The Nation - News from June 19, 1988

The FBI conducted at least four investigations of opponents of the Reagan Administration’s Central American policies, according to documents disclosed by the Boston Globe. FBI officials investigated critics of White House policies in Nicaragua in one probe and groups planning or staging demonstrations against U.S. policy in Nicaragua in another, the newspaper reported. The agency also conducted two investigations into opponents of U.S. policies in El Salvador, said the paper, which obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Also included in the newspaper account was a separate FBI investigation of members of TecNica, a group that sends engineers to Nicaragua to work on small development projects, the paper reported. Benjamin Linder, a 27-year-old American engineer who was killed last year in Nicaragua, was working with a group affiliated with TecNica.