Body from Salvadoran plot may be that of US writer

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Shutt

July 14, 1982

San Salvador

A US Embassy spokesman here said a body exhumed Friday from a cemetery near here may be that of John Sullivan, an American free-lance journalist missing for 18 months. A local judicial official said the body was found last December and buried as that of an unknown person. He also said it would be difficult to establish identification, due to decomposition.