PASTORA SATISFACTORY AFTER SURGERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880046-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: June 3, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
3 June 1984
Rebel Under Heavy Guard In Caraeas
After Surgery
,Pastors Satisfactory
CARACAS, Venezuela, June 2 (UPI)-Nicaraguan
guerrilla leader Eden Pastore underwent emergency sur-
gery today for burns and shrapnel wounds suffered in a
bombing assassination attempt and was in satisfactory
condition, doctors said.
Doctors at the private Metropolitan Clinic in Caracas
said they removed bomb fragments and treated first- and
second-degree burns that Pastors suffered over 43 per-
cent of his body-on the cheat, right hand and left leg.
"Bomb fragments were removed from his body," said a
clinic spokesman. "Pastore suffered cuts and bruises over
his entire body, but he is in pretty good shape."
Special Venezuelan state security agents, armed with
automatic weapons and some dressed in combat uni-
forms, maintained a tight vigil outside and inside the
clinic. Access to Pastors's room was prohibited.
Pastora, commander of the Revolutionary Democratic
Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym ARDE, was in-
jured when a bomb went off as he held a news confer-
ence in a rebel headquarters inside Nicaragua, killing
eight people, including American reporter Linda Fri *r.
38, of Portland, Ore. He was deported yesterday toVan-
ezuela from Costa Rica. : :
During the flight from San Jose, Pastors told yeee-
zuelan television he would return to guerrilla action-in
Nicaragua soon because, "I am convinced that ARDE is
the only democratic alternative" for the wartotn Central
American country.
"We will die fighting, and here I am .1 am not up for
We and I will not surrender. Within two months I pill
be back in the hills," said Pastors. He pledged to "estab-
lish the democratic Sandinista revolution" in Nicaragua.
Authorities have not identified the exact cause of the
explosion, an apparent attempt to kill Pastora, and 'no
one has claimed responsibility for the attack in la
Penca, a mile inside Nicaragua and 100 miles north of
San Jose.
"I am not blaming anyone in particular. I am not
blaming the KGB, nor am I blaming the CIA, until the
necessary investigation is completed," Pastore said in the
television interview.
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