Elliot Abrams

Born in 1948, he was Under Secretary of State during Reagan’s administration. He has served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and as Senior Director of the National Security Council's Office for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations.

During the United States’ dirty war in Central America in the 1980’s’, he became notorious for supervising U.S.-backed death squadrons in El Salvador. When asked about the massacre of El Mozote in El Salvador, he told Congress that “was not credible,” that it was “mere FMLN propaganda.” Abrams was also implicated in drug-trafficking conducted by the U.S. government to finance Nicaraguan Contras. A friend of Otto Reich’s, Abrams participated in plans to destabilize the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.