CIA/NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000200810002-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2008/06/27: CIA-RDP88-0107OR000200810002-7
CBS EVENING NEWS
28 July 1983
CIA/NICARAGUA RATHER: Congress is not the only group in Washington that is
split over covert action against Nicaragua's Sandinista
government so, apparently is the Central Intelligence Agency,
the group that is in charge of this covert activity. Robert
Schakne explains.
SCHAKNE: There are deep divisions within the CIA's clandestine
operations directorate over plans to expand covert paramilitary
operations against Nicaragua. Senior career officers are
warning that the plans pose a major danger of escalating-the
conflict. According to very reliable sources, CIA director
William Casey proposed expanding.the covert operation over the
objections of a number of his senior advisers. These CIA
officials say that rather than pressuring the Santinistas into
making concessions, Casey's expanded covert operation is just as
likely to provoke a dangerous military response, including
deployment of Cuban combat troops into Nicaragua. The
protesting CIA officers complain that Casey has drawn up no
contingency plans for such an eventuality. The CIA dissidents
say that intelligence professionals are being asked to run an
operation that is not working very effectively now and has a
high probability of failure in the future. Robert Schakne, CBS
News, Washington.
Approved For Release 2008/06/27: CIA-RDP88-0107OR000200810002-7