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...time and a hell of a lot more than we do," says Edward Boland of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "I think they're a necessity." Indeed, members last year approved Reagan's request for secret funding to the contras as a way of interdicting Nicaraguan arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels. But Boland attached an amendment barring the use of any of the funds "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua...
...full-scale CIA association with the Nicaraguan contras began last October. A State Department official in Central America who is intimately involved with the covert operation says, "So far, they're doing better than expected, but in limited geographic areas." This official argues that the growing strength of the contras provides an effective way for the U.S. to apply pressure on the Sandinista government to end its backing of rebels in El Salvador. Agrees a senior State Department official in Washington: "Now we have got an element of reciprocity that gives Nicaragua an incentive to sit down and talk...
Even the covert activity being directed by the Reagan Administration against the Nicaraguan regime is an extension of policies initiated by Carter, who authorized the CIA to provide financial assistance to opponents of the new Sandinista regime in that country. During his first year in office, Reagan considered options like establishing an American-organized commando force to destabilize Nicaragua. Instead, he decided on a strategy of placing pressure on Nicaragua by organizing the contras into a political and military force with U.S. training and assistance...
According to a Sandinista military defector interviewed by TIME, the building of a Nicaraguan arms link to El Salvador began almost as soon as the victorious revolutionaries took power in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua in July 1979. Says the defector: "It took nine months to plan the operation. The arms that eventually went to El Salvador were first taken from our forces who fought against [Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle]. After the triumph, they were instructed to turn in their weapons, which were put in warehouses and held for shipment to El Salvador. Then it was discussed who would...
Soon after the early Nicaraguan smuggling operations into El Salvador, Washington began trying to document Marxist-Leninist interference in that country. In February 1981 the Reagan Administration sent a white paper to its West European and Latin American allies, concluding that the Salvadoran civil war had been "transformed into a textbook case of indirect aggression by Communist powers...