[Inman] He checked and found that, under the intelligence-sharing arrangement set up with Casey's approval, Israel had almost unlimited access to U.S. satellite photography and had used it in planning their raid.[on Iraq]
Veil - Bob Woodward p.169
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[El Salvador]In some cases, as we saw later, in late 1981 of course there was, what is now fairly well known, the massacre in El Mazote. And this was a case where the first American trained battalion was sent out over Christmas time in 1981 into rebel controlled territory and it swept through this territory and killed everybody, everyone they could find - including the children. When two American reporters, Ray Bonner and Alma Jimapareta (?), went to the scene of this atrocity in January of 1982, they were able to see some of what was left behind and they interviewed witnesses who had survived, and came out with stories describing what they had found. This was of course extremely upsetting to the Reagan administration, which at that time was about to certify that the Salvadoran military was showing respect for human rights, and that was necessary to get further funding and weapons for the Salvadoran military.
Fooling America: A talk by Robert Parry
The Reagan administration even flew its friend General Leopoldo Galtieri, an Argentine criminal "who seems to have had no compunctions about ordering the arrest and torture of suspects during the Dirty War," to Washington in November 1981 "to devise a secret agreement under which Argentine military officers trained Nicaraguan rebels, according to an administration official familiar with the agreement."
The Culture of Terrorism - Noam Chomsky p.174
The Pakistani government received enormous benefits as a result of serving as a conduit for U.S. arms to the [Afghan] rebels. In addition to selling advanced weapons to the Pakistanis the Reagan administration turned a blind eye to Pakistan's ultimately successful attempt to develop an atomic bomb.
.A Century of Spies - Jeffrey T. Richelson p.414
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