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...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...
...cowboys have been swept up in an investigation of CIA complicity in two Guatemala murders and a possible cover-up by other parts of the U.S. government. Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli first aired charges that an agency informant--Colonel Julio Roberto 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...
...weeks ago, Torricelli charged that Guatemalan Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, who was a paid informant of the CIA, ordered the murder of Harbury's husband as well as an American citizen...
...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 the CIA had sent the State Department and White House a report containing an allegation that Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, once a paid CIA asset, may have played a role in Bamaca's death. Alpirez may also be linked to the 1990 murder of Michael DeVine, an American innkeeper in Guatemala. Torricelli claims that the CIA knew since 1992 of both Bamaca's death and its own involvement...
...letter to President Clinton obtained by The Crimson, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) blasted the CIA for not revealing its links to Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, the Guatemalan intelligence officer responsible for Everado's death...