Government Moves to Disband Spy Agency
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s government sent Congress urgent legislation to disband his disgraced spy agency, shortly after opening talks with the opposition on holding new elections. The dismantling of the National Intelligence Service was a key demand of the opposition, which also warned that the talks with Fujimori would be damaged unless he arrests the agency’s powerful former chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, implicated recently in a bribery scandal.
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