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...military buildup was only the first step in what was supposed to be a justification of the Administration's policies in Central America. The second-and crucial-step was to establish a firm link between that buildup and Sandinista support for, and even direction of, the rebel effort in El Salvador. But Haig decided to avoid any discussion of El Salvador in the State Department's briefing because there were not enough declassified data available to make a compelling case for the link. The Administration insists that its evidence of outside arms shipments to the El Salvador rebels...
...mentors, have in fact played a controlling (rather than just a shadowy but significant) part in the El Salvador civil war. To his critics, Haig is still a long way from making that case convincing. A "white paper" issued by the State Department in February 1981 cited "proof that rebel arms were being channeled by Cuba and the Soviet Union through Nicaragua; the evidence was sloppily presented and exaggerated in some cases, opening the Administration to charges of fraud. Last week the State Department had problems producing the two defectors from the Nicaraguan Air Force who were supposed to tell...
...called Blackbirds, that are capable of flying higher than 80,000 ft. and at speeds of more than 2,000 m.p.h., as well as by U.S. satellites orbiting more than 100 miles above the earth. The U.S. has also relied on electronic eavesdropping to pick up radio communications between rebel forces in El Salvador and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; one key U.S. listening post was a communications ship stationed from last December until mid-February in the Gulf of Fonseca, between Nicaragua and El Salvador. Finally, agents of the CIA gather information from undercover agents and sympathetic local "assets," whose...
...Salvadoran guerrillas, meanwhile, are boycotting the election campaign and disrupting it with bold attacks, principally on economic targets. A slashing rebel probe last week shut off a major stretch of the country's Pan American Highway and destroyed a key bridge, effectively isolating a third of the northeastern Morazán department and putting it virtually under guerrilla control. Displaying the same tenacity that they had shown a week earlier in heavy fighting around the Guazapa volcano, the guerrillas were able to surprise and tie down army forces with smoothly coordinated assaults within the provincial capitals of San Vicente...
...strategy backfired. Outraged by the changes, rightist death squads and maverick security forces stepped up their terror campaign, murdering men and women suspected of sympathizing with the left. In retaliation, the rebel bands, whose total strength is now estimated to number between 4,000 and 6,000, escalated their attacks on military and economic targets, while the 14,000-man armed forces struggled vainly to crush the insurgency...