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...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...
...Torricelli accused the National Security Council and State Department of misleading Harbury, saying the agencies had "shown a consistent and deliberate pattern of misinformation...
Central Intelligence Agencyofficials denied charges by Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) that the agency witheld information about the deaths of an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan rebel leader married to a U.S. citizen. But the agency said nothing about the congressman's most explosive allegation. In a letter delivered to President Clinton on Wednesday night, Torricelli, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the two were murdered by a Guatemalan colonel who was on the CIA payroll. "When there is an investigation about the death of an American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about...
...Torricelli aides tellTIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighthat several "top Administration officials" informed them verbally of the coverup allegations. Now come the questions: "If they knew of this in January, why was Harbury not told? If the CIA knew in 1992, who made the decision not to tell the Administration or make it public at a time when they could have blamed the Bush Administration...
...dismantling of the military regime and restoration of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Many other people, of course, feel that knowingly paying killers inevitably makes the U.S. morally complicit in their murders, and that is too high an ethical price to pay. Says New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli: "Getting good information from bad people is one thing. Contracting with bad people committing reprehensible deeds that are contrary to our national policy is quite another...