Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
12 of us who actually carried out extensive research there, knew
13 that we had to go in and out and leave relatively quickly. It
14 was not a safe place.
15 Q. I'm sorry, I may have misunderstood you. Warning signs,
16 such as your room being searched and stuff, was that here in
17 the United States or in El Salvador?
18 A. El Salvador.
19 Q. Can you give us an example of the time in which you acted
20 on something which you interpreted as a warning?
21 A. Yes. I came back to my room one day in a hotel, this was
22 in 1983, during a state of siege, and it was very clear that
23 somebody had been in my room. And I packed up and left the
24 country.
25 Q. That's pretty clear. So if I could draw your attention
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1 then to page 16 and ask you to discuss a couple of these
2 items. I mentioned, first, the house subcommittee on
3 Inter-American affairs, 1983 to 1985. What was that?
4 A. Michael Barnes was the Head of the House Subcommittee.
5 This was the Committee that was most involved in U.S. policy
6 towards Central America.
7 And at this time, U.S. policy in Central America was
8 an extremely controversial issue. I worked with him. I was
9 at Harvard at the time, and we do a lot more work with
10 Congress when you are on the East Coast, and I investigated a
11 number of things for that Committee.
12 One of the things, for example, I and others
13 investigated, was the use of U.S. aid. There was a great deal
14 of money pouring into El Salvador from the United States, and
15 there was trouble accounting for what was happening to that
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