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http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/documents/cia.contra/index.html This illustrated document, prepared by the CIA in 1983, was meant to guide the anti-Sandinista "Contra" forces, as well as other Nicaraguans opposed to the Sandinistas, in "paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the Marxist state". Thousands of the manuals were air-dropped over Nicaragua from hot air balloons sent by the CIA from Honduras. Recommending these dirty tricks be carried out by "cells" of no more than two people, the manual provides instruction in sabotage -- using available equipment or no equipment at all. Simple illustrations also show ways to passively resist the government -- as well as supplying instructions on how to make explosives and "Molotov cocktail" gasoline bombs. The manual came to light in 1984, after an American journalist obtained a copy from a Contra in Honduras. The portions dealing with explosive and incendiary devices have been omitted. |
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