| His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. |
| And the movie accepts his assertion that he knew nothing of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
| During the 1980s the contras, strongly backed by the United States, raised 18,000 troops to fight the revolution. |
| But the Sandinistas, not the contras, now threatened armed resistance to the new democratic government. |
| The contras were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, a Marxist-infiltrated regime. |
| At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras, the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas. |
