Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
2 there is a great deal of animus against him.
3 And one of the things that strikes me over and over
4 again, and you can see it in the declassified documents,
5 although it's not part of the evidence of this, but you do
6 see, over and over again, in some of the reports that went to
7 Robert White or went to any of the other U.S. ambassadors, "We
8 say we have a source, the source says," and you can read, the
9 source will give them all kinds of things, and at the end,
10 they say, "I would kill Colonel Majano if I could find him."
11 You see that kind of feeling. And I think he had several
12 attempts against his life, and he left.
13 BY MR. Van AELSTYN:
14 Q. You mentioned several times the declassified documents.
15 Are these documents that have come to be declassified in the
16 normal course of business over time by the U.S. government or
17 something else?
18 A. No. There is a period of time in which generally
19 classified documents become public over a certain period of
20 time. These have -- this period of time has been advanced in
21 the case of El Salvador.
22 Q. Was there a particular effort to do that?
23 A. Yes. There were several efforts to do that. One was an
24 effort by what is called the National Security Archives, using
25 the Freedom of Information Act, and challenging the secrecy of
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1 certain declassified documents and requesting that they be
2 declassified.
3 Q. The National Security Archives is --
4 A. It's a private organization that tries to make public --
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