KALB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301550005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 18, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2010/01/11: CIA-RDP88-0107OR000301550005-1
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
18 January 1985
KALB: The World Court, once the U.S. was an enthusiastic
supporter, now a reluctant critic, primarily because-the
court-has tuled*thatit is a proper place for.airing.
Nicaragua's charges against the United States, and the
U.S.,.fearing it may lose, totally disagrees.
ALAN ROMBERG (State Department spokesman): We have
consistently taken the position that this case brought by
Nicaragua is a misuse of the court for political and
propaganda purposes.
KALB: And there is another-reason too. In a carefully
drafted report issued today, the.State Department
explains why it can not lay out its evidence against what
is called Nicaragua's aggression. 'We will not risk U.S.
national security,' it says, 'by presenting'such sensitive
material in public or, before a court that -includes two
judges from Warsaw Pact nations,' namely the Soviet Union
and Poland. The problem started last-spring; when the CIA
masterminded'a mine-laying operati9n off Nicaragua's
coast. -Nicaragua, among others, objected and took its-
case to the World Court, arguing that the U.S. was
violating international law. PAUL REICHLER.(lawyer for
Nicaragua): Well-above all, it's a confession of guilt.
It's an admission by the administration-that it has no
legal justification whatsoever for its covert war against
Nicaragua.
KALB.: The U.S. tonight is signalling a harder line toward
Nicaragua, not only threatening to pull out of the World
Court, as it did UNESCO, but also suspending bilateral
talks-with Nicaragua at least for the time being. Marviri-
Kalb, NBC News,-the State Department.
Approved For Release 2010/01/11: CIA-RDP88-0107OR000301550005-1