By Kim Arveen Patria | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – 12 hours ago
U.S. officials in the Philippines in the mid-70s were of the belief that Juan "Jack" Ponce Enrile, Jr. was linked to a shooting incident in 1975, a diplomatic cable showed.
"Some NBI sources have told us unequivocally, and contrary to Secretary Enrile's assurances to [U.S.] Ambassador (Reftel) that Enrile's son did the shooting," the cable showed.
The document is believed to be part of secret U.S. communication that have since been declassified and published by WikiLeaks.org.
Enrile, 54, is the son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, who was then the Defense Minister of strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
The younger Enrile has also ventured into politics and is currently in his fourth term as Cagayan's First District representative.
Enrile is now running for senator under the United Nationalist Alliance, of which his father is among the three party pillars.
It was sent on October 1, 1975 to the U.S. State Department, although the WikiLeaks post did not identify the sender.
The post also noted that Enrile's father left the Philippines while the government investigates the charges against his son.
Enrile had earlier noted in a February interview with ANC, however, that he was cleared in the case, although his bodyguard was convicted of homicide and sentenced to three years in jail.
This, even as Enrile acknowledged that he was involved in a violent confrontation which led to the shooting of De La Salle student Ernest Lucas, Jr. in 1975.
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