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Monday, April 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11 I Newspaper claims murder of FBI informant ignored United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cir cumstances in eight murders of U.S. citizens in El Salvador in late 1980 and early 1981 suggest involvement of Salvadoran security forces in the executions, possible cover-ups or both, a newspaper reported. The National Catholic Re porter in its April 22 edition said seven of the victims — Maryk- noll Sisters Ita Ford and Mura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, lay missioner Jean Dono van, labor leaders Michale Ham mer and Mark Pearlman and freelance journalist John Sulli van — are still receiving atten tion from the press and Con gress. Yet there has been a virtual silence on the death of 46-year- old Thomas Bracken. A former Nevada police officer and con sultant to Salvadoran National Police, he was killed perhaps be cause he knew too much, the story said. On Dec. 16, 1980, after com pleting the second of two clan destine meetings with military and FBI officials, Bracken left the U.S. embassy in San Salva dor, his information about the earlier murders of the church- women and minister apparently discounted as inconsequential. The next day, Dec. 17, Bracken was shot and killed when hisjeep was ambushed. No FBI or U.S. embassy offi cial questioned the circumst ances surrounding Bracken’s death, the story said. A member of the U.S embas sy staff at the time of Bracken’s death said one of the first ques- Former U.S. Ambassa dor to El Salvador Robert White testified in February 1982 that Bracken came to the U.S. embassy and “ex plained that he had im portant evidence relat ing to the deaths of the missionaries. ” lions at the embassy on learning Bracken’s jeep was ambushed was “How many others in Brack en’s patrol were wounded or kil led?” When the answer was “none,” it “seemed to this indi vidual that Bracken had been set up,” said the newspaper. In its article, the Reporter questioned why a professional police officer and detective for 23 years would risk his life in offering to trade “insubstantial” information with U.S. officials about the churchwomen’s murder. The newspaper said the lack of family protest and the fact that no Congress member raised his name in public hearings ab out El Salvador during the past two years were particularly odd since Bracken himself claimed to be a linchpin in the church- women’s case. Bracken had claimed to possess information that would implicate the Salva doran military in the rapes and murdurers of churchwomen, the Reporter said. In hearings before a House subcommittee, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador Robert White testified in Febru ary 1982 that Bracken came to the U.S. embassy and “ex plained that he had important evidence relating to the deaths of the missionaries.” Later White said Bracken’s informa tion related to the involvement of Salvadoran military in the killings, the newspaper re ported. The U.S. military and FBI officials investigating the chur chwomen’s case reported Brack en did not have anything sub stantial and said he was only trying to gain clemency in rela tion to charges he smuggled guns from Texas to Mexico. eputy delivers -pound baby girl Etui ted Press International 1ANKFIN, Tenn. — Depu- pherilf Richard Horn [gin the toughest part of his vould be catching criminals mtil he delivered his first Horn, 26, delivered Cheryl ell's 8-pound baby girl Fri- jnight in Nolensville. was a little nervous. 1 got non my knees to deliver it. I is it was the best place to be ray,” he said. tithony Jarrell had called the Williamson County sheriff’s ol 1 ice to ask for help because his wile was in labor. “I knew they lived near Nolensville so I took off. We cal led the ambulance service to meet us there, but when I ar rived I knew it’d get there too late,” Horn said. “When I arrived. I only had time to wash my hands before nature began to take its course,” he said. 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