Complaint about Peruvian spy no longer 'secret'

In 2001, a CIA whistle-blower complained that the agency may have broken U.S. laws by failing to pursue allegations that their associate, Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos, trafficked in drugs and laundered money. One week after the whistle-blower, Franz Boening, made the official complaint, the CIA classified it as secret. The agency finally declassified the complaint this February, after Boening filed a lawsuit arguing that by doing so, the CIA was violating his First Amendment rights. What Boening had written to the agency's inspector general, which the CIA had essentially censored from public view, was this: "I wish to call to your attention several very serious issues, including possible violations of U.S. laws, related to CIA's alleged operational relationship with Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos. Montesinos almost certainly used CIA tools and bureaucratic support to facilitate his crimes." Boening's complaint was based on published reports about Montesinos, his tight relationship with the CIA and his involvement in drug smuggling, money laundering, weapons trafficking and human rights violations. Montesinos, now serving several prison sentences of up to 20 years in Peru, was the notorious intelligence chief and liaison with the CIA during President Alberto Fujimori's rule from 1990-2000.