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ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95040401.PPO
DATE:04/04/95
TITLE:DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 4
TEXT:
(Guatemala, Turkey/northern Iraq) (350)
NEWS BRIEFING -- Deputy spokesman Dennis Boxx discussed the following
subjects:
PENTAGON REVIEWING GUATEMALAN CONTACTS
Boxx said the Defense Department is currently reviewing all contacts
between elements of the department and Guatemala.
"Right now," he said, "the involvement is very limited," with a few
U.S. military units occasionally conducting Guard and Reserve
engineering training to help carry out road and school construction
tasks.
The review is seeking information from January 1980 to the present
concerning the murders of Michael Devine and Efrain Bamaca Valesquez.
Information is also being sought related to the possible destruction
of records related to the two cases. The inquiry will conclude by
April 15.
The Pentagon's general counsel issued extensive guidelines to the
military services on March 31 on how information for the review should
be collected, but the deputy spokesman said it is too soon for a
status report.
Boxx said the Joint Staff is compiling a chronology of deployment of
all U.S. military personnel assigned to missions related to Guatemala
in the areas of intelligence, training, military assistance, special
operations, counter-terrorism and narcotics
U.S. SEES TURKISH OPERATION IN NORTHERN IRAQ AS "LIMITED"
Boxx said the United States still believes that the Turkish military
operation in northern Iraq must be of "limited" duration and scope and
incorporate "careful consideration of human rights of those
individuals who are not the targets of the Turkish effort."
"We don't have any indication or any reason to think that this will be
otherwise," he added.
To date, Boxx said, the United States has received indications that
the Turks "are making sincere efforts to abide by human rights
standards."
As to the expected end date for the Turkish operation, he said the
United States has not heard "a date certain." But senior Turkish
officials, Boxx said, have made it known that "they, too, desire this
(operation) to be of limited duration...and hope to be in and out of
there in a reasonably short period of time."
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