WITNESS SAYS CIA PAID SALVADORAN OFFICIAL LINKED TO DEATH SQUADS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 21, 1984
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
21 March 1984
WASHD GTON
WITNESS SAYS CIA PAID SALVADORAN OFFICIAL LINKED TO DEATH SQUADS
STAT
The head of a Salvadoran police force linked to rightist death squads was on
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency payroll for several years, according
to an unnamed El Salvador official interviewed Wednesday by CBS.
Nicolas Carranza, chief of the El Salvador Treasury Police, received payments
from the CIA for "five or six years," the official said.
He said right-wing Salvadoran presidential candidate Roberto D'Aubuisson was
in charge of the death squads and that D'Aubuisson personally ordered murders.
But he said D'Aubuisson took orders from Carranza.
A U.S. government official, speaking on condition>.he would not be identifed,
told The Associated ate but there was no furthe r
con irmation. The CIA refused to confirm jr deny that Carranza was on its
payro , aao.
shadows and spoke through an interpreter. When asked if the CIA had knowledg
of any specific murders in El Salvador, he said, "No, I don't think so."
Carranza was not in his office in San Salvador, and could not be reached by
telephone, despite several calls placed to him by The Associated Press.
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