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...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 to an American lawyer, Jennifer Harbury, who conducted hunger strikes in Guatemala and Washington to pressure authorities for information about her husband's murder.) The letter goes on to accuse the NSA and Army of destroying documents that would show...
...programswhen he said on a talk show Sunday that no U.S. money was going to Guatemala. TIME Washington national security correspondent Douglas Waller explains that the CIA, which was ordered in 1992 to drop its covert action in the country, legally maintained several low-profile "liaison" programs that trained Guatemalan officers in intelligence-gathering and counternarcotics. Waller adds: "We have been maintaining an intelligence relationship with a government whose army has the worst human rights record in the region. And there's no reason to, now that the Cold War's over...
...this case, though, much of the truth remains in shadow. Harbury, a Harvard-educated lawyer, had been pressuring the U.S. and Guatemalan governments to determine the fate of her husband, who disappeared in the Guatemalan jungle in March 1992. Although U.S. officials told her several times they believed Bamaca was dead, they gave her no definitive answers; they insist they have none. Nor did they mention any possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January...
...tumultuous personal odyssey. In 1990 she went to Guatemala to research human-rights violations. There she met Bamaca, whose nom de guerre was Everardo; the couple were married in a common-law ceremony in Austin, Texas, in September 1991. Soon after his March 1992 disappearance, she was told by Guatemalan military authorities that Bamaca had committed suicide rather than be captured and tortured by the army. But Harbury believed her husband was still alive and pressed for proof of his fate. In August 1993, authorities exhumed the body of a man they claimed was Bamaca; an autopsy revealed...
Harbury's publicity campaign swung into high gear last October. She staged a 32-day hunger strike outside the Guatemalan presidential palace, which she ended when National Security Adviser Anthony Lake agreed to look into the matter. On January 25, the CIA provided the State Department with what White House spokesman Mike McCurry now calls "new information"--information about Alpirez that was at the very least potent enough to prompt the CIA to begin an internal investigation. (The CIA station chief in Guatemala was recalled to Washington around the time the inquiry began.) Concurrently, Harbury was told that...