NICARAGUA/DEFECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100630009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 21, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
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CBS Evening News
21 June 1983
NICARAGUA/ RATHER: Early last month, a Nicaraguan government official, who
DEFECTOR. had been a hero of the Sandinista revolution, defected to the
United States. For the past three weeks he has been debriefed
by the U.S. State Department and the CIA. Today he went public,
and Bob Schieffer was there.
SCHIEFFER: Miguel Bolanos Hunter says he quit as an agent in
Nicaragua's Sandinista government security force and defected to
the United States because a Sandinista revolution has not
brought democracy to his country, and in an interview arranged
by the State Department he leveled a variety of charges against
his old bosses and told of deepening Soviet and Cuban
involvement in Nicaragua. Among his allegations: that the
recent explusion of U.S. diplomats from Nicaragua was the result
of a carefully planned Nicaraguan security force operation to
discredit the United States; that at least 200 Soviet military
advisers are now in Nicaragua with several thousand Cuban
troops, many disguised as school teachers; that the Sandinistas
are now constructing underground storage facilities to store
surface-to-air missiles; and that the security forces organized
disorders during the pope's visit to Nicaragua. Bolanos gave
this account of one security official's actions during one
appearance by the pope. MIGUEL BOLANOS HUNTER (Nicarguan
Defector): This group tried to go up and help the pope or
defend the pope, and Comandante Jarquin or Commander Jarquin
took a AK-47 machine gun from one of his bodyguards, and he load
it, and he told this group of Catholics that if they won't stop
he will shoot at them.
SCHIEFFER: While the administration has urged Bolanos to speak
out at every opportunity, it has tightened the lid on
information about possible U.S. diplomatic moves in the region.
U.S. special envoy Richard Stone apparently wants to meet with
some of El Salvador's rebels, and some officials hint that is
possible. But a White House spokesman said tonight, 'We are
simply not going to comment on what Ambassador Stone might or
might not do.' Bob Schieffer, CBS News, Washington.
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