THE NICARAGUAN REBELLION AND THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100900003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 17, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/22 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000100900003-0 STAT
RADIO TV REPORTS, INC
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
DATE April 17, 1984 7:30 P.M. CITY Atlanta, Ga.
SUBJECT The Nicaraguan Rebellion and the CIA
ANNOUNCER: From Washington, Crossfire. Tonight, the
Nicaraguan rebellion and the CIA. The host for Crossfire, on the
left, sitting in for Tom Braden, Joe Rauh. On the right, Pat
Buchanan. I the crossfire, Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan rebel
leader.
PAT BUCHANAN: Last week's political firestorm in
Washington involved a sharp Senate rebuke to the President of the
United States and a threat to terminate all covert funding of the
Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras. The reason? Senate
anger over CIA involvement in the rebel mining of Nicaragua's
ports.
Tonight's guest is the supreme commander of the Contras,
the President of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force.
JOSEPH RAUH: Well, Mr. Calero, I'm an old American
liberal that's fought communists on the left and fascists on the
right. Now, your Nicaraguan Democratic Front accepts support,
you have people in your movement who were in the old Somoza
regime. I know you weren't, but you have people in there that
were.
Isn't it a fact that the old Somoza regime, the old
fascist regime was far worse than the Sandinista Marxist crowd?
ADOLFO CALERO: Well, I wish it had been, because we
would have a lot better regime than we have now, in as far as
having the Somozistas in our midst. Somoza's'dead.
RAUH: Yeah, but you've got a lot of their old people
with you now. All the reporters have said that.
OFFICES IN- WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? -LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT ? . AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES
r~t.o Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/22 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000100900003-0