(SANITIZED) MONITORING ARMS CONTROL ACCORDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002900050003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 16, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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21 December 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
irec.or, 97-1ce o Lxternal Affairs
The Dodd amendment vote is a sobering barometer of the Senate's
attitude toward the Administration's foreign policy in Central
America.
An analysis shows that support for the Administration position is a
scant 50% and very tenuous. In the prevailing political climate, an
anti-Administration vote is possible.
Faced with this, may I suggest you direct appropriate parties
prepare viable alternatives to present policy for consideration prior
to being confronted with an embarrassing Sense of the Senate Resolution.
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In June,` he. returned , to Nicaragua
for a visit, he.said, and w as shocked
by Increasing press censorship and
an -incident in which a Managua
'priestewas beaten by "revolutionary"
youths and his church closed.
There ,were always more doubts':
about elections, and the political sys=
te
rn . was ever more closed. There,
were. confrontations everywhere and;
like li
tl
t
e boys, [the.--Sandinista lead-.
ership) kept falling into traps set for;
Last month, Fiallos said, he : vis
ited- his home town of Matagalpa, :iii
h
nort
' central Nicaragua, and .:found'
the
a
'
peas
nts.afraid
and, anxious over
"th
i
a
e
ncre
sing arhitrariness"of'local
government: representatives. He de-
id
t
ed to answer w request from La
Prensa for a`written interview,. which
he sent, from Washington "1 decided
.'that-if they wouldn't'let::'ihem print:
i
t, I would resign"
.Fiallos said. he had planned. to. re
was advised by friends of "some dan.
.. gers". including what he said' was the
"
arrest for e
counterrevolutionary; ac
"
tivities
.of a deputy justice ministe
_
_
a
. .. ..
"What --.
is important . for. Nicara
gua," Fiallos said, "1 that everyone
leave us alone. The Cubans, the So
:
,viets,. the - Bulgarians;. the` Americans.
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i
veryone should -,get " out`;'anc4"-'leav