CIA 4 NICARAGUA MINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303540025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 23, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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U.S. N17-4S & WORLD REPORT
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against the CIA's mining of harbors
in Nicaragua. What really hurt was
that Nevada's Paul Laxalr, an old
Reagan friend and head of the Presi-
dent's re-election committee, joined
in the condemnation.
It wasn't so much. Barry Goldwater's Administration leaders are picking up
blistering criticism that bothered the' intelligence reports that Cuba's Fidel
White House over the Senate vote Castro is plotting an "October sur-
prise" calculated to embarrass Presi-
dent Reagan before the November
elections. One possibility: Foment a
major escalation of guerrilla warfare
in El Salvador an-dother nations in
Central America.
Fresh signals of conciliation were
beamed to Nicaragua from the White
House even amid the storm over the
mining issue. American officials say
Washington will back off from sup-
porting insurgents in Nicaragua if the
Marxist regime will halt its aid to
guerrillas in El Salvador.
One unpublicized reason for the up-
roar on Capitol Hill over mining of
Nicaraguan harbors: Fear that terror-
ists would retaliate by planting mines
in several U.S. ports.
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