination Blocked
RATHER: A Reagan campaign ad-
viser on defense, William Van Cleve
.(?), tonight said senior White
House officials have blocked his
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nomination to head an arms control
advisory committee. Van Clove said.
it is because he opposed the admin-
istration plan for deploying the MX
missile. In Van Clove's words,
"Apparently, they can't tolerate a
different point of view."
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC TV
7:00 PM -_~ FEB. 2
US Calls Salvadoran Battle Decisive
JOHN CHANCELLOR: The govern-
ment of El Salvador today denied
that army troops massacred 20 civi-
lians. Nobody denied the 200 sol-
diers had killed the 20 men, women,
and children, but the government
insisted that the deaths occurred
during a regular antiguerrilia
operation.
This news came on the day when
the Reagan administration disclosed
its decision to send additional
military aid to El Salvador and its
plan to ask Congress for even more
aid.
*** More on El Salvador and the
Reagan administration from Roger
Mudd in Washington.
ROGER MUDD: The administration
sketched a grim picture of the Ca-
ribbean today. Assistant Secretary
of State Thomas Enders said that a
decisive battle is forming in El
Salvador and that, unless the US
comes to the aid of the Salvadoran
government, the Soviets and the Cu-
bans w i l l have a new opening on the
American mainland.
Bernard Kalb reports.
BERNARD KALB: Enders said the
adminstration will send $55 million
worth of military equipment to El
Salvador immediately, and then in-
dicated that the administration
would ask Congress for almost twice
that amount in additional assis-
tance.
SEC. ENDERS: I cannot confirm
at this point the figure that you
have heard just cited of $100 mil-
Zion. But it will be something, we
believe, on that order of latitude.
KALB: All this aid in addition
to the $140 million in military and
economic assistance already ear-
mar'ked for El Salvador this Fiscal
year.
Ay all this aid?
SEC. ENDERS: The decisive bat-
tle for Central America is now un-
derway in El Salvador. For if, af-
ter Nicaragua, El Salvador is cap-
tured by a violent minority, who in
Central America will not live in
fear? How long would It be before
major.US strategic Interests -- the
Canal, the sea lanes, oil supplies
-- would be at risk?
KALB: Enders accused Cuba of
systematically expanding its capa-
city to export revolution, disclos-
Ing for the first time, according
to the Pentagon, the arrival in
Cuba this year of a second squadron
of Soviet Mig 23 fighters.
Enders didn't face any hostile
questions on the Senate side. Lat-
er, when he appeared before a House
panel, one Congressman, Long of
Maryland, said the US is getting
involved in something more protrac-
ted and expensive than the American
people know about, adding that El
Salvador is becoming a bottomless
pit.
Bernard Kalb, NBC News, at the
Capitol.
MUDD: Sec. Enders said today
that US military assistance, which
will come from the Pentagon's
emergency stockpiles, will also be
increased for Honduras. Enders
said the Cubans are trying to unify
the left in Honduras and start an-
other insurgency.
Kidna Mastermind Hasn't Been-Found
KEITH MILLER: Police sources
[in Italy] say they still haven't
found one of the masterminds of the
Dozier kidnapping. Police theorize
that up to 12 people carried out
fhe abduction. So far, the only
people to be identified with the
case are the five people arrested
during the rescue operation.
Dozier has said he spent
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most
of his day chained
inside a
ABC
WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
pup
tent. Most of the
time,
his
7:00
PM
eyes
were taped shut.
Stereo
head-
phones were placed over his ears,
and classical music drowned out the
terrorists' conversation.
He wore the same track suit he
was kidnapped in, but could wash
daily. ***
Iran's Purported CIA Documents
GEORGE LEWIS: Christmas, 1979:
The hostages on Irahlan television.
Army Sgt. Joseph Subic says Ameri-
can Intelligence has been severely
compromised.
Later, the Iranians showed off
captured. documents and the shreds
of secret papers they were trying
to reassemble. Among documents re-
cently released by Iran, one pur-
porting to be a CIA survey called
Israel -- Foreign Intelligence and
Security Services.
NBC News has obtained a copy.
It details how Israel spies on oth-
er nations, including the United
States. Among the tactics: Eaves-
dropping -- microphones planted in
American diplomatic offices In Tel
Aviv and taps on telephones.
Blackmail -- in one instance,
agents tried to recruit an American
consular employee who was having an
affair with an Israeli woman.
Bribery -- a-l?tempt i ng to get
US Marine embassy guards to sell
Information.
The signing of the Camp David
Accords in 1979 -- a dramatic im-
provement In relations between Is-
rael and Egypt. What some Egyp-
tians may now find surprising Is
that, according to the purported
CIA report, Israel has designated
Egypt as a main target area for es-
tablishing intelligence networks.
It is a fact of life that
friendly nations often spy on one
another. They just don't like at-
tention focused on it.
Former Iran hostage Joseph
Subic told NBC News the Iranians
have a 'lot more classified docu-
ments they can release, potential-
ly embarrassing to the CIA and
other intelligence services.
Reagan Revives Domino Theory
ABC T'.
FEB. 1
FRANK REYNOLDS: The Reagan ad-
ministration today returned to the
first foreign policy concern of it<
first days in office. It was said.
here today the decisive battle for
"-Central American is underway in El
Salvador.
So, at a time of rapidly in-
creasing violence and bloodshed and
new worries about human rights, Con
gross was told today that military,
and economic assistance to El Salva
?dor must be increased, and, in what
seemed a revival of the falling
domino theory, was warned that much
m,Qre than El Salvador is at stake.
BILL GREENWOOD: Administration
officials say the situation is so
serious, they're sendin