Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
9 will admit 128 as an accurate and fair translation of 123.
10 (Plaintiff's Exhibit 128 was received.)
11 THE COURT: As to 125, the report, what I understand,
12 if I'm correct, this came from a military officer to the
13 Embassy, the Ambassador.
14 MR. Van AELSTYN: No, your Honor. It was a document
15 prepared by a Salvadoran military officer reporting on the
16 action taken on May 7, 1980, by elements of the Salvadoran
17 military, which Roberto D'Aubuisson, Alvaro Saravia and others
18 were arrested.
19 THE COURT: But did not this not somehow become
20 transmitted to the Ambassador's office?
21 MR. Van AELSTYN: Yes, your Honor, it did.
22 THE COURT: I don't know whether it was from Colonel
23 Majano or had came from some other officer.
24 MR. Van AELSTYN: I had understood Ambassador White
25 to testify it came from Colonel Majano.
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1 THE COURT: All right. Then it is a report not
2 prepared by the -- it is not a public report or record of the
3 United States. But it is a document that was received by the
4 Embassy in the capacity of its official conduct of its
5 statutory mission in El Salvador, and I will let you
6 provide -- it occurs that, in terms of reliability and
7 authenticity, there could or could not be motives for an
8 accurate report of the arrest to be made.
9 The fact of the arrests is probably a matter that
10 would be, if the information were provided, judicially
11 noticeable, if it was sufficiently publicized within the
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