The U.S. Role in El Salvador's Official Terror

Horhey · Jan 31, 2015

You learn how to torture, how to cut the balls off a person when he's still alive. You learn how to give electric shocks, shocks to the brain, shocks to the stomach. In general, you will kill the prisoners because there's an assumption they shouldn't live. If we pass them to the judge, they'll go free and we'll maybe have to pick them up again. If there's lots of pressurelike from Amnesty International or some foreign countriesthen we might pass them on to a judge, but if there's no pressure, then they're dead. When it's over, you just throw him in the alleys with a sign saying Mano Blanco, ESA (Secret Anticommunist Army), or Maximiliano Hernandez Brigade [three names commonly used by Salvadoran Death Squads].

Rene Hurtado, former Treasury Police agent, 1984

The more foreign police aid given by the U.S., the more brutal and less democratic the police institutions and their governments become.

Martha Knisely Huggins, "Political policing: the United States and Latin America", 1998
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Treasury Police Chief, Col. Nicolas Carranza was a paid agent of the CIA and "was also the officer most actively involved with the death squads", according to the Christian Science Monitor. "...although Carranza carried out day-to-day supervision of the squad's activities, ultimate approval of all of its major actions has to be given, directly or indirectly, by the Armed Forces Security Council. This council is made up of the top military leaders including, among others, armed forces chief of staff Colonel Blandon, Defense Minister Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, Vice-Minister of Defense General Flores Lima, Air Force chief Jose Rafael Bustillo, Treasury Police chief Colonel Carranza, and National Police director Col. Carlos Reynaldo Lopez Nuila."

New York Times: TOP SALVADOR POLICE OFFICIAL SAID TO BE A C.I.A. INFORMANT

The head of El Salvador's Treasury police has been a paid informant for the Central Intelligence Agency since the late 1970's, according to American officials. The American officials, who are familiar with C.I.A. activities in El Salvador, said that the Treasury police chief, Col. Nicolas Carranza, had received more than $90,000 a year from the C.I.A. as an informant for the last five or six years.

The Progressive: Behind the Death Squads: An exclusive report on the US role in El Salvador's official terror

By Allan Nairn

Over the past twenty years, officials of the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the US armed forces have: supplied ANSESAL, the security forces, and the general staff with electronic, photographic, and personal surveillance of individuals who were later assassinated by Death Squads. According to Colonel Nicolas Carranza, director of the Salvadoran Treasury Police, such intelligence sharing by US agencies continues to this day;

According to a Salvadoran colonel involved in the process, the United States routinely receives copies of all major political surveillance reports[/I] compiled by Salvadoran security officers. In turn, US officials provide the security forces with information. Colonel Carranza confirmed this relationship.

"The Americans would directly receive all the information on a case even before we had developed the activity, before we had decided how we would terminate a case," Carranza says, referring to the procedure in effect before 1983. "Now we give everythingin relation to captures that the Treasury police have madeto the general staff and they give it to the embassy."

US intelligence officials "have collaborated with us in a certain technical manner, providing us with advice," says Carranza. "They receive information from everywhere in the world, and they have sophisticated equipment that enables them to better inform or at least confirm the information we have. It's very helpful."
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