A REVERSAL IN NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820049-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: March 8, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820049-3
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ALo wland Evans
A nd Robert Aovak
8 :larch 1985
A Reversal
In Nicaragua
Lead of 7--,-:-g Corgness to the Nit-.-ag-,:an ` -
dC--; ":g e- Fresiden: ReGgan s s ` -o'er et O, for
t^,eco roe:asset tiyesirefor Eszd-i^ z 6e-
fez: and z reversal in the rsng tide of A -sue w-o-?G'
a-
!^? some way to 'T the 5oe ant pg:sQde the - e
a_d hour to restore F14 ^T oz of "Covert' CIA ud to
c;r
E- G^ r ;ter s ISut Cure cis and other a=:ti-c
t r forces, the Rezganites see s:nal prospect of vc:-
w-1 when the president cans for the vote.
That has ca sec gristerna:.ion arncng gonn't of Rea-
Se-etary
gao's bes- fiiends They are growing cr%ca of
of Sate George w 'pose s-zong lanrage s. cr t-
~"? ^ the ,om fighters c'o: y-asts strang.h' ..':.h his C;r
io-2tic approaches to the S2.n,-nis::2 re,,--nt.
i rye pEOpie foresee ma}a- pod l rcpt=was
o thou: the hemisphere: reiriforceme-nt d Sandinista
le Inn N~'Z.ragu`, tn'tmidation of Costa Rica and Hon-
d.-as, confirm Lion of Fidel Cas7o's corrirnunist power m
the Western lzenisphere, loss of J.S. ored:,':) ty rnr cng
the end of a period of relztive ay tart s-n in U.S. foreign
pobc'y in the East-West struggle.
No ratter how d;soieasayg this prospect for their
nation r..a?. be to '.tee: a Dem-c *-s, =n== is
no: s?`iae,' for them to s, or e^`.z^zss ~g t?
"Coven, w the 'ti5:as.
Nor wiL >E eels countenance a_ y s-c- to ,:;.~ e
1Lnanca! a:: to- the Cortrc or any efo to ge, b_ip
f: c_, 1s-2e: or other r' .re COu tried.
A leas p?-ed3ctable red c~cn is b--'di,- among Rerun
co: -FZtives. They ko i the Sand.nistas
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