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...where that policy is leading, the Senate passed by a landslide vote of 84 to 12 a nonbinding resolution demanding that no U.S. money be used to mine Nicaraguan waters. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater voiced his colleagues' anger and dismay in an astonishingly pungent letter to CIA Director William Casey. Said Mr. Conservative: "I am pissed off ... The President has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we back his foreign policy when we don't know what the hell he is doing? Lebanon, yes, we all knew that he sent troops over there. But mine...
...about its motives and strategy that have spread far beyond Congress. Just as the Senate was preparing to vote on the antimining resolution, the White House felt obliged to issue an extraordinary statement in the names of Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director Casey and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Said they: "We state emphatically that we have not considered, nor have we developed, plans to use U.S. military forces to invade Nicaragua or any other Central American country." They were responding to press accounts that the Administration had drawn up contingency plans...
...Shultz-Weinberger-Casey-McFarlane statement gave a strong hint of Ronald Reagan's probable response. "The real issues," it said, "are whether we in the United States want to stand by and let a Communist government in Nicaragua export violence and terrorism in this hemisphere...
...late February and then until March 8, when the issue of the minings was somehow passed over. When Goldwater recently discovered what it seems the House knew ever since January that CIA agents were mining the harbors, not American-backed Contras--he wrote a letter to CIA chief William Casey saying that he, Goldwater, was "pissed off" that he hadn't been informed...
...rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew about it already. And above it all the horrible sphinx, William J. Casey, sits grinning: "I don't have to answer questions I'm not asked...