NICARAGUA REPORTS THREATS BASED IN U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000706900001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPE11 E ,
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THE BALTIC i0:EE SUN
5 June 1981
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Nicaragua reports~~ `
threats based inT.S .
Managua, Nicaragua (Reuter)
, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto
Ortega said yesterday- his country was
arming itself to face threats of aggres-
sion originating in the United States.
lie told a press conference the arms
buildup was defensive in nature and did
not cost Nicaragua "even a single centa-
vo." He refused to say which "revolu-
tionary and progressive forces as well as
from mature governments" were sup-
plying the arms, which he termed dona-
The U.S. State Department recently
said it had unconfirmed intelligence re-
ports that Soviet T-55 tanks had been
shipped to Nicaragua and others might
be on their way from Cuba.
4;erinan gets late
as a spy for CIA
-East Berlin (Reuter)" An East Gera.
a West German to life imprisonment on
charges of spying for the Central Intelli-
gence. Agency, the official ADN' news
e
o
p
-e-. .
agency .
..The report said Dieter Vogel s' trial i
revealed that the CIA and West German
intelligence worked closely together.
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