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...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...
...Hitz, a 1964 graduate of Harvard Law School, emphasized the "increasing relation between intelligence officials and U.S. law enforcement agencies" in addressing the crowd of law school students, faculty and others...
...There are still some nations that don't play by the rules," Hitz said, listing the government of North Korea, Iran and Iraq as concerns that will continue to occupy the CIA in an era after the Soviet threat...
...Hitz, who assumed his role as the first presidentially-appointed Inspector General in 1990, said the chief regulating concern of his department in this new era will be to limit secrecy in an organization that thrives...
...Secrecy corrupts," Hitz said. "And absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely...