country's government or military. According to unnamed sources, represented as "U.S. MilGrp officers then stationed in Honduras", the execution of Baez and Carney is alleged to have been carried out by the first Honduran Special Forces officer to have graduated the U.S. Special Warfare course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The order from the Honduran military commander was that "all officers are to have blood on their hands" in order to ensure silence. According to these same unsourced reports, the bodies of the two Americans were, along with those others killed, flown back over the border on a Honduran military helicopter into Nicaragua and unceremoniously dumped into the triple canopy jungle below. Aftermath Carney's family traveled to Honduras shortly after learning of his death, but were unable to recover his body or any information. Baez's family, living in Florida, have long demanded the truth about the former Green Beret's death. Later in 1983, the army officer implicated by Cabadero in ordering Carney's death, General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Ronald Reagan, "for promoting democracy in Honduras" at the same time the Cuban trained and Sandinista PRTC 96 man insurgent group has crossed over in to Honduras to overthrow the civilian government of Honduran President, Dr Roberto Suazo Córdova, the first democratically elected civilian government for Honduras in many decades. Nevertheless, some of Carney's former colleagues believe the award is evidence that then U.S Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, authorized Carney's killing. Father Joseph Mulligan, a close friend of Carney, sent, in 2010, a letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requesting their assistance in seeing his FOIA request, now being processed, approved. See also The Ambassador (2005 film) References 1924 births 1983 deaths People from Chicago American people of Irish descent American Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Honduras American emigrants to Honduras Saint Louis Billikens football players Naturalised citizens of Honduras Honduran expatriates in Nicaragua American people of German descent Catholics from Illinois 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests Catholic socialists