The Nation : Senate Votes CIA Funding
The Senate passed by voice vote and sent to President Reagan a bill financing the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence-gathering operations in fiscal 1987. Although specific amounts and programs are classified, the bill bars the CIA from using secret funds to aid the contra rebels in Nicaragua and keeps the door open for possible aid to rebels in Angola. The bill contains only parts of an amendment by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a CIA critic, including a request to require a review of intelligence findings by more than one intelligence source--a practice officials say is already commonplace.
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