PAGE 000 TOR 1322091 JUN 9H 1321582 JUN 90 SUBJECT INFORHATION 0N JESUIT MURDER CASE HO HAS 0N GUARD AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY ON 1 AND 16 NOVEMBER 1989 WHEN THE JESUIT PRIESTS THEIR HOUSE KEEPER AND HER DAUGHTER HERE HURDERED ON CAHPUS OF THE CEN AL AHERICAN UNIVERSITY UCA IIANTS THE INFORHATI To REACH INVESTI- GATI AUTHORITIES HOHEVER HE EAL THE INFORHATION DIRECT THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT SIU BECAUSE HE DOES NOT TRUST ANY SALVADORAN ON THE SIU AND FEARS HE HOULD BE KILLED TO OUASH THE FACTS AND PROTECT SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES ESAF 0F 0 FREELY BELIEVES AN PASS AL FORMATION ST TECTING HIH- 2 DURING HEETING THAT HE HAD AGAIN HIT Approved for Release Nov 1993 TOR 1322091 JUN 90 A IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HE 08 AT THE HILITARY ACADEMY ON 15 AND 16 NOVEMBER 90 ABOUT THE GATHERING OF HIGH RANKING 0 AT THE SCHOOL ON THE AFTERNOON OF 15 NOVEHBER SPECIFICALLY THAT THEY ALL BEGAN TO ARRIVE AT ABOUT 2 00 P M BEGINNING HITH CHIEF OF THE JOINT GENERAL STAFF COLONEL RENE EMILIO HHO CARE IN HITH THO JEEP CHEROKEES HITH POLARIZED NINDOHS IN SHORT ORDER OTHERS ARRIVED INCLUDING THEN AIR FORCE CONHANDER CENERAL JUAN RAFAEL THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL POLICE PH COLONEL DIONISIO ISMAEL FIRST BRIGADE COMMANDER COLONEL FRANCISCO THENTDIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE TREASURY POLICE LIEUTENANT COLONEL HERIBERTO HERNANDEZ HHO ARRIVED HITH A CAPTAIN FNU PROBABLY THEN CEAT COMMANDER CAPTAIN JOSE ALFONSO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL GUARD GN COLONEL JUAN CARLOS SCHLENKER NHO ARRIVED HITH THE OF THE GN MAJOR RICARDO THE COMMANDER OF THE ATLACATL IMMEDIATE REACTION RATTALION BIRI LIEUTENANT COLONEL OSCAR ALBERTO LINARES THE OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE DNI COLONEL CARLOS HAURICIO AGUILAR HHO ARRIVED THROUGH THE INNER GATE FROM DNI TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY NITH THO NFI AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE HILITARY HOSPITAL NFI SOME OF THESE HERE ALSO MENTIONED REF AS PARTICIPATING IN THE 15 NOVEMBER 9 AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY AND SOHE OF THE NAMES ARE NEH HE CANNOT SAY NHEN THE MEETING ENDED DR HHEN THE PART PANTS DEFARTED THE HILITARY ACADEHY BECAUSE HE HAS OFF DUTY DURING PART OF THE AFTERNOON COHHENT PERHAPS THIS IMPRESSIVE RECALL OF INFORMATION IS EXPLAINED BY THE FACT THE MURDERS BECAME PUBL OH E THE NEAT MORNING AND THE VISITS BECAME SIGNIF 5 AT ABOUT 6 00 P M ON 15 NOVEMBER 89 THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY MAJOR CARLOS HERNANDEZ BEGAN TO CALL INDIVIDUALS BY RADIO TO ORDER THEM TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY HE SAID THAT CAMILO HERNANDEZ FIRST SPECIFICALLY BY NAME CALLED LIEUTENANT YUSSHI RENE VALLECILLOS AND LIEUTENANT GONZALO IUUCVARAI CERRITOS HHO PRESENTED THEMSELVES CAMILO HERNANULZ TOLD THE THO THAT MILITARY ACADEMY DIRECTOR COLONEL ALFREDO MORENO HANTED TO SPEAK HITH THEM WHEN THEY CAME OUT FROM TALKING TO HENAVIDES MENDOZA VALLECILLOS AND GUEVARA CERRITOS GATHERED THE TROOPS OF THE BIRI ATLACATL HHO HERE ALREADY PRESENT ON THE MILITARY ACADEMY GROUNDS AND BEGAN TO CALL OUT SEVERAL NAMES FROM EACH PLATOON USING ONLY NICKNAMES 6 AT ABOUT THIS POINT CIRCA 7 00 P H GUEVARA FERRITOS ORDERED AND THE OTHERS TO GO HITH TO CETIPOL POLICE A NIN ACADEMY IN SANTA TECLA FOR THE UNIFORMS WTHE UNIFORMS THEY PICKED UP HERE NEH AMERI ELS COMPLETE HITH UNDERSTANDING THAT THE UNIFORMS HERE BEING GIVEN As BIRI ATLACATL INDIVIDUALS HHO HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MISSION DURING THE TIME THAT THESE SELECTED TROOPS HERE GETTING DRESSED IN THE NEH UNIFORMS AND PUTTING ON CAMOUFLAGE PA ETC CAMILO HERNANDEZ HAS CIRCULATING AMONG THEM HEARING HIM TELL THE TROOPS HILL HAVE ALL OF MY AND MY I E 7- Fm SELECTED TROOPS INCLUDING HENDOZA VA LLOS AND GUEVARA CERRITOS DEPARTED THE MILITARY ACADEMY IN A BEIGE MILITARY PICKUP TRUCK SOMETIME EETHEEN 8 00 P H AND 9 00 P M HHEN THEY RETURNED AT AROUT 3 00 A M OR 00 A M 16 NOVEMBER COLO IDES GREETED THE TRUCK AT THE GATE OF THE MILITARY AC MY ONE OF THE SOLDIERS ASKED For A cup 01- COFFEE ND OVER THE COF EE THE SOLDIER IUST KILLED THE HEADS OF THE FMLN I THINK THE HILL END NOH BECAUSE HY COLONEL SAID KILLING THEM HOULD END THEN ACCORDING TO THE TROOP TOLD HIM THEY HAD ALL BEEN GIVEN SEVERAL DAYS 8 A DAY OR THO LATER ON 17 OR 18 WIE HENT To THE ON-SITE SHOP AT THE MILITARY HITH LT VALLECILLOS TO GET THE TAILOR To 0 T MILITARY BLOUSES HHILE IN THE LT VALLECILLOS SAID To THE TAILOR AN OLD MAN HORRED FOR DECADES AT THE ACADEMY SURE HOPE MY COLONEL TURN ME RE ADDED THAT HE FELT RADLY ABOUT THE KILLING OF THE JESUITS AND HAD NOT HANTED TO DO IT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE ONE OF THE PRIESTS IGNACIO HARTIN HAD ONCE BEEN HIS PROFESSOR BUT HE ADDED IT HAD BEEN A DIRECT ORDER AND BESIDES HE SAID THAT TOR JUN 90 AIR FORCE COHNANDER GENERAL BUSTILLO HAD OFFERED HIH PILOT TRAINING AS REWARD OL BENAVIDES AT SOHL POINT WENT TO THE TAILOR AND HAR NOT TO TALK ABOUT ANYIHING HL HIGHT HAVE SEEN 0R HEARD REGARDING THE JESUIT CASE 9 _u VALLECILLOSW -HAD BEEN SENT TO THE UCA CAHPUS VEHBER AND ORDERED BY COL BENAVIDES TO CONDUCT A SCOUTING NISSION FDR POSSIBLE FNLN ARHS CACHES DURING THIS HISSION VALLECILLOS SPOKE HITH FR BARO APPARENTLY IN A FRIENDLY HAY UPON HIS RETURN TO THE HILITARY ACADEMY VALLECILLOS PRESENTED HIS REPORT TO COL BENAVIDES AND ONLY REALIZED LATER ON 15 NOVEHBER THAT THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE SCOUTING HISSION HAD BEEN TO PREPARE FOR THE NISSION TO KILL THE JESUITS ON THE NIGHT OF 15 NOVENBER IO HE A SDHE HEHBERS OF THE FAMILIES OF THOSE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS DETAINED IN CONNECTION NITH THE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN RECEIVING WRITTEN DEATH THREATSIWD NOT SPECIFY NHOSE FAMILIES AND NO ONE APPARENTLY KNOHS FR HHOH THE NOTES CONE ALSO SAID THE DETAINED BIRI ATLACATL HEHBERS ARE BEING HELD THE NATIONAL POLICE AND HELL-TREATED EVEN TO THE POINT OF BEING REGULARLY TAKEN OUT FOR OUTINGS TO THE BEACH AND TO HEET NOHEN SOHE OF THEM TO SPEND NIGHTS IN THEIR OWN HONES COHHENT THIS APPEARS TO BE FROH THE RUHOR HILL As ALLE IONS OF TREATMENT INCLUDING BEACH OUTINGS ARE HIDELY 015 CUSSED HERE HE SAID THEY HAD BETTER ENJOY NHAT THEY HAVE NON BECAUSE IT IS THAT THE U S GOVERNHENT HAS ALREADY ORDERED THAT THEY ALL BE CONDEHNED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON NEANNHILE THEY ARE ALL BITTER BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THE U S S EHBASSY ARE CONSPIRING WITH THE TO ENSURE THAT THE OFFICERS IHPLICATED ALL HILL GO FREE NEITHER HE NOR ANY OF HIS COLLEA BELIEVE THAT THE ACADEMY LOG BOOKS CONTAINING NAMES AND VEHICLES OF ENTRIES AND EXITS ON IS AND 16 NOVEMBER HERE REALLY BURNED HE AND THE OTHERS THINK THAT SOMEONE SUCH AS BENAVIDES IS HOLDING THE LOGBOOKS FOR THEIR PERSONAL DEFENSE AND THAT IF IT LOOKS LIKE THE GATION HILL ACCUSE OR CONVICT THEN THEY HILL PULL THEH OUT TO IHPLICATE THE REST OF THOSE HHO HERE REALLY INVOLVED This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu