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Article: Noriega Got CIA Data, Panel Told; Reports Are Said To Include Details On Kennedy, Helms
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- The Washington Post
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- February 10, 1988
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Panama's strongman, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, received
"intelligence reports" prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency
and the National Security Council on the political and personal views
of U.S. senators and their aides, Jose I. Blandon, a former top
Noriega political adviser, told a Senate panel yesterday.
Blandon said the information included reports on two leading
critics of Noriega, Sens. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Mass.), and on two of their aides. He said the data about Kennedy
included material on the senator's "personal problems."
"We had all types of information on him," Blandon said, referring
to Kennedy.
The CIA yesterday denied that it furnished any ...