US Presidency
1984

But if guilt is established, whoever is guilty we will treat with that situation then, and they will be removed. I am afraid I misspoke when I said a CIA head in Nicaragua. There's not someone there directing all of this activity. There are, as you know, CIA men stationed in other countries in the world and, certainly, in Central America. And so it was a man down there in that area that this was delivered to, and he recognized that what was in that manual was in direct contravention of my own Executive order, in December of 1981, that we would have nothing to do with regard to political assassinations. Yes. I have so many things there to respond to, I am going to pick out something you said earlier. You've been all over the country repeating something that, I will admit, the press has also been repeating, that I believed that nuclear missiles could be fired and then called back. I never, ever conceived of such a thing. I never said any such thing.