REPRESSEION BY THE SOVIETS AND THEIR SURROGATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001500040030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 31, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of'Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Repression by the Soviets and their Surrogates
I think we should get together a comprehensive picture of what
we know about the way the Soviets and their surrogates conduct
themselves in repressing people under their dominion and pressing
and repressing insurgencies.
William J. Casey
.The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder
dated September 30, 1983
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The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 [phone]
September 30, 1983
INSIDE COMMUNIST NICARA THE I U L BOLANOS TRANSCRIPTS
In July 1979, a coalition spearheaded by the Sandinista
National-Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the government of
Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua. Sandinista promises of progressive
reforms and free elections met with enthusiastic support from
those who viewed Somoza',s regime as corrupt and repressive.
Among those early revolutionaries was 20-year-old Miguel
Bolanos Hunter. Bolanos joined the Sandinista State Security
apparatus and rapidly rose through the ranks to become a counter-
intelligence officer in section F-2--the second highest level of
the organization. The higher Bolanos rose, however, the more
disillusioned he became.
He soon discovered that the Sandinistas' promises were
empty. In fact, they had a hidden agenda--to establish a Marxist
state in Nicaragua and to export revolution to the other nations
of the hemisphere. To meet their goals, the Sandinistas created
a regime more repressive than Somoza's, controlling virtually
every aspect of life in Nicaragua. With the support of Cuba and
the Soviet-Union, Nicaragua has become the centerpiece of the
communist plan to undermine Latin America and the-main channel
for arms and guerrillas to communist insurgents in Honduras,
Costa Rica, and El Salvador.
On May 7, 1983, Bolanos commandeered a private airplane and
escaped to Costa Rica. Because his mother is an American citizen,
he was able to enter the United States. He has since provided
American authorities with valuable and verifiable first-hand
information on the Nicaraguan threat to Latin America.
The unedited excerpts that follow are taken from a series of
interviews with Bolanos conducted by Heritage Policy Analyst
Note: Nothing written here is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of The Heritage Foundation or as an
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