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...model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they had left all their military clothing...
...media was unable to ignore Ms. Harbury's hunger strike outside the White House for information about her missing husband. As information began to surface, Congressman Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), helped break the story about the C.I.A.'s relationship to the colonel. President Clinton then authorized a full investigation...
...cowboys have been swept up in an investigation of CIA complicity in two Guatemala murders and a possible cover-up by other parts of the U.S. government. Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli first aired charges that an agency informant--Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez of Guatemala's intelligence service--was linked to the murders. Last week Torricelli released an anonymous letter, supposedly from a National Security Agency employee, claiming that the CIA and the Pentagon knew early on about Alpirez's connection to the killings of American Michael Devine in 1990 and Guatemalan guerrilla Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. (Bamaca was married...
...possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January the CIA had sent the State Department and White House a report containing an allegation that Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, once a paid CIA asset, may have played a role in Bamaca's death. Alpirez may also be linked to the 1990 murder of Michael DeVine, an American innkeeper in Guatemala. Torricelli claims that the CIA knew since 1992 of both Bamaca's death...
...Guatemala last week, President Ramiro de Leon Carpio said the military will investigate the allegations against Alpirez. The colonel, now second in command at an army base in Guatemala City, has not made a statement of any kind. For her part, Harbury is planning to file a lawsuit once the threads of responsibility are sorted out. She may have learned the truth. That, however, is not the same as having all the answers...