"These events don't constitute assassinations because as far as we are concerned assassinations are only those of heads of state."
— Assassination

January 1, 1970

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Duane Clarridge, CIA division chief in charge of Nicaraguan paramilitary operations in Congressional briefing in 1983, on the murders of "civilians and Sandinista officials … heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors, and judges" by CIA supported Contra guerrillas; as quoted in Washington's War on Nicaragua‎ (1988) by Holly Sklar, p. 186.