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<text id=89TT0497>
<title>
Feb. 20, 1989: Grapevine
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 48
Grapevine
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<p> BACK ON THE PAYROLL? Students of the Iran-contra scandal
will remember that former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, code
name Max Gomez, played a crucial role in supplying arms to the
contras from El Salvador's Ilopango air base, where he worked
undercover as an adviser to the Salvadoran military. Within the
past few months, Rodriguez quietly returned to his adviser's
job, but not necessarily to the CIA's payroll. Five weeks ago,
he went to Washington with the Salvadoran air force chief, who
was lobbying for continued U.S. aid. Said a State Department
official of Rodriguez: "As far as we know in this building,
we're not paying him."
</p>
<p> PLATE LICENSE. Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is once
again playing diplomatic chicken with the U.S. -- this time on
Panama's highways. As part of its ongoing protest against
Noriega, Washington has ordered its employees in Panama not to
pay the country's payroll taxes. But certification of payment is
necessary to obtain license plates. As a result, many of the
embassy's 104 staffers and some 12,000 American and Panamanian
workers are driving their cars without valid plates. So far,
Panamanian police have not seized the unlicensed vehicles, but
U.S. officials are organizing a fleet of minibuses just in case.
</p>
<p> FLYING SOUTH. In the face of stiffening West German
opposition to low-altitude military aircraft flights, NATO
planners have begun talks with Morocco. The North African
desert would be ideal for instrument-controlled night flying and
other dangerous training missions. Two locations being
discussed: the former U.S. bases at Kenitra and Sidi Slimane,
the latter the site of a Strategic Air Command base that was
closed in 1978.
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