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After two days of interrogation, during which he was threatened with 30 years' imprisonment, Hasenfus, his captors said, was ready to tell the "truth" about whom he was working for. Gloated Alejandro Benda??a, a Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry official: "This is obviously a CIA operation with CIA operatives." Whether or not the accusations prove true, the Administration, which is already facing charges that it disseminated "disinformation" about Libyan terrorist activities, found itself confronted by another challenge to the credibility of its foreign policy...
...shooting down of the plane touched off a round of recriminations between Washington and Managua. "We now have Americans dying in Mr. Reagan's dirty war," said the Foreign Ministry's Benda??a. In Washington, Administration officials insisted that the arms drop was a "private" matter they knew nothing about. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The U.S. Government had no connections with the flight, the plane, the crew or the cargo." Declared Kathy Pherson, spokeswoman for the CIA: "The guy doesn't work for us, and CIA is not involved. There are congressional restrictions on assistance to the contras...