Death Squads organization
also: Escuadron Moroto, the death squad's, desk squads, death squad, death squads, Fiance of Death
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Claims (5)
Lawrence Bailey member_of
Death Squads documented
“of American mercenaries involved in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former U.S. Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvadorian families living in Miami to protec…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 45:23
Stefano Delle Chiaie worked_with
Death Squads host_asserted
“and he worked closely with the Fiance of Death, which was a private army supported by the military dictatorship that had been installed in Bolivia by the CIA. The Fiance of Death were comprised of the inevitable collection of former Nazis a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 30:20
Klaus Barbie headed
Death Squads host_asserted
“from all over Europe. The group was headed by an individual that we all know, former Gestapo and SS man, Kloss Barbie. It will be recalled that Barbie was a key South American business partner in the arms company ran by Otto Skorzeny called…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 30:50
El Salvador carried_out_attack
Death Squads host_asserted
“At the height of the campaign, residents of the capital city, San Salvador, would wake up to find 40 new bodies every morning. The Salvadoran government officially denied any connection with the death squads, but they were running them. The…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 36:56
Roberto D'Aubuisson headed
Death Squads host_asserted
“Power Party and its leader, Roberto Dias Buen. He actually ran all the death squads. He was reported running the death squads leaked to the assassination of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, allegedly by Hitman from the FDN's predeces…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 37:52
Mentions (23)
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a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in parts of America, which were suffering a sev…
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into the U.S. A number of Americans and Salvadorans living in Los Angeles and working with refugees or actively opposing U.S. military aid to El Salvador started receiving death threats in 1987. Reverend Luis Olivares, a Catholic priest who…
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which were often found on the doors or buildings of people that were targeted in El Salvador. The letters stand for Escuadron Moroto or Death Squad. In July 1987, a Salvadorian woman named Yanero Correa, who had received threatening phone c…
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A former Salvadorian military official who had served at the highest level of the security police confirmed for those who may still have entertained doubts that the network of death squads had been shaped by leading Salvadorian officials an…
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The head of the Treasury Police, which has long been considered the least disciplined and most brutal of all Salvadorian security forces, had been receiving more than $90,000 a year during the previous five years from the CIA. Although some…
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In February 1989, Vice President Dan Quayle told Army leaders that death squad killings and human rights violations attributed to the military had to be ended. Ten days later, the U.S.-trained Atalcatl Battalion, which was believed to have …
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Former Salvadoran Army Commando Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez, in an interview on CBS, related that he and others in his unit, the intelligence section of the Army's 1st Brigade, had acted as a clandestine death squad, that the two U.S. milita…
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But he said his impression was that the phrase was common usage in the military before an inspection. I've had a lot of inspections in the military. I've never, ever said I was going to jail. Just saying. Colonel Pena, another Bay of Pigs v…
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At the height of the campaign, residents of the capital city, San Salvador, would wake up to find 40 new bodies every morning. The Salvadoran government officially denied any connection with the death squads, but they were running them. The…
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Under the guise, listen to this, under the guise of anti-communism, the death squads terrorized the entire country, murdering nuns, teachers, labor organizers, political opponents, and thousands of other civilians. That was in Oliver North'…
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Power Party and its leader, Roberto Dias Buen. He actually ran all the death squads. He was reported running the death squads leaked to the assassination of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, allegedly by Hitman from the FDN's predeces…
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When he returned to El Salvador's capital, he settled into a downtown Ramada Inn. Then he and the Salvadoran consul attended a series of meetings with none other than Roberto de Ajabuzan, the guy running the show, and the death squads. That…
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now an attorney in Los Angeles. There I was, a reserve police officer who'd only been in the country for a couple of days, and I was sitting in an office downtown across the desk from the guy running the desk squads. He had a gun laying on …
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Ray Prendes, the newly elected head of the Salvadorian Assembly and powerful figure to the Christian Democrat Party. Nothing like having a Christian Democrat Party forming in a country with death squads. But they had the Christian Democrat …
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A man linked to one human rights organization to death squads activity. From a human rights organization, he was linked to the death squads and the slaughter of hundreds of peasants in a village. Pyramid's proposal, which Los Angeles police…
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Alpha show since they just picked up and ICE just picked up a Jamaican drug lord here in the United States. So any place that the CIA goes and does these operations, they train people to be death squad members. That's part of the whole thin…
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We did it with Afghanistan in our lifetime. So this is a pattern. So all of these death squads that were going on in El Salvador are exported when the CIA no longer has a need for them down there, either because they're kicked out of the co…
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nicknamed Horseface. LaCroix's friends on the force vowed to revenge him by killing 10 gangsters. In a short time, it became clear they were basically crazy in their seeking of revenge. The bodies of 30 gang members were found dumped at a r…
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were handwritten notes. I was a thief or I stole drugs. And it was signed, the death squad. That was the police. Even under military regimes, which was substituting army trials for civilian ones, the police found justice lagging. So the qui…
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was finally trapped on a farm. After he was shot to death, each policeman unloaded his gun into the corpse. Such ritual killings had been clean in its own way, but bodies began turning up with marks of torture, cigarette burns, knife marks,…
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In Rio, a man calling himself Red Rose alerted newspapers to where they could find the latest dead body. In Sao Paulo, public relations were handled by an officer with the code name White Lily. Although some members of the death squads main…
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because they thought that they would admire them. One such officer was Sergio Fernando Flory, 31 years old at the time of the coup and very ambitious. The son of a coroner who had died when the boy was 11, Flory, with his slicked back hair,…
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and he worked closely with the Fiance of Death, which was a private army supported by the military dictatorship that had been installed in Bolivia by the CIA. The Fiance of Death were comprised of the inevitable collection of former Nazis a…