ARGENTINA/NICARAGUA/EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100050007-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 4, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM Good Morning America STATION WJLA TV
ABC Network
DATE February 4, 1982 7:00 AM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT Argentina/Nicaragua/El Salvador
STEVE BELL: El Salvador's army has invited the UN
Human Rights Commiossion to inspect a small town where the army
claims guerrillas massacred more than 150 civilians.
Meanwhile, ABC News has learned of a new US plan aimed
at stopping the flow of army to guerrillas in El Salvador.
Sam Donaldson reports.
SAM DONALDSON: The ideas discussed by Administration
officials with Argentina would be to infiltrate the Argentine
paramilitary forces into Nicaragua. Once there they would operate
in guerrilla fashion to choke off the supply of arms to rebels in
El Salvador and it all went well, they woiuld mount a counter-
revolution against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
The congressional source who told ABC News of the Adminis-
tration's idea does not know whether the discussions with Argentine
officials led anywhere.
And a senior White House official declined to commment on
the story one way or the other. But on Tuesday, Secretary of
State Haig made it clear on Capitol Hill that allied help in El
Salvador is important.
SECRETARY OF STATE HAIG: Cooperating with our friends
and allies In the region, we will do whatever is necessary to con-
tain the threat.
DONALDSON: Exploring this option of enlisting forces from
another Latin American country to help El Salvador makes sense from
the Administratration's viewpoint. It would help turn the tables
on Nicaragua, through which arms to the rebels are flowing, and it
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would do so without having to propose the politically explosive
option of sending American combat forces to the area.
Sam Donaldson, ABC News, Washington.
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