DEATH SQUADS

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  • Disappearances in Indonesia and East Timor
  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA: THE DEATH SQUADS
  • El Salvador death squads  Joya Martinez also claims that one of the U.S. advisers working with the First Brigade sat at a desk next to his and received "all the reports from our agents on clandestine captures, interrogations. " Hurtado refused to cooperate with the investigator on the advice of a member of Congress whom the church parishioners had called upon.

  • Phoenix Program. included assassination of suspected communists. May have been source of some offending material found in School of the Americas training manuals. Robert Parry, "Lost History: 'Project X' and School of Assassins. The Consortium (a paid subscriber service)
  • Project X. Begun in 1960's in Army's Foreign Intelligence Assistance program. Included training material prepared by officers connected to Phoenix Program in Vietnam. 1972 listing of lesson plans included aerial surveillance, electronic eavesdropping, interrogation, counter-sabotage meaqsures, counter-intelligence, handling of informants, break-ins and censorship. 1991 Pentagon begins internal review of Project X. Robert Parry, "Lost History: 'Project X' and School of Assassins. The Consortium (a paid subscriber service)

  • "Still seeing red: CIA fosters death squads in Colombia" in the June 1998 edition of The Progressive.



  • :Using Atrocities, an article by Peter Dale Scott, Ph. D., traces U. S. involvement in managed atrocities from the Philippine insurrection of 1898 onwards.

  • "It is today no secret that veterans of the Phoenix Program in Vietnam transferred their skills and attention to Latin America in the late 1960's and 1970's and that assassination and torture continued to be taught at the School of the Americas as late as the 1990s. (Washington Post.)

  • There were DEA and CIA operations in which U.S. agents knew before hand that individuals (some Americans) were going to be murdered. In one case (DEA file # TG-86-0005) several Colombians and Mexicans were raped, tortured and murdered by CIA and DEA assets, with the approval of the CIA. Among those victims identified was Jose Ramon Parra-Iniguez, Mexican passport A-GUC-043 and his two daughters Maria Leticia Olivier-Dominguez, Mexican passport A-GM-8381. Also included among the dead were several Colombian nationals: Adolfo Leon Morales-Arcilia "a.k.a." Adolfo Morales-Orestes, Carlos Alberto Ramirez, and Jiro Gilardo- Ocampo. Both a DEA and a CIA agent were present, when these individuals were being interrogated (tortured). In 1989 these murders were investigated by the U.S Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility. DEA S/I Tony Recevuto determined that the Guatemalan Military Intelligence, G-2 (the worst human rights violators in the Western Hemisphere) was responsible for these murders. Written Statement for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, April 27, 1998 of Celerino Castillo III (DEA, Retired), author of Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War

  • Documentation of CIA connection with drugs, atrocities. While with the DEA, I was able to keep journals of my assignments in Central and South America. These journals include names, case file numbers and DEA NADDIS (DEA Master Computer) information to back up my allegations. I have pictures and original passports of the victims that were murdered by CIA assets. These atrocities were done with the approval of the agencies. Written Statement for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, April 27, 1998 of Celerino Castillo III (DEA, Retired), author of Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War

  • Dec. 03, 1988, DEA seized 356 kilos of cocaine in Tiquisate, Guatemala (DEA # TG-89-0002; Hector Sanchez). Several Colombians were murdered on said operation and condoned by the DEA and CIA. I have pictures of individuals that were murdered in said case. The target was on Gregorio Valdez (CIA asset) of The Guatemala Piper Co. At that time, all air operations for the CIA and DEA flew out of Piper.Written Statement for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, April 27, 1998 of Celerino Castillo III (DEA, Retired), author of Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War

  • Some Reagan operatives were not shy about their defense of political terror as a necessity of the Cold War. Neil Livingstone, a counter-terrorism consultant to the National Security Council, called death squads "an extremely effective tool, however odious, in combatting terrorism and revolutionary challenges." [See McClintock's Instruments of Statecraft.] Peter Dale Scott, "Two Indonesias, Two Americas", June 9, 1998, site 1 or site 2 The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service.

  • The Jaguar Avengers have been sowing terror in Guatemala for many years, and have recently escalated their threats and intimidations against civilian dissidents. Ironically, they seem to have forgotten that a witness exists who has given us their real names as well as their full military titles.



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