Colonel Ronald D. Johnson will be the new ambassador to Mexico. Does this CIA veteran and former special forces veteran have a grizzly skeleton in his closet?
The Special Warfare Center and School, in a laudatory profile of Johson, notes that “he led combat operations in El Salvador as one of the authorized 55 military advisors during the civil war in the 1980s.”
Did he lead combat operations?
If so, that would have been a flagrant violation of President Reagan’s and Congress’s agreement that guaranteed that “U.S. military personnel will not act as combat advisors, and will not accompany Salvadoran forces in combat, on operational patrols, or in any other situation where combat is likely.”
This unsettling matter will certainly not arise in congressional confirmation hearings. Selected as the first Special Forces officer to attend the Army War College fellowship at the Central Intelligence Agency, Johnson will not be troubled by pesky questions.
Is the old saying, “once CIA, always CIA,” true?
Ricardo Chavira Chicano 