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Admitting a killer to campus, as the Cambridge Chronicle pointed out this week, has not been a concern before. Four years ago, Harvard granted Guatemalan Gen. Hector Gramajo a master's degree. The University was well aware that Gramajo had directed the death squads responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Guatemalans...
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...
...C.I.A. began to plot a coup against the Guatemalan government. It waged a propaganda campaign that slandered the government as communist, then helped military leaders seize power. The country has been a killing field ruled by the military ever since...
Since 1978, the Guatemalan military has killed over 110,000 civilians, including a near-genocidal campaign against Maya Indians, and torture is even more widespread. Murder, rape and torture are used for political coercion. Human rights reports from Guatemala are sickening. Victims are found burned to death or with their genitals cut off and shoved in their mouths...
...Guatemalan human rights abuses had become too flagrant for even the U.S. to support openly. The State Department cancelled aid to the Guatemalan military (about $3 million a year) but the C.I.A. continued to funnel $5 to $7 million a year to them...