NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE

NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE

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Abrams, Elliott. Assistant Secreary of State for inter-American Affairs, was previously in charge of the Reagan Administration's "human rights" program. A few months prior to this, he had helped win $20 million in "emergency" aid to Honduras by greatly exaggerating claims of Nicaraguan incursions into Honduran territory. Chris Holt's Contra Cards

Acevedo, Hugo. Chile. 1970, Combat Arms Orientation, School of the Americas. Identified in testimony by Luz Arce, as key official in the repressive forces of the DINA.

Alejandro. American (?) associated with torture by security forces in Guatemala.

Alpirez, Col. Julio Roberto. Guatemalan officer.

In March 1995, Rep. Robert Torricelli (D. NJ), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, disclosed that the CIA had known for years that one of its paid assets, Col. Julio Roberto Alpirez, may have been involved in Bamaca's [Efram Bamaca, Guatemelan guerrila leader and husband of Jennifer Harbury] killing as well as the 1990 assassination of Michael DeVine. (The U. S. government had suspended military aid to Guatemala because of its failure to fully investigate and prosecute the case against the killers of DeVine, a U. S. citizen who owned an inn in the Guatemalan countryside. Linda Haugaard, "Admissions and omissions--the CIA in Guatemala,"July22, 1996, In These Times Magazine.
This cuddly fellow belongs to the G-2, the Guatemalan Army terror unit that interrogates, tortures, and eliminates dissidents in the Army's campaign against populist insurgency -- a war in which the military (according to Amnesty International) has killed some 110,000 civilians since 1978. Alpírez is rumored to have ordered the murders of one Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, a guerrilla leader married to an American, and Michael DeVine, an American hotelier. As U.S. Representative Robert Torricelli disclosed in March, Alpírez is a paid "asset" of the CIA...Alpírez himself (though he denies responsibility for the killings) has told reporter Nairn that CIA agents regularly train G-2 soldiers, as well as providing "technical assistance." Other sources have corroborated such allegations, including three Guatemalan former heads of state and Colonel George Hooker, former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency chief in Guatemala. According to Hooker, "it's a perfectly normal thing" for Guatemalan officers to receive CIA paychecks. Garner Gollatz, "Bad Company"m The Brown Daily Herald, Inc., Wednesday, April 19, 1995

Al-Kassar, Manzer. Readers Digest noted in 1986 that he supplied arms and explosives for terrorist operations in France, spain and Holland; also linked him to heroin deals. 1984, DEA classified him as major drug trafficker. In 1986, when Iran-contra became public, ledgers of Oliver North's enterprise revealed it had paid $1.5 million to same Al-Kassar for arms shipments. Jerry Meldon, Contra-Crack Guide: Reading between the lines," in The Consortium (paid internet service)

Anderson Kohatsu, Major Ricardo, "one of Peru's most notorious alleged torturers". Retired, Peru Army Intelligence Service. On March 10, 2000, US Undersecretary of State Thomas R. Pickering ordered his release from FBI detention on the basis that he had a "G-2 visa" issued to foreigners with business before "international organizations." U. S. law enforcement officials had already arranged for victim Leonor La Rosa to testify. La Rosa had served with Anderson in army intelligence. In 1997 she was suspected of leaking a government plan to silence opposition journalists. "La Rosa told television journalists she was taken to army detention cells and tortured with electric shocks, raped, and beaten. Spinal cord injuries left her in a wheelchair." Her colleageue Mariela Lucy Barreto's headless and handless corpse was found in a ditch. La Rosa identified four intelligence agents, including Anderson, directly responsible for her torture. Karen De Young and Lorraine Adams, "U. S. Frees Accused Torturer",. Washington Post, March 11, 2000, p. A1.

Avila "Don Goyo", Especialista Gregorio. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad.

Banzer Suarez, General Hugo (Bolivia). School of the Americas Notorious Graduate, 1956 Became Military dictator 1971-78 in violent coup; silenced outspoken members of the Church, sheltered Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons". School of the Americas Hall of Fame, 1988, Guest Speaker, 1989.

Barriga, LTC German (Chile). School of the Americas Notorious Graduate In charge of repression of the socialist party by the Chilean DINA in the 1970's. Instructor, SOA, 1986.

Bedoya Pizarro, GEN Harold (Colombia), School of the Americas Notorious Graduate, 1965. Implicated in paramilitary death squad activity, 1965 to present; believed to be founder and chief of the paramilitary death squad known as "AAA" (American Anti-Communist Alliance) When fired by President Semper, July 1997, Defense Minister Gilberto Echeverri suggested the reason was Bedoya's unwillingness to commit to improving the military's poor human rights record. Guest Instructor, SOA, 1978-79.

Belmar, COL Pablo. Chile. 1968, received Basic Arms Orientation Course at the U. S. Army School of the Americas. Directly implicated in the 1976 torture and murder of United Nations official Carmelo Soria, whose neck was broken after he was arrested and tortured by Chilean DINA personnel. Soria's car and body were dumped in a Santiago canal in order to make his death appear accidental. Subsequently, in 1987, invited to be a Guest Instructor at the School of the Americas.

Berganza "Don Cesar", Mayor. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad.

Blair, Admiral Dennis, US Commander in Chief of the Pacific. Failed mission to Indonesia to meet with General Wiranto, April 8, 1999, with a mission to tell Wiranto "that the time had come to shut the militias down (in East Timor) illustrates tendency of US military to operate independently of US foreign policy. Two days previously, militias had committed a horrific machete massacre at the Catholic hurch in Liquica, Timor, where some of the victims' flesh was reportedly stuck to the walls of the church and a pastor's house. "But Admiral Blair, fully briefed on Liquica, quickly made clear at the meeting with Wiranto that hw was there to reassure the TNI chief. When State Department discovered Admiral Blair's failure, an 'eyes only' cable was dispatched to Ambassador Stapleton Roy in Jakarta indicating that Blair's actions were unacceptable. A corrective phone call was arranged between Blair and Wiranto in which once again Blair failed to tell Wiranto to shut the militias down. Alan Nairn, "US Complicity in Timor," The Nation, September 27, 1999.

Blandon Reyes, Oscar Danilo, a former Nicaraguan official with apparent ties to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, directed a massive and unstoppable flow of cocaine into South-Central LA beginning in 1982 in order to help finance the cash-poor, CIA-devised Contra war gainst the Sandinistas. Jill Stewart, "Just Another Big Embarassment Under Shelby", Phoenix New Times.

Brown, Arthur. In 1993, CIA chief of station, Rangoon, Burma. (Yangon, Myanmar). Working with Military Intelligence of the Burmese narco-dictatorship, destroyed efforts of the DEA to help eradicate opium among the Wa people. Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean, People of the Opiate: Burma's dictatorship of drugs. From The Nation, December 2, 1996.

Burgos, Alejandro. Chile. 1975, Basic Officer Orientation School of the Americas. According to testimony by Luz Arce, Burgos was involved in a plan to get left-wing political prisoners who had been tortured into collaborating with the DINA to meet with the U.S. Ambassador to show that they had changed their political convictions.

Bush, George, Vice President. By the end of 1981, through a series of Executive Orders and National Security Decision Directives, many of which have been declassified, Vice President Bush was placed in charge of all Reagan administration intelligence operations. All of the covert operations carried out by officers of the CIA, the Pentagon, and every other federal agency, along with a rogue army of former intelligence operatives and foreign agents, were commanded by George Bush. 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

Bustamonte Figueroa, "Don Sergio", Col. Edgar Ricardo. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad. Bustamonte Figuerora is listed as a School of the Americas graduate, September 1973.

Butler, Smedley. In his remarkable confession just prior to his death in 1940, the infamous U.S. Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler set out his record of service to the corporations, a record that is being surpassed by the military-corporate complex of today. See article on Transnational Corporations

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service," Smedley declared, "and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business, Wall Street, and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
"I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914.
I helped to make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank to collect revenues in.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.
I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.
I helped to make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.
In China in 1927, I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested."

Callejas y Callejas, GEN Manuel Antonio (Guatemala). Chile. 1974, Basic Officer Orientation Course School of the Americas. July 14, 1994: In an event related to the disappearance of four soldiers in 1974, Canales personally barred the exhumation of a body believed to have been illegally buried on Army premises. Canales had earlier given his approval to the exhumation.

Capister, Randy. CIA agent, covert operation in Central America 1985. Involved in several atrocities. 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

Carrera "Don Gaspar"., Teniente Coronel Oliva. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad.

Cathey, Jim. U. S. Air Force NCO in charge of resupply for SOG commandos on Operation Tailwind. "I believe that there were American defectors in that group of people in that village, because there was ... no sign of any kind of restraint. Source: CNN study: U. S. used nerve gas during Vietnam War. Mission targeted American defectors in Laos

Casia "Maceta", Especialista Cesar. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad.

Chandler, Captain Melbourne C., heavy-weapons company commander, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, now (1999) deceased. On July 26, 1950 ordered machine gunners to open fire on civilian refugees gathered under a railroad bridge near No Gun Ri. Quoated as telling troops, "...Let's get rid of all of them". "The Korean claimants said those near the tunnel entrances died first "People pulled dead bodies around them for protection," said survivor Chung Koo-ho, 61 "Mothers wrapped their children with blankets and hugged them with their backs toward the entrances .. My mother died on the second day of shooting." Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Writers, with AP Investigative Researcher Randy Herschaft, "Ex-GIs Tell AP of Korea Killing, in Horace Coleman, A Korean War My Lai, Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, September 29, 1999

Chivington, Col. John M. Sand Creek Massacre, 1864

Cogan, Charles. Former CIA director of the Afghan operation, in 1995 admitted sacrificing the drug war to fight the cold war.McCoy

Colby, William, Former CIA Director, in an interview, compared the embassy's campaign to identify the PKI leadership to the CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam. "You shoot them" "The idea of identifying the local apparatus was designed to -- well, you go out and get them to surrender, or you capture or you shoot them," Colby said of the Phoenix Program.

Colindres Aleman, Luis Antonio, Salvadoran SOA graduate. On Tuesday, July 21, released from prison under a new law designed to ease prison overcrowding. Colindres had served almost 18 years of a 30-year sentence for the murders of Roman Catholic nuns Ita Ford, Maura Clark and Dorothy Kazel and layworker Jean Donovan on Dec. 2, 1980. Also released were former guardsman Jose Roberto Moreno Canjura and Daniel Canales. Source: Michael Katz-Lacabe, 22 Jul 1998; School of the Americas Watch.

Collins, Col. Patrick. Officer of the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency. Said by Emmanuel Constant to have approached him soon after Aristide's outster to have approached Constant and pushed him to organize a front that could balance the Aristide movement and do intelligence work against it. By August 1993 this organization evolved into FRAPH. William Blum, Haiti 1986-1994: Who Will Rid Me of this Turbulent Priest?" excerpted from the book, Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.

Constant, Emmanuel; Haiti.

Contreras, Col. Manual
, Chile. Established DINA Secret Police under Pinochet.

Cordero Cordona "La Yegua", Especialista Jose Victor. Guatemala. Identified by witness known to Jennifer Harbury, June 25, 1998, as member of Jaguar Avengers death squad.

De Leon Gil, COL Morris Eugenio (Guatemala). School of the Americas Notorious Graduate, 1970. 1994 publicly denounced Rosalina Tuyuc and members of her family when Tuyuc recieved a French Legion of Honor Award for her humanitarian work. Denouncement is tantamount to a death threat. 1988-90, Guest Instructor, School of the Americas.

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