SALVADOR POLICE CHIEF DENIES HE GOT C.I.A. FUNDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 23, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TENS
23 I' arch 1984
Salvador Police C/iiefDenies He Got .. Funds
Spedal to The New Yoft Timm
SAN SALVADOR, March 22'- The
bead of El Salvador's' Treasury police
denied today that he had ever received
money as an informant from the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
The Treasury police chief, Col.
Nicolas Carranza, was responding to
an article in The New York Times
today that quoted American officials as
saying he bad' received $90,000 a year
for the last five or six years.
"I've never accepted money from
the C.I.A.," Colonel Carranza said in a
brief news conference at the Treasury
Police headquarters here. "I've had no
relations with anyone.from the C.I.A."
Information linking Colonel Car-
ranza with the C.I.A. was initially pro-
vided to news organizations by a for-
mer Salvadoran official who also ac-
cased leading Salvadoran officials and
civilians of involvement in death squad
activities. The information about Colo-
group of critics of Reagan Administra-
tion Policy in Latin America if he would STAT
speak out. The former official has al-
ready received $29,500 of the $50,000,1
which was promised as a "security
net to support him and move his
family from El Salvador.
The 51-year-old Colonel Carranza
knowledge of intelligence operations in s m 'r squaa activity in an article in
bquads
former Salvadoran official who had as 1 > ~. `a"' "i "gym
cured him of involvement with the 1 He was said by the former Salvado.
C.I.A. and with the death squads was ran military official to have helped
Roberto Eulalio Santibai ez, a formers shape the death squads in late 1979 with
Salvadoran Army colonel. . the assistance' of Jose Guillermo
But at another news conference Garcia, the former Minister of De-
today, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right- fence, and to have taken part in the
ist candidate for President in the elel; selecton of some of their victims.
tions Sunday, said, "I don't believe-it - The American officals,who identi- ~
was Colonel Santibanez." fled Colonel Carranza as a C.I.A. in-
At his news conference today, Colo- formant said it was common practice
nel Carranza also denied .that he was for the C.I.A. ;to recruit
and pay senior
He said his accuser had "50,000 good ' The officials added that many in-
reasons" for making the accusations formants were involved in activities
against him. This was an allusion to the 1 which thY C.I.A. did not necessarily
fact that the former official who act support or condone:
cased him was promised $50,000 by a! - The Treasury police, which Colonel
Carranza took over as commander last
year, have long been known as one of
the most brutal organizations among
the Salvadoran security forces.
State Department officials have said
'that the conduct of the Treasury police
improved since Colonel Cart-anza
J,hadk command, but that they were still
ponsible for many human . rights
,c
! deathsquads. provide uuormation.
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