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...example, Ortega said, Miranda may have taken "photocopies of the military defense operations of the capital, of the air force, of the tank and artillery brigades...
...Miranda recently would have had access to Ortega's own conversation with the high command about "strategy, doctrine, even where the war in Central America would go in case of a U.S. intervention," the defense minister said...
Ortega also said Miranda could have taken with him information on the Sandinistas' negotiations to obtain MIG fighter jets from the Soviet Union...
Ortega disputed published reports, in the United States, quoting anonymous sources, that Miranda had been spying for the U.S. government for a long time before his defection...
Instead, Ortega said Miranda was "reached by and fell in love with the CIA" in the United States when he accompanied Nicaragua's first lady, Rosario Murillo, to California on September 5 to visit a demonstrator injured while protesting U.S. aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels, called Contras...