FRIENDS COULD AID U.S. IN EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505410079-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: February 16, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Pres"dent Reagan reportedly
has approved a _CIA' plan to use
Overt action by friendly na-
tions against the Cuba-Nicara-
gua-El Salvador link.
According to the Washington
Post, the plan Would seek to
disrupt the flow of Cuban sup-
plies to Nicaragua and then to
El Salvador. It also would seek
to cause trouble 'for the Sandi-
nista government in Nicaragua.
The friendly nations were not
identified, but Argentina is. be-
lieved to be one of them.
If the reports are accurate,
the Reagan administration is
taking steps to get other nations
involved in a hemispheric prob-
lem. An unstable Central Amer-
ica could pose a threat to Mex-
ico and to South America.
If other nations are con-
vilnced that Nicaragua is stok-
ing the leftist fires in El -Salva-
dor and Guatemala, then they
should be willing to help put out
the fires.
Reagan has. increased aid to
El Salvador's government. He
also has limited.: the "'role of
American advisers -there. One
U.S. officer was brought home
and five other advisers Were
reprimanded for carrying auto-
matic weapons.
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig has said the United States
will do "whatever is necessary"
to block a leftist victory in El
Salvador. Help from. other na-
tions could limit America's role.
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