TALKING POINTS FOR MORRIS BUSBY TO USE WITH SECSTATE

Created: 6/16/1987

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RirtjPXTi Talking Points for Hotrls Busby to Use with SecStete

the period, sis sir alsaions were flown,0 pounds of cargo to resistance foreea. Cumulative totals thus farissions, deliveringounda5 tons) of csrgo.

Ssvanty-one rDH students arrived at the covert fcralnlnq facility for training on 7

of thsse students are sttenningVthe Cuerrilla Warfare Leaderehip (OWL) course. Tbe remainingtudents are psrticlpstlng in the first Iteration of the guerrilla Wsrfsre Corasnd andtaff Officers'ciis) course.

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classes are scheduled to graduate onuly.

Nlcaraguan Resistance (JOS) directorate had successful neetinga in Miami during the past wee*. .The most significant achievement wss that tbs directorateirm iMillcy toward* the Arias peace plen. The directorate met withPresident Arias snd President Dusrte to discuss tbe plan ind with Afibasssdor-st-larga Philip Hablbours. Although tne fcsqulpulas msetlng hes now bsen postponed, the directorsts nowell-established public snd diplomatic position onArias plan.

he Resistance aerial propaganda programetbeckJune when an row Baron carrying the chief of the FnN sir srm, Juan-Gomez, snd two others wss forced down just insldt Honduras. The eircrnft was rsturnlnguccessful leaflet drop over Esteli when it encountered hostile fire near the sandlnieta garrlaion at Telpaneca. It is unclear what hit the Baron, but the aircraft's mission profile suggests that itoviet-madernti-air miaaile. Thaoaves, his aon,icker) were not aerlouely hurt In the crash. The plane, however, waa totaled.

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Jinntsgat.ine Of!OM. if fawllniifcaaent down onh. but attributed its loos(allure.

throe of the hclicoplsinewaasauu.n, pnss.rMv' including th. chief of -ilitary intelligence foTthe"thiion, were Killed In the crash.

i 'l"*nceactivities continuedigh pace throughout Militarynd VI. Elements of the ?DH SantiagoRegional command claimedum

r.andinistaa killed in action. addition, pd* special

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The Hansgua regime continued to receive larg>SIS Preparative

-.cing couplets by week's endrobable Cuban arms elivery at Rama, and atcargo truua* and hi*

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iune. Additionally, th* Sandinistas recently extracted forrmedelicopters,r en rout, from th* Black toicaragua and/or Peru.

Thf Sandiniatae continued to show concern for Reiistwc

ri2" "Mttho norths'

ti- south 'l committee in Mfl south, leading to the capture of aost of the dropped

ESKlagainst Southern Front commander Gan.o'a

O.pco.la* of'ion"-uPPly efforts in

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