BOMBING AT MANAGUA AIRPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00135R000500980011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 8, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: BOMBING AT MANAGUA AIRPORT
1. CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT.
2. EMBASSY MANAGUA HAS CONFIRMED THAT SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS
OCCURRED EARLY SEPTEMBER 8 AT SANDINO AIRPORT IN
MANAGUA. ACCORDING TO NICARAGUAN RADIO REPORTS, THE GRN
CLAIMS THAT TWO CESSNAS, PROCEEDNG FROM COSTA RICA, FIRST
ATTEMPTED TO UNSUCCESSFULLY BOMB FOREIGN MINISTER MIGUEL
D'ESCOTO'S HOUSE; A THIRD PLANE BOMBED SANDINISTA AIR
FORCE PLANES AND THE AIRPORT. REUTERS REPORTED THE
AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER WAS IN FLAMES. THE GRN REPORTEDLY
SHOT DOWN ONE PLANE AND KILLED ITS TWO NICARAGUAN
OCCUPANTS.
3. A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT CARRYING CODEL HART
(SENATORS HART. AND COHEN) WAS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN
MANAGUA AT 1110 SEPT. 8 (WASHINGTON TIME). THE PLANE
DIVERTED TO TEGUCIGALPA, LANDING AT 1110 WASHINGTON
TIME. THE GRN HAS INFORMED EMBASSY MANAGUA THAT THE
CODEL HAS PERMISSION TO LAND IN MANAGUA. DEPT TALKED'
WITH SENATOR COHEN, WHO SAID CODEL WOULD ATTEMPT TO
ARRIVE LATER TODAY IN MANAGUA.
4. DEPT IS INFORMING SENATOR"BENTSEN, WHO IS SCHEDULED
TO GO TO MANAGUA ON-SEPTEMBER 10, OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
5. CONTINGENCY PRESS GUIDANCE IF ASKED ABOUT COMPARISON
OF ATTACK ON SANDINO AIRPORT AND SOVIET DESTRUCTION OF
KOREAN AIRCRAFT IS TO RESPOND THAT QUOTE WE WOULD CONDEMN
ANY ATTACK ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS UNQUOTE.
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