The Nation: Cutting Off The King's Dole
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One former high-ranking CIA official justifies the system of payments as essential aid to friends. Says he: "Certainly in every case I know of, the opposition—usually the Sovs but sometimes the Chicoms—were involved up to their eyeballs on the other side. Also, in every case there was no way we could get the money through regular congressional channels. So what the CIA did was just foreign aid by other means."
During the campaign, Carter vowed to tell all if he caught the CIA off-base, but last week he refused to discuss the payments to Hussein, citing grounds of national security. The White House is now reviewing "all sensitive foreign intelligence activities." Jimmy Carter will have to decide which should be continued because they are necessary weapons in a dangerous world.
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