ANONYMOUS CALL: ON FEBRUARY IT AM. HINUCUA OFFICIALSALL FROM AN INMATE AT THE ZONA PAEVENTIVO IN ZONE IB ASKING THAT MINUGUA OFFICIALS VISIT HIM SO HE COULD PASS ON INFORMATION. HINUCUAEAM TO INTERVIEW HIM. UPON ARRIVAL. THE CALLER IDENTIFIED HIMSELF TO NINUGUA OFFICERS AS AN ARMY OFFICER AWAITING CHARGES FOR AN APRIL 4 RAPE. WHICH HE CLAIMS IS FALSE. AFTER THIS FIRST AM INTERVIEW, HlNUGUAECOND PM INTERVIEW.
BAMACA CAPTURE: ACCORD1NC TO THIS ALLEGED ACTIVE DUTY ARMY OFFICER. THE ARMY LEARNED THAT "BAMACA" WOULD BE TRAVELING OUTSIDE OP GUERRILLA CONTROLLED AREAS AMD SO IT SETOAD BLOCK BETWEEN "TRAYECTO DE PAJAPITA AND NUEVO SaN MARCOS EN LA RUTA SANTA ANAECTEPEQUEZ." (NOTE: AFTER UATEMALAN MAP. WE BELIEVE MINUGUA MISUNDERSTOOD THE CORRECT LOCATION WHICH WE BELIEVE SHOULD BE: "TRAYECTO DE PAJaPITA AND NUEVO SAN CARLOS EN LA RUTA SANTA ANAOATEPEQUE".) BAMACA WaS APPREHENDED BY ARMY CAPTAIN COASaNTES aLVAAaDO (NOTE: THE OFFICER DID NOT STATE THE DATE BAMACA WaS CAPTURED.).
INCOGNITO: BAMACA WaS THEN TAKEN TO THE ARMY BASE AT SAN MARCOS. THIS ARMY OFFICER CLAIMS THAT HE WAS IN CHARGE OF RECORDING ALL BASE PERSONNEL ENTRIES AND EXITS AT SAN MARCOS AND THAT HE WAS ORDERED NOT TO RECORD THE ENTRY OF BAMACA BECAUSE OF BAHACA'S CUERRILLA STATUS. AFTER BAHACA'S CAPTURE, THE GUERRILLAS ATTACKED THE SaN MARCOS BASE SEVERAL TIMES BUT*WERE NEVER ABLE TO FREE THEIR COLLEAGUE.
THE OFFICER STATED THAT IN THE TIME FRAME BETWEEN BAMaCa'S CAPTURE AND MID-LATEPERSONNEL KEPT BAMACA ON THE MOVE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYSIDE FOR SECURITY REASONS. HOWEVER. "BAMACA" WAS TAKENUATEMALA CITY HEADQUARTERS FOR FURTHER. MORE INTENSIVE INTERROGATIONS. ACCORDINC TO THIS OFFICER. DURING THESE TRIPS, THEDRESSED BAMACAILITARY UNIFORH AND PLACED HIS RIGHT LEGAST TO KEEP HIM PARTIALLY IMMOBILE. THE OFFICER ADOS THAT ONE OF THE LOCATIONS USED TO HIDE BAMACAAILAVY BASE ON THE SOUTHERN COAST. WHERE OLD CARS ARE KEPT. THE SOLDIER PROMISED MINUGUA OFFICIALS THAT HE WOULD PRESENT PICTURES OF THIS "CLANDESTINEPON HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON. WHICH HE EXPECTS WILL BE SOON. THE OFFICER CLAIMS THAT AFTER BAMACA'S CAPTURE. MANY OTHER GUERRILLAS WERE CAPTURED AND THEWOULD ROUTINELY ESCORT THEM INTO THE CAPITAL FOR FURTHER QUESTIONING.
FACE TO FACE SIGHTING: IN DECHIS OFFICER CLAIHS HE SAW BAMACA FaCE-TO-FaCE. WHEN THE OFFICER "COULDN'T RESIST THE URGE" AND HE WALKED INTO THE ROOH AT THE SAN HAACOS BASE WHERE BAMACA WAS BEING KEPT AT THAT TIME. FOR THIS INDISCRETION, THE OFFICER WAS TRANSFERRED FROM SAN MARCOS IN3 AND SENTAVY BASE ON THE SOUTHERN COAST (HINUCUA DOES NOT KNOW IF THIS IS THE SAME BASE THAT THE OFFICER CLAIMS BAMACA WAS TAKEN.). MY MINUGUA CONTACT STATED THE OFFICER GAVE CONTRADICTORYECLLATIVE ANSWERS REGARDING WHAT HAPPENED TO BAHACA AFTER THE OFFICER'S DEPARTURE ANO HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THE OFFICER HAS ANY IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TO BAMACA AFTER
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this officer is telling the truth though he admitsthis officer spent time at the cuartel generalNOW incarcerated in an ambiguous status hisis suspect (note: it is entirely likelyarmy practice that the officer WaS transferred toFOR some breach OF military discipline priorape charge and that he was probablyactive duty FOR the rape charge or other violationsor civilian law. despite HIS allegation thatwaiting FOR the judge to drop the rape charge,could IN fact be serving HIS sentence he
rHE nasi fammWm% interview, the officer only asked thai
minugua protect HIM from army reprisals but, at the second interview, he also asked that he be taken OUT of the country upon HIS release.
omment: ta^Hflte SHOW ORSaNTESindeed assigned to the army base at san marcosas the APwr officer. LIKEwiST.immobilizedAST
durinc HIS captivity at san karcos. these items of information confirm at least parts OF the army officer's story, lending HIM SOME credibility.
cleared:POL:cachester dao:dkeller DCM:jfkeane -
CC:AHB, DCM, DAO, USIS, CONS, POL. DESK END TEXT OF EMBASSY MEMORANDUM
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