Documents on the Nicaraguan Resistance

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Documents on the Nicaraguan Resistance: Leaders, Military Personnel, and Program (1986)
United States Department of State • Bureau of Public Affairs
Office of Public Communication • Editorial Division

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This State Department report is dated March 1986. During that month, debate raged in Congress over President Ronald Reagan's request for $100 million in assistance for the Nicaraguan rebels known as the contras. This report was intended to address claims that the largest rebel faction, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), was controlled by former members of the Guardia Nacional. It includes a roster of FDN commanders, their backgrounds, and units (Document 6).

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Office of Public Communication • Editorial Division


Special Report No. 142	Documents on the Nicaraguan Resistance: Leaders, Military Personnel, and Program

	United States Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, D.C.	March 1986

This Special Report contains a collection of basic documents and data pertaining to the character of the Nicaraguan democratic resistance. The purpose of this Report is to partially answer the question: "who" is the democratic resistance?

These documents provide an insight into the debate about the relationship between civilian and military leaders within the resistance, about the organizational nature of resistance military forces (especially those of the FDN), and about the political programs of those struggling for freedom against the Soviet-equipped and Cuban-advised Sandinista dictatorship.

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Document 1: Letter from Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams to Senator Richard G. Lugar (Ind.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 24, 1986
Document 2: Letter from Senator Claiborne Pell (RI), Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, to Assistant Secretary Abrams, March 4, 1986
Document 3: Letter from Assistant Secretary Abrams to Senator Pell, March 11, 1986
Document 4: Selected Biographies of Resistance Leaders
Document 5: United Nicaraguan Opposition Principles and Objectives
Document 6: Senior FDN Military Personnel

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Department of State, a department of the United States federal government.

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