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...recent months, officers have said the Harvard police unit is racked by internal dissension and inconsistent management. Much of the discontent seems to have been fueled by bitter negotiations between the University and members of the police officers' union, who have been working without a contract for nearly 18 months...
...investigated a key meeting in December 1989, when CIA officer Mark McFarlin and his boss Jim Campbell, the CIA station chief in Venezuela, met with Annabelle Grimm, attache of the DEA in Caracas. McFarlin, who was assigned to coordinate counternarcotics operations with Guillen's National Guard antidrug unit, wanted Grimm's assistance. He asked her to allow hundreds of pounds of cocaine to be shipped to the U.S. through Venezuela. And he asked that the DEA make sure the contraband would not be interdicted -- in other words, "let the dope walk...
...ensuing probe by the U.S. Attorney in Miami focused on Guillen. The general, who has since retired as head of the anti-drug unit, was offered immunity from having his own words used against him -- and came to Miami to testify. According to DEA agents, he has confessed to setting up the smuggling ring and profiting from the operations. "He cried, collapsed, admitted everything he had done," recalled a DEA agent. Guillen, he said, "was trying to do exactly what Noriega did -- no worse, no better." The general has since returned home; he failed to appear before a grand jury...
...BRIGHT-EYED 14-YEAR-OLD, AKIRA OGASAWARA JOINED THE JAPANESE army, partly because the recruiters promised him a ride in an airplane. Instead of getting his flight, he was assigned to a secret medical unit that performed experiments on prisoners in Manchuria. Now 65 and a construction worker, he is still tormented by the memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people...
Officials from Harvard's security unit alsodeclined comment yesterday