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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 02:33:38 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WILLIAM WALKER AND THE JESUIT MASSACRE COVER-UP > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > as part of the mailing list that you joined. > List: emperorsclothes > URL: http://www.emperors-clothes.com > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > URL for this article: http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/sixty.htm > > Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive > about one article/day. > > This article may be reproduced in any non-commercial medium but > please include the entire text and the URL. For commercial use > contact Emperor's Clothes. > > www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] > > ======================================= > WILLIAM WALKER AND THE JESUIT MASSACRE COVER-UP > by John Flaherty and Jared Israel > Includes full text of 60 Minutes TV expos. > [Posted 22 March 2002] > ======================================= > > In coming days, officials from the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) > are scheduled to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. The chief of the > KVM was one William Walker, the man who sold the world the story of > the Racak so-called massacre, used to create a climate to justify the > bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. > > We are preparing a piece which examines Walker's role as Assistant > Under-Secretary of State for Central American Affairs from 1985 to > 1988, including the Iran-Contra scandal, Ambassador to El Salvador > from 1988 to 1992 and UN administrator for Eastern Slavonia from 1997 > to 1998. While this article is in preparation, we wished to make > available to you the transcript of a Sixty Minutes program, posted > below. It aired in 1993. It exposed William Walker's role in > suppressing the investigation into the infamous death squad killings > of Jesuits in El Salvador and in deceiving, or trying to deceive, the > public about the Salvadoran Army's role in this terrible crime. > > Walker's effectiveness in Yugoslavia - especially his ability to > "sell" the Racak massacre - depended on his credibility as an honest > diplomat. A public figure's credibility is - or should be - based on > the historical record. Clearly, if the gangster Al Capone tells us > somebody is a crook, we're going to take it with a grain of salt. > > Given what he had done to Central America it is therefore remarkable > that William Walker had any credibility at all. It is especially > remarkable that two groups were silent when Walker was made UN chief > in Eastern Slavonia and when he was lauded as an honest broker - a > humanitarian! - in Kosovo. > > The two silent groups were: Leftists and the Catholic Church. > > When Bill Clinton tried to make Walker Ambassador to Panama, in 1993, > the Catholic Church in Panama and local political activists reacted > loud and fast. For example: > > "The Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church today rejected the > designation of William Walker as U.S. Ambassador to Panama, based on > his alleged complicity in the November 1989 assassination of five > Jesuit priests in El Salvador.... > > "[Father] Valdes pointed out that Walker was U.S. ambassador in El > Salvador when a U.S. trained battalion murdered the five [should be > six -ed.] priests, as well as their housekeeper and her daughter. > > "'The Jesuit order at the time denounced the complicity of the U.S. > Embassy (headed by Walker) in the case, for concealing evidence, > obstructing the investigation, pressuring judges to impede the trial > process, and terrorizing witnesses,' Valdes said." - "PANAMA: JESUITS > OPPOSE U.S. AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE," Inter Press Service June 28, 1993, > Monday > > And: > > "Jesuit priest Fernando Guardia said, also today, that Walker was 'a > symbol of the destruction of life' while he was ambassador in El > Salvador." - "PANAMA: JESUITS, RIGHTS GROUPS OPPOSE U.S. AMBASSADOR > DESIGNATE," Inter Press Service, July 22, 1993 > > But when Clinton sent Walker to Slovenia, nobody uttered a peep. > > BACKGROUND ON THE JESUIT MURDERS > > In case you're unfamiliar with what happened in El Salvador, here's a > very brief rundown. El Salvador was torn by what appeared to be civil > war during the 1980s. But it was an odd civil war. The government > side got billions of dollars in US 'aid.' During the decade, death > squads run by the US-sponsored Salvadoran Army killed literally > thousands of political opponents, trade unionists, peasant leaders, > outspoken journalists, school teachers, ordinary peasant farmers and > townspeople who happened to be in the wrong place or from the wrong > class and perhaps best known to the world, Salvadoran and US Catholic > church activists and officials, including the assassination of > Archbishop Oscar Romero in March 1980. > > It was while Walker was US Ambassador that six Jesuit priests, their > cook and her daughter were brutally slain by a Salvadoran Army death > squad. > > In the transcript below, a Salvadoran officer comments that the > murderers would never have acted without approval from top army > officers. But as we shall demonstrate in the article on Walker that > is in preparation, the approval of top military officials was not > enough. The murdered men were not communists. They were Catholic > "liberation theologists." And they had power: > > "Among those killed were the rector of the Jesuit-run University of > Central America, Rev. Ignacio Ellacuria, and the vice rector, Rev. > Ignacio Martin-Baro. Both were leading leftist intellectuals and > prominent critics of army human rights abuses and both had been > targets of death threats broadcast in recent days on state radio." > --Boston Globe Nov. 17, 1989 > > Death threats broadcast on state radio! > > The government military publicly broadcast its intention of killing > these men days before the actual murders took place. > > It is inconceivable they would have done so if they had the least > fear they would be slapped down by the US command, which not only > paid the Salvadoran military's bills, but which also had US > 'advisers' throughout the military. > > William Walker knew, and the those who sent the killers knew he knew, > and most important of all, they knew he would help them cover-up > these crimes. > > It's all in the transcript, below. > > -- Jared Israel > > THE JESUIT MURDERS > > Transcript of 60 MINUTES * March 21, 1993 > > LESLEY STAHL: Following our story last week about the massacre at El > Mozote, the United Nations this week reported to its members what we > had reported, that despite United States government denials at the > time, 11 years ago soldiers of the Salvadoran army--trained and armed > by the United States--wiped out the village of El Mozote, killing > entire families they suspected of being guerrilla sympathizers. > > That United Nations report also confirmed something Ed Bradley > reported three years ago; that officers high up in the US-backed > army, and not left-wing guerrillas, had had a hand in murdering six > Jesuit priests they suspected of being the brains behind the > guerrillas. > > ED BRADLEY: Jesuit Priest Fermain Scines was on the campus the night > of the murders and might well have been killed with the others. He > says it was obvious from the beginning it was the work of the > Salvadoran army, not of the guerrillas. > > Father FERMAIN SCINES (Jesuit Priest): There was soldiers here. There > was soldiers there. Was soldiers...everybody saw them. > > BRADLEY: And they didn't come in and they were out in a few minutes? > > Father SCINES: They came at about 12:00. > > BRADLEY: And they were here for at least two hours? > > Father SCINES: And they were leaving at 2:45 AM. > > BRADLEY: Almost three hours? > > Father SCINES: Almost three hours, making tremendous noise. They were > smoking; they were talking; they were walking. The ones who killed > them...after doing the job, they went there...three meters from there > and he took a beer. > > BRADLEY: Father Scines has spoken to a number of witnesses. > > Father SCINES: There is tremendous evidence. > > BRADLEY: But only one, the Jesuits' housekeeper Lucia Serena, had the > courage to come forward with eyewitness testimony linking the army, > not the guerrillas, to the crime. From this window, she could see > five men in army uniforms carrying rifles and wearing military caps. > > No doubt in your mind what you saw that night? > > Mrs. LUCIA SERENA (Cook): (Through Interpreter) No doubt whatsoever, > none. > > BRADLEY: Lucia Serena did not actually see the murders, but the > Jesuits fear that the very fact that she could place soldiers at the > scene of the crime puts her life in grave danger. So they arranged to > get Lucia and her family out of the country. > > William Walker is the US ambassador to El Salvador. > > Ambassador WILLIAM WALKER (US Ambassador to El Salvador): Mrs. Serena > was taken to the United States to get her out of what was an > incredibly tense and frightening situation here, where she obviously > feared for her safety; to get her to a place of safety, where she > would be calm. > > BRADLEY: But she says she was anything but calm when questioned at > FBI headquarters in Miami, where for four days, according to Lucia > Serena, the FBI asked her the same questions over and over. She was > also questioned by Colonel Manuel Rivas, the Salvadoran officer in > charge of the murder investigation. > > Mrs. SERENA: He was very arrogant and very harsh. Instead of > concerning himself with investigating the case, he investigated us. > > BRADLEY: She says they pressed her about family members still living > in El Salvador. > > Mrs. SERENA: How many brothers did I have? What are their names? > Where do they live? It frightened me. Maybe they'll kill my brothers. > > > BRADLEY: She says an FBI agent asked her about one of the Jesuits who > hadn't been killed. > > Mrs. SERENA: He opened the door, but like this--BAM! Like, he slammed > it. He turned around and said, 'That priest--is he a guerrilla or > isn't he?' I was very scared. > > BRADLEY: So scared that after a few days, she decided to tell her > interrogators she hadn't seen anything at all. > > These were not questions given to a cooperative witness, these are > questions that are to go after a suspect. > > Ambassador WALKER: Well, that's not true. That is just not true. It > might be a perception that she received because of her emotional > state. Perfectly understandable. They were trying to determine from a > person who said she was at the scene and had heard and seen things, > how much she knew. > > Father JOSEPH O'HARE (President, Fordham University): I find it very > disturbing that not only the Salvadoran military, but our own embassy > in San Salvador seemed anxious to discredit her testimony, which, as > a matter of fact, was confirmed by the Salvadoran government itself > as events developed. > > BRADLEY: Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University, and > Father Donald Monan, president of Boston College, were recently in El > Salvador investigating the murder of their brother Jesuits. > > You say that Ambassador Walker discredited her testimony. How did he > discredit her testimony? > > Father DONALD MONAN (President, Boston College): He announced in El > Salvador that her testimony was not credible. > > Father O'HARE: That there were inconsistencies in it. > > BRADLEY: There were inconsistencies. She changed her story. > > Father O'HARE: Yeah, after several days of intensive pressure in > a--imagine. Put yourself in the situation of a simple woman in a > foreign land, not knowing the language, being threatened with > deportation back to El Salvador, isolated from those who could be > supportive of her. I think that it's quite understandable that she > would change her testimony under that kind of pressure. > > Mrs. SERENA: I want to make one thing very clear. I saw the men. I > saw the men. > > BRADLEY: Just how effective was the American Embassy at getting to > the bottom of the Jesuit case? Six weeks after the murders, an > American major said he was tipped off by a Salvadoran army officer > that a high-ranking colonel in the army of El Salvador had admitted > being involved in the murder. The embassy turned right around and not > only gave the name of the colonel to the Salvadoran high command, it > also told them who the informant was. > > Mr. SIGGEFRAIDO OCHELLO (Former Colonel, Salvadoran Army): The > American officer put the informant in a very difficult situation; so > dangerous he could have been killed. > > BRADLEY: Former Colonel Siggefraido Ochello was once a top commander > in the Salvadoran army. He's now a leader of the ruling right wing > Arena Party. > > Mr. OCHELLO: If you burn somebody, then other people who could > provide even more information clam up because they'll be burned, too. > A lot of them say: I don't know anything. They just shut up. What > this American officer did was to throw the informant into the lion's > den so they could tear him apart. > > BRADLEY: No thought was given to saying: Let's protect this guy's > name for the time being? Let's say here is the information, we want > to protect the source of that. > > Ambassador WALKER: Unlike the old newspaper men who feel they'd > rather die than reveal the source, we're not in that same game. We > were talking with the people who were trying to solve the case, on > whom a lot of pressure was to solve the case. > > Father MONAN: If we are ever going to get to the people who authored > the crime, even though they didn't pull the triggers, we're going to > have to have the informants come forward to talk about what they > know. And in this case, the only two people we know who came forward > both came to the United States and both suffered the consequences of > having provided their information. That discouragement of people to > come forward with information, I think, is fundamental to this case. > > BRADLEY: The man the informant fingered was Colonel Guillermo > Benovides, the head of the military academy, the West Point of El > Salvador. He was arrested one week after they were given his name by > the Americans. Seven men under his command were also arrested. > > Ambassador WALKER: I would argue that if, in fact, a colonel is > proved to be responsible for this and he is punished to the full > extent of the law, that will be a signal to other colonels, that will > be a signal to other people that this sort of behavior is not going > to be tolerated anymore in El Salvador. And I think that's a step > forward. > > Congressman GEORGE MILLER (Representative, California): Not at all. > Not at all. > > BRADLEY: California Congressman George Miller is a member of a > congressional task force investigating the Jesuit murders. > > Congressman MILLER: This is an effort to sort of keep throwing people > off the back of the truck to see whether you can get the posse to > quit pursuing you. > > Ambassador WALKER: I have seen no indication that President > Christiani, the people that are investigating this, the people who > are pushing to solve the mystery are hesitant to go to any level of > the government, to any level of the armed forces. They have gone so > far to a colonel. As we talked about earlier, this is historic. > > Congressman MILLER: What does the ambassador want us to do, give the > system a medal? This is a system that we've poured $ 5 billion into > that just slaughtered and murdered people with impunity. And now > we're supposed to shout: Hallelujah, they got a colonel? > > BRADLEY: They may not even have that. It seems that the evidence > against Colonel Benevides--testimony from three lieutenants that he > ordered the Jesuit murders--can't be used in court because it comes > from co-conspirators. President Christiani admitted that it's > doubtful Benevides can be convicted. Nonetheless, Ambassador Walker > says he believes the investigation has gone well. > > Ambassador WALKER: Even in the United States, sensational crimes are > not usually solved in a day or two. It takes time. It takes hard > police work. I am saying all the indications that we have are that > the people responsible for solving the crime have been working very > diligently, very professionally and have, in fact, solved it. > > BRADLEY: They've done ballistics tests. They've done fingerprints. > They have confessions. They've identified the killers. Doesn't that > satisfy you? > > Father O'HARE: The real issue is not whether these enlisted men who > did the shooting are identified and convicted, but whether those who > instructed them and made the decision to give the orders--that is > where the true guilt lies, I think. > > BRADLEY: The Jesuits believe the decision to kill the priests goes > much higher than Benevides. So does former Colonel Ochello. > > Is it conceivable that Colonel Benevides decided on his own to murder > the Jesuits? > > Mr. OCHELLO: No, I don't think so. Knowing him, he's a man who could > never take or even conceive of making a move as big as assassinating > the Jesuits. Benevides acted under orders. He didn't act alone. > > BRADLEY: Some in the army have said that Benevides misunderstood an > order and perhaps broke under the pressure. Isn't that possible? > > Mr. OCHELLO: Definitely not. I think this was all planned beforehand. > > > BRADLEY: You are saying that you don't believe that Colonel Benevides > acted alone, correct? > > Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct. > > BRADLEY: He had help from other senior officers in the Salvadoran > military? > > Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct. > > BRADLEY: And they planned the murder of the Jesuits? > > Mr. OCHELLO: I believe, yes. > > BRADLEY: Remember, few people know more about the inner workings of > the Salvadoran army than former Colonel Ochello, who was regarded as > one of the army's top field commanders. Why was the military after > the Jesuits? Many army commanders believed for years the Jesuits were > the brains behind the guerrillas. They denied that. The murdered > Jesuits said all they wanted was social justice for the people of El > Salvador. One of those Jesuits, Father Ignacio Martin Barro, spoke > with CBS News several months before he was killed. > > Father IGNACIO MARTIN BARRO (Assassinated Jesuit): Listen, the > problem of this country is not the problem of communism or > capitalism. The problems of this country are problems of very basic > wealth distribution, of very basic needs. But, when, in this country, > you ask for the satisfaction of those needs, you become a subversive. > > > BRADLEY: Father Martin Barro and the five other Jesuits were murdered > during the guerrilla offensive in San Salvador last November. At the > height of the offensive, several hours before the Jesuits were shot, > the top commanders met in military headquarters. Colonel Ochello > wasn't at that meeting, but he believes he knows what happened next. > > Mr. OCHELLO: A group of commanders stayed behind. It seems that each > was responsible for a zone in San Salvador. They gave an order to > kill leftists, just as Colonel Benevides did. I'll say it again: > Benevides obeyed. It wasn't his decision. > > BRADLEY: And yet, the Salvadoran officer in charge of the > investigation, Colonel Rivas, is no longer actively investigating the > case. Publicly at least, the American Embassy is not complaining, > even though top commanders who could have ordered Benevides to kill > the Jesuits have never been investigated. For instance, there's > Colonel Juan Orlandos Sapedas, the number two man in the army of El > Salvador. Just five months before the murder of the Jesuits, > according to a State Department document, Sapedas complained that the > Jesuits at the Catholic university were planning guerrilla strategy. > According to that same State Department document, Sapedas probably > was one of the officers to whom Benevides reported. > > We were not permitted to interview Colonel Sapedas. Instead we spoke > with Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, the army chief of staff. > > Sapedas has not been questioned. He is on the record as saying > they're planning guerrilla strategy. Doesn't it make sense to > question him formally, to submit him to a polygraph? > > Colonel RENE EMILIO PONCE (Chief Of Staff, Salvadoran Army): That's > not for the military to decide. That's in the hands of the judicial > system. > > BRADLEY: I know you don't make the decisions. Do you have an opinion? > > > Colonel PONCE: My personal opinion is that here in this country, > there have been many opinions about the role of the Jesuits. You've > got to take into account all of the people who've said something > against the Jesuits, not just Colonel Sapedas. > > BRADLEY: It stunned us to find out that the American Embassy had > given Colonel Ponce an audiotape of our interview with Ambassador > Walker to help him prepare for us. So Ponce knew the questions we > were likely to ask. Is the US embassy in cahoots with the army of El > Salvador? Fathers Monan and O'Hare believe it is. And that the > embassy could have forced the Salvadorans to investigate officers > like Sapedas and hasn't done so. > > Ambassador WALKER: From the first moment we knew of the Jesuits' > deaths, which was about 7:00 or 8:00 AM on the day they were killed, > this embassy has been very, very involved in the investigation, in > trying to make sure that all T's were crossed, dots put above I's to > make sure the government did everything it could because we > recognized very early on that this was a very important case. > > BRADLEY: Why are you skeptical? I mean, the investigation has only > been going on for five months. > > Father O'HARE: Yeah, but the investigation of Archbishop Romero's > been going on for 10 years. And we haven't--at the time that that > crime was committed, the world was shocked. When four American women > were killed in December 1980, American military aid was stopped for a > brief time until we were assured that, once again, human rights were > going to be respected. So with that history, how can one have > confidence today that the system, as encouraged or not encouraged by > the United States government, is going to deliver justice in this > case. > > BRADLEY: Why would the American embassy--why would our government not > do everything possible to get to the bottom of the murder of the > Jesuits? > > Congressman MILLER: Because they'd have to turn in their own client. > The client is the Salvadoran government and the Salvadoran military. > And many of these questions are better left unanswered. > > Father O'HARE: I'd go right to the high command of the Salvadoran > military, and if that's the case, the US investment of the past 10 or > 12 years has been revealed as futile. > > BRADLEY: During those 10 or 12 years about 70,000 people were killed > in El Salvador, most of them unarmed civilians. According to human > rights organizations, most of that killing was done by the armed > forces of El Salvador, yet so far, not one military officer has been > convicted of a human rights crime. > > Colonel BARRO: There is--How you say?--there is an environment of the > possibility of being killed any moment of the day and the possibility > of being involved in a violent clash every moment. And you have to > count on that. > > STAHL: Just last Monday, the United Nation Truth Commission found > that the order to kill the Jesuits came from Colonel Rene Emilio > Ponce, the army chief of staff, the man who came to the interview > armed with the audio tape of our interview with the American > ambassador. > > The Truth Commission also concluded that the Salvadoran officers who > were investigating the crime--the ones described by then US > Ambassador Walker as diligent professionals--were actually part of > the coverup. > > (C) Sixty Minutes 1993 * Posted for Fair Use Only > > Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. 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