10 c. Testimony of Ricardo Roberto, former Vice Consul at the United States Embassy in Guatemala. The witness testified that from August 1988 to September 1990 he had been Vice Consul and Second Secretary at the United States Embassy in Guatemala. He had been in charge of the case concerning the disappearance of Nicholas Blake and Griffith Davis and acted as a liaison between the United States Embassy, the Guatemalan authorities and the Blake and Davis families. As soon as the United States Embassy learned of the disappearance of the aforementioned persons, it had repeatedly contacted representatives of the Army and the Guatemalan Government. When he arrived at the United States Embassy, no appeal had been made to the police authorities to investigate the case. On December 27, 1988, at the invitation of the military authorities, he had been present, together with Colonel George Hooker, Military Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy, at the interrogation of the members of the civil patrol suspected of responsibility for the disappearance, and had asked them a number of questions. On April 22, 1989, Colonel Hooker met with Colonel Francisco Ortega, Chief of Military Intelligence, and they agreed that no progress had been made with the case. On May 22, 1989, Colonel Hooker delivered some photographs of the suspects, taken by Justo Victoriano MartínezMorales, to Colonel Ortega so that he could detain and interrogate them Colonel Ortega had never sent investigators to the area to arrest the suspects. On August 10, 1989, Philip Taylor, Deputy Head of Mission, the Consul General and Major Demarrest went to Huehuetenango to meet the new Commander, General Mata-Gálvez, discovered that he knew nothing about the case and that they were themselves obliged to provide him with all the information. The Consul General continued to contact General Mata once a month. The U.S. Embassy was not satisfied with the level of cooperation from the government of the Guatemalan Army. The Consul General met with General Mata on November 7. The Ambassador met with General Gramajo, Minister of Defense, and General Mata-Gálvez on November 9 and 10, and was told that thus far they had no information about the investigation or its results, although they had been specifically told who the suspects were. Apparently, the Government had not instituted any criminal action or investigation. The Minister of Defense promised to bring the case to the attention of the Attorney-General, saying that this was not a military, but rather a police matter and that the outcome of the investigation would be submitted to the U.S. Embassy within a month. This, however, was not done. By November 1989 the Guatemalan authorities had known the identity of the suspects for one year. On November 27, 1989, General Gramajo met with Ambassador Strook and informed him that the case had been referred to a judge in Huehuetenango in 1986. On December 15, 1989, the Ambassador met with the Human Rights Prosecutor, Dr. Ramiro de Leon-Carpio, who also failed to take any action in the case. On February 27, 1990, Ambassador Strook met with General Gramajo after learning that the Blake family was prepared to pay a reward for the recovery of Nicholas Blake's remains and to refrain from bringing any criminal charges against the perpetrators. On March 21, 1990, he had gone to Huehuetenango to question several patrolmen, who did not appear. On March 26, 1990, he had gone to Huehuetenango with an FBI investigator and a few Military Intelligence officials to witness an interrogation, but as had occurred in December 1988, the military authorities knew next to nothing about the case and were not prepared to interrogate the three individuals. He and the investigator questioned suspects Mario Cano, Candelario López and