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TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 1982
[BROADCASTS OF MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1982]
SUMMARY OF NETWORK NEWS IN THIS ISSUE
SEC. ENDERS ASKS MORE MILITARY AID FOR EL SALVADOR: The Reagan ad-
ministration has revived the domino theory as rationale for Increased
military ald for El Salvador.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas
Enders told Congress the administration Is sending an additional $55
million in military ald to El Salvador and will ask Congress for $100
million more. If the U. S. does not help El Salvador, he said, it
would not be long before U.S. strategic Interests would be at risk.
Reports from Bob Simon, CBS; Bernard Kalb, NBC; and Bill Greenwood
and Barrie Dunsmore, ABC.
DOZIER RESISTS TRANSFER ADVICE: Brig. Gen. James Dozier is apparently.
resisting recommendations that he transfer to another post for his
personal safety, preferring to finish his tour of duty In Verona.
The
White House announced that the general will visit President Reagan
later this week. Gen. Dozier Is winding up his debriefing in Vicenza,
and, because of Information he has given American officials, security
procedures on American bases are being refined.
Italian police sources
say they still have not found the mastermind of the Dozier kidnapping,
but the crackdown on terrorists in Italy continues. And the U. S. De-
fense Department reportedly used clairvoyants In an effort to find
Gen. Dozier. This is the first known time the Defense Department has
used parapsychology In an ongoing military investigation. Reports
from Dan Rather, CBS, Keith Miller, NBC, and Frank Reynolds, Peter
Jennings, Bill Blakemore, and Pierre Salinger, ABC.
DEFENSE ADVISER'S NOMINATION BLOCKED: A REagan campaign adviser on
defense charged White House officials blocked his nomination to head
an arms control committee because he opposed the administration plan
for MX deployment.
IRAN'S PURPORTED CIA DOCUMENTS: George Lewis, NBC, reported that Iran
released documents they say are CIA reports, Including one detailing
how Israel spies on other nations, including the U. S. and Egypt. Former
Iran hostage Joseph Subic told NBC the Iranians have many more classi-
fied documents petentially embarrassing to the CIA.
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CBS EVENING NEWS
CBS TV
7:00 PM
FEB. 1
Enders Asks More Salvadoran Aid
DAN RATHER: The domino theory
is back in the news, this time as a
rationale for increased aid to El
Salvador.
"As El Salvador goes, so goes
Central America." That sums up
what Assistant Secretary of State
Thomas Enders told Congress today.
He did so by way of explaining why
an additional $55 million worth of
military equipment is being sent
to El Salvador, and he asked Con-
gress for another $100 million in
ald on top of that.
Bob Simon reports that a Re-
publican-controlled subcommittee In
the Senate liked what Enders had to
say .
Democrats In control on the
House side did not.
BOB SIMON:
There have been oc-
casional massacres in Salvador, and
there's been progress in human
rights.
Such was the theme of Assistant
Secretary Enders' testimony, and,
if any senators were troubled by
this logic, Enders let them know
exactly what the administration
thinks are the stakes.
ASST. SECRETARY OF STATE THOMAS
ENDERS :
The decisive battle for
Central America is now underway in
El Salvador.
For if, after Nicar-
agua, El Salvador is captured by a
violent minority, who in Central
America will not live in fear?
How
long will it be before major US
strategic interests -- the Canal,
the sea lanes, oll supplies --
would be at risk?
SIMON :
With 11 cameras, but
only one Democrat in the chamber,
Enders ran Into little opposition
when he defended additional ald to
the Duarte regime, primarily by
speculating on what would happen if
US ald is terminated.
SEC. ENDERS: There would be,
very probably, a period -- a sub-
stantial period of great bloodshed
in El Salvador, followed, quite
probably, by a victory of the in-
surgent forces.
SIMON :
Neither Enders nor the
Republican senators spoke of light
at the end of the tunnel. But in
the House this afternoon, Democrat
Clarence Long asked what many had
been thinking :
Doesn't It all
sound a bit like Vietnam?
REP. CLARENCE LONG:
We became
the enemy.
In other words, they
stopped hating each other and
started hating the United States.
SEC. ENDERS: I don't think
that what you're saying is correct,
that we are becoming the enemy.
And I would add one more thing:
This Is very close to us. This is
happening right next to us. This
is not Vietnam, on the other side
of the world. This is right next
door to us.
SIMON :
Air Force Gen. James
Aman (?) said the administration is
thinking about sending more non-
combat personnel to Salvador. Other
administration officials are convey-
ing the message that next month's
elections will be a free and a demo-
cratic spectacle and that, when
they're over, the war will continue.
Bob Simon, CBS News, Capitol
HI11.
Dozier Resists Transfer Advice
RATHER: A US official In Italy
says that Brig. Gen. James Dozier
is resisting recommendations that
he transfer to another post for his
personal safety.
The official says Dozier insists
on finishing his two-year tour of
duty in Verona, where the Red Bri-
gades kidnapped him.
That tour ends
this summer.
The official said that Dozier,
and I quote, "feels his continued
presence would help boost morale
and serve as a humiliating blow to
the Red Brigades. "
Defense Adviser's Nomination Blocked
RATHER: A Reagan campaign ad-
viser on defense, William Van Cleve
(?), tonight sald senior White
House officials have blocked his
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nomination to head an arms control
advisory committee. Van Cleve said :
it is because he opposed the admin-
Istration plan for deploying the MX
missile. In Van Cleve's words,
"Apparently, they can't tolerate a
different point of view. "
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
NBC TV
7:00 PM
FEB. 2
US Calls Salvadoran Battle Decisive
JOHN CHANCELLOR: The govern-
ment of El Salvador today denled
that army troops massacred 20 civi-
lians.
Nobody denied the 200 sol-
diers had killed the 20 men, women,
and children, but the government
Insisted that the deaths occurred
during a regular antiguerrilla
operation.
This news came on the day when
the Reagan administration disclosed
its decision to send additional
military aid to El Salvador and its
plan to ask Congress for even more
aid.
***
More on El Salvador and the
Reagan administration from Roger
Mudd In Washington.
ROGER MUDD :
The administration
sketched a grim picture of the Ca-
ribbean today.
Assistant Secretary
of State Thomas Enders said that a
decisive battle is forming in El
Salvador and that, unless the US
comes to the aid of the Salvadoran
government, the Soviets and the Cu-
bans will have a new opening on the
American mainland.
Bernard Kalb reports.
BERNARD KALB:
Enders said the
adminstration will send $55 million
worth of military equipment to El
Salvador Immediately, and then in-
dicated that the administration
would ask Congress for almost twice
that amount in additional assis-
tance.
SEC. ENDERS :
I cannot confirm
at this point the figure that you
have heard just cited of $100 mil -
llon. But it will be something, we
believe, on that order of latitude.
KALB: All this ald In addition
to the $140 million in military and
economic assistance already ear-
marked for El Salvador this fiscal
year
Why all this ald?
SEC. ENDERS: The decisive bat-
tle for Central America is now un-
derway in El Salvador. For if, af-
ter Nicaragua, El Salvador is cap-
tured by a violent minority, who in
Central America will not live in
fear?
How long would it be before
major .US strategic interests -- the
Canal, the sea lanes, oll supplies
--
would be at risk?
KALB :
Enders accused Cuba of
systematically expanding its capa-
city to export revolution, disclos-
Ing for the first time, according
to the Pentagon, the arrival in
Cuba this year of a second squadron
of Soviet Mig 23 fighters.
Enders didn't face any hostile
questions on the Senate side. Lat-
er, when he appeared before a House
panel, one Congressman, Long of
Maryland, said the US is getting
involved In something more protrac-
ted and expensive than the American
people know about, adding that El
Salvador Is becoming a bottomless
pit.
Bernard Kalb, NBC News, at the
Capitol.
MUDD :
Sec. Enders said today
that US military assistance, which
will come from the Pentagon's
emergency stockpiles, will also be
Increased for Honduras. Enders
said the Cubans are trying to unify.
the left in Honduras and start an-
other insurgency.
Kidnap Mastermind Hasn't Been Found
KEITH MILLER: Police sources
[in Italy] say they still haven't
found one of the masterminds of the
Dozier kidnapping. Police theorize
that up to 12 people carried out
the abduction.
So far, the only
people to be identified with the
case are the five people arrested
during the rescue operation.
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Dozier has said he spent
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most of his day chained Inside a
pup tent. Most of the time, his
eyes were taped shut. Stereo head-
phones were placed over his ears,
and classical music drowned out the
terrorists' conversation.
He wore the same track suit he
was kidnapped In, but could wash
daily. **
*
Iran's Purported CIA Documents
GEORGE LEWIS: Christmas, 1979:
The hostages on Irahlan television.
Army Sgt. Joseph Subic says Ameri -
can intelligence has been severely
compromised.
Later, the Iranians showed off
captured documents and the shreds
of secret papers they were trying
to reassemble. Among documents re-
cently released by Iran, one pur-
porting to be a CIA survey called
Israel -- Foreign Intelligence and
Security Services.
NBC News has obtained a copy.
It details how Israel sples on oth -.
er nations, including the United
States. Among the tactics: Eaves-
dropping -- microphones planted in
American diplomatic offices In Tel
Aviv and taps on telephones.
Blackmail -- In one Instance,
agents tried to recruit an American
consular employee who was having an
affair with an Israeli woman.
Bribery -- attempting to get
US Marine embassy guards to sell
Information.
The signing of the Camp David
Accords in 1979 -- a dramatic im-
provement in relations between Is-
rael and Egypt. What some Egyp-
tians may now find surprising is
that, according to the purported
CIA report, Israel has designated
Egypt as a main target area for es-
tablishing Intelligence networks.
It is a fact of life that
friendly nations often spy on one
another. They just don't like at-
tention focused on it.
Former Iran hostage Joseph
Subic told NBC News the Iranians
have a lot more classified docu-
ments they can release, potential-
ly embarrassing to the CIA and
other intelligence services.
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
ABC TV
7:00 PM
FEB.
1
Reagan Revives Domino Theory
FRANK REYNOLDS: The Reagan ad.
ministration today returned to the
first foreign policy concern of Its
first days in office. It was said.
here today the decisive battle for
Central American is underway in El
Salvador.
So, at a time of rapidly in-
creasing violence and bloodshed and
new worries about human rights, Con
gress was told today that military.
and economic assistance to El Salva
*dor must be increased, and, in what
seemed a revival of the falling
domino theory, was warned that much
more than El Salvador is at stake.
BILL GREENWOOD: Administration
officials say the situation is so
serious, they're sending $55 mil-
lion in emergency military aid im-
mediately and will ask Congress for
$100 million more to prevent a left-
ist takeover.
SEC. ENDERS: If, after Nicara-
gua, El Salvador is captured by a
violent minority, who in Central
America will not live in fear?
GREENWOOD: Senators were told
it's a matter of US honor and com-
mitment.
SEC. ENDERS: If we repudiated
the Salvadoran government, that
would, of course, be a massive
psychological blow to that govern-
ment and army. And I think it's a
question of how long it would last
under those circumstances.
GREENWOOD: Pell of Rhode Is-
land said he's heard such talk be-
fore.
SEN. CLAIBORNE PELL:
But
doesn't this remind you a little
bit of what we used to think in
southeast Asia, when we had other
conversations in this same room?
SEC. ENDERS:
I find it hard to
make the analogy. We do not have
either the presence of the United
States Army in that country, nor do
we have the presence of large num-
bers of Communist troops from a
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neighboring country.
GREENWOOD: Officials do have
continued allegations of civilian
massacres by government soldiers,
including one last weekend. The
US is investigating El Salvadoran
claims it resulted from a fire
fight.
SEC. ENDERS:
I do deplore what
appears to be the excessive vio-
lence of this action, and I find it
very difficult to buy the notion
that there was, in fact, a fire
fight, and that is a result -- that
this was the result of it.
GREENWOOD :
Congress was told
El Salvador is making progress to
reduce civilian casualties, that
800 died In 1980; last year, the
official death toll was half that
number.
Bill Greenwood, ABC News, on
Capitol Hill.
How Far Will US Go in El Salvador?
BARRIE DUNSMORE :
While Sec.
Enders was making the administra-
·tion's case, guerrilla spokesman
Rubin Zamora (?) was in Washington
predicting the US would eventually
have to send in the Marines to save
the Duarte government.
RUBIN ZAMORA:
We don't want
Marines in El Salvador. [Unintel -
ligible] we are going to fight them
until the last man.
DUNSMORE :
For US policy makers,
the case of El Salvador fits the
classic definition of diplomacy
choosing between the undesirable
and the unacceptable.
What is undesirable is to sup-
port a regime with a bad human
rights record, where the security
forces cause many of the civillan
casualties, which has not moved ef-
fectively with reforms, and where
the coming elections may not mean a
thing.
What is unacceptable for this
administration is that El Salvador
should fall to Cuban-supported
leftists, that It should then join
with Nicaragua to subvert Guatemala
and Honduras, so that Central Amer-
ica ultimately comes under Soviet
domination.
The question remains, how far
is the US prepared to go to prevent
the unacceptable? After a year,
that is still not clear. . So far,
officials contend the US will use
economic and military assistance,
not US troops. But, they concede,
that may not be enough.
*Barrie Dunsmore, ABC News, the
State Department.
Gen. Dozier to Visit Reagan in US
FRANK REYNOLDS: The precise
day has not been set, but the White
House said today that Gen. James
Dozier, rescued last week from the
Red Brigades in Italy, will come
home and will see President Reagan
later this week.
For more on the Dozier story,
we go to our foreign desk in London
and Peter Jennings.
PETER JENNINGS :
In Italy today
a newspaper in Milan says that Red
Brigades terrorists rounded up by
the police are "singing like can-
aries." The number arrested since
Gen. Dozier was set free has now
climbed to 29, and italian police
sald today that three more Red Bri-
gades hideouts have been discovered
Pope John Paul told NATO offi-
cers at the Vatican today Gen. Do-
zier's release proves that terror-
Ism can be defeated.
The general will answer report-
ers' questions tomorrow. Tonight,
from Vicenza, ABC's Bill Blakemore.
BILL BLAKEMORE:
Gen. Dozier
remained all day behind the heavy
security here at his Vicenza base,
winding up the initial stages of
his debriefing with Italian author-
Ities to help them in their campaign
against terrorism.
Security procedures on American
bases here are already being refined
as a result of what he told American
officers.
***
Inside the Vatican today,
Pope John Paul spoke to graduating
officers of the NATO war college
and their families about Dozier's
rescue.
POPE JOHN PAUL !!: His libera-
tion was a moment of great joy for
so many people who had hoped and
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prayed for his release.
BLAKEMORE:
Today, under stark
confinement of courtroom cages,
more Red Brigades members went on
trial here. Five more were arrest-
ed over the weekend, and police say
Information from them Includes the
answer to a three-year-old puzzle:
The place where the Red Brigades
had Imprisoned Aldo Morro, the for-
mer Prime Minister, before killing
him. ***
DOD Used Mediums in Dozier Search
PIERRE SALINGER:
*** Fifth
mistake [made by Red Brigades ter-
rorists In the Dozler kidnapping]
-- Dozier's kidnappers seemed un-
prepared for In-depth questioning
of their captive. The scarcity of
the communiques proves this.
And Dozier's toughness in deal-
ing with his captors extended the
time the Red Brigades planned to
hold him, and, according to Italian
Intelligence sources, probably
saved his life.
ABC News has learned that top
American officials belleve there is
no evidence from the questioning of
Dozier that would indicate any out-
side influence on the Red Brigades.
At first, Dozier said he would
not answer questions because he be-
lleved the Red Brigades were Infil -
trated by the KGB, the Soviet secret
police. But his captors argued, ap-
parently convincingly, they had no-
thing to do with the Soviets.
In
fact, Dozier reported, he was not
asked questions on sensitive mili-
tary equipment a foreign power might
have provided the Red Brigades.
The questioning, then, centered
on a meeting of all US admirals and
generals stationed In Italy held a
week before Dozier was seized. The
Red Brigades wanted to know how much
time at the meeting had been spent
discussing Itallan terrorism and
were disappointed to learn the sub-
ject had hardly come up. One of
the [unintelligible] of the Red Bri-
gades is that NATO is set up to re-
press revolutionary activity in
Italy.
Sixth mistake:
The Red Brigades
had counted on the rising peace
movement in Italy and massive demon-
strations in Rome to give them sup-
port for the abduction for Gen. Do-
zler. But, having planned the kid-
napping, martial law was Imposed in
Poland, crippling the peace move-
ment in Italy and depriving Dozier's
abductors of the support they had
hoped for.
Finally, ABC News has learned
that the US Defense Department used
clairvoyants in an effort to find
Dozier. This is the first known
time that the Defense Department
has used what is called parapsy-
chology in an ongoing military in-
vestigation, and the first known
time these methods have used against
terrorists.
The American embassy In Rome
received a number of messages from
the Pentagon with parapsychological
Information on the alleged location
of Dozier, which was turned over to
Italian police for checking. For
example, a Defense Department medium
had visualized a quiet farmhouse
outside Verona, with a river running
mear it. And the medium had even
conjured up a vision of the room
where Dozier was being held.
Italian police raided a number
of farmhouses that fit the medium's
vision at gunpoint, and at one
found an Italian businessman spend-
Ing a quiet weekend with his lady
friend.
Other raids were carried out
by Italian police based on para-
psychological information provided
by the Pentagon, but with no re-
suits. It was not mediums, but
hard police work which finally
turned up the hideout where Gen.
Dozier was held for 42 days.
Pierre Salinger, ABC News,
Rome.
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