JORGE ALBERTO ROSAL PAZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R001602510002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 20, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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September 20, 1985
President Ronald Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Re: Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz
Respectfully, I am writing you about the atrocities which my country is
suffering, and especially about my husband, Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz, who
was captured illegally and then "disappeared" on August 12, 1983. This
cruel and brutal act occurred near the Soldier Monument in the village
called "Casas De Pinto" in the Rio Hondo Municipality of Zacapa Province.
This is about 75 miles northeast of Guatemala City. I have let the world
know about his disappearance in the hope that they would interceed to keep
my husband alive and set him free.
There are several facts which I would like to call to your attention about
my husband's disappearance:
1. Three peasants saw how my husband's jeep was intercepted by six
heavily armed men about 5:30 p.m. in the place mentioned above.
2. A person, who works for the G-2 (Arm Forces Intelligence Service),
informed me that he saw my husband in the Zacapa Military Base a
few days after his disappearance. My attempts to enter the base
jails were futile.
3. In October 1983, Dr. Antonio Garcia Borrajo, Vice-president of the
International Federation of Human Rights went to Guatemala to
investigate the whereabouts of several "disappeared," one of which
was my husband. He had several interviews with military authorities
including the Chief of State, General Oscar Mejia Victores. 1 During
one of these interviews Lt. Coronel D'Jalma Dominguez mentioned
the most likely persons to have taken part in my husband's capture..
o Alfonzo Ortiz, a butcher from Teculutan, who asked Lt. Coronal
D'Jalma about making my husband disappear because of personal
reasons.
o Captain Alfredo Muy Lopez, Armed Forces Information Chief in the
No. 7 Military Base of Zacapa, who could have organized my husband's
violent and illegal abduction.
o General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes, Armed Forces Chief of Staff,
who may have advised Alfonzo Ortiz to contact Captain Muy Lopez.
In addition, Dr. Garcia Barrajo personally talked to Senator Kennedy.About
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my husband
s disappearance.
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President Ronald Reagan -2-
4. It should be noted that the Chief of State, Mejia Victores, and other
high government officials did not undertake any investigation in spite
of thousands of petitions made by me, his parents, world-wide human
rights organizations, church groups and university authorities, __
I have lived during the last two years in despair.-knowing that my husband has
"disappeared" in a country where such violent acts are part of daily life and
not knowing if my husband was assassinated or if he is still alive.
Recently, I received new from a creditable source that my 'husband, Jorge Alberto,
was seen with other "disappeared" in the basement of the National Police Head-
quarters. For this reason, we must urgently renew our efforts to rescue my
husband alive. He has the right to know his two little children, who don't
even know him.
Additionally, I want you to know that I am a member of the'Mutual Support Group
(GAM), the only Human Rights Organization in Guatemala, whose members valiantly
work for the reappearance of their loved ones.
For security reasons I fled Guatemala, because I was the object of death threats.
The military spied on me everyday. I received threats, and they knew what I
wore and where I went at all times. They had my photograph in every military
base of each department (Province). All this happened after the assassination
of Hector Orlando Gomez Calito and Rosario Godoy de Cuevas, both of whom were
active members of GAM.
Please consider stopping financial and military aid to Guatemala. This is
the only manner in which the military government will stop atrocities. Please
intercede on my behalf and the Guatemalan Government to free my husband,
Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz.
Sincerely,
c: George P. Shultz, Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, Secretary of Treasury
Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
Edwin Meese III, Attorney General
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior
John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture
Malcolm Baldridge, Secretary of Commerce
William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor
Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health
Samuel Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing
Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of Transportation
John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy
William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education
Donald T. Regan, Chief of Staff
1David A Stockman, Director of Management
William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence
William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education
All members of the House of Representatives
All members of the Senate
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