-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [toeslist] Fw: [djpc-action] The Sordid Past of Bush's Foreign Policy Team Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:42:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Emilie Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 2:44 AM Subject: [djpc-action] The Sordid Past of Bush's Foreign Policy Team Bush's top foreign policy advisers for Latin America all played key roles in supporting the Contras in the 80s. Here's the line up: Colin Powell, Secretary of State. He was military assistant (known as the "filter") to Secretary of Defense in the 80s. In his autobiography, he proudly claims to ahve been the Pentagon's "point man" for US support for the Contras. From that position, he played a key role in funding Contras through illegal arms sales to Iran. For the full story, see http://www.consortiumnews.com/news.html John Maisto, National Security Council Adviser for Inter- American affairs (i.e. Bush's top adviser on the region.) Maisto was ambassador to Nicaragua during the U.S.-backed guerrilla war against the Sandinista government. See www.americas.org John Negroponte, United States ambassador to the United Nations. As ambassador to Honduras between 1981 and 1985, Mr. Negroponte oversaw a military buildup that turned much of that country into a springboard and refuge for the anti-Sandinista contras. See http://www.infoshop.org/nicanet/pubs/hotline0219_2001.html Otto Juan Reich, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He was the first director of the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1983 to 1986. From that position, he engaged in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" in his efforts to promote the Reagan administration's policies toward Nicaragua. See http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/ ACTION ALERT: Stop Bush's appointment of Otto Reich You may have wondered in the 1980's why Pledge of Resistance actions in your town and the actions of thousands of other activists across the entire U.S. got little or no press coverage in the major U.S. media. The man responsible was Otto Reich who, as the National Security Archives reports, maintained a private network of individuals and organizations whose activities were coordinated with, and sometimes directed by, Colonel Oliver North as well as other officials of the National Security Council. These private individuals and organizations raised and spent funds for the purpose of influencing congressional votes and U.S. domestic news media. Reich, a right-wing Cuban American and a former ambassador to Venezuela, is now undergoing a State Department background check. He would oversee U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America and Canada. The major U.S. media sees Reich's appointment as causing conflict within the Republican Party between Florida's powerful Cuban- American exile lobby and a growing number of conservative business leaders and farmers who want to open new markets in Cuba. But analysts are also saying that a Reich appointment could sour goodwill gestures to the rest of the Americas, setting up a showdown with Mexico and other nations. The Dallas Morning News reports that Mr. Bush appears to be depending heavily on Cuban-Americans for key foreign policy advice. The National Security Archives has placed on its web site numerous documents that reveal Reich's role in the Reagan Administration's Central America policy. Visit the site at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ to learn more about Mr. Reich's career. Then write to your senators and ask them to let the Administration know that Mr. Reich should not be named to this high- level post. If Reich is tapped for the post, he has to be confirmed by the Senate. So ask your Senators to vote against the nomination. If your Senator is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he or she will have the opportunity to ask pointed questions of the nominee and to vote to prevent the nomination from going to the Senate floor. Here are the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Helms (NC) Chairman, Biden (DE) Ranking, Lugar (IN), Sarbanes (MD), Hagel (NE), Dodd (CT), Smith (OR), Kerry (MA), Thomas (WY), Feingold (WI), Frist (TN), Wellstone (MN), Chafee (RI), Boxer (CA), Allen (VA), Torricelli (NJ), Brownback (KS), Nelson (FL). You can call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your senators' offices. You can avoid long distance charges by calling your senators' local offices (numbers in the blue pages of your phone book). Or you can write an e-mail message to your senators by going to the Senate's web page which is www.senate.gov and clicking on your state. 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