EL SALVADOR/CIA)BROKAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301410017-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 24, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP88-01070R000301410017-3
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
24 October 1984
-EL SALVADOR/CIA>BROKAW: Another aircraft crashed in El Salvador last <
>PLANE CRASH>Friday, killing all four men aboard, and all four of them
were working for the American CIA. They were killed in
the line of duty, but Fred Francis reports tonight, they
have not been treated like heroes.
FRANCIS: The CIA, tried to hide their mission, their names
and the way they died, but three of the four are no longer
anonymous victims of the administration's involvement in
Central America. The bells of this Cudahy, Wis., church
tolled yesterday for 28-year-old Scott Van *Leishout, a
three-year employee of the CIA. Van Leishout, a mapping
specialist, did not die in a Miami car crash, as his
family was told to say. He perished early last Friday
with three others when a plane slammed into the side of a
Salvadoran volcano. Fifty-three-year-old Richard *Spicer
was also buried yesterday in Warren, Pa. He was a veteran
pilot on contract to the CIA. He did not die in south
Florida, as his wife reported. And Curtis Wood, a former
Air Force physicist, who told friends he was now doing
something exciting, was interred yesterday by his wife and
.son outside Atlanta. It's believed they hit the volcano
while tracking a small plane carrying arms to Salvadoran
guerrillas. The CIA plane carried special radar and
infrared gear which should have prevented the accident.
They were the first known CIA men to die in the region,
and one intelligence source complained 'today that they
weren't getting the honor they deserved. He said, 'The
cover-up wasn't necessary. They were just regular guys
who died serving their country.' Fred Francis, NBC News,
the Pentagon.
Approved For Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP88-01070R000301410017-3