CIA SPOKESMAN SAYS U.S. JUMPED THE GUN ON NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301450008-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 9, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE November 9, 1984 12:00 Noon CITY Washington, DC
CIA Spokesman Says U.S. Jumped the Gun on Nicaragua
STEVE SCHATZ: A member of Nicaragua's ruling junta says
it's better to see the coffee fall than the country, so 20,000
students who would usually help with the coffee?harvest have been
ordered to take up arms.
Nicaragua insists it's about to be invaded by the United
States, and today the Soviet Union's official news agency agrees
that Washington is looking for an excuse to invade the Central
American nation. The Reagan Administration has denied any such
plans and has no comment on claims by Nicaragua a U.S. spy plane
has invaded its air space once again today.
CNN's Jay Suber reports now on the source of the
controversy.
JAY SUBER: The controversy surrounding the docking of a
Soviet freighter in Nicaragua has heightened fears of a U.S.
military invasion there as speculation continues to mount that
the freighter has a cargo of sophisticated weaponry ranging from
MIG fighter jets, helicopters, to surface-to-air missiles.
Following a day of sonic booms over the port city of
Corinto and Managua, last night the Sandinista government put
20,000 volunteers on alert.
Nicaragua's Foreign Minister, Miguel D'Escoto, charged
that the sonic booms came from U.S. reconnaissance aircraft. The
Pentagon issued no comment, and D'Escoto again accused the U.S.
of using the ship's docking as an excuse to invade Nicaragua.
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