Causa International. which he asserted had paid $3.000 to fly one of IRFFs shipments to Honduras last summer. As with aid provided by FOA (see above). IRFFs aid is distributed to "recently arrived refugees" directly on the border. rather than to internationallysponsored (eg UNHCR) refugee camps north of the border. As a result. this type of aid has been subject to criticisms from relief workers and Congressional staff that it has had the effect of maintaining the MISURA military base camps. which are also located directly on the border. CivilianMilitary Assistance CMA. which received press notice when a helicopter carrying two of its men was shot down while participating in an attack in northern Nicaragua last fall. was formed in 1983 to take direct action against communism in Central America. and specifically to provide training and equipment to the contras.
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