berman@ihuxm.UUCP (Rational Chuzpah) (09/28/84)
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Friday September 28, 1984:
"According to a Senate Intelligence Committee staff report...
CIA agents paid informant fees to some Salvadoran intelligence
officers responsible for creating and directing the
death squads and selecting victims."
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Our tax dollars supporting death squads???? Our CIA paying
off the death squads????
Aw heck, lets not talk about that, lets talk about how
the damn Russians have no respect for human rights. That's so
much easier to get puffed up about.....
Andy Bermanrenner@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/03/84)
> CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Friday September 28, 1984: > > "According to a Senate Intelligence Committee staff report... > CIA agents paid informant fees to some Salvadoran intelligence > officers responsible for creating and directing the > death squads and selecting victims." > > Our tax dollars supporting death squads???? Our CIA paying off the > death squads???? Aw heck, lets not talk about that, lets talk about how > the damn Russians have no respect for human rights. That's so much > easier to get puffed up about..... > -- Andy Berman (berman@ihuxm) It's interesting how two people can read the same newspaper article and get two entirely different impressions. Now I happen to have the 9/28 Tribune right here. Here's the part of the article that stands out to me: ...[The report's] chief conclusion is that "there is no evidence to support the allegation that elements of the United States have deliberately supported, encouraged, or acquiesced in acts of political violence in El Salvador, particularly extreme right-wind death-squad activity." Here we have a newspaper article about a Senate committee report which finds no evidence that the CIA or any other part of the goverment is involved in the death squads. So what's the headline? Would you believe... REPORT LINKS CIA, SALVADOR DEATH SQUADS Would someone please explain how this article and headline fit into the supposed conservative-inspired propaganda campaign that I've been reading about on the net. This sure looks like something completely different to me. Scott Renner {pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!renner