C.I.A. Role Is Faulted In Air Crash Over Peru -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency officers involved with a secret counternarcotics mission in the Peruvian jungle routinely violated agency procedures, tried to cover up their mistakes, and misled Congress immediately after a missionary plane was accidentally shot down in 2001, according to a blistering C.I.A. internal report released on Monday.
The declassified 2008 report by John L. Helgerson, then the C.I.A.’s inspector general, documents a culture of negligence and deceit inside the C.I.A. program in Peru. The report also details a pattern of C.I.A. stonewalling that included keeping results of a C.I.A. review of the 2001 downing of the plane from the White House and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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My Comment: This report is long overdue, and I can only hope it will give some solace to the family. Unfortunately, the punishments that have been meted within the CIA are minor and (probably) inconsequential.
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