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...media was unable to ignore Ms. Harbury's hunger strike outside the White House for information about her missing husband. As information began to surface, Congressman Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), helped break the story about the C.I.A.'s relationship to the colonel. President Clinton then authorized a full investigation...
...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...
...House ethics committee agreed to investigate whether Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) violated his oath of secrecy by identifying aCIA sourceconnected with thedeath of an American citizen in Guatemala. Torricelli, whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House...
...reality, the issue of who knew what, and when, remains a tangled one. The CIA says it has engineered no cover-up. "When we had credible information, we shared it with the right folks," says a CIA official, "not fractionated and fragmentary [information] and rumors." But Torricelli's charges have sparked a furor: the President has vowed to fire anyone responsible for withholding information from the Administration...
...March 21, Torricelli learned of the Alpirez connection. CIA files reveal that Alpirez became a CIA informer in the 1980s and spent a year at the School of the Americas, an elite U.S. program for foreign soldiers. He remained on the CIA payroll until sometime in 1992, around the same time Bamaca was captured and then killed...