SALVADOR GUARD 'INVESTIGATED' REP. MILLER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130121-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: February 28, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Si Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/21: CIA-RDP90
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ARTICLE APPEAM
ON PACE WASHINGTON POST
28 February 1984
Salvador Guard
`Investigated'
Rep. Miller
American policies. He made no se- ~
cret of his viewl during a fact-fmd- did the embassy get -
ing trip to El Salvador in April, The concern was compounded by
1982. At a U.S. Embassy function,
he made, critical remarks a report that the California c o gress-
abo
t th
u
e man was
right-wing elements in El Salvador. Planning to visit El Sal;
vador again. A cable was sent to
Among Miller'
li
s
steners were
Iutellieence sources are worried some associates of Roberto D'AU_ warn him not to make the trip, add?.
that right-wing death squads. which bbui son, a cashiered army major who mff mnowl'A embary y ~diso6v
have stained ns va or with president of er;d that a D D Aubetired n crop d just been blood of olitical 0 2ienta 'rose the constituent Suvii~'laga, + r traveled etire to d San Col, FranRamai
assembly and is now -
cisco'
export their vio ence to the ni a candidate for ,?
president In nett to' '
States. 111011th 's election. uroestigate Miller" shortly after
Former U.S. the congressman's visit in A
Under pressure from President . ambassador Robert .1982. Reagan, the Salvadoran ,governmment 80 h a "pathological characterized D'Aubuis.' As it happened, Miller
has started th tv the over government pathological killer" with was on his way to El Salvador. He"
ers.
rious death-squad lead At least close ? Salvadoran .death was shown the warning of the alleged leaders has turned personal body. Er warning at
tn he . 9 .
guard is Col. Ramon S ~B i agents CM le hen. 9;:
up in San Jose, Calif. He is Lt. Col. Not long 1983. FBI agents told Miller he }~.
i in Ss. Alfonso I ong after Rep. Miler left El "reason to be concerned," so he can-
Ares who had Salvador, Suvillaga dropped by the celed his trip..
been director of intelligencefor the U.S. Embassy to seek information on
national police. Miller. Accord The idea of being~_~staIked ..by j.
This l
s made one California con- amined b coing to the report ex- Salvadoran gunman, with all
by y associates Dale Van : death'
gressinan nervous. Last year, Rep. Atta and Jon Lee Anderson, Suvil- who d m d t n
George Miller (D-Calif.) learned that lap was "remembered as- being from the State De
a gunman, linked by the U.S. Em. present during an ' reception, quest Perlm2a, Thg re..
Y to the Salvadoran death was stalled until colleagues..
as Roberto D'Aubuisson'e private joined in the demand.
squads, had gone to San Francisco in yguar'd?" Even then, the State
1982, according to a State Depart. Because of the man's ties to'D'Au._ Professed to be unable anti
"s i the
meat report, to "investigate" Miller. bursson, his request for information most basic details of S 's supply
The embassy got word that the on Miller was referred to the embas- els to this country. But '-
gunman was interested in sys Po litical section, which Rtme;
Miller the congressman's Washington povid the House sergeant-at-arms, recorded'.
"personally." This evidently is a ~~ office adand eyed that Suvillaga's last recorded':
chilling word in the Salvadoran en- the following Not unto . "entry into the United States has.'
vironment. - - - .: , ~8 December, when an been Aprd .2, 1980. There was no-
A4iller is an outspoken critic of the embassy official learned through a official record found that he had le?:
chance social encounter that. Suvil- gaily visited the United States ih.
Reagan administration's Central lap was interested
Miller "Per- 1982,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130121-6