NEW MAN AT THE COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301220063-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: March 6, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
6 March 1986
New man at The Company
e? New CIA Deputy Director A-Wert?M.
(Gares?) takes over a schizophrenic legacy.
While the administration has been pushing
the Reagan Doctrine, Mr. Gates's predeces-
sor, John N. McMahon, has been opposing aid
to the men carrying it out ? members of the
democratic resistance . from Nicaragua to.
Angola to Afghanistan. Even Jimmy Carter
rejected Mr. McMahon's advice, fired off in
,a classified memo just after the 1979 Soviet
invasion, not to assist the Afghan
mujahideen.
Mr. Gates seems perfect for the job. A
crack Sovietologist, he has served as chief
intelligence officer of the National Security
Council and holds the trust of CIA Director
William Casey, a defender of covert aid. But
Mr. Gates faces a tough agenda:
? Jonas Savimbi's UNITA faces a deter-
mined enemy in Angola's Soviet-armed and
Cuban-supported dictatorship. If Mr.
Savimbi is overwhelmed, the Soviet Empire
will gain a prime base of subversion and con-
quest. A UNITA victory, on the other hand,
might spark a wildfire of freedom across
Africa, deciding the continent's fate for dec-
ades to come.
? The "contras" are bleeding to death in
Nicaragua. If Congress approves President
Reagan's $100 million aid request, Mr. Gates
will have to coordinate the effective distribu-
tion of guns and ammo and the destruction
of the Communist Sandinista regime.
? The Afghan mujahideen badly need
more anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons to
thwart Mikhail Gorbachev's next offensive,
scheduled for some time after the spring
thaw. Without such aid, it can only be a short
time before the Red Army completes its
genocidal conquest.
Clearly, Mr. Gates must not delay in restor-
ing The Company's commitment to further-
ing the cause of freedom in the world.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/15: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301220063-2