UW Human Rights Center will sue CIA for stonewalling information request on assassinations

A University of Washington human rights project is suing the Central Intelligence Agency for refusing to declassify and turn over documents relating to the U.S. role in El Salvador’s civil war and involvement in massacres by a retired Salvadorian colonel who was for a time the favorite of Americans. The CIA has said it could “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of the records, although 21 CIA records related to the prolonged (1980-92) civil war have been declassified. Assas