DOCUMENTS MAY LINK GUATEMALAN TO KILLING OF GUERRILLA, AMERICAN.Byline: Tim Weiner The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Government officials said Monday that classified documents strongly suggest that a Guatemalan army colonel who was a CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). informer Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47] Cenci, Count Francesco old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit. may be guilty of the 1992 killing of a guerrilla married to an American and the 1990 murder of an American innkeeper An individual who, as a regular business, provides accommodations for guests in exchange for reasonable compensation. An inn is defined as a place where lodgings are made available to the public for a charge, such as a hotel, motel, hostel, or guest house. . The State Department provided the classified documents to Congress on Friday, but, citing national security and the secrecy demanded by intelligence services, omitted these documents from thousands of papers on human rights abuses in Guatemala that it declassified de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas and released to the public Monday. The classified documents give a more damning depiction of the colonel's role in the killings than do the documents that were released. ``There is a disconnect between what's classified and what's public,'' said one U.S. government official who read aloud from the classified documents in a telephone interview. The official, who insisted on anonymity, said he was disturbed by that ``disconnect'' and wanted it made public. The case of Col. Julio Roberto Alpirez, which came to light in March 1995, revealed the CIA's long and deep ties to Guatemalan military officers who have been suspected of human rights abuses. The case compelled the CIA to dismiss a former chief of covert operations in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and a former station chief in Guatemala and led to stricter rules governing the way the agency recruits and handles thousands of paid informers. The papers released to the public, while strongly implicating im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. the colonel in the cover-up of the murder of the American innkeeper, Michael DeVine Michael James (Mickey) Devine (Irish name: Mícheál Ó Duibhinn); (b. May 26, 1954 - d. August 21, 1981) was an Irish Republican hunger striker and member (volunteer) of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). , suggest just as strongly that the colonel was not guilty of the killing. But a March 24, 1995, cable from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala to the State Department said, ``Alpirez may very well be guilty of DeVine's murder,'' according to government officials. The cable cautions against ``naming Alpirez'' as a suspect in the killing, saying that could lead to legal challenges of the convictions of low-level Guatemalan army officers jailed for the slaying. A high-ranking CIA official said last year that the colonel's role in the killing of DeVine was ``murky.'' A still-incomplete federal investigation being conducted for a White House panel, the Intelligence Oversight Board, has tentatively concluded that the colonel's role in the killing was limited to covering it up after the fact. The 1990 killing compelled the United States to cut off overt military aid to Guatemala, although covert aid continued until last year. Documents made public Monday say little about the colonel's military conduct. But a January 1995 intelligence report given to Congress calls Alpirez ``a bad egg'' and says he was guilty of human rights abuses, said government officials who had read the documents. According to government officials, the intelligence report said, ``Alpirez has more wealth than can be explained,'' and ``there are persistent rumors of Alpirez's involvement with narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. trafficking.'' The classified documents also implicate im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. the colonel more directly in the 1990 killing of the guerrilla than anything made public Monday. The public documents say it is possible that the colonel, a paid agent of the CIA from 1988 to 1992, murdered the captured guerrilla, Efrain Bamaca, who was married to Jennifer Harbury, an American lawyer who conducted hunger strikes and spoke out to force the U.S. government to release information on the case. |
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