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...most complex intelligence assessments conducted since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, officials at the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency worked feverishly for more than two weeks assembling the evidence. Many of the details were provided by a clearly prejudiced party-the Salvadoran armed forces-and had to be double-checked. U.S. officials then had to tailor a presentation for foreign officials that would not compromise intelligence sources in Central America...
Bonn, Paris and London all expressed concern, however, about just how far the U.S. should go in supporting the military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is in an especially uncomfortable position, since leftists in Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party support the Salvadoran guerrillas. Officials in all three capitals made it clear that they would like to see the U.S. strive for a negotiated settlement between the warring factions in El Salvador rather than risk escalating the conflict by supplying more arms. Officials in Bonn and Paris also asked the U.S. to urge...
...added that his committee has invited Roy Prosterman, a U.S. official working on the Salvadoran junta's "rural land reform" program, to participate in the teach-in. Raskin said Prosterman has not yet replied...
...Although official Salvadoran doctors refused to perform autopsies at the time, two of the nuns' bodies were later exhumed in the U.S. and bullets were removed from them. Ballistics tests revealed the kind of high-powered rifle the bullets came from are a type regularly used by the security forces...
...next steps should have been simple. The fingerprints of the 20 policemen could have been compared with the prints on the microbus. The weapons issued to the men that night could have been examined and ballistics tests performed. A search could have been made for a red vehicle. The Salvadoran government has failed to take any of these steps...