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...hours, but when he knocked on the door at 10:30 p.m., Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto was not arriving fashionably late for a nightcap. He handed the Americans a curt note declaring that there were three spies on the embassy staff-Political Affairs Counselor Linda Pfeifel, First Secretary David Greig and Second Secretary Ermila Rodriguez-and they were hereby persona non grata. The trio, D'Escoto said, were to leave Nicaragua within 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overt Actions, Covert Worries | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Then on Monday, Nicaraguan officials staged a curious show in Managua. Security Chief Lenin Cerna charged that Pfeifel, Greig and Rodriguez had been trying to assemble "a counterrevolutionary network to carry out attacks on our leaders." A Nicaraguan army lieutenant described how Greig and others, by providing invisible ink and a transmitter camouflaged in an ice chest, had tried to turn him into a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overt Actions, Covert Worries | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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