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...wing victory. Moreover, the Administration keeps insisting, perhaps unnecessarily, that the key to its case must be whether it can provide clear evidence that the Nicaraguans, and their Soviet and Cuban mentors, have in fact played a controlling (rather than just a shadowy but significant) part in the El Salvador civil war. To his critics, Haig is still a long way from making that case convincing. A "white paper" issued by the State Department in February 1981 cited "proof that rebel arms were being channeled by Cuba and the Soviet Union through Nicaragua; the evidence was sloppily presented and exaggerated...
...capable of flying higher than 80,000 ft. and at speeds of more than 2,000 m.p.h., as well as by U.S. satellites orbiting more than 100 miles above the earth. The U.S. has also relied on electronic eavesdropping to pick up radio communications between rebel forces in El Salvador and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; one key U.S. listening post was a communications ship stationed from last December until mid-February in the Gulf of Fonseca, between Nicaragua and El Salvador. Finally, agents of the CIA gather information from undercover agents and sympathetic local "assets," whose material...
...Salvador, the CIA station chief was quite close to the right-wing security forces, which clouded his judgment; he was replaced in 1980, but Reagan Administration officials complain that they inherited a network that had poor contacts with the leftist guerrillas. Nonetheless, a senior CIA official insists: "We are building up our assets and, while not the best, our resources are pretty good now." Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agree that, as one puts it, "We've had to play catch-up." The quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even...
...Salvador (pop. 4.9 million) is where the crisis is the most acute and U.S. policy under the most tension. Guerrillas are increasingly challenging the civilian-military government headed by President José Napoleón Duarte. Says Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders...
...idea of a negotiated settlement seems attractive as a possible solution to El Salvador's bloodletting. But that course of action has serious drawbacks for the U.S. at this stage. It would give the guerrillas power that they had won neither on the battlefield nor at the ballot box. Negotiations would vindicate guerrilla warfare by abandoning the principle that an insurgency should not be allowed to force a government to the bargaining table by means of violence. The talks would also be bound to increase the momentum for an eventual leftist triumph...