ASSASSINATION OF SALVADORAN POLITICAL PRISONERS BY THE SALVADORAN NATIONAL GUARD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06937681
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2019-01927
• Publication Date: January 23, 1979

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EXCLUSIVE DISSEMINATION TO ADDRESSEES LISTED IN FINAL PARAGRAPH
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I. IN 'NOVEMBER 197S, GENERAL ALFREDO ALVARENG A, wHO WAS
THEN DIRECTOR GENERAL OP THE SALVADORAN NATIONAL GUARD, ORDERED THE
ASSASSINATION OP Mt FOLLOWING SALVADORAN POLITICAL PRISONERS: EFRAIN
AREVALO /BRA, mANUTI ALBERTO 4IVER A, AND CARLOS ANTONIO
MADRI: MART/IZEI.. MY WERE KILLED BY LIEUTENANT JOSE ANTONIO
rasir/Lte OP THE SAT/ONAL GUARD AND BY SERGEANT NIGUEL ANTONIO
R A 111 I R E 2 /41E3ICAMS. POLLOWING WEIR MONS, IME BODIES OF THESE
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AND MIGUEL RAMIREZ. TA:MDT OF MACRO RAMIREZ HUEZO WAS THEN
BURNED AT AN UND/SCLOSEliSITE.
3. COMMENT: THE AWSSINATIONS WERE PROMPTED BY ALVARENGA'S
DESIRE TO REMOVE ANY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE PRIOR TO HIS BEING RELIEVED
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OF COMMAND, WHICH TOOK fileCE ON.AWANUARY 1979.) COMMENT: (b)(3)
APPARENTLY, THE POUR IiifilIDUALS WERE HELD AND LATER KILLED AT THE
'DISCRETION OP ALVARENGA WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT OF OTHER ELEMENTS
WITHIN THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ALVARENGA, WHO HAD
ORIGINALLY-DEN/ED-HOLDING THESE- PERSONS-IN-CUSTODYy-WAS-LATER AFRAID-TO
REVERSE HIMSELF WHEN THEIR PROLONGED DISAPPEARANCE BECAME AN IMPORTANT
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(FARN/AN), TERRORIST teams') THE RELEASE OF LIL RAMIREZ AND
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