RAYMOND HOOKER - NICARAGUAN CAPTURED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R001501890001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 13, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office of legislative liaison
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Respectfully referred to
CIA
Congressional Affairs
Room 7-B24 CIA
Washington, D.C. 20205
Please find enclosed a recent
communication received by our
office.
I would appreciate any informa-
tion or assistance you can pro-
vide us in this regard so that
we may answer this correspon-
dence.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Clarence E. Miller
Member of Congress
Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, D. C. 20515
Contact: RAR
This follows telephone conversation
May we know if he is being held in
captivity or not. If so, state of health
and well-being.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Date Scl~t. 13. 1984
Raymond Booker - Nicaraguan Captured
STAT (called to advise that Mr. Raymond Hooker is a personal friend
of his. Mr. Hooker lived in Ohio for years and has received numerous.
'degrees from O.U. Mr. Hooker works for the Nicaraguan Government and
was captured by the o osition to the Anti-Sandinistas* WXiXMXXXRXRXR
STAT XXXXXXXXOlXX wants Congressman Miller to call the CIA and
tell them to release Raymond Hooker. I became very confused about the
call as I was assuming up to this point that Raymond Hooker was an
American - he is Nicaraguan but was educated at O.U.
STAT I told) that I would discuss this with others in our office
and let him know if there is anything that we could do in sending a
plea for the life of Raymond Hooker.
Mr. Hooker's Nicaraguan sister is employed in the Press'Section of
the Nicaraguan Embassy here - Mariam Hooker. ?
Bob Reintsema, AA for Congressman Miller, called the CIAO and.an official
advised that we send over the inquiry and they would try to get us a
report on Mr. Raymond Hooker.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MOIIDAY, SEPTEMBER
ANTI-SANDINISTAS
SAID TO KIDNAP 2
Managua Says Rightist Rebels
Have Abducted 80 Others
Since Beginning of July
'By STEPHEN KINZER
? Specfa! fo The New York Times
BY.UEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Sept. 9-
Two local Sandinista leaders were ap-
parently kidnapped by Nicaraguan
rebels last week, and Government offi-
ci4 "'re said today that they feared
both -had been killed..
The reported abductions brought to
82 the number of people believed car-
ried oft by United States-backed insur-
gents since the beginning of July, the
officials said. They asserted that peo-
ple involved in Sandinista organiza-
tions were being targeted in an effort to
discourage residents from cooperating
with the Government.
One of the two Sandinista leaders re-
ported kidnapped, Ray Hooker, is a for-
mer university dean educated in the
United States. He had been chosen as a
Sandinista candidate for the new Na-
tional Assembly that is to be elected in
November, and was traveling from this
Atlantic coast city to the Indian village
of Karawala, about 70 miles north of
here; to promote his candidacy.
The.other victim, Patricia Delgado,
is a member of the regional Sandinista
governing committee and was travel-
ing with Mr. Hooker to the village.
Thy captain of the small launch in
l u'h' they were traveling, Santiago
Mayof?ga, was also missing in the inci-
dent: which occurred Wednesday. The
Nicaraguan Defense Ministry was
quotgd as saying Friday that the three
had been abducted by.80 insurgents.
4.Bodies Have Been Found
Of'tbe 82 Nicaraguans reported kid-
naplied by right-wing rebels since July,
the bodies of 4 were found in the Escon-
tlido.River last month, but the fate of
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are tfelleved to have been taken to rebel I ACIVEM,
Sandinista officers believe teat
nearly 4,000 rebels, known as contras,
are icdttered throughout southeastern
Nicaragua, a sparsely populated ex-
panse of swamps, jungles and tropical
rain forests. Over the last 10 days, they
have mounted a series of attacks.
On Aug. 30, a raiding party captured
and burned a barge used to haul food
and other goods to Bluefields from the
western part of the country. Three
crewmen aboard the barge were car-
riood off, and there has been no word of
their fate.
There is no road to connect Blue-
fields with the rest of Nicaragua, so the
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more than 200 rebels attacked the town
of La 'Cruz del Rio Grande, killing 4
people and suffering 14 dead; according
to Government figures.
. Two.days later, the head of an agri-
cultural cooperative in Caiaonero, less
than 10 miles from Bluefields, was
killed . in an ambush along. with two
rnemtlers of the cooperative. The head
of the cooperative, Jacinto Vargas Es-
trada, had urged his neighbors to work
with Sandinista officials. do two
"The contras are trying to
things," said Harry Chavez, a local
Sandinista spokesman: "They want to
terrorize people so they will not work
with the revolutionary Government,
and. at the same time they are laying
the groundwork for an effort to seize
some territory. Taking Bluefields
would be their greatest triumph."
In recent months, Insurgents have
moutttcd several attacks in which they
have made special efforts to single out
and kill leaders of pro-Sandinista or-
ganizations. Coordinators of Sandinista
block committees, youth e groups,
health centers and cooperatives have
been among the victims.
Mr. Hooker, who maintained rela-
tions with Indians opposed to the Gov-
ernment, is among the most widely re-
spected citizens of Bluefields. He
graduated from Ohio University with a
degree in -history, became assistant
dean of humanities at the National Uni-
versity in Managua, and in 1981 was
named director of the Institute for the
Atlantic Coast, a Government agency.
More recently, he had been in charge of
adrbinistering social services for in-
digenous groups in the coast region.
The official Sandinista newspaper
Barricada charged Saturday that Mr.
Hooker's kidnapping was planned by
the Central Intelligence Agency, which
has provided millions of dollars in cov-
ert aid to rebel groups.
Report of Cuban Deaths Denied
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 - The Nica-
raguan Mission to the United Nations
has.dismissed a Reagan Administra-
tiod: assertion that four senior Cuban
military advisers were killed in a rebel
air "raid last Saturday in which two
Americans were killed.
Tpe statement, issued Saturday
night by the Nicaraguan Embassy
here, accused Administration officials
of "lying," and reiterated earlier Nica-
raguan assertions that the only people
killed in the attack against a military
school in Santa Clara were three chil-
Fifth Avenue, White Plains, Manhasset, N.Y., Shoit 1-ii
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dren.and a cook.
The statement said the Adminfstra-
tioirs portrayal of the situation in Cen-
)t tral America was based on an "insidi-
w ous.and systematic use of deceit.",
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Reagan Administration to pr
people of the United states and the in-
tervational community from clearly
seeing the reality of the aggression of a
big' power against a small nation," it
said.
The Administration has denied any
connection with the air attack or the
participation of the Americans, the
first known American casualties in the