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...acknowledge part of the truth about U.S. foreign policy towards Guatemala: that the brutal death squads terrorizing this nation were sponsored by the C.I.A. and the U.S. military. The media has mainly focussed on two killings, the murder of an American inn-keeper and the murder of a Guatemalan guerrilla leader married to American lawyer Jennifer Harbury. The murders were linked to Col. Julio Roberto Alpirez, a Guatemalan officer trained by the U.S. army and paid by the C.I.A. Media attention has extended to the resulting C.I.A. attempt to cover up barbarism it previously endorsed...
...government roughly based on the example of American New Deal policies. But the new government made the fatal mistake of opposing economic exploitation by U.S. multinational corporations, such as the United Fruit Company, which has been basically running the country. U.S. business and government leaders were worried that the Guatemalan model of self-determinism might be adopted by neighboring nations...
...Guatemala station in the early 1990s always had a reputation for aggressive and hard-drinking case officers who ignored not only the human-rights abuses of Guatemalan officers on the agency's payroll but also the directives of U.S. diplomats in the embassy there. At times the station could even be independent of its own agency. TIME has learned that last year the CIA's inspector general dispatched a team to Guatemala to investigate allegations that the agency's station chief failed to pass along warnings of an assassination plot that was eventually carried out--unsuccessfully--against a local official...
Blindsided by the allegations, President Clinton ordered his Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct a "government-wide review" of the case. The White House is also investigating whether the CIA in 1990 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...
...troubles deepened after disclosures that the spy agency may have had on its payroll a Guatemalan military officer who, critics allege, was responsible for two controversial murders in the early 1990s: one of a U.S. citizen, the other of a guerrilla married to a U.S. citizen. President Clinton ordered a broad investigation into the matter. In an even more troubling development, the FBI began a criminal investigation into the possibility of an ongoing cover...