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Article: El Salvador revisited: a look a declassified State Department documents - some of what U.S. government knew - and when it knew it. (includes related articles and analysis)(Special Supplement) (Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 23, 1994
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For several weeks earlier this year, NCR editor-at-large Arthur Jones looked through the 12,000 El Salvador cables, dating from 1980 through 1991, released by the U.S. State Department on orders from the Clinton administration. A selection of cables from the department's El Salvador files is offered below. NCR asked four people intimately involved with El Salvador issues in that era to comment on the cables' significance and the overriding issues of U.S. involvement in El Salvador. Margaret Swedish is cofounder of the Religious Task Force on Central America, which began life as the Religious Task Force on El Salvador. Robert White was U.S. ambassador to El Salvador at the ...