CIA Support For Terrorism, Murder, Torture and Rape

   Earlier I drew from CIABASE a report on CIA support for death
squads around the world. Direct or indirect support for Death Squads 
was a universal of CIA operations -- it itself conducted death squad 
operations in Vietnam killing over 35,000 Vietnamese.

    Now the Historical Clarification Commission, in Guatemala, 
documents CIA support to the Guatemalan military's murder, torture
and rape.

   The Historical Clarification Commission charged to investigate human 
rights abuses during Guatemala's 34-year civil war accused the U.S.-backed 
military of responsibility for the vast majority of the crimes, including 
murder, torture, rape, destruction of Indian villages and widespread 
state terrorism. 

   The report of the Historical Clarification Commission, said the 
massacres eliminated entire Mayan villages. The commission found the 
"government of the United States, through various agencies including 
the CIA, provided direct and indirect support for some state operations." 

   The report, "Guatemala, Memory of Silence," found that about 
200,000 people -- the overwhelming majority of them civilians -- were 
killed or "disappeared" during the war. The panel...documented 626 massacres
committed by the army in the 1980s, during the height of its scorched-earth 
policy against Indian peasant communities. The army "completely exterminated 
Mayan communities, destroyed their dwellings, livestock and crops...and 
carried out a systematic campaign of "genocide."  Washington Post 2/26/99 A19.

   Now DCI Tenet wants to run more CIA operations than even during the
Cold War.

Ralph McGehee
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