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Though Reagan dramatized the Administration's concern about Central America by giving a speech to an extraordinary joint session of Congress on April 27, the legislators balked at his Salvadoran aid requests. To date Congress has voted only about half of the money the Administration sought. Also during the spring, the right-wing contras stepped up their hit-and-run raids into Nicaragua from bases and training camps in Honduras. By then, it was public knowledge that the CIA was heavily involved in these "covert" operations, training the contras and supplying them with arms. Restive over this far from secret...
...policymakers agreed readily enough on the main elements of the assessment. The Salvadoran government was making some headway in a new offensive against the leftist guerrillas, but might not be able to maintain its momentum with no more U.S. aid than it is now getting. In Nicaragua, the contras had been unable to capture any towns, but they were attracting recruits faster than the CIA could arm and train them. An apparently worried Nicaraguan government had responded by calling in more outside help. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, some 1,200 Cuban military advisers had been spotted in Nicaragua...
...During Clark's interagency meetings, the Pentagon proposed scrapping the Administration's self-imposed limit of 55 American military advisers in El Salvador (actually, the number now is 47) and increasing the force to 125. Its argument is simply that 55, or 47, advisers are not enough to tram Salvadoran forces on the scale required to defeat the leftist guerrillas. The Pentagon also proposed that the advisers be allowed to accompany Salvadoran government forces in the field, which is prohibited now, though they still would not be allowed to join in actual combat. Asked about a larger force...
...doing the patriotic thing. In return for "fair compensation," he agreed on June 4 to turn over up to 2,000 acres of his 14,000-acre ranch, near Puerto Castilla, Honduras, to Honduran military officials so that U.S. military advisers could set up a base for training Salvadoran troops. Later that day, the U.S. embassy informed him that the agreement was not valid. On June 6, bulldozers showed up anyway...
...military advisers in El Salvador, the country's four-year counterinsurgency campaign has mostly been an exercise in frustration. The main reason: the lackluster performance of the 22,000-member Salvadoran army and particularly its officer corps. According to the U.S. military men, almost all of whom have experience in Viet Nam, the way for the Salvadorans to beat the 5,000 to 6,000 Marxist-led guerrillas is to pursue them through the countryside. Says a U.S. counterinsurgency expert: "You have to put troops out and keep the guerrilla from operating. The ultimate goal is to reduce...