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Salvadoran War Crimes Suspect Found In Mass.

A human rights organization says a former El Salvadoran military officer who allegedly played a role in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests has been tracked down to a Boston suburb.

San Francisco-based center for Justice and Accountability says Inocente Orlando Montano has been living in Everett under his own name.

A United Nations commission in 1993 named Montano, a former government vice minister of public safety and army colonel, as a participant in a meeting to plot the assassination of a priest suspected of supporting leftist rebels.

The Boston Globe reports Wednesday that it made several unsuccessful attempts to contact Montano. A listed number for Montano located by The Associated Press was not in service Wednesday.

Montano has previously denied any involvement in the slayings.

This program aired on August 17, 2011. The audio for this program is not available.

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