Michael McClintock papers, 1960s-2001

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Series VI: El Salvador



Box 7 Foundations of the Security System: Declassified G-2 Reports; FOIA DOS cables; British consular reports from 1932; photocopied legal texts, on development of the security system from colonial times to WII, with emphasis on role of militias and agrarian conflict, culminating in peasant revolt of 1932 and massacre. Including notes.


Box 7 El Salvador's Military Institution, Doctrine and Practice: articles and speeches from Salvadoran armed forces' journal Revista de la Escuela de Comando y Estado Mayor; US government documents; commentary. Including notes, press reports.



Box 8 US Security Assistance and Intervention: Declassified OPS documents on police and intelligence assistance; background to role of US Military Mission; documentation on US complicity in Counter-Terror; notes and press reports.


Box 8 El Salvador Human Rights Monitors: Documentation on role and threats to monitors, the church, Tutela Legal; journalists; documentation on assassination of Archbishop Romero and four US Churchwomen; trial transcripts and reporting on case of Ford vs Garcia and Vides Casanova.



Box 7 El Salvador Human Rights Monitors: Documentation on role and threats to monitors, the church, Tutela Legal; journalists; documentation on assassination of Archbishop Romero and four US Churchwomen; trial transcripts and reporting on case of Ford vs Garcia and Vides Casanova.



Box 9 El Salvador Torture and "Disappearance": Trial transcript and commentary Romagoza v. Garcia and Vides Casanova;


Box 9 Pt II Trial transcript and commentary Romagoza v. Garcia and Vides Casanova; McClintock testimony and exhibits of Amnesty International actions, reports, and responses by the defendants to Amnesty International letters submitted in evidence.



Box 10 Declassified Department of State (DOS) Cables, 1980-1990


Box 10 Department of State reports on The Situation of Human Rights in El Salvador, and Critiques; DOS Discrediting of Human Rights Monitors and Methodology.



Box 11 Reports by national and international HR monitors, 1977-1990; Amnesty International



Box 12 Chrono file I, 1960-1982 (press, reports by local monitors, commentary).


Box 12 Chrono file II, 1983-1988



Box 11 Chrono file III, 1989-1994