ACCESSION
NUMBER:363620
FILE ID:POL505
DATE:10/07/94
TITLE:CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10/07/94)
TEXT:*94100705.POL
CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
(CIA/Haiti, nominations, treaties) (440)
WOOLSEY DENIES U.S. INTELLIGENCE TIE TO HAITIAN PARAMILITARY
CIA Director R. James Woolsey says U.S. intelligence agencies did not help
set up a Haitian paramilitary group that terrorized supporters of exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, as reported in this week's issue of The
Nation magazine.
Asked by reporters if there was any CIA connection with the Front for the
Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, Woolsey replied, "No." He
made the denial October 6 as he came out of a closed door meeting with the
Senate Intelligence Committee.
Senator Dennis DeConcini, chairman of that committee, told reporters that he
had no reason to doubt Woolsey's denial, but Senator Howard Metzenbaum,
second ranking Democrat on the committee, said he did not believe the CIA
chief.
"If you read between the lines...(the CIA) was more close with FRAPH than
itshould have been," Metzenbaum said. "I think it's horrendous."
The Washington Post reported in its October 7 editions that Emmanuel "Toto"
Constant, head of FRAPH, was a paid CIA informant. NBC News reported that
the CIA also had Lieutenant Colonel Michel Francois, the former
Port-au-Prince police chief, on its payroll. Neither the Post nor NBC
identified the sources of their information.
RIVLIN CONFIRMED AS OMB DIRECTOR
The Senate has confirmed Alice Rivlin as director of President Clinton's
Office of Management and Budget, moving her up from the deputy budget
director position. Confirmation came on a voice vote early October 7.
Rivlin, 63, became the first woman to direct the budget office. She fills
the vacancy caused when Leon Panetta left to become White House chief of
staff.
Before joining the administration as Panetta's deputy last year, Rivlin had
been a senior economist at the Brookings Institution. She also had been
the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, where she served for
1ight years.
Other nominations approved by the Senate early October 7 include:
-- Frederick Pang to be an assistant secretary of defense;
-- Bernard Rostker to be an assistant secretary of the Navy;
-- Lori Esposito Murray to be an assistant director of the United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
SENATE APPROVES SEVERAL TREATIES
Early October 7 the Senate approved ratification of the following treaties:
-- Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and
Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas;
-- ILO Convention Concerning Labor Administration;
-- Two Treaties with the United Kingdom Establishing Caribbean Maritime
Boundaries;
-- Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the
Central Bering Sea;
-- Headquarters Agreement with the Organization of American States.
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