Word: guatemala
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...always considered Guatemala its private playpen. It was in Guatemala that the agency learned to overthrow Latin governments, engineering the 1954 coup that toppled leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Administrations have come and gone. So has the cold war. But the freewheeling tradecraft the agency practiced in Guatemala has barely changed. "If you were going to pick a place where the CIA still has a cowboy mentality, it's there," says a former top official with the agency...
...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...
...secretly increased aid to the Guatemalan military to make up for a Bush Administration cutoff of overt military assistance as a protest over the Devine murder. FBI agents were dispatched last week to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, to secure its communications records on Guatemala. The cia, Pentagon and State Department launched their own investigations...
...House ethics committee agreed to investigate whether Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) violated his oath of secrecy by identifying aCIA sourceconnected with thedeath of an American citizen in Guatemala. Torricelli, whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House...
...members of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of "deliberately" misleading Congress by concealing information ontwo murders in Guatemala, even as the acting CIA chief flatly denied agency complicity in the deaths. As the widows of the two murdered men looked on, CIA head William Studeman admitted to senators that the agency failed to give Congress information it had in the fall of 1991 about the death of American innkeeper Michael Devine. But Studeman declined to answer claims that the accused killer received $44,000 from the CIA after the agency learned he was suspected. That wasn't good...