PRO-SANDINISTA JOURNALISTS LINK U.S. PRESS TO CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100500002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 4, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE MIAMI HERALD
4 May 1981
By-SHIRLEY CFIR15T1AN
Herald Staff Writer
MANAGUA, Nicaragua A
international assembly of: "progres-
sive" journalists concluded here by
accusing the United-States of plan-,,
~~7:flafJ'.
ningl-to invade
.- Nicaragua:. and..-
.
the mainstream,
-: ' tF S.... press',
--along with the-
Nicaraguan op-_
- : position . news-;
paper La Pren-
sa- are accom
plices . of the'-
-CIA- .. !`~. ?r
The joint
-three-day meet--'
Nunez ing here .Masts
the Prague-based tnterna-'I
week of
tional Organization .of Journalists -~
and the Latin- American Journalists'
Federation was converted to express
thesolidarity of- "progressive" jour
natists with-Nicaragua's Sandinista.
goverument_?
More than-' 100 Journalists., from.,
some 40 countries; took part in the
sessions, which-were -directed- by-
the. Sandinista-cleated, Nicaraguan -
Journalists Union,. -
"The policy of-the- government of
the United States-toward Nicaragua,,
is profoundly irnmorai." the-jour?
nalists- charged- in. Lheir closing
statement.. "The attempt to subdue:
this' people by-hunger, and to im-
pose an. economic block:.--consti
-tutes a sharaefutspectade.Suchh:ac-
tions can only be:understood.in one
way: as- a prelude- to .arnted:inva-
i
The statement, read at Friday'st
International Labor Day demonstra-
tion, referred _to the U.S. cutoff of.
preferential wheat sales to Nicara
gua and the suspension of $15 mi- -
lion in aid because of alleged Sandli
nista complicity in supplying arms
to leftist rebels in El Salvador-
-It claimed that hundreds of for-
?:'mer.. Nicaraguan . 'national ? guards-
-men are training in. the. United,
-States to invade Nicaragua and that.
.-Washington is pouring armaments
-and other war materiel into neigh-
=boring Honduras,.. whose ? govern-
is allegedly moving them up
;to the Nicaraguan. border. -
Citing an enclosure ''of lies'
=about Central America and the Car-
ibbean, the journalists accused the
".'great American press" of "carry-
ing out an intense campaign of mis-
information about the reality of
Nicaragua and El Salvador."
"Upon those media and their paid
servants. falls the blood of. thou--
sands of assassinated patriots," the
statement continued. "They -?are
largely to blame for the crimes that
are committed today and those that -
may be committed in the future."