Subversive activities
Sir,—l wonder where Peter Sheehan (August 25) gets his information on the C.I.A. activities and Nicaragua’s Government. He has them all twisted round. I cannot believe he heard the former American agent, Ralph McGehee. The C.I.A. does not protect democracy; it overthrows democratic, democratically elected Governments as soon as they put their people’s interests before those of American capitalists. It has installed about 75 per cent of the world’s dictators since 1945. The Nicaraguan Government before the Sandinistas was an American ally, greedy and vicious, which arrested, tortured and often killed, as “a communist,” anyone caring about the poor. Most Catholic clergy there prefer the Sandiistas to the Somocistas and co-operate with the Sandinistas; a privileged few incited hostility to the Government and have been expelled. Churches, schools, hospitals and plantations have been closed on account of Contra attacks.— Yours, etc., SUSAN TAYLOR. August 25, 1986.
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