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Public agonizing over the role of covert activity does not, of course, constrain the Soviet Union. There is evidence linking the Soviets to terrorist groups such as Italy's Red Brigades and West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, as well as to elements of the antinuclear movement in Western Europe. America's Western allies, including such sturdy democracies as France and Britain, seem able to mount covert operations when necessary. "It would be illogical for us to discuss our covert operations in full view of the rest of the world," says a former French counter-intelligence chief...
...spate of detailed disclosures in the past few years about the CIA's dirty work has shown that covert projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS...
...expanding its program to supply arms to rebels fighting the Soviet Union puppet regime in Afghanistan (see box). According to intelligence analysts, the U.S. is believed to be helping Libyan dissidents forge an opposition to Dictator Muamar Gaddafi and is suspected of circumventing the ban on covert operations in Angola in order to keep alive the anti-Communist insurgency there...
...full-scale CIA association with the Nicaraguan contras began last October. A State Department official in Central America who is intimately involved with the covert operation says, "So far, they're doing better than expected, but in limited geographic areas." This official argues that the growing strength of the contras provides an effective way for the U.S. to apply pressure on the Sandinista government to end its backing of rebels in El Salvador. Agrees a senior State Department official in Washington: "Now we have got an element of reciprocity that gives Nicaragua an incentive to sit down and talk...
...intercepting the arms flowing to the Salvadoran rebels were the Administration's only objective, there would be little reason to keep the operation covert. Money for border patrols and similar activities could be openly provided, as it now is to Honduras and other friendly nations. But restricting the arms flow will not dissuade the Nicaragua regime from trying to export its revolution. The only way to do that, the Reagan Administration evidently feels, is to aid the contras fighting inside Nicaragua. Such support cannot be supplied overtly; it violates international law, including the charter of the Organization of American...