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Part II
Nicaragua
A.
Background
Al though Project JMATE operations in Nicaragua
were of considerably shorter duration than in Guatemala,
there were many similarities in the degree to which
CIA personnel were involved directly with the nation's
Preside~t or his close personal staff on issues which
were of direct importance to US foreign policy.
This
section therefore, focuses on the rela'tions between
the Agency and President Luis Somoza Debayle.
The
internal situation in Nicaragua presented the Depart-
ment of State with difficult choices.
Somoza was an
absolute dictator and, particularly after the 1960
election of John F. Kennedy, State was much concerned
that, in appearance tit least, the abrazo for Somoza
be formal rather than friendly, lest the US risk loss
of support in the GAS and
UN from the reputedly "demo-
cratic" Central and South American nations.
The Agency
had no such problems -- it needed a base from which to
mount air operations against Castro's Cuba; and the
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