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...attempt to justify the morality of America's covert activity in Nicaragua has become irrelevant. As is evident from your article "Uneasy over a Secret War" [May 16], U.S. operations in Nicaragua have clearly and irreversibly ceased to be covert. To engage in secret actions and be caught is one thing. To persist in this conduct after it has been exposed is something else. The Reagan Administration's policy in Nicaragua may not only be a failure. It also flies in the face of what Thomas Jefferson once described as "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind...
Many Congressmen are equally skeptical about that prospect. Last week the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives used parliamentary procedures for the third time to put off a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to cut off funding for the Administration's ill-concealed covert support for armed Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries who oppose their country's leftist government. Clement Zablocki, chairman of the House committee, called the latest maneuverings at State "not helpful" in the long-term effort to prevent an anti-Administration vote. Argued liberal Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts: "The Administration is clearly...
...Administration policy was further tarnished last week with the revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency had suggested to two congressional oversight committees last December that the CIA undertake a covert operation aimed at overthrowing the Marxist-oriented dictatorship of Desi Bouterse in the South American nation of Suriname. The idea was flatly turned down by Congress, on the ground that the CIA had failed to prove that the Surinamese government had fallen solidly into the Cuban and Soviet camp. If anything, the attempt seemed to help solidify congressional antagonism toward the kind of covert actions that the Reagan Administration...
Comparisons with Soviet behavior, protests over covert action and the latest bureaucratic maneuvers in Washington have tended to obscure the fact that Marxist-led insurgents in countries like El Salvador are as adept as the U.S. and their clients in their use of firearms. A faction of the Salvadoran rebels reaffirmed that fact last week. Having taken credit for the May 25 assassination of U.S. Military Adviser Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger III in the capital of San Salvador, the so-called Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.) warned that the guerrillas would now step up armed attacks against military...
...aims in providing covert aid to the contras. The real purpose, from the beginning, has been not to get us to stop helping the Salvadorans, but to destroy our own revolution here in Nicaragua...