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1. Research files on El Salvador stolen from human rights group suing CIA over El Salvador

Research files on El Salvador stolen from human rights group suing CIA over El Salvador
Xeni Jardin / 5:00 pm Fri Oct 23, 2015

Confidential research files on human rights abuses in El Salvador were stolen from a human rights organization in Washington state, just weeks after that same organization sued the CIA for refusing to release documents related to those very same abuses.

The Seattle Weekly reports that “A computer and hard drive belonging to Professor Angelina Godoy containing copies of the files, testimonies, and personal information of Salvadoran survivors was stolen from her office under highly suspicious circumstances.”

Who did it? Police are looking into it, and any leads haven't been made public.

Internet speculation focuses on 3 possibilities:

1. Random laptop thief
2. CIA, or a former operative, or something like that
3. Someone operating in the interests of El Salvador's military, elite, and conservative right wing

I suppose it's possible for 2 and 3 to be one and the same, but for the sake of this blog post, let's treat them as different.
Whoever it was broke in to the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights a few weeks after the center sued the CIA for withholding documents about massacres that took place during the twelve-year civil war in El Salvador.

More:
http://boingboing.net/2015/10/23/research-files-on-el-salvador.html