House Foreign Affairs Committee. Staff Report on OPD. 1988-09-07
Committee on Foreign Affairs Staff Report, U.S. House of Representatives.
State Department and Intelligence Community Involvement in Domestic
Activities Related to the Iran/Contra Affair. September 7, 1988. 37 pages.
From the letter of transmission from chief counsel R. Spencer Oliver
and staff consultant Bert Hammond to committee chairman Dante B. Fascell:
"We hereby submit the final staff report of our investigation on the
involvement of the State Department Office of Latin American Public Diplomacy
[OPD] in the establishment and supervision of a private, domestic network
designed to influence the Congress, the media and public opinion on behalf
of the Administration's policies.... [Three previous investigations], as well
as our own investigation, present a situation which may require further
investigation ... to focus on the extent to which the CIA and various
intelligence components of the Department of Defense conspired, through the
staff of the National Security Council, to use the State Department as a
cover for a domestic operation which went far beyond the legal and ethical
scope of their authority. The staff report indicates the extensive involvement
of intelligence community personnel by the Office of Latin American Public
Diplomacy to establish, maintain and manage private, domestic entities engaged
in fundraising, lobbying, propaganda and manipulation of the media.... Many
important documents ... were never made available to our Committee, [which
lacked subpeona power]...."
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