SANDINISTA OFFICIAL DENIES SALVADOR ARMS SMUGGLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707170007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 5, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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COPPAL is a grouping of Latin
American Social Democrat and other
left-of-center parties. .
Its..Managua program, reprinted
in a full-page advertisement in The
Washington. Post on Feb.. calls
for resolving the Salvadoran conflict
through negotiations between: the ci=
vilian-military government and the
rebels, and for the United States to
end "its declared policy of interven
tion" on behalf of the government.
That idea has been rejected re
peatedly by the Salvadoran govern-
ment and the Reagan adrninistra
tion. -As a result, it seems unlikely.
that Wheelock's proposal- offers any
chance for resolving the growing ten-
sions between the United States andi
Nicaragua.: ,
In fact, during his news. confer-
ence Wheelock seemed primarily.
PAL).
Shoreham Hotel, Wheelock also put
forward what had been billed in ad
vance as "a major Nicaraguan pro-i
'posal" for peace in Central America.
However, it turned out to be a re-
'Iteration of the plan adopted a t a re
cent meeting in Nicaragua of the
Permanent Conference of Political
Parties in Latin America (COP-
In a. speech later to the Latin.
A.nerican. Studies Association at the.
in Nicaragua's government.
and agrarian reform and a leading
member of. the Sandinista National
Liberation Front, the.dominant force
'Nicaraguan minister- of-- agricult
conference here by Jairie Wheelock,
The charges were made at a news
against his country
`ical, economic and military actions
'has launched "a vast plan"- of pout-
'he charged that the United-States
leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, and
ment is helping to smuggle arms to
nied "categorically" that his govern
revolutionary regime yesterday de
A' senior official of Nicaragua'
By John M. Goshko
Wasfl ngton Post Staff Writer
tent on reciting an 'alrnoct nonstop
litany of charges that the United
States is trying -to overthrow the
Sandinista government and working
to "facilitate a fascistic solution and
,further.. 7 ire Central
America. Asked for proof of U.S. ac-
.tivities aimed at destabilizing.. Nic.
aragua. he c fiiijW that.-
groups in Nicaraguua and
in neighboring-. countries -such - as I
Hon uras are - controlled and -~
arc the Central me igence'
Agency. He asserted er t at
these operations' are directed by
Nestor Sanchez; ,an ' anti-Castro
- Cuban ' eagle who reportedly- was;
.among the leaders of the unsuccess-
ful 1961 Bay of Pigs operation. In j
addition, Wheelock charged that+
Thomas 0: Enders, assistant secre- l
tary of state for inter-American af-
fairs, had-told a closed congressional
hearing that $19 million had been
committed to a destabilization pro-
gram aimed at Nicaragua. Wheelock also implied strongly
that the United States has incited
the Nicaraguan newspaper:.. Lai
Prensa and various trade unions in
his country to criticize the govern-
ment "to sabotage our economy and
turn the people against their:. own
revolution." -
"There are too many things ha -
penin at once to be'a coincidence,"
he said. "All these elements lead to
one conclusion. The CIA is the nn 1v
force with eower to do these 1
things at once It's-difficult to prove
it specifically, but the trac are
there."
The Washington Post has quoted
informed sources as . saying that
President Reagan had `approved a
proposal to support foreign - govern-
ments in political and -paramilitary
operations against Cuban-Sandinista
activities in Central America ! and
that the National Security -Council I
was considering a $19 milli-on-.pro-
posal posal to back these activities. ,; -
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