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What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
Jay Janson
THE [not so] SECRET [by now] WARS OF THE CIA
John Stockwell
A lecture given in October, 1987
School of the Americas: School of Assassinslating
"Here is the School of the Americas. It's a 'combat' school. Most of the courses revolve around what they call "counter-insurgency warfare." Who are the "insurgents?" We have to ask that question. They are the poor. They are the people in Latin America [and the entire"Third World"] who call for reform. They are the landless peasants who are hungry. They are health care workers, human rights advocates, labor organizers. They become the insurgents. They are seen as "the enemy." They are those who become the targets of those who learn their lessons at the School of the Americas." - Father Roy Bourgeois
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13436.htm
What is the School of Americas?
The School of Americas (AKA: SOA, School of Coups, and dubbed the School of Assassins by a Panamanian newspaper) is a mobile, higher learning and training center created, funded, and sustained by the CIA since 1946. In other words, the SOA is the United States of America's terrorist camp. Its curriculum teaches politics, economics, assassination, political upheaval, and modern weapon training in order to create and maintain a dictatorship. In South and Central American, SOA graduates are used by land barons to stop land reform and democracy. It has had an annual graduating class of 2000 since 1946 and has accepted "students" from 23 countries (that's over 100,000 experts in counter insurgency and assassination, paid by US TAX DOLLARS). Since being kicked out of Panama (due to the Panama Canal Treaty), the SOA has set up shop in Fort Benning, Georgia. In December of 2000, the SOA had its name changed to the 'Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,
Walter Jensen
http://www127.pair.com/critical/soa.htm
...the Pentagon...training manuals that were used at the School of the Americas for years.
These manuals advocated torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations...
Material from CIA and Army manuals written in the 1950's and 1960's was incorporated into these seven Spanish-language training guides.
More than a thousand of these manuals were distributed for use in countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru, and at the School of the Americas...
Click here to read and download a timeline about the creation of these CIA and Army manuals.
The National Security Archive ran released their declassified documents dealing with all of the manuals in May 2004, after the Abu Ghraib scandal put torture at the hands of U.S. and U.S.-trained soldiers back
in the news. Read "Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past" here.
http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/soa-manuals/98-soa-manuals-index
excerpts from the manuals:
"Insurgents can be considered criminal by the legitimate government and are afraid to be brutalized after capture."
"If an individual has been recruited using fear as a weapon, the ... agent must in a position of (sic) maintain the threat."
"The ... agent must offer presents and compensation for information leading to the arrest, capture or death of guerrillas."
"The employee's value could be increased by means of arrests, executions or pacification, taking care not to expose the employee as the information source."
"Threats should not be made unless they can be carried out and the employee realizes that such threats could be carried out."
School of the Americas :Backyard terrorism
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it
George Monbiot
Monday October 29 2001
The Guardian
...For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp...The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it
is funded by Mr Bush's government.
Until January this year, Whisc was called the "School of the Americas", or
SOA. Since 1946, SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers
and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continent's most
notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists...
In June this year, Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, once a student at the
school, was convicted in Guatemala City of murdering Bishop Juan Gerardi in
1998. Gerardi was killed because he had helped to write a report on the
atrocities committed by Guatemala's D-2, the military intelligence agency
run by Lima Estrada with the help of two other SOA graduates. D-2
coordinated the "anti-insurgency" campaign which obliterated 448 Mayan
Indian villages, and murdered tens of thousands of their people. Forty per
cent of the cabinet ministers who served the genocidal regimes of Lucas
Garcia, Rios Montt and Mejia Victores studied at the School of the Americas.
In 1993, the United Nations truth commission on El Salvador named the army
officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war. Two-thirds
of them had been trained at the School of the Americas. Among them were
Roberto D'Aubuisson, the leader of El Salvador's death squads; the men who
killed Archbishop Oscar Romero; and 19 of the 26 soldiers who murdered the
Jesuit priests in 1989. In Chile, the school's graduates ran both Augusto
Pinochet's secret police and his three principal concentration camps. One of
them helped to murder Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffit in Washington DC in
1976.
Argentina's dictators Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, Panama's Manuel
Noriega and Omar Torrijos, Peru's Juan Velasco Alvarado and Ecuador's
Guillermo Rodriguez all benefited from the school's instruction. So did the
leader of the Grupo Colina death squad in Fujimori's Peru; four of the five
officers who ran the infamous Battalion 3-16 in Honduras (which controlled
the death squads there in the 1980s) and the commander responsible for the
1994 Ocosingo massacre in Mexico...
The FBI defines terrorism as "violent acts... intended to intimidate or
coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government, or
affect the conduct of a government", which is a precise description of the
activities of SOA's graduates. But how can we be sure that their alma mater
has had any part in this? Well, in 1996, the US government was forced to
release seven of the school's training manuals. Among other top tips for
terrorists, they recommended blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of
witnesses' relatives...
But visit Whisc's website and you'll see that the School of the Americas
has been all but excised from the record. Even the page marked "History"
fails to mention it. Whisc's courses, it tells us, "cover a broad spectrum
of relevant areas, such as operational planning for peace operations;
disaster relief; civil-military operations; tactical planning and execution
of counter drug operations"...
You object that this prescription is ridiculous, and I agree. But try as I
might, I cannot see the moral difference between this course of action and
the war now being waged in Afghanistan...
www.monbiot.com
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