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Soviet and Cuban involvement in El Salvador, for example, has become increasingly evident in recent weeks. Documents captured by Salvadoran authorities describe a trip by guerrilla leaders to the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, Ethiopia and several Eastern European countries, during which they obtained commitments from Communist leaders for weapons and uniforms. According to U.S. intelligence officials, deliveries are handled by Cuba, often through Nicaragua. The Administration intends to make Soviet-bloc support of the guerrillas in El Salvador a major issue in East-West relations. A delegation of top State Department and CIA officials, led by Lawrence Eagleburger, Haig...
...sets of fingerprints. A revealing smear of red paint. Ballistics tests on high-powered rifle bullets. A collection of such solid clues has raised serious new questions about the official investigation into the brutal murder late last year of three American nuns and a lay religious worker in El Salvador. But TIME has learned that while the inquiry has turned up an impressive amount of hard evidence about what took place, Salvadoran authorities are stonewalling, stubbornly refusing to press the inquiry to the point where their own security forces might become implicated...
...women missionaries were found shot to death last December, U.S. officials cited "circumstantial evidence of possible security force involvement." But Salvadoran police and military officers dragged their feet in trying to track down the killers of the women, prompting the Carter Administration to suspend all U.S. aid to El Salvador until a "complete, thorough and professional investigation" of the murders had been undertaken. A four-man Salvadoran commission of inquiry was finally appointed, and a team of FBI agents was dispatched to help...
Then came last month's offensive by El Salvador's leftist guerrillas...
...nearly seven years, Edward Korry, who was U.S. Ambassador to Chile when President Salvador Allende Gossens came to power in 1970, has insisted that he had nothing to do with secret CIA plans to overthrow the Marxist leader...