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Scoop Link: Gates Advocated Bombing Nicaragua

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Gates Pushed for Bombing of Sandinistas


His 1984 memo called for "hard measures" against Nicaragua.
By Julian E. Barnes
The Los Angeles Times
Saturday 25 November 2006

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Washington - Robert M. Gates, President Bush's nominee to lead the Pentagon, advocated a bombing campaign against Nicaragua in 1984 in order to "bring down" the leftist government, according to a declassified memo released by a nonprofit research group.

The memo from Gates to his then-boss, CIA Director William J. Casey, was among a selection of declassified documents from the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal posted Friday on the website of the National Security Archive, http://www.gwu.edu/nsarchiv/.

In the memo, Gates, who was deputy director of the CIA, argued that the Soviet Union was turning Nicaragua into an armed camp and that the country could become a second Cuba. The rise of the communist-leaning Sandinista government threatened the stability of Central America, Gates asserted.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gates25nov25,0,5508834.story

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