AIR BOMBING RAID ON MANAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000801870004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 8, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT$ AIR BOMBING RAID ON MANAGUA
1. Al APPROXIMATELY 0530 SEPTEMBER 8 TWO CESSNA AIRCRAFT
CARRIED OUT BOMBING RAIDS ON SEPARATE TARGETS IN MANAGUA.
ONE PLANE DROPPED BOMBS NEAR THE RESIDENCE OF FOREIGN
MINISTER MIGUEL D'ESCOTO WHILE THE-SECOND>PLANE BOMBED
SANDINISTA AIR FORCE (FAS) AND AERONICA INSTALLATIONS AT
State Dept. review completed
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SANDING AIRPORT. ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL GRN STATEMENTS,
THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR-DAMAGE FROM THE BOMB DROPPED
NEAR THE FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESIDENCE. THE PLANE WHICH
ATTACKED SANDINO AIRPORT WAS SHOT DOWN BY AIR DEFENSE
PERSONNEL. THE ATTACKERS, IDENTIFIED AS AUGUSTIN
ROMAN, FORMER AERONICA PILOT, AND SEBASTIAN MUHLER,
AN ALLEGED FAS DESERTER, WER'E KILLED. THE PLANE CRASHED
INTO THE AIRPORT PROTOCOLLOUNGE AT THE BASE OF THE
TU*ER. ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT REPORTS THERE
WERE NO DEATHS AMONG AIRPORT OR FAS PERSONNEL, ALTHOUGH
THERE WERE A FEW INJURIES, NONE SERIOUS.
2. AN OFFICIAL MINISTRY OF EXTERIOR COMMUNIQUE REPORTED
THAT DOCUMENTS WERE FOUND ON ROMAN WHICH INDICATED HE
HAD COME FROM THE UNITED STATES* THE COMMUNIQUE
CONCLUDED THAT THE PLANES HAD ACTUALLY TAKEN OFF
FROM COSTA RICAN TERRITORY, THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE
MINISTRY'S COMMUNIQUE STATES: QUOTE BOTH
PLANES FORMED PART OF THE ASSISTANCE-WHICH THE
NORTH AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS GRANTING TO THE COUNTER
REVOLUTION TO CARRY OUT TERRORIST ACTS AGAINST OUR
PEOPLE. UNQUOTE.
3. CODEL CUHEN/HART DIVERTED TO TEGUCIGALPA BUT
ARE NOW SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN MANAGUA AT APPROXIMATELY
1230 LOCAL. THERE ARE CONFLICTING REPORTS AS TO
WHEN THE AIRPORT WILL BE OPEN FOR COMMERCIAL TkAFFICI
HOWEVER, THE, AMBASSADOR, WHO HAS BEEN AT THE AIRPORT
SINCE 0915 LOCAL, REPORTED THAT THE REGULAR AERONICA
FLIGHT IS SCHEDULED TO LAND SHORTLY,
QUAINTON
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