Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations.
Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations. Ortega led the Sandinista government that came to power after the 1979 revolution that ousted Anastasio Somoza.1
Target of Covert Operations
The entire Contra war was designed to destabilize and ultimately overthrow Ortega's government. CIA agent Dagoberto Nuñez obtained a contract with H&M Corp. to cover an intelligence-gathering operation aimed at Ortega, preparing to sign an agreement for shrimping rights off the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua as cover for espionage. The Central Intelligence Agency employed multiple schemes to gather intelligence on Ortega, including attempts to recruit Colombian drug lords to publicly implicate him in drug trafficking. The DEA sent agent James Kible to visit jailed Medellín Cartel boss Jorge Ochoa in Spain to persuade him to implicate the Sandinistas.2
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