La Jornada: The CIA and the FBI knew of the plans to kill Ellacuria

(EN ESPAÑOL AQUI)

Madrid. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) knew about the plans of the Salvadoran army’s high command to assassinate the Jesuits of the Central American University (UCA), especially Ignacio Ellacuría, who had been placed on the list of men to be eliminated, explained the expert Terry Karl, who analyzed and verified thousands of declassified documents in recent decades.

All that information went through the United States embassy in El Salvador, despite that, it did nothing to prevent it.

In the trial that takes place in the National Court of Spain to clarify the murder of six Jesuit priests and two domestic workers, on November 16, 1989, Karl testified as an expert witness, one of the biggest experts in the field.

Karl, whose work was crucial to clarify the murder of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, in 1980, confirmed that both the CIA, the State Department and the FBI knew that the high command of the army had placed Ellacuría as a priority objective to eliminate, since they were convinced that he was part of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN).

She pointed to Humberto Larios, then Minister of Defense; Juan Orlando Zepeda, colonel and vice minister of Defense; Inocente Orlando Montano, colonel and vice minister of Public Security and the only accused who is present in the room, and of course the Atlacalt battalion, in charge of executing the murders and led by Colonel (Guillermo) Alfredo Benavides.

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