COMMENTS REGARDING 1983 DISAPPEARANCE OF U.S. PRIEST JAMES CARNEY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001338967
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Case Number: F-2001-01650
• Publication Date: February 14, 1997

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 3. THE AIDE TO FATHER CARNEY WAS WITH ONE OF THE OTHER PATROLS,
AND WHEN THAT PATROL DISCO FRED FATHER CARNEY'S REMAINS, IT INFORMED
NEARBY PATROLS BY RADIO. PATROL WAS CLOSE AND
JOINED THE OTHER PATROL AT THE SITE WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS NEAR THE
TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. OBSERVED THE BODY IN THE
HAMMOCK FOR ONLY A FEW SECONDS AND DESCRIBED IT AS BLOATED WITH THE
SKIN A PURPLISH COLOR AND THE HAIR MORE SILVER-GRAY THAN WHITE.
AFTER THE BASE CAMP AT NUEVA PALESTINA WAS INFORMED THAT FATHER
CARNEY'S BODY HAD BEEN DISCOVERED, PATROL LEFT
A FORMER HONDURAN SOLDIER WHO RECENTLY TOLD A CLOSE CONFIDANT
E = : HE HAD PARTICIPATED IN A PATROL LED BY
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FATHER CARNEY'S REMAINS. WHEN THE PATROL ARRIVED, ORDERED THE
BODY TO BE BURIED AT THE SITE, WHICH WAS DONE. TH ER SOLDIER
SAID THAT E WAS IN OIlAj H PROVINCE ON CONGOLON MOUNTAIN.
T PATROL PROBABLY WAS ORGANIZED
kshuAubs L_ WANTED TO CONFIRM THE RADIO
REPORT THAT FATHER CARNEY'S BODY HAD BEEN FOUND.)
AS FAR AS CAN BE DETERMINED FROM MAPS OF THE AREA, NONE OF
THE PEAKS IN THE "CORDILLERA ENTRE RIOS" IN OLANCHO PROVINCE HAVE
NAMES. ACCORDING TO A 1983 EDITION OF THE GAZETTEER OF HONDURAS, THE
ONLY CONGOLON MOUNTAIN IN HONDURAS IS AT 14 09 N/88 28 W IN LEMPIRA
PROVINCE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE BORDER WITH EL SALVADOR.)
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