Military Exercise - Central America Operation Nicarao, 22Mar-02Apr68

Military Exercise - Central America Operation Nicarao, 22Mar-02Apr68 Slate: 02Apr68. Thru treetops, plane over twice. Man in fatigues bent over; plane overhead. CU man on ground (guerrilla) w/ rifle sighting; other guerillas w/ rifles. Nicauraguan soldier w/ automatic rifle. Soldiers on rocky sandbar in river run to shore; camouflaged thru jungle past camera. 22:19:06 Soldier firing from prone position in grass; move forward. 22:20:02 Jeep out of village, four others following. US Army Jeep (s) parked & local soldiers running past. US officer & others looking at map & aerial photos on hood of jeep. CU soldier on field radio. Others talk on riverbank. 22:21:49 Soldiers w/ machine gun in grass. 22:22:17 CU US soldier w/ beret looking thru binoculars. MCU soldier w/ machine gun (?). 22:22:29 Slate: 22Mar68 Lumberyard & sawmill; hyster moving thru. Nicaraguan men working notching rafters, moving boards to stacks to dry; hyster moving stack to yard. 22:24:02 USAF C-47 parked, jeeps & men alongside. Taxiing on dirt runway, turning. Military VIPs off: US, Guatemalans (?); Nicaraguans (?), greeted. 22:25:00 Slate: 02Apr68. LS Guatemalan paratroops dropping from C-130. Light plane overhead. 22:26:09 Troops run across open field, advance crouching thru scrub brush. “Prisoner” captured, move forward thru grassy fields. 22:27:50 Four T-28 single engine military planes fly over in formation, one peels off. One landing past camera on gravel air strip w/ US Air Force on side; another w/o markings. C-47 lands & Nicaraguan troops rush off while propellers turning. 22:28:56 Troops in ditch beside field talk on radio, US officer (?). C-47 begins to move; in air past camera & another waiting. Military Training Exercise; Anti-Communism;