Journalist MARTHA HONEY. She worked as a freelance journalist in Costa Rica from 1983 to 1991. Her clients included Times (London), The Nation, ABC television, and National Public Radio. In 1984, she and her husband, Tony Avirgan were covering a press conference called by contra leader Eden Pastora Gomez, when a bomb exploded killing three journalists, and injuring dozens of other people, including Pastora, who was the intended target. (Tony Avirgan was also one of the people injured.) HONEY and AVIRGAN and other journalists set out to find the person(s) responsible. Their search led them to an Argentine leftist guerrilla, who had been killed in the meantime. What they found also implicated the CIA and Contra extreme rightests. HONEY writes that the CIA "put out false leads, stole evidence and worked to derail Costa Rica's Investigation of the incident." HONEY has a new book "Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in costa Rica in the 1980s," (University Press of Flo
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