Until today:
"Nixon endorsed death threats in Uruguay; Suggestion failed to save agent who was kidnapped" by Raul O. Garces, Associated Press | August 14, 2010
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Long-secret diplomatic cables show that President Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to save the life of a kidnapped US agent 40 years ago this week.
The National Security Archive, which published the papers Wednesday, said the State Department cables suggest the US government knew as early as 1970 about the death squads that were cracking down on violent leftist insurgencies in the years before military dictatorships ousted democracies across much of South America.
Knew? They were DOING IT FOR THEM!!
Operation Condor, wasn't it?
The cables — obtained through Freedom of Information requests — focus on the kidnapping of Dan Mitrione, a former Indiana police officer and FBI agent who had been advising Latin American governments, including Uruguay’s, on techniques for interrogating suspects.
In other words, TORTURE!
Yeah, Amerika has LONG SUPPORTED and USED TORTURE as long as they were/are OUR GUYS!!!!!
Mitrione’s 10 days in captivity were part of a wave of kidnappings of foreign officials by the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas, who hoped to use the captives in a prisoner exchange and eventually topple the Uruguayan government. The tumultuous events were dramatized in the Costa-Gavras film “State of Siege.’’
Instead, it prompted an intense police and military response that resulted in the arrest of Tupamaro leader Raul Sendic and hundreds of other guerrillas, and set the stage for Uruguay’s dictatorship in 1973.
While the Uruguayan and US governments discussed how to respond, one of several Tupamaro communiques — delivered along with Mitrione’s personal belongings as proof of life — ended with the warning that “for every revolutionary killed, one policeman will be killed,’’ according to a 1987 review of his kidnapping by the RAND Corporation that was sponsored by the US Defense and State departments.
The additional documents published this week show that while publicly calling for amnesty and offering ransom money, the Nixon administration was equally harsh behind the scenes....
Yeah, YOUR GOVERNMENT has been LYING TO YOU a LONG TIME, America!!!
Despite the US pressure, Sendic was treated in a military hospital for gunshot wounds suffered during his arrest, and he and other jailed guerrillas were convicted and sentenced to prison. Freed in a 1986 amnesty, he eventually died in France.
Another jailed Tupamaro, Jose Mujica, also served a lengthy prison term, then renounced violence after the amnesty. He entered politics and became Uruguay’s president this year.See: Uruguay Says Up Yours, AmeriKa!
Same thing the rest of the continent is saying.
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Related:
"Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy" by Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer | April 10, 2010
WASHINGTON --As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.
Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.
Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.
In 1976, the South American nations of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay were engaged in a program of repression code-named Operation Condor that targeted those governments' political opponents throughout Latin America, Europe and even the United States.
A CIA PROGRAM, readers!!
Based on information from the CIA, the U.S. State Department became concerned that Condor included plans for political assassination around the world....
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What do you mean the WEB VERSION CHOPPED IT, dear readers?
