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...played the role of pied piper to an unrestrained cheering mob whose behavior must have made the hapless nonwinners feel like the vanquished gladiators in ancient Rome--thumbs down, and bring in the lions! ROSE WONG MACMICHAEL Bradenton, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...true that at least some Republican members declined to sign it, and that committee consultant and former CIA officer Bobby Inman resigned in protest against it. But there was criticism from inside the CIA as well. According to a former senior estimates officer for Latin America, David MacMichael, the CIA in late 1982 issued a classified report concluding that Marxist rebels in El Salvador depended largely on Sandinista arms. One of the few pieces of hard evidence cited was the fact that a Nicaraguan customs officer had allowed an arms-carrying Volkswagen to cross into Honduras. The report, says MacMichael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bob Gates Serve His Masters Too Well? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Perhaps the most damning evidence, Chayes said in a recent interview, was given by David MacMichael, the former CIA agent whose job it was to monitor the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the El Salvador rebels between...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Law Prof Prosecutes U.S. at World Court | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...MacMichael's assertion that the U.S. had no evidence of any such transfer during that time was crucial to the case, Chayes said, because the U.S. used that link to legitimize its efforts to destabilize portions of the state, and a 400-foot radio tower was toppled in Framingham...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Law Prof Prosecutes U.S. at World Court | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...David MacMichael, 56, who until April 1983 served as a CIA estimates officer specializing in Central American and Caribbean affairs, claims that intelligence reports of cross-border arms shipments "fell off to nothing" after the failure of the Salvadoran guerrillas' "final offensive" in the spring of 1981. Now, he says, he believes the Administration has "systematically misrepresented Nicaraguan involvement in the supply of arms to Salvadoran guerrillas to justify its efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government." Secretary of State George Shultz says of MacMichael, "He must be living in some other world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence: Challenging the CIA's Evidence | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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