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Article: GAO Accuses Administration Of Illegal Latin Propaganda; Congress' Ban Violated in '85, Agency Says
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- The Washington Post
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- October 5, 1987
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The Reagan administration engaged in illegal "covert propaganda
activities" designed to influence the news media and the public to
support its Central American policies, according to a report by the
congressional General Accounting Office released yesterday.
The report said the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy
for Latin America and the Caribbean had violated a congressional ban
on the use of taxpayers' money for unauthorized publicity and
propaganda purposes in 1985.
In a statement releasing the report, Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.),
chairman of the House Government Operations Committee, said that
"this illegal operation represented an important cog in the
administration's effort ...