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Goldwater, 75, has always been unusually candid, often to the discomfort of conservative comrades. Now that he has announced he will not run for reelection in 1986, the curmudgeon is even freer to speak his mind. Last spring he sent a scolding letter to CIA Director William Casey for not telling the Intelligence Committee about the U.S.-directed mining of Nicaraguan harbors. "This is an act violating international law," Goldwater wrote. "I don't like it one bit from the President or from you." As Armed Services chairman, he will have power to do much more than raise...
...same fractiousness is evident in the Administration's solutions for Central America. Hard-liners in Washington, including CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, seem to believe that in the long run it is impossible to deal with the Sandinistas. They would prefer to see the Managua regime ousted from power, although any action by the U.S. toward that end is expressly forbidden by a 1982 resolution of Congress. More moderate officials, including Shultz, believe that diplomacy can play a role in curbing Nicaragua's radical tendencies. In their view, the U.S. must show that...
...within the CIA. Five middle-level agency officials, targeted to be disciplined for their part in drafting the contentious primer, said they were being used as scapegoats. Congressional critics charged that the five were victims of a cover-up designed to protect senior officials, notably CIA Director William J. Casey, who has supervised the covert assistance to anti-Sandinista contras...
...manual violated the spirit of U.S. policy by advocating that the contras should "neutralize" local officials of the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Casey, however, explained that the passage, along with one that advocated "shooting" informers, should be considered in context. "It is important to note," his letter read, "that these passages are in the context of occupying a community and dealing with a situation in which actual or potential resistance remains...
...disclaimers, the manual again raised questions about whether Washington's support for the contras was designed merely to put pressure on the Nicaraguan government to stop its support of the Salvadoran rebels, as the Administration claims, or to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, as critics charge. According to Casey, the CIA-supplied documents state that the aim of the contras "is the development of a democratic and pluralistic government in Nicaragua." Countered Republican Senator Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "The policy implied is the overthrow of an established government...