AMBASSADOR HINTON IS LEAVING EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404560013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEWSWEEK
28 MARCH 1983
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Ambassador Hinton Is Leaving El Salvador
U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton will leave his post
sometime this year, according to senior Reagan administration
officials. Hinton, 60, is said to be exhausted after nearly two years of. .?
wrestling with the El Salvador crisis. The blunt, burly ambassador
-has been especially exasperated by the country's dubious judicial
system. One candidate to succeed Hinton is Ambassador to Hondu-
ras John Negroponte. But Negroponte, who was posted to Vietnam
and has been associated with covert operations against Nicaragua,
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