Twenty-one years after the murder of six Jesuit priests, their house keeper and her daughter in El Salvador [November 16, 2009 posting], related documents released in a public collection by President Clinton in 1993 have been re-classified—and even disappeared.
Two years ago, members of the human rights community filed a criminal case in the Spanish National Court against the 14 former Salvadoran military officers allegedly involved in the massacre. As a part of the evidence introduced to the court, the National Security Archive provided copies of declassified U.S. government documents and expert assistance in interpreting the documents. (more…)
