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### Congressional Testimony
While working with USACA and the Contras, Dowling appeared before Congress in 1985 sporting a clerical collar and identifying himself as a Catholic priest, testifying as a purported witness to [[Sandinistas|Sandinista]] atrocities. His appearance had been arranged by the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America, later described by congressional investigators as an illegal CIA-run domestic propaganda mill. A 1992 House committee staff report concluded that "senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, as well as military intelligence and psychological operations specialists from the Department of Defense, were deeply involved in establishing and participating in a domestic political and propaganda operation run through an obscure bureau in the Department of State." A 1987 investigation by the Comptroller General found the State Department had engaged in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities."[^1]
While working with USACA and the Contras, Dowling appeared before Congress in 1985 sporting a clerical collar and identifying himself as a Catholic priest, testifying as a purported witness to [[Sandinistas|Sandinista]] atrocities. His appearance had been arranged by the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy for [[Latin America]], later described by congressional investigators as an illegal CIA-run domestic propaganda mill. A 1992 House committee staff report concluded that "senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, as well as military intelligence and psychological operations specialists from the Department of Defense, were deeply involved in establishing and participating in a domestic political and propaganda operation run through an obscure bureau in the Department of State." A 1987 investigation by the Comptroller General found the State Department had engaged in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities."[^1]
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