CENTRAL AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001103940028-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 23, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2007/11/28: CIA-RDP88BOO443RO01103940028-7
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington,D. C.20505
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Alexander M. Haig
Secretary of State
The Honorable William P. Clark
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
The Honorable Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
United States Representative to
the United Nations
SUBJECT: Central America
I thought this paragraph in Saturday's (story in
The Washington Post could be read to contain some particular significance:
"While generally declining to comment on the content of
the talks with Castro, d'Escoto said the possibility of
increasing the already considerable Cuba military assistance
in Nicaragua in the event of an invasion 'was not the object
of the discussions.' But he added, 'I don't think truly
responsible countries would stand idly by, just as we would
not in the case of an invasion of El Salvador'."
The only meaning that makes sense is that d'Escoto was saying that the
Nicaraguan Government is not invading El Salvador but only some freelancers
are operating in El Salvador and that if any government really invaded
El Salvador, we'll (Nicaragua) send troops to El Salvador as we would expect
Cuba to do for us (Nicaragua).
This line may be developed in the U.N. debate on the United States'
threat which Nicaragua has called for in the U.N.
William J. Casey
CONFIDENTIAL
STAT
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