Robert Simmons person
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not to initiate operations unless ordered to do so. The result would be a fancy footwork to evade the Boland Amendment, not to observe it. At the beginning of 83, Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a member of the Intelligence Commi…
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by the ambassador in the CIA every single time. Leahy went on to Panama, where Dewey Claridge, making a circuit of stations, had just visited. Leahy told the chief, former CATF boss Jerry Spott, that he wanted a briefing on the Nicaraguan p…
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passionately in secrecy. George promised openness and made a show of it, inaugurating weekly lunches with the staff directors of the Senate and House Committee. Robert Simmons at first thought the lunches was a splendid device, but Simmons …
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Rob Simmons decided that George's idea of liaison amounted to a standard procedure of a clandestine service officer in a hostile country with Congress the country and the CIA officer saying only what seemed politically necessary or strategi…
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Confusion surrounds the issue of the adequacy of CIA notifications. A careful review is necessary. In January of 84, the Senate committee sought information. Its interest was piqued by the CIA's intention to exhaust its Nicaraguan budget. T…
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was a 100% unilateral CIA effort. When Rob Simmons saw a March 30 Casey letter to Senator Pell that supplied additional details on questions at his private briefing, the letter contained the phrase unilaterally controlled Latino assets. Bef…
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He understood plastic explosives too and figured quote-unquote firecrackers did not do justice to the power of CIA mines. Simmons went to the House Staff Chief Thomas Latimer and asked to see records of the CIA briefings there, where he imm…
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Casey appeared combative before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Four days later, Goldwater rose on the Senate floor to deliver a speech about the mining, mistakenly referring to classified information. Simmons had to stop him mid-sentenc…
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A piece in the CIA's internal newsletter asserted positively that the agency had fully informed Congress of its actions. Quietly, according to the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, spo…