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*   against any of the groups or their members.
*   
*   An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the agency only investigated
*   suspected crimes, not political beliefs or constitutionally protected
*   freedom of speech.
*   
*   Oliver Revell, the FBI's executive assistant director, said that the
*   FBI did not investigate CISPES because of its political activities,
*   but for a "wide range of possible crimes."


%   The New York Times, Thursday, February 4, 1988
%   "Reagan Backs FBI Over Surveillance"
%   
%   President Reagan is satisfied that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
%   conducted a proper surveillance campaign against groups opposed to his
%   policies in Central America, the White House said today.
%   
%   The new FBI Director William S. Sessions assured Reagan that there was
%   a solid basis for the investigation: "We knew CISPES was established
%   from funding by the Communist Party, U.S.A."


Well, Reagan didn't like a peaceful Texas based group called CISPES, which
was against the United States' support of the El Salvador government.

The El Salvador government was torturing and killing people.

*   "Officers held in Salvador Abductions", By James LeMoyne, NYT, 4/25/86
*   
*   One of those arrested was accused of killing the head of the Salvadoran
*   Land Reform Institute and two AMERICAN agrarian advisors.

So the FBI had one of their agents infiltrate CISPES using a Frank
Varelli, who was born in San Salvador and served in the U.S. Army.

#   "How the FBI infiltrated CISPES and Assisted the Salvadoran Right Wing"
#   By James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, NYC
#   
#   Varelli met with the Salvadoran National Guard, best known for its
#   death squads. They gave him a "hit list" of people they wanted.
#   
#   When the INS