The Freedom Fighter's Manual
- The Freedom Fighter's Manual
The "Freedom Fighter's Manual" was a fifteen-page booklet that was manufactured by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and airdropped over Nicaragua in the 1980s.fact|date=January 2008 It enumerated several methods by which the average citizen could cause disorder.fact|date=January 2008
History
On July 19 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and established the Junta of National Reconstruction, a government that had good foreign relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. When they began to fund a similar revolutionary group in El Salvador, United States President Ronald Reagan and his administration felt that Nicaragua was becoming a threat to its national interests and began to fund the Contras in order to destabilize the junta.fact|date=January 2008 To this end, the CIA published the "Freedom Fighter's Manual."fact|date=January 2008
Contents
The publication describes myriad ways in which the average citizen could disrupt the everyday workings of the government. It begins with actions that require little to no risk at all, such as hiding or destroying important tools, calling in sick for work, and leaving lights and faucets on. It then progresses to instruct people to steal food from the government, release livestock from farming cooperatives, and bring down telephone lines. Four pages are devoted to disabling vehicles. By the end of the pamphlet, there are detailed diagrams showing how to make and use Molotov cocktails against police stations.
ee also
* Iran-Contra affair
* Oliver North
* Nicaragua v. United States
External links
* [http://www.ballistichelmet.org/school/free.html "The Freedom Fighter's Manual (Full Copy in Spanish with English Translation)"]
* [http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/documents/cia.contra/index.html "The Freedom Fighter's Manual (HTML Version)"]
References
* [http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/documents/cia.contra/index.html "Article regarding the pamphlet"]
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