The bank's paper files were destroyed, too, when flooding took out Liberty's operations center.
The United States had urged that the files be destroyed, according to interviews with five current and former Bush administration officials.
"Some files were destroyed," he noted, "others were fixed or disposed of in ways we have not yet fully clarified".
In a number of colonies, as files were destroyed a certificate was completed and sent to London to show that the job had been done.
The school said it had few remaining records of Houser's time there, as disciplinary files are destroyed after five years.
In a letter documenting Mr. Flynn's charges, written by his lawyer, Gary J. Aguirre, he maintains that at least 9,000 case files were destroyed over the last two decades.
Many of the Socialist administration's files were destroyed during the last days of the GDR, and a former officer of the Stasi, the East German security service, once told Hillmer: "You haven't got the slightest idea about the real extent of injustice, and you will never find out what really happened".
The current director, Felipe Muñoz, has been at the job only a month and, according to the magazine's investigation, many of the agency's illegal recordings and files were destroyed before he took office.But the DAS is only one of several Colombian agencies equipped to eavesdrop.
Wanless says the record-keeping practices inside the Home Office at the time mean it is not possible to reach a categorical conclusion on whether or not files were destroyed as part of a cover-up but says: "We found nothing specific to support a concern that the Home Office had failed in any organised or deliberate way to identify or refer individual allegations of child abuse to the police".
