REQUEST FOR CLEARANCE OF WHITE HOUSE DIGEST DRAFT: PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN GROUPS IN NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R001400140039-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 22
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2009
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 14, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
' Attached are ALA ~ s coirpnents on the draft . I have
underlindd in red those issues in particular that
I believe we should bring to the White House's
attention. I assume this would be in the spirit of
presenting our views versus "coordinating". DDO also
checked the draft for any inappropriate disc~~eures
and I have no additional
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REMARKS:
Please review the attached for:
-eggregious errors of fact--particu
larly those that would embarrass th
intelligence comm(mity.
-anything that would reveal sources of
methods.
I am sending a copy to DDO as well.
The Agency will not be coordinating
this draft formally.
Pleae hold closely.
I need your reactions by noon, Frid~y
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NATIONAL .SECURITY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506
December 14, 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. CHARLES HILL
Executive Secretary
Department of State
COLONEL (P) JOHN H : STA'~1FORD
Executive Secretary
Department of Defense
Execu ive ecre ary
Central Intelligence Agency
' SUBJECT: Request for Clearance of White House Digest Draft:
Persecution of Christian Groups in Nicaragua
Attached for clearance is a copy of the draft White House Digest:
Persecution of Christian Groups in Nicaragua.
Please forward comments to me no later than close .of business,
Fr~day,_December 16, 1983. Thank you.
~201~,~?a-~~.
Robert M.`Kimmitt
Executive Secretary
Enclosure: as stated
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PERSECUTION 4F CHRISTIAN GROUPS IN NICARAGUA
- "The religion of the workers has no God, because
it seeks to restore the divinity of man."
Karl Marx
"Every religious idea, every idea of a god, even
flirting with the idea of god,-is unutterable vileness of the
most dangerous kind, 'contagion' of the most abominable kind.
Millions of sins, filthy deeds, acts of violence, and physical
contagions are far less dangerous then the subtle spiritual idea
of a god."
Communist regimes must either eradicate the Church or
subvert it. Ideologically, the Church's existence is repugnant to
them. Allegiance to God prevents total allegiance to and
subjugation by the State, which, according to Marx, is the
salvific vehicle for the secular transformation of man. into god.
The Communists cannot tolerate this limitation on their absolute
power. Thus, in the Soviet Union all but a tiny percentage of
churches have been closed, and religious affiliation routinely
brings the loss of precious privileges and sometimes brings more
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serious persecution.
The Soviets have also infiltrated the dominant Russian
Orthodox church. In the Islamic sections of the Soviet Empire,
Soviet agents have infiltrated the Islamic clergy. By such
infiltration they seek both to discredit the churches and to use
them to bolster the regime.
In Nicaragua, theCommunist?leaders of the government
are following the same path. They are seeking to turn the
Catholic Church, by far the largest _in Nica aqua, i to an arm of
,~~~ ~ `~ ~,~~the government . A small number ' of~Marxist ~ Catholi_'~"Ierg~y ~' ,,;~~~ j7 ~ s
~~,uc~ t~'4~ ~~~theism is a first~rinciple of Marxism, an`d `fhese cler -HAGf.~w~4t
~~5 '^,~ ~+~~ routinely defy the Catholic hierarchy have the government ~ s rf~ ~ ~1,o I ~~~
~~~^~' rY~s~ ,~~~,official approval- and sponsorship. They are used to generat n~ ?"1