Soviet attitudes towards aid to and contacts with Central American revolutionaries

Horhey · Oct 7, 2012

Since it was a total lie, one has to ask, what were the real reasons were for the clandestine terror? Once you find the answer many other doors will open up. See also:

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According to the Jacobsen Report, commissioned by the State Department:

Soviet attitudes towards aid to and contacts with Central American revolutionaries

Carl G. Jacobsen

The FMLN's (Salvadoran guerrillas') 1983 choice of Villalobos as over-all leader was telling. Villalobos' past relations with Soviet allies have been bitter and stormy. He epitomizes the "ultra-leftist" problem that Moscow identifies as the single most serious impediment to greater Soviet influence.

In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas' victory had, in like fashion, bypassed and eclipsed the Soviet- aligned Socialist Party. Moscow then acknowledged that the revolutionary crest was passing it by and scrambled to catch up. It gave up the old doctrine that a Communist Party was the only possible instigator and vanguard of revolution. Moscow's ideological ambivalence and realization of the limits of influence was reflected in a startling early- 1983 dropoff in Soviet media references to contacts with revolutionary groups and individuals.

On the other hand, the Soviets appear to calculate that decisive US action will in fact result in a net gain for their side; the likely boost to anti-Americanism in Latin America and Western Europe could be worth far more than the Managua investment would be lost.

All-too-many US claims proved open to question. The limited amounts of truly modern equipment acquired by the Sandinistas, of which more later, came from Western Europe, not the Eastern bloc. Outside observers might be forgiven for concluding that "The scope and nature of the Kremlin's intrusion are far short of justifying the President's exaggerated alarms."
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Furthermore:

The Miami Herald: U.S. DELAYED REPORT ON SOVIETS IN NICARAGUA

The State Department delayed a report concluding that "all too many" Reagan administration claims of Soviet involvement in Nicaragua "proved hollow" until the author agreed to soften some of its language, officials involved say. The 31-page report commissioned by the State Department was submitted in March by University of Miami professor Carl G. Jacobsen. But its release was delayed until last week while several department officials tried to persuade him to change it, the officials said. Jacobsen said he refused to make some of the changes because it would have diminished the value of his work, Soviet Attitudes Toward, Aid to and Contacts with Central American Revolutionaries.

In an interview, Jacobsen, 40, director of Soviet and Strategic Studies at the University of Miami's Graduate School of International Studies, was reluctant to comment on the attempts to change his report. "Let's just say that there was great pressure from some quarters to change the original," he said.

After prolonged dispute, the study is being issued essentially as Jacobsen wrote it, even though a few sentences have been softened from the original draft. For example, the initial draft said Soviet military aid to Nicaragua is "unobtrusive and sometimes ephemeral." The final version said it was "unobtrusive, and elusive to track."

Jacobsen went on to say in his original that "all too many U.S. claims" on Soviet military aid to Nicaragua "proved hollow." The final report said: "All too many U.S. claims proved open to question."

As for Moscow's authority over leftist guerrilla groups in Central America, Jacobsen said it "is also more limited than generally realized." He pointed out that in El Salvador, pro- Moscow rebel leader Jorge Shafik Handal failed to become the overall head of the guerrilla movement after the 1983 death of insurgent chieftain Salvador Cayetano Carpio. Instead, a longtime Moscow critic, Joaquin Villalobos, was selected as the new rebel leader.

Another segment in Jacobsen's report that troubled the State Department, the sources said, was a paragraph that questioned the administration's claim that Nicaragua ships arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas.

"On the subject of aid to Salvadoran rebels," it said, "(U.S.) intelligence officials claim that they can 'hear a toilet flush in Managua,' yet they have not been able or free to produce a captured van or a downed airplane (loaded with arms)."
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The full report:

The Jacobsen Report, Soviet posture in the Western Hemisphere: hearing before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, February 28, 1985

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