Reply #113: In contrast John Kerry on this issue

[quaker bill]

Congressional Record: September 2, 1998 (Senate)

FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

Amendment No. 3527

(Purpose: Establish a procedure for the declassification of information
pertaining to Guatemala and Honduras)

Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for
its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The legislative clerk read as follows:

The Senator from Connecticut , for himself, and
Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Kerrey, Mr. Kerry, and Mr. Leahy, proposes
an amendment numbered 3527.

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Through the testimonies of Sister Dianna and members of Coalition Missing, a group she co-founded comprised of American citizens, Guatemalans living in the U.S. and their families who suffered torture and murder in Guatemala, the United States government felt compelled to investigate and publicly disclose CIA and other intelligence agency abuses in paying known human rights violators, referred to as "dirty assets," to spy for the U.S. As a result of the Intelligence Oversight Board investigation, at least 100 dirty assets were removed from the CIA's payroll and CIA station chiefs were fired from their positions in Guatemala for not reporting the extent of the crimes committed against the people of Guatemala by these dirty assets. This Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) report recommended a number of reforms in the way intelligence agencies operate in an effort to bring them into line with American democratic values. The IOB also exposed the ugly fact that, for at least nine years, torture was being taught at the notorious School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga.


http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/senhria.html

The Dodd ammendment was to declassify and disclose the records of this abomination in regard to their central american exploits. It was defeated by the republicans. John Kerry was a sponsor. From what I have read of I like Kerry's work on this issue alot more than Clark's support of it's continued operation.