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Cete pegt. nane o! sDaper. city and stit ) THE MIAMI HERALD Miami, Florida Mount Ctppino in Spact Beow) a6ed 8A Date Ednon. inspector - will May 30,1986 watch over troops Raciet or Esdcation mitbnp Otfico MIAMI }xing Journalists' suit claims ALLT b6 b7C ang tried to kill contra By JAY DUCASSI bombings and assasslnations would be blamed And CHRISTINA CHEAKALOS on thexSandinista government in Nfcaragua. Herld Staff Wrten Avlrgan, a stringer for National Publlc In what reads like a Robert Ludlum spy Radlo, and Honey, a reporter for the Canadian! novel, two journalists filed a $23.8 million Jawsult in Miamt Thursday, blaming a ring of exploded during a press conference held by former CiA officlals, Cuban exiles, Nicaraguan Nicaraguan contra leader Eden Pastora on May contra leaders, international arms dealers and 30. 1984. cocaine smugglers for a bombing in which both The suit claims the defendants planted the! reporters were injured. bomb, which kllled eight people and wounded The lawsuit claims the ring sold cocaine in more than 25 others. the United States to fund its activities, The group's operations were financed by : including arming Nicaraguan contras, attempt- cocaine smugghing from Colombia to Miami, i ing to bomb U.s. embassies in Costa Rica and and the ring"laundered the profits through i Honduras, and hiring a Libyan assassin to kill domestlc and offshore banks, the suit alleges. Lewis Tambs,U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica. Ted Kein, Miami attorney who represents one of tne 30 defendants. Tamiami Gun Shop According to the suit, filed by the husband- owner Rongld Martinsaid the allegations are and-wie reporting team of Tony Avirgan and ridiculous and absurd." Martha Yoney, the 30 defendants hoped the... "My first reaction is that thls is an April Fool's joke, but it's too late," Klein said. "This is the best example of the misuse of the courts Eden Pastora: Target of I've ever seen. It shows what someone can do if they are able to put together a federal court. 1984 bomb attack. mnge. Even as a dime-store novel, it's poorly written." The suit names as defendants Ted Shackley: former associate deputy director for operations for the CIA;Tdg Slines,a former CIA taining officer, Adolto calero head of the Nicaraguan b6 Democratfc Force contra group andJohn Singlaub,a formeArmy major-general who is b7C a ajor tund-raiser for the contras. Also named are four members of the Cuban' SEARCHEG DEXE exile organization Brigade 2506 and the heads SERTALIZE HD of several small businesses, including the Tamiami Gun Shop. At the State Department in Washington, JUN 5 1986 sppkesmag Charles Redman called the ctarges patently ridfculous." to - MtAtl