The World - News from Aug. 25, 1986
The vice president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA against the Sandinista government, Nicaraguan officials said. Guillermo Quant Tai, 55, was interrogated by state security following his arrest last Tuesday on charges of working for the U.S. intelligence agency, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said agents searched Quant Tai’s house and found secret codes hidden in a bathroom scale “especially prepared by the CIA,” which is involved in the U.S. support for Nicaraguan rebels.
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