Jose Guillermo Garcia
Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982.
General José Guillermo García was the Salvadoran defense minister who received a security proposal from Pyramid International Security Consultants in October 1982.1 García was linked by human rights organizations to death squad activities and the slaughter of hundreds of peasants at a village called El Mozote in December 1981.
Pyramid International Proposal
Ronald Lister's company made a proposal to García entitled "Technical Proposal for an Urgent Project to Implement an Integral Security System for the Defence Ministry and the Major General of the Armed Forces of the Republic of El Salvador." The document, found by Los Angeles police in a 1986 drug raid, outlined $189,911 worth of services including bodyguard and armed escort services for Salvadoran public officials, protecting sensitive installations from sabotage and terrorism, and installing sophisticated electronic technology at key military and industrial installations.1
Sources
- Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty" ↩
Local network
Search or select an entry to see how it connects to Jose Guillermo Garcia.
An interactive diagram of Jose Guillermo Garcia's connections, drawn on a canvas and explored with a pointer. The same connections are listed as links in the Connected and Mentioned-in sections below.
How to read the graph
- People
- Organizations
- Programs
- Events
- Concepts
- Places
Larger = more mentions across the vault.
A link from one entry to another.
A name mentioned in an entry without a direct link. Toggle these with “Inferred”.
Gold rings mark entries mentioned across several clusters.
Orange rings mark your selection.