Spy Photos
3. Nicaragua,
1982
This
image, taken by an American SR-71 spy plane, shows Soviet merchant ships
unloading military equipment at the Nicaraguan port of Corinto. The U.S. State
Department Office of Public Diplomacy released this image of the Nicaraguan
military buildup to generate support for the "contras" and to
highlight the threat posed by the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Nicaragua of
fomenting revolution throughout Central America.