CIA Chief Fires 2 Over Scandal In Guatemala

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 30, 1995| Author: R. Jeffrey Smith | Copyright information

CIA Director John M. Deutch said yesterday that the spy agency violated the law in the early 1990s by keeping Congress in the dark about its ties to a Guatemalan military officer linked to two murders, and announced that he had fired two senior CIA officers and disciplined eight others for their involvement in the wrongdoing.

Deutch was quoted by two senators as telling a closed hearing of the Select Committee on Intelligence that he agreed with the panel that CIA employees had "delibe...

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