The Nation - News from Aug. 24, 1988
The FBI’s chief personnel officer testified in U.S. District Court in El Paso that the agency is trying to provide equitable training and promotion opportunities for minorities and women. John Otto, chairman of the FBI’s career board, denied allegations by 311 of the FBI’s 404 Latino agents that the agency discriminates on the basis of race, religion or national origin. He was testifying in a discrimination suit initiated in January, 1987, by Bernardo Matias (Matt) Perez, 48, who was demoted from special agent-in-charge of the San Juan, Puerto Rico, bureau and transferred to a lesser post in Los Angeles, where he testified he was discriminated against by his superior.
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