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...some flaws in this record. What the CIA calls "human intelligence" has not yet recovered from the savage staff cuts carried out during the Carter Administration by Casey's predecessor, Stansfield Turner, who preferred to collect intelligence by electronic means. Casey did not have a single agent on Grenada until a few days before the American invasion last October, and could not provide an accurate estimate of the number of Cubans on the island. Casey takes special joy in having revived covert operations. He is said to have made several trips in unmarked planes to Honduras to check...
This scenario will hold unless voters and the media do not fall in line with Reagans double talk with the same equanimity with which they accepted the Grenada invasion...
Reagan's China trip is but another chapter in his how-to book on leadership by image manipulation. The President survives a bomb attack in Lebanon by invading Grenada, tempers anti-interventionist sentiment in El Salvador by staging marginally democratic election there, and turns the tables on criticism of his terrorist policies in Nicaragua by announcing a stepped-up anti-terrorist policy himself. Now China, but if you close your eyes, you can make it go away...
...explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied criticism generally: "Can we, who make a very large commitment to the security of Europe, count on ment to the security of Europe, count on some reciprocal...
...Reagan Administration that blacked the news media out from the Grenada invasion...