Nicaragua by Sandinista troops 5 October. US 'advisor' Eugene Hasenfus who was captured by the Sandinistas the following day admitted being on the flight.
Calderón of the Sandinista People's Army showed reporters a Salvadoran air force ID card with Hasenfus's name and photo, identifying him as from the 'USA' with the capacity of 'advisor'. The card admitted Hasenfus to restricted areas of El Salvador's lopango Airport.
Writing trom Managua 101 US socialist newsweekly, The Militant, Cindy Jaquith reports that Hasenfus admitted to parfour flights from El Salvador to Nicadrop weapons and other supplies to the CIA-paid terrorists.
from Calderón's press. brietn®Hasenius's Jaquith reports that job was throwing the supplies ousthe plane door as passed mercenary camps. He said there are five planes at Ilopango conducting these supply missions.
'Hasenfus also offered information on two three men killed when the plane crashed, Calderón The pilot was Capt. William Cooper. also US citizen.
Calderón held up an ID card identifying Cooper as working for Southern Air Transport, based outfit with connections to the CIA.
"The co-pilot, according Hasenfus, Wallace Blaine Sawyer, who also carried an ID card like Hasenfus's, listing him as a US advisor with special rights at the Ipango airport.
plane's more in, soldiers found 100,000 rifle cartridges; RPG-7 grenade At a press briefing, 8 October, Lt. Col. Roberto launchers; dozens of AK assault rifles; and military boots. All were destined for CIA-organised organised NICECIdEs operating in the. Rió San Juan region of Nicaragua.
'In the US, denials by une we mouse ne stale Department and the CIA of any connection with or knowledge of the operation are appealing increasingly hollow.
Hasenfus reported that the man in charge of the supply-flight operations are Max Gomez and Ramón Medina whom he described as CIA employees. Only days after George denying ally CIA vice President George Bush admitted knowing Gomez.
'He's a patriot Bush explained. Bush was director of the CIA.
In a new and condemning revelation, Medina has been identified Luis Posada Carriles, jailed for his part in the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in which 73 people died. Posada Carriles/ Medina escaped his Venezuelan lal in dubious circumstances.
Both Gomez Medina CubanAmericans. The US Cuban emigre community Sandinista troops capture Hasenfus is a well-known recruiting gound for terrorist mercenaries CIA operatives. deputy Minister of the Inerior Luis Carrion has told reporters that 'Hasenfus that Medina, well as Gomez, boasted of being. friends with vice-President Bush'.
Nicaragua has formalprotested direct intervention by CIA the financed contra war. Deputy foreign minister, Victor Tinoco, said in making OTOLOSE that 'the fact that now the CIA more directly the attacks against Nicaragua's territory reveals a decision to involve the American Army in operations against The Nicaraguans have drawn a parallel between the use of 'advisors' in the contra-war to the first of direct US intervention Vietnam. when the same description was used for US personnel. The Sandinista daily, Barricada, carried a backheadline 'Just like was Vietnam' Vietnamtype will be the theme of a Labour movement con ference Central don at Congress House on February next year. Leaflets are available from ELSSOC, 13-16 Borough London SEI (tel 01-928 3412).