America’s Dirty History Exposed: FBI Investigated U.S.-Backed Assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop

 
‘FBI documents obtained by AlterNet via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the U.S. government investigated the Salvadoran security forces it had armed and trained in connection with the 1980 assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. The records contain memoranda sent to the director of the FBI from numerous of the Bureau’s domestic field offices as well as its international legal attachés.
The first document in the file, most of which are heavily redacted, states the FBI’s decision “to open a Foreign Police Cooperation matter” on the subject of Romero’s assassination. The document is dated Dec. 1, 1987, suggesting the investigation was commenced under the Reagan administration.’
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