Posted on 08/10/2021 8:47:03 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
United States torturer Dan Mitrione was executed on this date in 1970 by Uruguayan guerrillas.
A onetime Indiana beat cop, Dan Mitrione graduated to an agent of empire via a USAID program called the Office of Public Safety.
This organ headlined the putatively amicable mission of extending training to foreign police officers, both in their home countries and in the American capital. OPS’s real purpose, according to A.J. Langguth‘s Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America, was:
"allowing the CIA to plant men with the local police in sensitive places around the world; and after careful observation on their home territory, bringing to the United States prime candidates for enrollment as CIA employees
The foreign policemen themselves understood why they were being sent to Washington. Even before the coup d’etat, in July 1963, one Brazilian officer described the academy program to the governor of Sao Paulo as “the latest methods in the field of dispersion of strikes and striking workers.” He would learn, he said, how to use dogs and clubs and “to modernize the mechanism of repression against agitators in Sao Paulo.”
Brazil is where Mitrione made his bones over the course of the 1960s, years when the CIA trained some 100,000 Brazilian cops. But his mission was as universal as the toenails he ripped off and by 1969 he’d been reassigned to neighboring Uruguay further to that state’s suppression of a growing leftist revolutionary movement, the Tupamaros....
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Too bad he didn’t suffer like his victims. A bullet was too easy.
“A onetime Indiana beat cop”
Back when they could get away with torturing people and there were no cameras to catch them.
I’m wondering if there may be some exaggeration of his alleged evils.
For example, the Special Forces do training with foreign soldiers in their country and the School of the Americas brings such foreigners to Fort Benning for training. Both of these programs have been alleged to involve a lot of nefarious activities, but these criticisms have not help up under further scrutiny.
I could imagine the same could be true for this police program. I would definitely not take all allegations as 100 percent true.
I recall that incident. Mitrione’s kidnappers and murderers were Marxist-Leninist thugs.
Too bad the men who sent him got away with it
“Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Mitrione became a monster, as did the people who sent him. The things he did would have never passed muster with Americans if it were televised.
And as a practical matter, it backfired. Things like this -created- Venezuela, Evo Morales, the new socialist leader in Peru, etc.
His activities were as un-American as you can get. Can anyone imagine Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Madison, etc standing in a basement in Uruguay, right behind Mitrione and saying this is what they envisioned as American?
So Execution Today publishes old communist agit prop.
And you post it here.
“I recall that incident. Mitrione’s kidnappers and murderers were Marxist-Leninist thugs.”
Seems to be the Marxist fanboy thread here.
Note that they refer to his cold-blooded murder as an "execution."
Good point.
Mitrione and his ilk, working for the CIA, are why the 3rd world hates us.
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