Federal agent's resignation letter cites 'what we did with the bodies'

The letter has appeared in at least two unrelated private archives, with slightly different accompanying envelopes. We have not been able to authenticate either copy. Two separate handwriting analysts asked to compare the initials against known samples have declined to make a determination on the basis that the initials alone are insufficient evidence.

The author writes that he can no longer continue in his role because of "what we did with the bodies" recovered during a January 1996 operation in the southern Brazilian highlands. He references three remains. He references a coastal incineration site, which he says was selected because it would leave no recoverable trace. He does not name the site.

He writes that he believed at the time that the deceased were a national security matter. He writes that he no longer believes that the deceased were the property of any nation. He writes that the families, if there are families, will never be told.

Even if the letter is authentic, it tells us only that one author believed three subjects had died and that their remains had been disposed of in a manner intended to be irreversible. It does not establish what the subjects were, where they came from, or who else knew.