Word: witheld
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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...