ALLEGED KILLING OF POLITICAL PRISONERS BY GUARDIA NACIONAL OFFICERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100180002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION S"Nftllm
INFORMATION REPORT
Approved For ReIeaseC %t10
018R~T NO.
COUNTRY Nicaragua
DATE DISTR. 26 November 1948
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
Alleged Killing of Political Prisoners 'by Guardia
Nacional Officers
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Prado and Octavio Escobar G., who were
Campo do Marte prison in Managua, were
of the Guardia Nacional.
Rito Jimenez
reported to have escaped from the
really killed on 4 November by officers
2. Newspapers in Managua reported the alleged escape on 9 November 1948, and
the official confirmation was made on 11 November by Col. Francisco Gaitan,
Chief of Staff of the Guardia, who stated that the prisoners had sawed through
a steel lock on their cell. 25X1X6
the men had been
held at La Aviation prison, not Campo de Marte, and were killed during the
course of a drinking party given by Col. Carlos Eddy Monterrey, Chief of
FAN, the Nicaraguan Air Force. Officers at the party decided to call the
prisoners for "questionin " and durin the process, one of the officers
shot both prisoners. the killings were spontaneous, and
had not been ordered. 25X1X6
4. Neither prisoner was important in the opposition ranks, and it is not known
why they were imprisoned.
5. Seven officers who witnessed the killings were transferred from La Aviation
to Campo de Marto shortly after the incident.