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...ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking him to the first death. (Alpirez denies any guilt.) Torricelli said the mess was consistent with CIA support of some of the most blood-drenched elements in Guatemala's armed forces, which have killed more than 100,000 fellow citizens in the past 30 years. He intimated that the National Security Agency and the Army had also engaged in cover-ups of Alpirez's acts. The resulting furor launched six investigations by various government branches...
...sufficient evidence to establish him as a party to either killing. This is not, however, because no such evidence existed; top CIA sources hurry to concede his possible involvement in the deaths. Instead Hitz appears to base the agency's claim to innocence on its incompetence. The CIA's Guatemala station was shockingly sloppy. It received tips about Alpirez' supposed abuses from highly unreliable witnesses but did not seek corroboration. At one point, the station even passed on--without further investigation-allegations of torture based solely on secondhand accounts of his boasts at a drinking party. Then the station officers...
...heads who have grown too comfortable with guys who aren't good. Deutch will need to work hard to achieve real change in the way his subordinates do business, and just as hard to conquer the cynicism engendered by similar pledges in the past. Congressional sources grumble that the Guatemala report's conclusions were the same as every other post-screw-up assessment: an assurance that no laws were broken and a promise to tell more. Then, they claim, nothing more is said...
...internal CIA probe has concluded that the agency engaged ina cover-up over the deaths of an American and a rebel commander in Guatemala, according to reports in The New York Times and by the Associated Press. An investigation by Frederick P. Hitz, the CIA's inspector general blames the agency for not sharing important information about the killing of American innkeeper Michael DeVine in June 1990 and the March 1992 disappearance of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, the husband of American lawyer Jennifer Harbury, with U.S. administration officials and Congress. President Clinton ordered the internal investigation in March 30 after allegations...
Acting CIA Director William Studeman told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the agency failed to tell Congress what it knew about the murder of an American citizen in Guatemala in 1990 -- not to mention the role a Guatemalan officer paid by the cia may have played in the killing. Studeman's excuse: the case simply "slipped under the carpet." "That's a big carpet," responded Senator Richard Shelby, as he and other panel members accused the agency of intentionally misleading Congress about the agency's latest budding scandal...