CONGRESSMAN WARNS EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000504830020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
2 ,TUNE 1982
Congressman` Warns El Salvador
By JAMES FERON, . ' ..:'y? '
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OSSINING, N-Y., June 1 _ Repro.
sentative Peter A. Peyser said today
that economie:and military assistance
to El Salvador should be withheld until
there was a "satisfactory conclusion".
'to that country's investigation Into the
murders of four American dnuch-
women there in December 1980.
Mr. Peyser, a Westchester Demo-
crat, said after a meeting at the Mary-
knoll Sisters. Center that "requests by
Congress. for information are evaded"
.by the state Department, the Federal
.Bureau of Investigation and the Central
'IntelligenceAgency: "At no level are
wegettingtbe story,"hesaid.
` The House Foreign Affairs Commit-
lies have. had an enormously difficult
time getttin information: We've had to
resort to the Freedom of Information
Act, ?and the C.I.A. wants -proof that.
they are deid"T'can't understand why'.
our Government won't help us find ovt ?~
who orches`tra'ted this
istration proposal to iatrease military ` :'We are,beutg asked to believe that
aid to El Salvador from $25 million to the fiye,who ere airnted were .t ' be
$60 miliiom, Mr Peyser said, -''bnt it - ? .. hasn't. reached the . flow,ofthe House; said, aad.t6at:Pve should xoldopc~
, and disapeac." of
yet."
.. valor's ,arme were
fendthwill, at s can tie a resohrtloaa of-
` and accused of the shootings a As
year
less there is s satisfactory resolution of. but one bas since been released. A judge
this issue." he re is considering whether todismiss.the
" a can for lack-of evidence or call a prey
'C.I.A. Warns Proof'. fig, _
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van of the Office of Social Concert of rr
wpending
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