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...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--An American captured after a Contra weapons supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua said yesterday he worked with CIA employees and took part in 10 such flights from Honduras and El Salvador...
...would be flying into Honduras, and we would be loading up on small arms and ammunition, and these would be flown to Nicaragua," he said. "These we would drop to the Contras...
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...
...Nicaragua sent the United States a note of protest Wednesday and called on the Reagan administration "to abandon its politics of force, threats and intervention in Central American, and accept the path of dialogue...
Asked whether he approved of private efforts aimed against Nicaragua's leftist government, Reagan said, "We're in a free country where private citizens have a great many freedoms...