CIA BLAMED FOR MURDER OF FMLN LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100650010-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Daily Drum
April 7, 1983 6:U0 PM
STATION WHUR Radio
Washington, DC
J. MARIE MORRIE: El Salvador's Marti National Libera-
tion Front blames the CIA for the murder of an FMLN leader
yesterday in Nicaragua.
Paz Cohen has this report.
PAZ COHEN: Fifty-four year old Melita Ania Montez, a
member of the Marti National Liberation Front's General Command
was murdered at dawn Wednesday in a house nine miles south of the
Nicaraguan capital by a commando force which the FMLN says was
organized the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Ania Montez, better known as Commander Anna Maria, was a
co-founder and second in command of the Popular Liberation
Forces, or FPL, one of five political military organizations
belonging to the FMLN.
In a communique confirming the commander's death, the
directorate of the FMLN said she had been in Nicaragua on assign-
ment to do some international work and said her murder shows the
length to which imperialism will go.
Nicaragua's Interior Ministry announced that an exhaus-
tive investigation is underway to identify and capture those
responsible for what it terms a brutal murder.
The assassination of the former grade school teacher
came only days after the FPL marked its 13th anniversary and
followed by less than a month the murder in E1 Salvador of
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another leading woman opponent of the Salvadoran government,
Human Rights Commission President Marianell Garcia Vija.
More importantly, commander Anna Maria's murder in
Nicaragua represents a new international incident for that
country to contend with at the same time it is trying to repel an
invasion force of former national guardsmen and to avoid an open
war with neighboring Honduras which is accused of abetting the
invaders.
On bad terms also with the government of El Salvador
because of its open sympathies for the Salvadoran insurgents,
Nicaragua may find itself in an extremely delicate situation if
the murderers are discovered to be nationals of that country.
Relations with Honduras similarly could be expected to hit a new
low if the commando force is found to have entered across that
border.
Paz Cohen, WHUR News.
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