Word: glassman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first the papers sat on a dusty, police-office desk; no one imagined that the scores of documents would provide most of the U.S. proof that the Cubans and Soviets supplied arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Their recovery was due to the enterprise, and luck, of Diplomat Jon Glassman, 37, a political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City...
...January, Glassman arrived in San Salvador to seek information about how the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons. The Salvadoran general staff had already provided some captured documents, including an account of an arms shopping trip made last year by a Salvadoran Communist official to Moscow, Hanoi and Soviet bloc capitals. But there was no evidence that any weapons had been delivered or shipped to nearby countries. Discouraged, Glassman was about to return to Mexico City when he decided to ask the National Police. They gave him the grocery-store papers...