Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying to deliver supplies to the contras. The bid Ronald Reagan was making for an honored place in the history books went down with...
...alteration she described concerned a 1985 memo from North that referred to the possible sinking or seizure of a ship carrying weapons to Nicaragua. The alteration was made obvious, she acknowledged, because the NSC letterhead paper used for the altered version was new and did not exist when the original was written...
...Ministry. Described as an "internationalist commander" in official Cuban press reports, Del Pino reportedly served as chief of air troops in Angola, where 30,000 Cuban soldiers are helping the Marxist regime battle U.S.-backed rebels. According to U.S. officials, he also helped oversee the Cuban military setup in Nicaragua. Said a Justice Department spokesman: "He's in a position to know pretty much anything we'd want to find out about the Cuban military -- and a lot of other things...
...State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...
Tambs worked through a CIA agent (called Tomas Castillo but identified as Joe Fernandez) in his embassy to get Costa Rica to approve construction of a secret airstrip near the Nicaraguan border and persuade contras to move deeply into Nicaragua. The Ambassador insisted that Abrams "knew just as much as I did" about the southern-front activities. Abrams has denied to congressional committees that he knew of any such details. Fernandez, who was placed on administrative leave by the CIA late last year because of his contra involvement, told the committee in closed testimony that his superiors, including Fiers, knew...