Word: corinto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fulfill the command of the 1980 law that he apprise the committees of even "any significant anticipated intelligence activity." The mining had begun about a month before the House Intelligence Committee briefing. Indeed, raids on Puerto Sandino last Sept. 8 and on the oil-storage tanks at Corinto on Oct. 10 were carried out, as was the later mining of the same ports, by Latin American commandos recruited and trained by the CIA and dispatched aboard speedboats from a CIA mother ship cruising off Nicaragua's Pacific coast. Not until March 30, in a letter to the Senate Intelligence...
...Nicaraguan fishing trawlers hit mines while entering the Atlantic port of El Bluff; the Sandinistas promptly issued a proclamation "to the world" blaming the U.S., and the CIA specifically. That statement was not widely noted either. But then mines began going off in the Pacific ports of Corinto and Puerto Sandino, damaging a Dutch cargo vessel, Panamanian, Japanese and Liberian freighters and, on March 20, a Soviet tanker. Moscow had no doubt who was responsible; it accused the U.S. of "piracy...
...required to keep both the Senate and the House committees informed of its Nicaraguan activities, which are now well-known to the public. These operations began as far back as Sept. 8 of last year with the CIA-backed bombing of Corinto, and continued until early this year with the CIA-run mining of major Nicaraguan ports. Although both the Senate and the House committees were not directly informed of activities by the CIA at any time, the House Committee began "asking the right questions" sometimes in early January, while the Senate delayed their enquiry until March 8 for reason...
...carrying helicopters to the Sandinistas. Over his ship's radio, the captain of the U.S. destroyer contacted the Soviet skipper and asked him what his cargo was and where he was headed. The Russian replied that he was taking trucks and other merchandise to the Nicaraguan port of Corinto...
This winter, however, the guerrillas launched an offensive that enabled them to score several psychologically damaging victories by briefly holding the towns of Berlin, Corinto and Meanguera. Alarmed, Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, sent National Security Adviser William P. Clark a report that the military situation in El Salvador was actually far worse than the U.S. embassy was saying...