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Thus it should come as no surprise that despite years of covert aid and training from the CIA and $27 million of "non-lethal" U.S. aid this past year, the Contras have failed to hold a single piece of Nicaraguan territory. Their brutality has cost them what little popular support they may once have had. With the failure of their latest offensive most Contra units have retreated to bases in Honduras and Costa Rica...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Thugs, Not Freedom Fighters | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...said that the university had made no attempt to warn the CAA that it had planned to dismantle the shanties and had done so in "an underhand, covert fashion...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Shantytown Defenders Arrested At MIT | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

Intended to "raise the people's consciousness of the covert war that the U.S. is waging against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua," the "Crosses of Sorrow and Hope" bear the names of those killed in Nicaragua by the Contras, said Karen L. Wood, a student at the Divinity School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Activists Protest Contra `Atrocities' | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...officials realize that a blanket pledge to aid anti-Communist insurgencies everywhere entails unacceptable risks. Angola is a case in point. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker revealed to a congressional committee last week that the U.S. had set "the process in motion" to provide some $15 million in covert funds to the rebels in Angola. The State Department hopes that the covert aid will forestall a conservative effort in Congress to mandate above-board funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Grenada, Apocalypso Now | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Suriname in South America. More generally, for good or ill, the CIA seems unable to keep any sizable operation truly secret anymore: ! U.S. bankrolling of the contra rebels in Nicaragua leaked out swiftly, and the Administration and Congress are now debating quite overtly the amount and type of "covert" aid to be extended to guerrillas battling the Marxist government of Angola. Even so, Congress remains suspicious that Casey is being evasive or misleading, while the CIA suspects the legislators of an itch to control delicate operations. Unhappily neither can be proved wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senators Vs. the Spooks | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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