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Repeated telephone calls were placed from a safe house in El Salvador used by Americans aiding Nicaraguan rebels to the office of a White House official who has overseen U.S. policy against Nicaragua's leftist government, according to Salvadoran phone bills...
That brought angry denials from El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Military Commander General Adolfo Blandon. They were embarrassed by the public linkage of Ilopango, where U.S. military advisers are stationed, to the contra flights. Indeed, the spotlight on Ilopango's role as a base for supplying the contras, long an open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million...
Even so, experts testifying last week before the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs were not convinced of Washington's innocence. Robert White, Ambassador to El Salvador under Jimmy Carter, charged that the "CIA bears primary responsibility for U.S. (supply) operations inside the Ilopango airport." White's claim was buttressed by a nine-month report conducted by the staff of Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Kerry, who released the study last week, said it "raises serious questions about whether the U.S. has abided by the law in its handling of the contras over the past three years. Until...
...January 1985 Bush, a former CIA director, was introduced to Gomez by Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, who had served with Gomez in counterinsurgency operations in Viet Nam. Gomez paid a second visit to Bush last May to talk about the military situation in El Salvador. "He never discussed Nicaragua with the Vice President at all," a Bush spokesman said...
Bush was just one of the U.S. officials caught last week in the ever widening web of intrigue surrounding the downed plane. Two days after Edwin Corr, the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, denied knowing Gomez, a Corr aide said the two men had lunched together. Meanwhile, Philip Buechler, a director in the State Department's Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office whose card was carried on the C-123K flight by Pilot William Cooper, angrily denied any connection with the supply runs. Said he: "Maybe it's none of anybody's business. Whatever happened to the right of privacy, to basic...