NICARAGUA-EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201730003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 8, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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;:ASHI\GTON 8 April 1983
`ICARAGUA-EAST F
Sen. John East, R-N.C., citing classified CIA information, said Friday the
Urit_d States should break off relations with Nicaragua because its Sandinista
government is supporting leftist rebels in El Salvador.
East urged President Reagan to also suspend Nicaragua's most-favored-?nation
trading status and eliminate the Nicaraguan sugar import quota, which he said
provides Nicaragua with ''up to $20 million annually in hard U.S. currency.,
The senator said he had received ''highly classified information from the
CIA, which confirmed beyond doubt that Nicaragua, Cuba and the Soviet Union
are directly supporting and controlling the combat operations of the communist
insurgency against the freely elected government of El Salvador.''
East did not disclose any details of the information.
''Now that I am convinced in my own mind that Nicaragua is playing a primary
role in supporting terrorism in El Salvador, I believe it is inappropriate for
the United States to maintain normal diplomatic and trade relations with the
communist regime of Managua," East said.
STAT
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