The Honorable Anthony Lake
Assistant to the President for
National Security Aftaira National Security Affairs
Dear Tony:
As you recall, we haveerbal request from Congressman Combest for tho DCI'a evaluation of whaconformation disclosed by Congressman Torriccl liropose you authorize us to pass the enclosed iniorrotioo to the Cbairwan and ranking member of both the Senate and House Intelligence Concaitteca, to cnauro bipartisan dissemination of this evaluation
Very respectfully,
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WilliamI .man Adairal, O. S. .Navy Acting Director ot Central Intelligence-
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2. Distortion*. In his public comments. Congressman Torricelli also made statements that were inaccurateistortion of the facts. Ha repeated these distortions and inaccuracies to buttress his more lnflanmatory claims that the CIA is out of control, that fTIAriminal element, and that our credible knowledge of the reported role of Alpirei in the Bamaca amrder was known two years earlier.
A. In his letter, He. Torricelli asserts that both Devine and Baxaca were murdered under thc direction of Colonel Alpirez.our information points clearlyirect role for Alpirei in the Bamaca death, his involvement in the Devine incident is less clear. Reporting indicates that he Bight have.been at the interrogation for at least sooe portion of it, but the details of the interrogation and the exact circumstances of the death are still unknown.
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Statements of Congressman Torricelli
r.for severalwas responsible andhappened tointerrogation orof bisthat Alpirezwho wastheanuarydeath.
also claims, . -it is clear [that) knowledgethe death and those responsible -asin theJennifer was demanding answers, even while she went onstrike, and the official position continued to bedidn't know what had happened to her husband. Inabout what happened to Bamaca remainsfragmentary, althouah our analytical judgment (whichby the5 report) was that he hadsole point in the weeks after his capture in
on our fragmentary information, Ks. Harburyby the State Department that Cov.rnment didwhat had happened to Bamaca but that we believed he At no time did the CIA have direct_
o! iRmttfiBaaWTGuatemalan ottic^vs to include Alpirez, who would have detailed knowledge of the Bamaca case to Harbury. This effort was overtaken by the public revelations by Congressman Torricelli.
E His assertion that Alpirez nurdered both Devine and Bamaca is not known to be accurate. He have one reliable report saying he killed Bamaca, and conflicting lnformatioi killed Devine.
F. Hp asserts that "the individual with whom thereontract (Alpirez) was known to be involved in gross violationv of human rights.*
G. Congressman Torricelli alao claims that he was not briefed on the facts of the case. He was In fact briefed in detail on the evening ofarch IMS, after he had made public his letter to the President. Ha later claimed, 'What they didn't do was dispute any facts (as he presentedobody's disputed any facts. This has been known for three years. These people were murdered. They were murderedan whoontractual relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, and these faailies have gone years, and now months,ariety of people knowing the truth who fail to speak it. They can call ne anything they want; they can say anything theyaven't seen anybody convinceor even attempt to convince anybody else, that those facta aren't accurate.* This claim is inaccurate, and at sharp variance with the comment he made to the CIA briefers on the evening ofS, when re remarked that it looked like the CIA had acted appropriately.
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