WHITE RETRACTS SALVA DEATH SQUADS CHARGE

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• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 22, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ROBERT WHITE
Faces $ IOM lawsuit.
By NILES LATHEM. fairs by admitting an White reportedly helped
Bureau Chief error was made in an ear- organize a group of
WASHINGTON - Hours Her report for the US. Democratic congressional
after being hit with a $10 Embassy. aides and businessmen,
million libel suit, Amer- White is a key figure in who paid a senior Salve:
ica's former ambassador - mobilizing Democratic- doran military official
to El Salvador took back -opposition to the Reagan - $50,00o to incriminate Sal..
his charge that a Salvado- 'administration's contin- vadoran officials. -
ran businessman - funded - ued military support of El The military man .-ac-
government-sponsored Salvador. -cused senior government-
-,death squads. .. Republicans charge he officials of orchestrating
. Last night's astonishing is' part of a well-orches- right-wing death squad
bert White .stunned tlie- -
Senate Subcommittee on
Western Hemisphere Af-
trated campaign to link activity.
leading Salvadoran presi- The link between dAu-
dential candidate Roberto buisson and death-squad
d'Aubuisson to right-wing activity is a crucial argu.
death squads. ment beine. used _bv con-
- --- - gressmen w o oppose
Reagan's request for $99
million' in emergency
military aid request for '
El Salvador.
Last month, in a series
of public appearences be-
fore Congress and - the
press, White named six
Salvadoran - businesmen
he said funded - - and
planned death squad ac:' I
tivity from MiamL- -
He claimed they" gave
their orders directly.. to
d'Aubuissoa
But one of the men, iden-
tiled as Arturo Muy-
shoudt, filed a $20 million
lawsuit against White_-
accusing him of -four
counts of libel and slan-
Later that day. White
appeared before the Sen-
ate subcommittee's hear-
ings on aid request.
At the conclusion of hls
testimony, White read out
a hastily prepared state-
ment, saying: - . .
"As a result of inquiries
I've made, I would like to
take the first opportunity
to say that It appears this
source may have been in
error." =
Leonard's partner. Dan i
McGuan - who. is also
working on the libel case"
- told The Post that his
client does not live in
MiamL
McGuan said his client.
who lives in 'El Salvador.
will not drop the law suit
despite White's retraction.
ARTICLE A.P?EARED NEW YORK POST
ON' PAGE / 22 March 1984
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