White Paper, Whitewash: Philip Agee on the CIA and El Salvador by Philip Agee, Warner Poelchau
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Overview: Before taking office the Reagan foreign policy team and the Presidentelect himself made it abundantly clear that the new American administration would take a much harder line on dealings with the socialist countries, in particular with the Soviet Union. Once in the White House, the new Presi- dent wasted no time in letting the world know that he equated armed struggles for national liberation with international terrorism and as extensions of Soviet power. In this context the new Secretary of State, Alexander Haig,surprised many by suggesting that “some things are more important than peace.”
In February 1981 the London Times observed that “the new Administration had cast its eye around the world to find a suitable place where it could make an early and firm stand against communism.” El Salvador was the country where Reagan and Haig would demonstrate to the world — to friends and foes alike — that America was going to “draw the line.” The President and the Secretary of State assumed a tone of belligerence not heard from Washington in many years — certainly not since the ignominious evacuation from Vietnam.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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