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rshowalter - 03:07pm Jun 30, 2001 EST (#6341 of 6345)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD6318 lunarchick 6/30/01 1:11am ... cites http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB11/docs/ U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA, 1966-1996 , which contains chilling documents.

Document 1: U.S. Counter-Terror Assistance to Guatemalan Security Forces

Document 2: Death List

Document 3: Request for Special Training

Document 4: Guatemala: A Counter-Insurgency Running Wild? " The document describes some of the methods utilized in Guatemala’s "successful" campaign, including the formation of clandestine counter-terrorist units to carry out abductions, bombings, torture, and summary executions "of real and alleged communists."

Document 5: Guatemala and Counter-terror . . ."we suspected that maybe it is a good tactic, and that as long as Communists are being killed it is alright. Murder, torture and mutilation are alright if our side is doing it and the victims are Communists."

Document 6: Guatemalan Antiterrorist Campaign .

Document 7: Fascell Sub-Committee Hearings on Guatemala Public Safety Program

Document 8: Internal Security: "Death Squad" Strikes

Document 9: Biographic Data on LTC Elias Osmundo RAMIREZ Cervantes, Guatemalan Army

Document 10: Background for Human Rights Speeches: Guatemalan Perceptions of Our Policies

Document 11: Guatemalan/US Military Relations

Document 12: Guatemalan Soldiers Kill Civilians in Cocob The soldiers were forced to fire at anything that moved." Many civilians died.

Document 13: Guatemala: What Next?

Document 14: Counterinsurgency Operations in El Quiché ---Central Intelligence Agency, Secret cable -- The massacres continue. ...... According to the cable, the army has yet to encounter any major guerrilla force in the area and its successes are limited to the destruction of entire villages and the killing of Indians suspected of collaborating or sympathizing with the rebels. "The well-documented belief by the army that the entire Ixil Indian population is pro-EGP has created a situation in which the army can be expected to give no quarter to combatants and non-combatants alike."

Document 15: Embassy Attempt to Verify Alleged Massacres in Huehuetenango

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rshowalter - 03:07pm Jun 30, 2001 EST (#6342 of 6345)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Document 16: Analysis of Human Rights Reports on Guatemala by Amnesty International, WOLA/NISGUA, and Guatemala Human Rights Commission

Document 17 Guatemala: Reports of Atrocities Mark Army Gains

Document 18: [Ríos Montt Gives Carte Blanche to Archivos to Deal with Insurgency]

Document 19: Ambassador’s Comments on the Information Concerning the Deaths of Three AID Project Related Persons - - - Ambassador Chapin is convinced that three Guatemalan AID workers were killed by Presidential intelligence unit "Archivos" as reprisal for recent U.S. pressure over human rights in Guatemala.

Document 20: President Cerezo Revamps the "Archivos"

Document 21: Article is Wrong to Report that Nothing has Changed Under Cerezo Presidency

Document 22: [Excised] Possible Guatemalan Government Involvement in Recent Capital Violence

Document 23: The D-2 Conducts Human Rights Investigations

Document 24: The Vice-President’s Meeting with Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo

Document 25: Stop Delivery of Military Assistance to Guatemala Note: In 1995, U.S. press reports revealed that although overt U.S. military aid was indeed halted in December 1990, millions of dollars of secret CIA funds continued to flow to the Guatemalan armed forces during the ensuing years. Those funds were finally cut off after they became public.

Document 26: Selective Violence Paralyzes the Left

Document 27: GOG Meets Most FMF Human Rights Benchmarks: Time for "Small Steps" in Response to Big Ones

Document 28 IMET Guatemala

Document 29: Concerns Over the Military

Document 30: Suspected Presence of Clandestine Cemeteries on a Military Installation

Document 31: The Rising Impact of the Bámaca Case on the Guatemalan Military Establishment November 24, 1994

Document 32: Perspective on Colonel Julio Roberto Alpírez Description of the Guatemalan military officer who was a paid intelligence asset for the CIA until the U.S. press revealed in March of 1995 his role in covering up the murder of American inn-keeper Michael DeVine in 1990, and in the torture and murder of Efraín Bámaca. In the mid-1980s, Alpírez served as an intelligence officer in the highlands where his job was to eliminate insurgents and sympathizers. "Colonel Alpírez reportedly excelled at this assignment. . ."

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