NICARAGUA/BOMBING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880054-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 31, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/15: CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880054-9
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
31 May 1984 r%s M
NICARAGUA/ JENNINGS: There was an attempted assassination today
BOMBING against the leader of the Nicaraguan rebels. The bomb was
intended for Eden Pastora. Instead, it killed five others
attending his press conference, including an American
reporter. Many more were injured. Here's our Latin
America bureau chief, Anne Carrels.
CARRELS: The press conference took place on the
Nicaraguan side of the San Juan River one mile from Costa
Rica. Pastora yelled 'What happened?' after the bomb
ripped through the shack which served as his headquarters.
This was the only way they could get back out last night,
by boat. It, it was several hours before they could be
picked up by ambulances and taken to a hospital.
Twenty-eight people in all were injured, burned,
lacerated. Among them, Reed Miller of the Associated
Press and Susan Morgan of Newsweek. Eden Pastora received
shrapnel wounds and was taken to a hospital in the
capital, where he is now under protective custody. The
Costa Rican government says it plans to deport him as soon
as he's well enough to travel. Pastora, once a hero of
the Sandinista revolution that ousted Somoza, now uses
Costa Rica as a base for his CIA-backed Revolutionary
Democratic Alliance, who are fighting the Sandinistas from
the south. According to aides, he had called the press
conference to criticize his troops' decision to merge with
another group of CIA-backed rebels fighting the
Sandinistas from Honduras, a move urged by the CIA. It's
not clear who placed the bomb. According to Jose D'Avila,
a rebel spokesman, it was the long arm of leftist
terrorists in Nicaragua, not the first time he says the
Sandinistas have tried to kill Pastora. Five died in the
blast, including one American, Linda Frazier, a local
reporter here. Her husband, Joseph Frazier, a
correspondent for the Associated Press in San Jose, flew
back from an assignment in Nicaragua this morning to break
the news to his 10-year-old son. Anne Carrels, ABC News,
San Jose, Costa Rica.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/15: CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880054-9