He was kidnapped and murdered. And I feel I should do everything I can because I love Guatemala very much, to help the people. The same military that the CIA has trained and supported in its war on leftist insurgents has also provided cover for some of the major drug traffickers pursued by the DEA. Close-up of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez's picture, PLEASE NOTE: APTV CLIENTS MAY WANT TO GET LEGAL ADVICE BEFORE. Contreras escaped from a military barracks soon afterward and has not been recaptured. If that is the case, then the CIA officials involved are guilty of obstruction of justice.”. FRANK SMYTH is a freelance journalist who has written about drug trafficking in Guatemala for The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal. We have to end impunity.". Jennifer Harbury is also demanding information from the U-S government on the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez. Capister, Castillo alleges, learned that DeVine had found out that Alpírez was involved in cocaine trafficking and marijuana cultivation near DeVine’s ranch. In March 1994 Gonzalez lived up to his reputation with an unprecedented ruling: he signed a decision declaring Ochoa’s extradition to be constitutional. In the wake of the murder of American citizen Michael DeVine, the Bush administration decides to freeze the delivery of security assistance to Guatemala. Allen C. Cornell, who was the military attache in Guatemala at the time, testified that it was inconceiveable that the soldiers had killed DeVine without orders from a superior. Ochoa was indicted in Florida’s US. Ortiz survived the experience and went on to return to the U.S. and tell her story to American news outlets. Last photograph taken of Michael Devine before he was killed. Colonel Alpírez was under Ortega’s command within the G2, while CL4 agent Capister reported not to then-Ambassador Stroock, but to Alfonso Sapia-Bosch, then the CIA station chief. In response, President George Bush cut off military aid to Guatemala and publicly criticized the Army. What the DEA knew or knows is also in doubt. Now a former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent says that DeVine was killed because he knew Alpírez was involved in drug trafficking. Various of clash between police and students, 15. WASHINGTON - Two Guatemalan presidents, two defense ministers and high-ranking military officers paid by the CIA helped cover up the facts … Set up Jennifer Harbury with picture of Efrain Bamarca, 11. The million dollar question is why, and that's what I hope the Congress and Senate will set about to find out.". Shot of entrance of inn owned by Michael and Carole Devine in the Peten. In June of 1990, the Guatemalan military killed Michael DeVine, a U.S. citizen living and working in Northern Guatemala. In the0 s, thethrough Mexico and eventually reached Guatemala. Taking the war on drugs seriously means taking on Guatemala. Devine said she went to the local army garrison and asked the commanding Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez if he knew where her husband was. Whatever the motives for DeVine’s murder, it’s clear that the CIA and the DEA have often been working at cross-purposes in Guatemala. RUNNING ANY OF THE SOUNDBITES IN THIS STORY. It also casts doubt on the CIA: whatever information the CIA has provided so far has yet to lead to the prosecution of a single officer. "Colonel Alpirez was implicated in the cover-up and he could have stopped the killing and he didn't. As Torricelli spoke, Harbury stood nearby, holding an eight-by-ten black-and-white photo of her dead husband. From the beginning, U.S. intelligence sources say, officials have had information to suggest that drugs were behind DeVine’s murder. My Enemy’s Friends: In Guatemala, the DEA fights the CIA, https://www.franksmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/def-sel-featured.png, https://www.franksmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/header-image.png. Carole was a city girl born in California and Mike was a farm boy from Iowa. Ochoa, in Guatemala, is now free. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States military, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. National Security Agency, United States government. dent of Guatemala, Michael Devine, who had been killed by a Guatemalan colonel on the U.S. payroll. According to Guatemalan government documents, Alpirez has never been interrogated in connection with Devine's killing. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff associated insurgency with the expression of dissenting opinions or political organizing, illegal strikes or street protests, and major guerrilla attacks, short of civil war. Castillo says that CIA agent Randy Capister (whose identity Stroock confirmed) served as the agency’s covert liaison with G2. She has been instrumental in forcing the revelation of the complicity of the United States CIA in human rights abuses, particularly in Guatemala and other countries of Central America during the 1980s and 1990s. In a letter to the CIA Inspector General dated May 4, Torricelli wrote that if DeVine was slain to protect a drug operation, the crime would have been politically motivated and therefore potentially subject to prosecution here under U.S. anti-terrorism laws. BACKGROUND Agency record has been found concerning MichaelU.S. Human rights groups promise to keep the pressure up until the Guatemalan authorities end their abuses. Now Studeman claims that the CIA must maintain contacts with Guatemalan military intelligence officers–such as Alpírez–to collect information about drug trafficking. Some of the more famous atrocities include the abduction and torture in 1989 of Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American nun, and the murder of U.S. citizen Michael Devine, who lived on a farm in Petén. He moved outside of Poptun, Guatemala some 35 years ago and purchased the 400-acre Finca Ixobel. Now, to connect the dots to Michael Devine, owner of the Finca Ixobel. The Guatemalan army found itself in Alpirez has also been implicated in the 1990 murder of Michael Devine, an American innkeeper in Guatemala. From the "Introduction": "On March 30, 1995, the President directed the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) to conduct a government-wide review concerning allegations regarding the 1990 death of US citizen Michael DeVine, the 1992 disappearance of Guatemalan … The letter also disclosed that Michael DeVine, an American living in Guatemala who disappeared in 1990, also was killed with a machete by the same CIA-paid colonel. In response to DeVine’s death—as well as other human rights violations—the U.S. government suspended Foreign Military Funds to Guatemala in December of 1990. Free Online Library: Murder and complicity in Guatemala; U.S., Israel allegedly continue furtive roles in military, politics. At a Washington news conference Thursday Harbury accused the CIA of covering up for the Guatemalan military leaders who allegedly tortured and killed her husband. It alleges the Army and the N-S-A shredded documents on the killings and that the Army itself may have played a role in the murders. So Alpirez had a chance to stop the murder and he didn't.". “Guatemala became the Colombian cartels’ choice in Central America for cocaine transshipment.”. Then, on April 12, the surviving judges reversed Gonzalez’s decision. In June 1990, Michael DeVine, an American innkeeper who had been living and working in Guatemala for 20 years, was found killed. and convicted of masterminding Devine's killing. “DeVine could have found out that there were Guatemalans dealing with drugs up there because there were,” says Thomas F. Stroock, who was the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala at the time of the DeVine killing. But Studeman offered no explanation for the murder, and Alpírez ‘s motive for ordering it has remained a mystery. She asked that the United States government explain why her husband's real killers have never been brought to justice. "Our government has always covered up for Guatemalan army. In October, DEA agents allegedly watched as Ochoa and others loaded cargo onto a small plane; the agents then tracked the cargo to Tampa, where they later seized a half metric ton of cocaine, with a street value of over $40 million. Contreras) sent the killers out of Flores to Poptun to kill my husband. GUATEMALA: FBI INQUIRY INTO THE DEATH OF AMERICAN INNKEEPER. Back in 1993 the DEA stated of DeVine’s murder: “There is, no indication that drugs were involved in this case.” But since Alpirez’s role in the murder was revealed, the DEA’s chief spokesman, James McGivney, has declined to answer any queries on Guatemala. In April of this year, acting CIA Director William 0. Mexico forwards the bulk of the drug to the United States. But five years ago, Carole Devine's husband Michael disappeared from the inn they ran together. They raped me numerous times. This nun told reporters how members of the Guatemalan military tortured her. Yet there are U.S. interests at stake. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, members heard testimony from the first panel concerning the C.I.A. I've taken exceptional steps to make sure that there is a good investigation and to make sure that the records are secure.". 5. Today he stands accused in Florida of collaborating with Colombia’s Cali cartel to ship multi-ton level units of cocaine to the United States. For the crucial backdrop to this story is not only the involvement of the CIA with the Guatemalan military, but the involvement of the Guatemalan military in drug trafficking. President Clinton has directed a government board to conduct an investigation into the allegations of C-I-A involvement and cover-up in the deaths and abuse of Americans in Guatemala. At the very least, this casts doubt on the reliability of Guatemalan military intelligence. The New York Times reported that DeVine may have been killed because he knew about the Guatemalan military’s illegal logging of mahogany trees near his ranch in the country’s northern Peten jungle. Has Guatemala Become the Cali Cartel’s Bodega. DeVine’s widow says it may have been because in his restaurant he served a civilian before serving a military officer. In 1993, army intelligence officer Captain Hugo Contreras was tried and convicted of masterminding Devine's killing. In December 1990, however, largely as a result of the killing of US citizen Michael DeVine by members of the Guatemalan army, the Bush administration suspended almost all overt military aid. Michael DeVine was an expatriate US citizen who had lived in Guatemala since 1977, running an inn, restaurant, and farm until he was murdered on June 8, 1990, near his property. And Guatemala serves as a warehouse for Mexico. involvement in Guatemala and the circumstances surrounding the death of a U.S. citizen. Information Service. The F-B-I inquiry has been triggered by an anonymous letter apparently from someone inside the top secret National Security Agency, or N-S-A. The DEA’s sting against Ochoa was the United States’s best chance to prosecute a Guatemalan military officer. In 1990, DEA agents infiltrated Ochoa’s organization, which allegedly operated from a private farm in Escuintla, near Guatemala’s Pacific Coast. Once Capister learned of DeVine’s discovery, he in turn informed Colonel Francisco “Paco” Ortega Menaldo, then head of G-2. And then they were given shelter and food, maybe instructions, by Alpirez. Devine's body was found June 9 by a roadside near The two grown children--who were born in Guatemala and adopted as infants by the DeVines--recalled on Friday enjoying a lifestyle that was something akin to paradise. Mr. According to a letter from CIA general counsel Michael J. O'Neil to Nuccio's lawyers, the brief against him includes more than the unauthorized delivery of information to Torricelli. Because he didn't that for me is the same as if he had done the killing himself with his own hands.". In the increasingly isolationist post-cold-war world, it might be tempting to overlook cases such as this one. There is, however, a more probable motive for DeVine’s murder. Report Claims Guatemalan Army Did Not Kill American By Art Pine Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON. They poured wine on me and used and abused my body in horrible ways. Guatemala: Soldiers Arrested In Murder Of U.S. Citizen Michael Devine by Deborah Tyroler Category/Department: General Published: Wednesday, October 17, 1990 On Oct. 10, the New York Times reported that as of Oct. 5, at least five soldiers had been arrested in the murder of US citizen Michael Devine. 9. citizen who lived and died in Guatemala, prior to his death inAccording to media and Embassy reporting, DeVine was bornraised in lUinois and served in. Assistance had been withdrawn in 1990 after it was learned that Guatemalan military forces had been involved in the killing of U.S. citizen Michael Devine. Says Stroock of these agents: “I had no way of knowing what they did or did not know.”. Michael Devine's body was found on a roadside near his home, his hands tied and his head nearly severed. The year 1971 found four American adventurers, Carole DeVine, Michael DeVine, Luisa Wheeler and Dennis Wheeler setting out from California and Wisconsin traveling through Mexico, Belize and Guatemala looking to buy land so that they could realize their dream of a farm. In March, Torricelli publicly revealed Alpírez ‘s role in both DeVine’s murder and that of a Guatemalan guerrilla leader, Efraín Bámaca Velasquez, who was married to American lawyer Jennifer Harbury. Studeman, for his part, has denied that the CIA played any role in DeVine’s killing. Castillo’s new charge has now led Representative Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, to reexamine what the CIA told the Justice Department. "I believe he (Capt. The press also picked up "Democracy" Comes to Guatemala 73. the stories of two other U.S. citizens mur-dered in Guatemala, possibly by security forces. (DeVine, though not a DEA informant, knew U.S. officials and others associated with the U.S. The New York Times reported that DeVine may have been killed because he knew about the Guatemalan military’s illegal logging of mahogany trees near his ranch in the country’s northern Peten jungle. But that didn’t stop a Guatemalan military tribunal from later reclaiming jurisdiction and ruling to dismiss all charges for “lack of evidence.” The State Department then appealed the case all the way to Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, whose presiding judge, Epaminondas Gonzalez Dubon, had a reputation for integrity. Guatemala: Court Issues Sentences Against Army Members Convicted In Murder Of Michael Devine by Deborah Tyroler Category/Department: General Published: Friday, October 2, 1992 On Sept. 29, a military court issued sentences against six army soldiers implicated in the 1990 murder of US citizen Michael Devine. Studeman and other U.S. officials implicated Colonel Julio Roberto Alpírez, who was on the CIA payroll at the time of the crime, in the June 1990 killing. Carole Devine lives in what might - at first sight - seem tranquil surroundings. In response, the Guatemalan military discharged Ochoa as well as two Army captains also implicated in the case. The DeVine case In 1990, MIchael DeVine, an American businessman living in Guatemala, apparently stumbled upon the Guatemalan Army's drug-trafficking activities. 1. Colonel Cornell said he went to see Colonel Alpirez at the base on July 18 of that year but that he was rebuffed. Jennifer K. Harbury (born 1951) is an American lawyer, author, and human rights activist. Alpirez denies involvement in both crimes. Although in the early 1980s most U.S.-bound cocaine flowed through the Caribbean, in the 1990s the Mexican and Central American land isthmus has become the cocaine superhighway. The same CIA hired gun, Julio Roberto Alpirez, reportedly ordered the murder of an American citizen living in Guatemala, Michael DeVine, a hotel operator. When the CIA obtained specific information about Alpírez’s alleged role in the crime in October 1991, the agency turned it over to the Justice Department but withheld it from Congress. High officials, if they are implicated they always get off. "The cover-up had started," he testified. Alpirez is presently the second in command at a Guatemalan air base. Assistant Secretary of State Alexander F. Watson told Congress DeVine might have been killed in a dispute over missing army rifles. The ex-DEA agent, Celerino Castillo III, says he worked with both G-2 (the former name for the Guatemalan military intelligence) and the CIA from 1985 to 1990. Take the case of Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Ochoa Ruiz, “a/k/a Charlie,” the first officer against whom the DEA initiated prosecution. In 1993, army intelligence officer Captain Hugo Contreras was tried. In March 2005, Washington gave $3.2 million to initiate a modernization process of Guatemala’s military capacities. The Clinton administration agrees; after cutting other CIA programs to Guatemala, it has allowed the CIA’s anti-drug operations there to continue. Following claims of CIA involvement U-S President Clinton has also ordered an investigation into allegations surrounding the deaths of three other Americans in Guatemala dating back ten years. Embassy.) The story has it that apparently, Michael Devine was an ex-CIA employee of some high rank. In Guatemala there's killings and kidnappings all the time and nobody is ever captured . The FBI has opened a criminal inquiry into allegations that the U-S National Security Agency or Army intelligence destroyed files relating to the death of an American innkeeper in Guatemala in 1990 and of a Guatemalan rebel leader. Navy. His wife,born and raised in California. “If CIA officials were fully aware of the circumstances surrounding Mr. DeVine’s murder when they requested a Department of Justice ruling,” wrote Torricelli, “they clearly did not provide that information to the Justice Department. Why did the Guatemalan military kill American innkeeper Michael DeVine? Sapia-Bosch, reached for comment, declined to make one. The Clinton administration said yesterday that it believes senior Guatemalan army officers ordered the detention and interrogation of American innkeeper Michael DeVine in Guatemala in 1990 but were not involved in his killing, despite allegations to the contrary. In June, a prominent American businessman living in Guatemala, Michael DeVine, was kidnapped and nearly beheaded by the Guatemalan military after he apparently stumbled upon the military’s drug trafficking and/or other contraband activities. Committee members heard testimony concerning CIA involvement in Guatemala and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of a U.S. citizen and a Guatemalan rebel. 7. Say the State Department report, “In most cases, the officers continue on with their suspicious activities.”. The cable states that the Cerezo government intends to "string the investigation out, as it has on all past cases, until it leaves office in three weeks. Two Guatemalan Presidents, two Defense Ministers and high-ranking military officers paid by the Central Intelligence Agency helped cover up the facts of the killing of Michael DeVine, … ". Yet, as a 1994 State Department report explains, “Guatemalan military officers strongly suspected of trafficking in narcotics rarely face criminal prosecution.” In most cases, the Guatemalan military has merely discharged from active service those officers named by the DEA. On April 1 in Guatemala City, Gonzalez was assassinated by four unidentified gunmen. Connecticut News . SOUNDBITE: (English), Sister Diana Ortiz, 16. “With hundreds of unmonitored airfields and a good network of roads leading to Mexico,” reads the State Department’s latest drug control report. Shot of area where Michael Devine's body was found. "If Michael's death can bring an improvement in the human rights situation here in Guatemala then it won't have been for naught. (Michael DeVine murder, Cover Story) by "National Catholic Reporter"; Philosophy and religion Covert operations, American Covert operations, Israeli Crime Guatemalan foreign relations United States United States foreign relations Instead, the case established a precedent: even officers under indictment are above the law. We funded them, we trained them, we put them in power, we have kept them in power. "They interrogated me and burnt my back with cigarettes 111 times. Michael Devine's body was found on a roadside near his home, his hands tied and his head nearly severed. It turned out, however, that there were forces more powerful than the high court. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jennifer Harbury, 14. The widow of the American innkeeper allegedly killed by a Guatemalan army colonel on the C-I-A payroll spoke exclusively to APTV. Because it is out of control , just like the CIA is out of control. The U.S. pressed the Guatemalan government to solve his murder; when that did not happen by the end of the year, Congress prohibited more … Middle District Court and the State Department requested his extradition. DeVine’s widow says it may have been because in his restaurant he served a … The trouble is that the CIA has been relying for information about drug trafficking on the very institution that has been producing drug trafficking suspects wanted by the DEA. 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