|
|
Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist who writes mainly about foreign affairs. His first story, "Duarte's Secret Friends", broke Secret U.S. State Department cables revealing that the Reagan administration was, in its own words, trying "one by one" to "destroy" the opposition labor movement in El Salvador. Smyth was based in San Salvador from 1988 through 1990, reporting for CBS News Radio, The Economist and others. He was the first to implicate the then head of the Salvadoran army in ordering the 1989 Jesuit murders, doing so three years before the commander was so accused by a United Nations Truth Commission. In 1988, Smyth co-wrote Dialogue and Armed Conflict: Negotiating the Civil War in El Salvador (The Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute). In 1990, Smyth and Tom Gibb of BBC radio wrote El Salvador: Is Peace Possible? (The Washington Office on Latin America).
|
