Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Yes

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a,0,3704648.story

When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty.

Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes and yes.

Originally published June 11, 1995


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The search for Nelson Mackay Chavarria - family man, government lawyer, possible subversive - began one Sunday in 1982 after he devoured a pancake breakfast and stepped out to buy a newspaper.

It ended last December when his wife, Amelia, watched as forensic scientists plucked his moldering bones from a pit in rural Honduras. Spotting a scrap of the red-and-blue shirt her husband was wearing the day he disappeared, she gasped: "Oh my God, that's him!"

Along with Amelia Mackay, the nation of Honduras has begun to confront a truth it has long suspected - that hundreds of its citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in the 1980s by a secret army unit trained and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The intelligence unit, known as Battalion 316, used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves.

Newly declassified documents and other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous crimes, including murder and torture, committed by Battalion 316, yet continued to collaborate closely with its leaders. snip

By the end of 1981, the Reagan administration had replaced Ambassador Binns with John Dimitri Negroponte, a man viewed as committed to the administration's decision to confront communism in Latin America.

[bullimiami]

1. there is no statute of limitations of murder and crimes against humanity.

[lyonn]

2. Too bad these people are probably breeders

Referring to the Negropontes of the world. That crowd is running this country now and it shows, death and distruction follows them. They seem to have no concept of right and wrong. What was accomplished by those tactics - trying to control much of South and Central America. Now they are applying those theories to the Middle East. It didn't work then and isn't working now.

[JNelson6563]

3. It seems an unending tale of horror

that is the US's history in screwing with other countries.

Julie