DOCOPY OF INTEL CABLE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001338961
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Case Number: F-2001-01650
• Publication Date: August 15, 1995

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TOT: 151959Z AUG 95
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INTEL 151959Z DIRECTOR 404414
TO: HQSDISSEM.
SUBJECT: DOCOPY OF INTEL CABLE
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 SUBJ: INFORMATION ON THE DEATH OF REYES MATA AND FATHER CARNEY
JTHE 1983
iURAN SPECIAL
FORCES AND AN INSURGENT GROUP LED BY JOSE MARIA ((REYES)) MATA,
BOTH REYES AND FATHER JAMES ((CARNEY)) WERE KILLED DURING THE
ENCOUNTER. ALSO STATED THAT CARNEY WAS
BURIED AT T THE CONFLICT. ORMATION ON REYES AND
CARNEY W MADE WITHIN THE ARMED
FORCE BY A PARTICIPANT IN THE
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 ENCOUNTER WITH THE INSURGENTS.
MOVIN APPROXIMATELY U.S. $15 000 FROM
E BODIES F SEVERAL INSURGENTS. CHARGED THAT DID
NOT REPORT OR TURN IN THE MONEY TO SUPERIORS.
ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE INSURGENT E
HAVE PROBABLY BEEN DESTROYED.)
NONE OF THE CAPTURED
INSURGENTS WERE EXECUTED AT EL AGUACATE; THEY WERE TAKEN TO PATROL
CAMPS IN THE REGION WHERE THE INTERROGATIONS AND EXECUTIONS
OCCURRED. THE INSURGENTS WERE BURIED IN DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE
MOUNTAINS NEAR THE PATUCA RIVER.
A REPORT OF THE 1983 OLANCHO INCIDENT WHICH WAS BASED
THE SPECIAL FORCES UNIT HAD KILLED BOTH REYES
WAS TOLD THAT CARNEY WAS KILLED
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5. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS
INITIALLY PROVIDED TO ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY IN 1984[
DISSEMINATING THE INFORMATION. IN LATE NOVEMBER 1983,
PERSONALLY KILLED REYES AFTER AN
INTERROGATION THAT YIELDED LITTLE INFORMATION.
THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW CARNEY'S BODY WAS A Y
WITH HIM AT THE TIME. THE GUERRILLA TOLD HIS HONDURAN
MILITARY CAPTORS HE HAD COVERED CARNEY WITH LEAVES AND LEFT HIM IN
THE JUNGLE.
REGARDING THE PRACTICE OF DIVIDING AMONGST THEMSELVES MONEY THEY
SEIZED IN THE COURSE OF THEIR OPERATIONS.
6. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: THIS REPORT, COMBINED WITH
EAR REPORTING MAKES IT LIKELY THAT REYES MATA WAS EXECUTED BY
WHAT HAPPENED TO CARNEY IS HOWEVER, STILL UNCLEAR
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