High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beginning in the early 1980s, the Reagan administration gave arms, money, and equipment to the Contras. The CIA gave $50,000 to training and arming the Contras in 1981. The CIA took out operations of their own: in 1982, a CIA trained team blew up two bridges in Nicaragua. The United States saw the Sandinistas as Communists, and felt the need to stop them. The United States' Congress viewed the Reagan Administration's anti-Sandinista policies with extreme skepticism. Their efforts resulted in passage of an amendment in late 1982 introduced by Representative Edward P. Boland to the Fiscal Year 1983 Defense Appropriations bill. This first of a series of Boland Amendments prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the principal conduit of covert American support to the Contras, from spending any money "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в...