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Harvard Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury's three-year struggle to locate her missing husband, Guatemalan guerrilla leader Enfrain "Everado" Velasquez, finally ended Monday after a U.S. representative revealed a Guatemalan colonel on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) payroll ordered his murder...
...letter to President Clinton obtained by The Crimson, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) blasted the CIA for not revealing its links to Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, the Guatemalan intelligence officer responsible for Everado's death...
...direct involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the murder of [Everado] leads me to the extraordinary conclusion that the Agency is simply out of control and contains what can only be called a criminal element," he wrote. "Once again the U.S. is embarrassed by its Intelligence service, and once again the U.S. government is forced to apologize to the American public and to the world for its own actions...
...Everado was captured on March 12, 1992 after the group of rebels he was leading ran into a Guatemalan army patrol. The Guatemalan government has maintained that Everado committed suicide to avoid capture...
...Guatemalan government exhumed two graves to prove Everado committed suicide, but Harbury's forensic experts determined the corpses were not the rebel leader's remains...