Оригинальный текст - Английский - During the mid-1990s, for example, revelations...

Intelligence cooperation with unsavoury regimes with miserable human rights records, if made public, can generate domestic and international political controversy.
During the mid-1990s, for example, revelations that the CIA station in Guatemala kept local military and intelligence officials accused of torture and murder on the agency’s payroll emerged as a full-blown Washington scandal.