CUBAN AND NICARAGUAN INVOLVEMENT IN EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00148R000100270005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 6, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: 4feputy Director for Intelligence
Chief, Latin America Division, DO
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Cuban and Nicaraguan Involvement in El Salvador
1. The demand for proof of Cuban and Nicaraguan involvement in
El Salvador is being met partially by martialling current evidence.
We knew this as a fact well over a year ago and have been constantly
getting one or another reaffirmation over that period.
2. I think a compilation of this history should be made and pulled
together for use at the present time, hopefully for the testimony requested
by the Senate Committee for Thursday of next week. Included in this should
be a public statement of credible witnesses such as those made by Archbishop
Obando y Bravo on November 16, 1981, who stated that the Nicaraguan govern-
ment is governed by Cubans and not by the junta. We make a mistake in con-
fining the evidence to Nicaragua when proof of Cuban and Soviet involvement
is just as good and strengthens the case. There is no harm in repeating
some of the White Paper material. The public has forgotten the details of
that and stronger elements should be incorporated in this statement. The
implications are the same when the Salvadorans and Guatemalan leaders are
called to Havana or Mexico City for instruction under Cuban and Nicaraguan
leadership as it is for them to be called to Managua.
3. I am attaching a current Heritage Foundation publication which
captures some of the public evidence.
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