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 I loul YEARI No. 10, 0 1986. The W.shington Post Company MONDAY, D KEMBER 15, V
 Nicaragua Holding
 American as Siov
 Prisoner Said to Be Congressman's Brother
                                      By Edward Cody
                           Washington Post Foreign Service
      MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec.
 14-The Nicaraguan government
 has arrested as a suspected spy an
 American who is believed to be in
 Ohio congressmen's brother.
      The American, whose U.S. pass-
 port identified him as Sam Nesley
 Hall, 49, was arrested Friday morn-
 ing near the Punta Huete ml:itary
 airfield, about 12 miles north of Ma-
 nagua, Sandinista officials an-
 nounced Saturday night.
      A spokesman for Rep. Tony P.
 Hall (D-Ohio) said today he believes
 the captive is Hall's brother, a self-
 styled counterterrorism expert who
 the aide said has been a mercenary
 in Angola and Rhodesia, now Zim-
 babwe.
      Hall, who has yet to be charged
 formally, joined Eugene Hasenfus
 as a prisoner of the Sandinistas, ac-
 cused of illegal'activities'in Nicara-
 gua in support of Reagan adminis-
 tration policy against the Managua
 government. Hasenfus, from Mari-
 nette, Wis., was sentenced Nov. 15
 to a 30-year prison term for his ac-
 knowledged role in    
 delivering arms,      
                       

 to U.S.-financed anti-Sandinista
                       

 forces.               
                       

 The Reagan administration
 de-                   
                       

 nies any connection   
 to the rebel:         
                       

 supply operation.     
                       

 State Department spokesman,
                       

 Bruce Ammerman, said  
 it is impos-,         
                       

 sible to identify the 
 detainee or his.      
                       

 job because the Sandinista
 govern-               
 '                     
                       

 ment has refused to   N.
 permit the U.S.       
                       

                       ,
 consul general in Managua
 to visits             
                       

 him. Ammerman said    
 he had no in-         
                       

 formation on whether  
 a Sam Hall            
                       

 worked for any part   
 of the U.S. gov-      
                       

 ernment.              
                       

 Nicaraguan Foreign    UNITID MESS INTE.R.NA.TIOM
 Minister Mi-,         
                       

 guel d'Escoto told    Sam Hall, brother
 reporters Satur-      of Rep. Tony P.
                       

 day night that Hall   Hall (D-Ohio) and
 admitted spying       thought to be
                       

 on Sandinista targets captive, in 1985 photo.
 for a previ-          
                       

 ously unheard-of privateer admitted that he
 U.S. grou             was gathering
                       

 called the Phoenix    
 Battalion. There      
                       

                       intelligence for the
 was no description    private group.
 of this group or      
                       

                       According to D'Escoto,
 its leadership, nor   Hall said
 whether Hall's        
                       

 claim about it was    the Phoenix Battalion
 being taken se-       specializes in
                       

 riously by Sandinista military espionage
 authorities.          in consonance
                       

 D'Escoto said Hall    with U.S. policy.
 was                   
 captured              
                       

 .                     The Punta Huete airfield
 with sketches and mapswas
 hidden in             
                       

 his socks. Hall first,claimedconstructed during
 to be a               the past two
                       

 writer, the minister  See NICARAGUA, A33,
 related, but lat-     CoL I
                       

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