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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