CIA PAY TO OFFICIAL IS ALLEGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100980013-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 23, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CIA pay
to official
is alleged'
Salvadoran accused
of death-squad ties
By W. Dale Nelson
Auocm.d Ppw
A high-ranking Salvadoran police
official who has been tied to rightist
death squads was paid by the CIA for
about five years, according to a US.
government source. The officer yes-
terday denied receiving any CIA pay-
ment. -
The-US. source, who spoke on con-
dition he not be named, said that the
officer; Col. Nicholas Carranza, head The New York Times reported yes-
of El Salvador's Powerful Treasury terday that Carranza had been re-
Police, was paid 58,000 to 510,000 -a cruited by the CIA in the late 1970s
month by the CIA.
The snn rcr+ whn nrnari Ae.i Ae while be was deputy minister of de-
wn n
fe
'tails, had access to material on the'
CIA's dealings with Carr nza rhPt h
agency supplied to congfeaional
oversight omminw.
The source also was familiar with
material provided about Carranza by
a former Salvadoran military officer
who has been interviewed by several
members of Congress and was inter.
viewed Wednesday on "The CBS Eve-
ning News." -
In that interview, the former Salva.
doran officer said Carranza had re-
ceived up to $90,000 a year from the
CIA. The former officer has been
reported as receiving payment from
a.private Washington group after
identifying leaders and members of
Salvadoran death squads.
Carranza, interviewed yesterday at
his office at Treasury Police head.
quarters in El Salvador's capital of
San Salvador, said he never had re-
ceived any money from the US. goy.'
ernment.
nse to provide information on pow-
el; struggles within the Salvadoran
military and on political and mili-
tary developments in the country.
'The CIA would not acknowledge or
deny that Carranza had been on its
payroll _
`Rep. James Shannon (D.. Mass).
pointing to what he called a "dArk
picture" of US. activity in Central
America, filed a resolution yesterday
asking the CIA to turn over any docu-
ments involving Carranza. A spokes-
woman for Shannon said hi
resolution asks . h CIA to r linq ,ich
the material in the next 14 lei
a-
tiye days.
I'he former. military officer who .
liked Carranza to death-squad activ-
ities; also has implicated other top. 1
ranking officials.
D'Aubuisson mentioned
In the CBS interview, the former
officer said Roberto d'Aubuisson,
right-wing 'candidate in El Salvador's
presidential election on Sunday, had
been in charge of the death squads
add had taken orders from Carranza.
. Asked if the CIA knew of any spe-
cific - slayings, the former officer,
who was filmed in shadows -and
spoke to correspondent Walter Cron-
kite through an interpreter, said,
"No, I don't think so."
'At the White House deD11tV press
secretary- Lam peakes quoted an
executive order that says "nom nn
employed by. acting on thatf of
thre -US. government shaft en gag in
oil-- conspire to engage in
a_ccaeci hat ion e "
Sveakes said. "The CIA abides by
that provision scrnll tnnsy anti rings
not employ people whom it believes
have been or currently fareleng,ggeed
in- assassination activities. Deaib-
Rarticipation" He said the CIA ha
testified before the Senate lntelli-
gehce Committee that it a eres to
the, executive- order. - ` - .
The former Salvadoran officer re-
portedly has been promised .550,000
and already has received $29,500 af-
tef-making the accusations. The pay
ment came from a private,
Washington-based organization, the
Center for Development Policy,
which opposes the Reagan adminis-
tration's policy in Central America.
The center's director, Lindsay Matti-
son, said the informantis getting the
money because he "is a courageous
man - risking death for himself-and
endangering his family."
Mattison, who commented after
the payment was disclosed, said, "We
are optimistic. that the Salvadoran
officer's revelations will convince
the administration and the Congress
to - investigate these issues more
closely and review current U.S.
policy."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
23 March 1984
Nothing but friendship
"I have never received anything
from the Americans except friend-
ship," he said.
Carranza said that he had talked
with U.S. Embassy officials and US.
military officers assigned to the em-
bassy but that he did not know
whether any of them worked for the
CIA. Carranza said his dealings with
the Americans began more than a
decade ago.
Speaking in English, he said the
allegations were "an attempt to .de-
stroy me by means of accusation. My
enemies ... are trying to make sever-
ile not specifying who his "ene-
mies" were, he said the attacks were
intended to limit his ability "to fight
against the terrorists." _
fie said that in his 10 months as
head of the Treasury Police, be has
tried to improve its treatment of pris-
oners. "I have encouraged Ithe po-
lice) to treat them as human beings,"
STAT
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