U.S. CRITICIZED OVER TREATMENT OF LATIN SOURCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130082-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: July 7, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/21: CIA-RDP
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WASHINGTON POST
7 July 1984
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temalan refugee and then, believe it poruve reason [to believe] that-the m nr. n this is the way the State
accusations? could 'have been made Department treats informants, then
or not, handed him over to the Gua- for political reasons. 1' the local cops aie going to tell those
temalan government' for prosecu- In spite 'of this warning and Zi- guys tot shove it when they aslc_for
tion. , men's service to the United States cooperation -an: intelligence t_
The informer, Jorge Zimeri, had the State Department deported him tern."
been part of an unsuccessful at- last. August to Guatemala, whe In a
re he . 7>t
tempt to overthrow the repressive was put:in:p"son toawait=trial...In ' where she lives with
her 3-month-old daughter, Noima
Guatemalan government. He flea t,, May hP'u,n.
Her report was so' sensitive it will ?rougnt Lunen to the State Depart- official, meanwhile, said no fina,
be kept classified until the erit cision has been made on Zim -s
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2005. 'year,-, "He turned e out to be a gold mine visa application. Johnstone would
of info rmation,"; Chaillet , told my not comment._
.....
uie unirea Mates after miraculous- - ,u u
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der charge, but he has gone into p g
nt helped .the government here hisfffe
ly surviving an assassination at- 'hiding in fear for his life ' i is in danger. I cannot stay e
tempt that left him- with 13 bullet ' - The State Department has re- alone any longer. I will have to g o
wounds. fused to issue him a visa' to return El Salvador where Jorge" can 4i e
Zimeri knows who's who in the to the United States. Meanwhile, he to see his daughter."
Guatemalan underground. has never seen his infant daughter, Footnote: There is one minor
- He told the State Department who lives with his wife in Miami. ' complication... With 13 . bdket
-which groups have been murdering Z ens- experience should -dis- ? wounds to remind Zimeri that h's
American diplomats and advisers in. courage other informers f_romco- on someone's hit list, he purchased
Guatemala. operating with the State Depart- two handguns in Miami without:clis-
A State Department intelligence merit to combat the . terrorist closing his alien status. This is a law
officer, Belle Johnstone , flew to 1 threat. Certainly this is the opinion violation, and he served 11 =66
Sa va or and Guatemala and con- of * a Washington, D: C., homicide - in jail.
, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130082-0