12 by Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales, which had revealed that the El Llano Civil Patrol had murdered his brother and Mr. Griffith Davis. Despite Colonel Ortega's promise to conduct an investigation and hand over a list of the names of the El Llano civil patrolmen, he had never done so. In May 1988, he had met James Elleson, Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales, Colonel Recinos and Major Baides in Guatemala. Major Baides told him that he had been unable to locate the members of the Civil Patrol identified by Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales. In January 1989, he made his twelfth visit to Guatemala with his family. They had met with Ambassador James Michael, who told them that Colonel Hooker had interviewed civil patrolmen Mario Cano and Vicente Cano, who had at first denied being from El Llano, but that Mario Cano had later admitted that they did. Mario Cano could be seen on a March 1986 video speaking as Chief of the El Llano Civil Patrol. In May 1989, the United States Embassy had sent Colonel Ortega photographs of the suspects and he had promised to locate and arrest the perpetrators, but had never done so. In February 1990, he again went to Guatemala and met with United States Embassy officials, who told him of the measures they had taken and that the Army was not cooperating in the investigation into his brother's disappearance. He believed that the Army was covering up the disappearance. In the spring of 1990, he discovered that FBI agents, Ricardo Roberto of the United States Embassy and Michael Shawcross, had interviewed El Llano civil patrol members Mario Cano, Hipólito Ramos-García, Vicente Cifuentes and López Herrera. They had never arrested the perpetrators. Daniel Velásquez, Chief of the Las Majadas Civil Patrol, was responsible for burning and transferring the remains, but had never been arrested. In January 1992, the Blake family visited Guatemala for the eighteenth time. Felipe Alva offered to help them in exchange for money. Michael Shawcross had received two boxes containing bone fragments from Felipe Alva. In June 1992, he was in Guatemala when the bones were found, together with tent pegs, and his brother's spectacles. It had taken more than seven years from his brother's disappearance for his whereabouts to be discovered. The remains were exactly where Justo Victoriano MartínezMorales had said they were, corroborating his statement that Nicholas Blake had been murdered by the El Llano Civil Patrol. In November 1992, he met in New York with Lieutenant-Colonel Otto Noack-Sierra, who had been present when the remains were discovered. The Colonel told him that Guatemalan Military Intelligence had known almost immediately what had happened to his brother. In December 1993, he met with LieutenantColonel Noack and President Ramiro de Leon-Carpio at the United States Embassy and requested that the State recognize its responsibility for the acts, punish those responsible and pay compensation. The President had replied that it was true that the Civil Patrol had killed his brother, that the Army had known this all along and had covered it up, but that he would have to think about punishment and compensation. Of the eight or ten persons responsible, only Vicente Cifuentes had been detained. Felipe Alva was currently Mayor of Chiantla, and although General Gramajo informed him of a 1986 court action, nothing was known about that case or any other. If his family had not made more than 20 visits in seven years, they would never have known what had happened. Since the Chief of Military Intelligence and the Minister of Defense, as well as other officers, could not provide a list of the Civil Patrol, it was quite ridiculous to attempt any litigation in Guatemala; they had therefore not retained a lawyer or initiated any proceedings. They had spent between $80,000 and $100,000 in the search for his brother. He had suffered a severe nervous breakdown after the disappeareance and had spent thousands of dollars on