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Fenton Communications, Inc. NEWS RE 1 A LL MEDIA ADVISORY FOR~ 1O:3O AM Contac! THURSOAY, MAY 29, 1986 FEDERAL LAWSUIT WILL GE CON WITH DRUG AND GUN SMUGGLING, MURDER AND J.S.'JOURNASTS Press Conference .Day of Filing.. Washington HASHINGTON, DC A federa? lawsuit charging 29 Anericans. Nicaraguan : Stras (including Fonsg.nder Adolfoxbalero). and others With crim!? Eonspiracy.:involyinghtztcunning, drug-smuggling, murder and thessombing of a press cdnference with Amesican reporters will be.filed *p Miami Federal Court on Thursday, May Zsth. The suit: atso-names Monld Antt-Communist League chairman John XSinglaub for violatsons of the Neutrality Act.. Detailstpf the lawsuit will be announced at a press conference on Thursday, M#y 29, at 10:30 am in the Bourke-White/Zenger Room, 13th Floor of the Kational Press Club in Washington, to be attended by the.plaintiffs and their attorney.. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two U.s. journalists who investigated the sg84 bombing of a press conference called by former -contra leader EdendPastora (one of whom was crippled in the attack). charges that the contras and their American supporters committed murder, trafficked in cocaine, plotted the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Pastora and planned to kili u.s. Ambassador Lewis7ambs, laundered money, smuggled weapons, threatened investigators and obstructed justice.. The federal lawsuit naming Calero, Singlaub, and others represents the first time that allegations of contra 1nvolvement in gun and drug smuggling, terrorist bombings and murder are united in a coherent case and presented in a U.s. court of law, with specifics and sources clearly identified.. : Speakers at the news conference will include the plaintiffs, 250 West 57 Street journalists Tony Ayirgan and Martha Honey. and their attorney. Daniel/Sneehan of the Christic Institute. Avirgan was injured while Surte 1730 Covertng the bombed Pastora press conference for A8c. His wife. journalist Martha Honey (a stringer for ABc, C8c, and others) has New York NY 10107 been threatened with death for investigating the Pastora bombing on behalf of the Newspaper Guild. Attorney Sheehan was the lawyer 1n *elephone 212. 489 5630 the Karen'Stlkwood and Greensboro Civil Rights cases. IJF 30 PA: FOIA: 807 Eghteenth Street NWd O(j) () (b)(1) (h)(4) }b)(7)(a) (h)<7)(d) Released with excisions (k)(2) (b)(3) (b)(5) b)(7)(b) (b{7{) Released in full 60002 30uoburyser. k5 .c. 12