Word: hasenfus
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...Eugene Hasenfus, 45, of Marinette, Wis., said in a nationally broadcast news conference that four of the flights were made from Aguacate air base in Honduras and six from Ilopango air base in El Salvador...
...Hasenfus said 24 to 26 "company people" assisted the program in El Salvador, including flight crews, maintenance crews and "two Cuban nationalized Americans who worked for the CIA." Hasenfus identified the Cuban-Americans as Max Gomez and Ramon Medina...
...Hasenfus said he was offered the job in June by William J. Cooper, identified as the pilot of the aircraft. Cooper was one of three people killed when the aircraft was shot down Sunday by a surface-to-air missile and crashed in southern Nicaragua...
...spokesman Kathy Pherson said the agency could only respond to Hasenfus' remarks by repeating its earlier denials of involvement...
Acting State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the embassy delivered a diplomatic note Tuesday to Nicaraguan officials requesting consular access to Hasenfus, the lone survivor of the crash Sunday of a cargo plane in southern Nicaragua...