Dan Mitrione person
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Claims (45)
Uruguayan Senate exposed
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“in Mitteroni's time, that the Uruguayan Senate was compelled to undertake an investigation. After a five-month study, the commission concluded unanimously that the torture in Uruguay had become a normal, frequent, and habitual occurrence in…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 15:49
Dan Mitrione trained
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 10:51
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“an exclusive high-class nightclub and wrote on the walls, either everyone dances or no one dances. Dan Mitteroni did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay. It had actually already started in the early 1960s …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 10:23
Tupamaros assassinated
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“They demanded the release of 150 prisoners in exchange for him. With the determined backing of the Nixon administration, the Uruguayan government refused. Then, the Uruguayan government discovered Mattaroni's dead body in the backseat of a …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 24:01
Dan Mitrione member_of
USAID book_quoted
“time that he spent in the Office of Public Safety working for AID, which was the precursor to USAID. And there was another guy that was the director who actually is the one responsible for hiring him by the name of Byron Engle, E-N-G-L-E. H…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 5:13
Byron Engle appointed
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“time that he spent in the Office of Public Safety working for AID, which was the precursor to USAID. And there was another guy that was the director who actually is the one responsible for hiring him by the name of Byron Engle, E-N-G-L-E. H…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 5:13
Dan Mitrione carried_out_attack
Uruguay book_quoted
“Now, keep in mind, we haven't even got to the part, but Dan Meterone was using the basement of a building to torture people. This is the guy that was using homeless people and handicapped people in the basement of a building to teach the na…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:12:45
Dan Mitrione headed
Richmond Police Department book_quoted
“The new chief summoned him to his office. Mitterrand's doubts about the young applicant were not political, only economic. He had been working as a meat cutter. Gibbs made $9,000 a year, which was even more than Mitterrand was making as the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:07:34
CIA recruited
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“Dan Mitrione alone. Huh? Dan Mitrione. I know. Alone. I know. And I pointed that out, that they had recruited prior police chiefs and police officers that had went through a screening process at the FBI. This is a historical fact. How can y…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 5:16
Dan Mitrione trained
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“But the U.S. advisers, especially Mitterrand, had introduced scientific methods of torture that violated the Uruguayan Constitution and Otero's philosophy of life. The prisoners advocated psychological torture, Otero said, to create despair…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 16:33
Amor exposed
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“but such damning accusations could not be buried. The day after Amor's story appeared in Rio, two Uruguayan intelligence officers and an agent from Interpol came to his hotel with written authority to question him. Amor was not in his room …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 18:05
Byron Engle covered_up
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“was taken aback by Amor's news story and the treatment of the entire affair within the journal in Brazil. Engel offered a tale of conspiracy to explain the situation. The three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 21:56
Dan Mitrione visited
Dominican Republic documented
“Although the attempts failed, a party functionary briefed Salinas on the police terror that was also going on in the Dominican Republic by the same Office of Public Safety. He also said that Dan Mitterrand had visited the Dominican Republic…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 57:44
Laurence Gowan trained
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“They had long discussions about the job, and Gowen was able to caution Meterone against several pitfalls. Gowen had seen men isolate themselves in U.S. Embassy compounds, spending their off-duty time exclusively with Americans. Such advisor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 34:49
Dan Mitrione trained
Tupamaros documented
“back and forth. So when Mitterrand said, you basically need to stop playing around and be more professional. Mitterrand directed certain interrogations, and as the equipment for torture became more sophisticated, he gave credit to the chang…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 42:47
Dan Mitrione member_of
USAID host_asserted
“his church to be moved to from San Francisco. That took place much later on. It was a terrorist training camp when Jim Jones, CIA agent, and Dan Mederone, CIA front agent, working for the Office of Public Safety, both ended up in Brazil tog…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 1:03:26
Dan Mitrione trained
Lewis Gibbs book_quoted
“Gibbs was sure his application was approved. Until Mitterrand took office, experienced officers in Richmond had trained their new colleagues in a casual apprentice. The rookie would get in the back seat with two veterans and ride around. It…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:08:01
Dan Mitrione carried_out_attack
Richmond Police Department book_quoted
“Mitterrand knew the respectable people of the town were looking to him for action. He went to Mayor Cutter and said, I may make some people mad, but I can clean up things. The mayor gave him the go-ahead. Over the next weeks, the police wou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:11:47
Dan Mitrione member_of
Holy Family Parish book_quoted
“An expression of grief unmatched in Richmond history. The pastor of the local Presbyterian chief was among those who stopped by, and he told of the day Dan had come to address the youth service. Quote, at the time, Roman Catholic and Protes…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:15:52
Dan Mitrione trained
Richmond Police Department host_asserted
“But he was sent to the FBI for training. After he returns from the FBI, he throws all of the training out the window that had gone on for decades in Richmond. And it was Dan that arranged with Indiana University to begin training all of his…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:25:29
FBI trained
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“But he was sent to the FBI for training. After he returns from the FBI, he throws all of the training out the window that had gone on for decades in Richmond. And it was Dan that arranged with Indiana University to begin training all of his…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:25:29
Dan Mitrione member_of
FBI book_quoted
“Montevideo Police Department identification that identified Mitterrand as a member of the FBI National Academy. And Dan Mitterrand explains that that was given to him, although I don't know how that, unless Dan is told the police department…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 5:56
Dan Mitrione trained
FBI book_quoted
“to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people that had selected him at the university, a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:08:34
Dan Mitrione member_of
USAID host_asserted
“And he was employed by USAID in the Office of Public Safety. He was in Uruguay, though, as his primary place. But he basically was doing there in his basement of a house that was provided to him by the State Department, by the way, using th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 30:54
USAID trained
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“That guy's body had all of the hallmarks of Operation of Public Safety, Dan Meterone, torture. The excessive bruising on the feet. You guys went through that whole book with me. You know exactly what they do with the electrodes and cutting …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 52:59
Dan Mitrione trained
International Police Academy book_quoted
“Just conversation. Basically, they begin by asking him about himself and basically what he had been doing. They ask him about the school that they were sending some of the police to. He talks about the International Police Academy and they …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:06
Dan Mitrione trained
Tupamaros book_quoted
“what he did before that, like, where were you? He talks about being the police chief in Indiana and basically kind of just going back and forth about, then he gets into what were you doing here? What were you doing in Brazil is where they w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:34
Dan Mitrione supplied_arms_to
Tupamaros book_quoted
“But of course, we know from the earlier chapters that Mitterrand gave them better supplies, if there's such a thing to torture with, and updated much of the equipment through the use of USAID. And he talks about the deployment of the radios…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 2:59
USAID funded
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“But of course, we know from the earlier chapters that Mitterrand gave them better supplies, if there's such a thing to torture with, and updated much of the equipment through the use of USAID. And he talks about the deployment of the radios…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 2:59
Tupamaros assassinated
Dan Mitrione book_quoted
“The next morning, Dan Mitterrand's body was on the back seat of a stolen 1948 Buick convertible. He had been bound and gagged and shot twice in the head. At 9 a.m., President Pacheco decreed a period of mourning. At 11 a.m., the Uruguayan G…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 12:32
Dan Mitrione supplied_arms_to
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“Learn from informants that the Uruguayan police and how they were handling the Tupomaros. He had learned that Dan Mederone had bestowed technical equipment on the security police and the U.S. had introduced a system of nationwide identifica…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 14:30
Dan Mitrione appointed
Indiana University book_quoted
“to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people that had selected him at the university, a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:08:34
Indiana University trained
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“These people at Indiana University, they put him through this six-week training program. They promote him to police chief. And they get him his job. And there's a certain betrayal blindness that happens with that. Or sort of a Milgram exper…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:24:29
FBI trained
Dan Mitrione guest_asserted
“He was the Richmond police chief in Richmond, Indiana. He was trained by the FBI.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 39:01
Dan Mitrione member_of
USAID guest_asserted
“He was selected as a part of the Office of Public Safety. He was first deployed to Brazil right before their coup. Then you find him in Uruguay with their new military-installed dictator there.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 39:30
Dan Mitrione member_of
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“I know when we talked about the Office of Public Safety a long time ago when we first ran across that Mitteroni, Dan Mitteroni is his name, that we did talk about the other people that we could find that were also in that program and was tr…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:42:53
Dan Mitrione member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“And his childhood friend, Dan Meterone, in Richmond, Indiana, which is where they are both from, he ends up as a CIA asset down in South America teaching.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 1:03:05
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“The U.S. now had a policy. Dan Mederone did not know that he would be the first sacrifice to Richard Nixon's new policy. And that brings us to Chapter 9, so we're going to stop there. So, that's it. Bridget, go ahead. Well, as if that's not…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 1:00:47
Jorge Pacheco Areco ordered_assassination_of
Dan Mitrione host_asserted
“SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending today and everyone on Rumble as well. What I'm looking at is, of course, Mineron was captured and executed by the Tupomaros. It just blows my mind that for some reason, k…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 1:06:42
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“Prior to being executed by the freedom fighters in Uruguay in 1970, Mitteroni had advised police forces in Brazil and also in Uruguay. Isn't that interesting? All right. So, and of course, all of those countries are the very countries that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 31:23
Dan Mitrione trained
Brazil host_asserted
“Prior to being executed by the freedom fighters in Uruguay in 1970, Mitteroni had advised police forces in Brazil and also in Uruguay. Isn't that interesting? All right. So, and of course, all of those countries are the very countries that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 31:23
Dan Mitrione funded
Richmond Police Department book_quoted
“Mitterrand was quoted as saying, the door swings in and it swings out. You either play the game or you don't play at all. Later, the police started to negotiate their contracts through the Fraternal Order of Police, and an offending officer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:09:35
Dan Mitrione trained
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“During that time, because this is a time when Dan Mederone was training his police officers at IU where they were supporting the Office of Public Safety for USAID. And he's right in the middle of that, too. I'll tell you a bit more about th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:14:41
Dan Mitrione trained
South Africa host_asserted
“And so he had a lot of experience in the CIA operations. A childhood friend of his by the name of Dan Mitteroni went down to be the crafter of a national police in South Africa to train them how to torture, kidnap and kill people. And he sn…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 1:45:47
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay guest_asserted
“a recently coup government down there, I think it's either Iroquois or Paraguay, I lose track of those two, how to torture their people and kill them.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 1:03:34
Mentions (117)
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which was actually accused of being an MKUltra organization because he had gotten designated as a foster care facility and they were dumping off kids there by the truckload. And his childhood friend, Dan Meterone, in Richmond, Indiana, whic…
▶ 1:03:34
a recently coup government down there, I think it's either Iroquois or Paraguay, I lose track of those two, how to torture their people and kill them. And so they're all in on this together. Jim Jones, after he got the heat turned up with L…
▶ 4:17
countries how to torture people. So it literally had nothing to do with public safety, unless you want to consider safety of the government public safety. The guy that makes the star appearance in this story is Dan Mitteroni, and I've talke…
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classmate, like from elementary school, of Jim Jones from Indiana, Richmond, Indiana, specifically. Dan Mitteroni is basically FBI slash CIA. He became the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. He has quite an interesting background. But th…
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They maintained a close relationship over the years, and OPS, the Office of Public Safety, began operating formally in 1965 in Uruguay. It was responsible for supplying the police there equipment, arms, and training. Four years later, Mitte…
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avoided bloodshed at all costs. They were not always able to do that because they were constantly attacked by people like Dan Metteroni. And a favorite tactic was to raid the files of a private company to expose their corruption and deceit …
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an exclusive high-class nightclub and wrote on the walls, either everyone dances or no one dances. Dan Mitteroni did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay. It had actually already started in the early 1960s …
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In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to …
▶ 13:45
while a Tupomaro sympathizer was also a friend of his. When she told him that Mitteroni had watched and assisted in her torture, Otero complained to him about this particular incident, as well as his general methods. The only outcome of the…
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was a wire so very thin that it could be fitted into the mouth between your teeth and was pressing up against your gums to increase the electrical charge. And it was carried into the countries through diplomatic state department pouches tha…
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in Mitteroni's time, that the Uruguayan Senate was compelled to undertake an investigation. After a five-month study, the commission concluded unanimously that the torture in Uruguay had become a normal, frequent, and habitual occurrence in…
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in riot control techniques had been given to about a thousand Iroquoian policemen. Dan Mitteroni had built a soundproof room in a cellar of his house. In this room, there were Iroquoian police officers and they observed the demonstrations o…
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I don't know why or what that was for, and another chemical substance. All four of the people were found dead. In his book, the guy that's talking about this does not say specifically what Mitteroni's direct part in all of this was, but he …
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He also said that he sat with Metaroni in his house, and over a few drinks, the American explained to the Cuban his philosophy of interrogation. Metaroni considered it to be an art. First, there would be the softening up period with the usu…
▶ 21:54
To cut him off from reality, no questions, only blows and insult, then only blows in silence. Only after this, said Mitteroni, is the interrogation to begin. Here, no pain should be produced other than what's caused by the instrument which …
▶ 22:24
Now, I just want to stop there for a second and remind you, this was the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. During the sessions, you were supposed to keep the subject from losing all hope of life because this can lead to resistance. You …
▶ 23:28
So this guy, who basically became a whistleblower, disappeared from Montevago and turned up later in Havana. Probably get to get the hell out of Dodge because he would have been a dead man walking down there. About half a year later, in 197…
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They demanded the release of 150 prisoners in exchange for him. With the determined backing of the Nixon administration, the Uruguayan government refused. Then, the Uruguayan government discovered Mattaroni's dead body in the backseat of a …
▶ 24:33
attended the funeral for Mitteroni. The city's former police chief, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis, came to town and did a benefit for the Mitteroni's family. Isn't that nice? White House spokesman Ron Ziegler solemnly said, Mr. Mitteroni's …
▶ 27:02
It appeared in 1972. It is centered around Mitteroni and the Tuporeros and depicted an Uruguayan police officer receiving training at a secret bomb school in the United States. Through the film, it shows a composite picture of the role play…
▶ 19:24
where they learn the finer arts of interrogation and torture. What's that sound like? It sounds exactly like the School of Americas that was set up for Operation Condor. The top Savak brass were trained through the USAID Office of Public Sa…
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And they deployed over to Operation Phoenix under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety, and set up this apparatus of training. They set up tortured prisons. And you find a guy by the name of Dan Meterone, who I've covered extensively…
▶ 39:30
He sent his officers to Indiana University's police training, the same training partnership with Michigan State. He was selected as a part of the Office of Public Safety. He was first deployed to Brazil right before their coup. Then you fin…
▶ 39:59
how to torture people, how to kidnap people, and much of the torture led to the people dying. And that's just one aspect of it, not the entire of these national police going out and literally bombing people's houses just because they were s…
▶ 42:43
When he really started getting going and building his church. Correct. He moved his church to San Francisco. Jim Jones was classmates with Dan Mederone, the guy I just talked about. Wow. I'm not even kidding. I give up. I swear to God. I me…
▶ 1:42:53
I know when we talked about the Office of Public Safety a long time ago when we first ran across that Mitteroni, Dan Mitteroni is his name, that we did talk about the other people that we could find that were also in that program and was tr…
▶ 5:16
Dan Mitrione alone. Huh? Dan Mitrione. I know. Alone. I know. And I pointed that out, that they had recruited prior police chiefs and police officers that had went through a screening process at the FBI. This is a historical fact. How can y…
▶ 0:37
In case you were following along in the book, chapter nine is basically the interrogation of Dan Meterone. And I am not going to go into depth into the entire conversation. Basically, there was a young Tupomaro that is sent in to have conve…
▶ 1:34
what he did before that, like, where were you? He talks about being the police chief in Indiana and basically kind of just going back and forth about, then he gets into what were you doing here? What were you doing in Brazil is where they w…
▶ 2:05
And the guy knows, obviously, that they were torturing the people that Mitterrand was training, was torturing people. And he also knew that the way the police began behaving after Mitterrand showed up in Brazil was very different than what …
▶ 2:34
The Brazilian police had preceded the Uruguayan police in the use of electrical torture and basically confronting him, accusing Mitterrand as basically being the impetus to that, both in Brazil and the increase of its use in Uruguay, becaus…
▶ 3:29
They go on to talk about some of the other people that were in the same detention facility that Mitterrand was in. One of them was a guy by the name of Dr. Claude Fly, who was 65 years old and from Fort Collins, Colorado. He had also been k…
▶ 4:27
there were a lot of nefarious things going on in that laboratory. And so they thought that capturing him would basically up their chances of getting some of their compatriots free. So the captor that is in there questioning him actually apo…
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And basically said that the Tupomaros guy that had shot him was being held accountable because that's not how they did operations. So, which is kind of weird on why you would explain that. But anyway, lots of conversations. And then they st…
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And they get around eventually to asking him whether or not he's affiliated with the CIA. And he says that he was not. And then they ask him about the FBI. And because Dan Meterone, when he was captured, had three identification cards on hi…
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Montevideo Police Department identification that identified Mitterrand as a member of the FBI National Academy. And Dan Mitterrand explains that that was given to him, although I don't know how that, unless Dan is told the police department…
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Why would some foreign country put FBI if you hadn't disclosed that to him? Because it's not like USAID's credentialing process was through the FBI. It was literally through the CIA's USAID. So anyway, they ask him about his experience with…
▶ 8:27
in Uruguay as a result of that. So kind of the mean jest of the... Dan Mitterrand obviously was not taken in by the freedom movement of the Tupomaros and the dictatorship of their current government like the ambassador was in Brazil. So the…
▶ 9:59
And there was basically no judicial process and kind of quizzes him on, hey, you're American. Don't you believe in a justice system as opposed to just torturing people? And basically for that, Mitterrand has no response to that. So all of t…
▶ 10:29
Dan's brother back in the United States gets these tapes and listens to them repeatedly. So one of the last conversations says, you know, there are some people who love very much the things they have and they have very much and they have to…
▶ 11:00
And Dan Mederone says, this is true. That's one of the problems in Latin America. The guy responds, you know, there are a few people who are holding so many interests, you know, like the Bank of America, the First National City Bank and the…
▶ 11:30
using those instruments of economic power to prop up the dictatorship and not act on behalf of the people, which, of course, we know to be true. So the Tupomaro repeated, they are very strong. And Dan Mitterrand says, this is something that…
▶ 11:59
What I mean is something that's been old, it isn't something that just started. And the Tupomaro says, hold on just a second. And when he came back, he said, well, I have to do some other work now. So we'll keep talking later. Dideron said,…
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The next morning, Dan Mitterrand's body was on the back seat of a stolen 1948 Buick convertible. He had been bound and gagged and shot twice in the head. At 9 a.m., President Pacheco decreed a period of mourning. At 11 a.m., the Uruguayan G…
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The killing of Mitterrand had allowed Pacheco and the security forces to assume dictatorial powers over Uruguay formally. The government now had 14,000 troops and policemen in the streets, searching for Dr. Fly and D.S. Gomide, who was anot…
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Like in Brazil, they also used torture routinely, but none of that was why Amor had been sent to Uruguay. His assignment was to report on the prolonged holding of DS Gomides, for the Brazilian people were incensed at the heartlessness of th…
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But the U.S. advisers, especially Mitterrand, had introduced scientific methods of torture that violated the Uruguayan Constitution and Otero's philosophy of life. The prisoners advocated psychological torture, Otero said, to create despair…
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Amor, small but bear-like, had his country's embassy behind him, as well as one of the continent's major newspaper. Still, he began to worry. It appeared Otero was denying having talked to him, only that he had criticized Mitterrand. Where …
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The editor said, do you promise me that you wrote the truth? He said, it is absolutely the truth. The journal resisted the embassy's demands and Amor kept his job. In Washington, Byron Engel may have personally expected, reasonably expected…
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Other policemen paraded Mitterrand's coffin through the streets of Indiana. There was a public burial. Commemorative services were scheduled. Even the New York Times had joined the cause and wrote an editorial saying that Mitterrand's killi…
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was taken aback by Amor's news story and the treatment of the entire affair within the journal in Brazil. Engel offered a tale of conspiracy to explain the situation. The three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story.…
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In Uruguay, the war with the Tuporaros intensified after Mutarón's murder. The rebels blew up a bowling alley patronized by the U.S. community. On one nightclub wall, they scrolled, everyone dances or no one dances. On January 8, 1971, the …
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Shut your computer down and try again. And restart. Yeah, I get it. All right. So let's get that going live and we'll start the session. OK, so just to refresh where we left off yesterday. And of course, this book is about the Office of Pub…
▶ 34:49
They had long discussions about the job, and Gowen was able to caution Meterone against several pitfalls. Gowen had seen men isolate themselves in U.S. Embassy compounds, spending their off-duty time exclusively with Americans. Such advisor…
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would heed that message. He was eager to make good because he had uprooted his entire family and moved them to Brazil. But even if he had not been ambitious, he would have found little reason to seek out his compatriots. Those from the Stat…
▶ 35:24
The Tupomaros was an urban game, and so he was basically using that as a scouting expedition. Mitterrand wrote his brother Ray in February of 1970, saying the country situation is calm. However, when summer is over and everyone starts think…
▶ 35:56
That office was in the police headquarters. Mitterrand also had an office in the Office of Public Safety office. Bennett has once visited Mitterrand's embassy office where there was a camera in the room. There were all kinds of things that …
▶ 36:28
He also was eyeing the windows, and Mitterrand basically said they were all bulletproof, so don't worry about it. In March of 1970, his family in Richmond informed him that his mother's condition was deteriorating, and he basically let them…
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communications back and forth with his family. And by late March, he did have to return to Richmond. He went by himself to see his mother for the last time. To his closest friends from the Richmond Police Department, he confided something o…
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And I wish I could have told you more when I was home. I am not trying to alarm you because you know what it's like in most Latin American countries at this time. On April 13th, 1970, a band of Tupomaros shot Inspector Hector Romero Moron C…
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In his monthly report to Washington, Mitterrand noted that Moran was a graduate of the International Police Academy and was head of the Monteviego Special Brigade, which specialized in torture. He also wrote that one Uruguayan newspaper had…
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He added that the Panchecos government had closed that particular newspaper down because of a quote-unquote smear campaign. You're not allowed to report the truth. Mitterrand also wrote, For Benitez, the predication about…
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meter on from lucas had turned out to be accurate brought a new spirit of dedication and expertise to police work in the land of manana he never postponed today what he or tomorrow what he could do today i learned that word manana in italy …
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In Brazil, he had learned to cooperate with the CIA officials who he felt were the real leaders in the CIA detachments, speaking about Mitterrand. Mitterrand's success in quelling the two Pomoros was going to be a different challenge. Mitte…
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The magazine was reporting the results of an investigation by members of the Uruguayan Senate who had found that the police were systematically torturing suspected Tupomaros. The methods would not have surprised a Brazilian prisoner. Electr…
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filed a report of the Senate's findings to the Office of Public Safety in Washington without any elaboration. But in the evaluation section, he wrote, quote, one major problem seems to be that the general public considers the fight won betw…
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assist the police by providing information to stop playing ostrich, the situation will not improve in the foreseeable future. In other words, if you don't rat out your neighbors, the punishment will continue. Under the recommendation area o…
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that has been watching a trade union official. He was also watching the head of the bank workers because there was talk about a strike. He also was watching over some of the police clerks when Mitterrand offered ideas on how to break a man …
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He had always emphasized finding out as much as possible about a prisoner before the interrogations began. Learn what their breaking points are. Reach it quickly, was his advice. In the case of the labor leader, Mitterrand said, Undress him…
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On the third day, give him water mixed with urine. In Richmond, Indiana, it was hardly credible that Dan Mitterrand would advocate this type of behavior. You know, because he was a good upstanding Catholic. Also, standing guard at the local…
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back and forth. So when Mitterrand said, you basically need to stop playing around and be more professional. Mitterrand directed certain interrogations, and as the equipment for torture became more sophisticated, he gave credit to the chang…
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was keeping. When Mitterrand arrived in Montevierte, the police were torturing prisoners with rudimentary electric needles that had come from Argentina. Mitterrand arranged for the police to get newer electric needles. Isn't that nice? And …
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Benitez never saw Mitterrand actually inside a torture room at the police station. Others did. After Mitterrand's murder, male and female prisoners at Uruguayan jails traded stories about his torture. The more reliable information about his…
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while the police were administering electric shocks to a Tupomaro suspect. Mitterrand had come in only for a minute to ask for other information. The prisoner heard Mitterrand's voice and shouted an insult about him being a Yankee. The offi…
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needles under his fingernails and was being actively shocked and then left the room. Another time, the Monteviego police unwittingly brought a young woman who, while in fact a Tupomaro sympathizer, not a member, just someone who thought tha…
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of Alejandro Otero, the guy that's in charge of the police. In the course of the interrogation, she was tortured severely. When she was released, she contacted Otero and told her that Mitterrand had watched and assisted in her torture. For …
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For four years, he had known of intermittent torture, but with Mitterrand's arrival, it had only intensified. Otero rejected torture on pragmatist grounds. It only radicalized both the police and the Tupamaros, and it made both more violent…
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but he was not a torturer. Philip Agee had never heard of him torturing a prisoner, nor had anyone else. Torture seemed to offend Otero, and he was doubly affronted when he found out it was not only a woman, but a friend of his. He went to …
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He told a man, a reporter, about the torture of his friend, and that indiscretion began to unraveling that would shut down the entire U.S. police advisory program. On July 30, 1970, Don Gould, the information officer at the U.S. Embassy in …
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Get out of Uruguay or you will be killed. No U.S. official could serve long in Latin America without receiving death threats. In Gould's case, he had been in Honduras when revolutionaries shot up his hotel. This call was much more specific.…
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The new chief summoned him to his office. Mitterrand's doubts about the young applicant were not political, only economic. He had been working as a meat cutter. Gibbs made $9,000 a year, which was even more than Mitterrand was making as the…
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Gibbs was sure his application was approved. Until Mitterrand took office, experienced officers in Richmond had trained their new colleagues in a casual apprentice. The rookie would get in the back seat with two veterans and ride around. It…
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to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people that had selected him at the university, a…
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They were going to set up a six-week training course to train all the new officers in Richmond. After his training, Gibbs found that life for patrolmen under the new chief was rigorous. From the start, the older men had not liked Mitterrand…
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Mitterrand was quoted as saying, the door swings in and it swings out. You either play the game or you don't play at all. Later, the police started to negotiate their contracts through the Fraternal Order of Police, and an offending officer…
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patrolling with a partner who outranked him, a sergeant, when they captured a man who had held up a gas station. And it goes on to describe this, and basically, Mitterrand said that you, in one way, did the right thing, but in another thing…
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dissuaded people like young Gibbs from taking one out on his beat. You don't need it. You're young. Use your own strength, he said. Most of the time, the patrolmen, especially those the chief had hired, did not worry about displeasing him. …
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It basically goes on to describe that Mitterrand had used a room to basically call all the cops in that were on duty and check their uniforms to make sure they look good. It just so happens that it was a rainy night and he didn't care. That…
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Mitterrand knew the respectable people of the town were looking to him for action. He went to Mayor Cutter and said, I may make some people mad, but I can clean up things. The mayor gave him the go-ahead. Over the next weeks, the police wou…
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Ray's first, okay, and then it flips again back to the future. Ray's, his brother's first impulse after Dan's murder had been to fly to Uruguay and help bring Hank and the youngest children home. And this is the first time that I've read in…
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Now, keep in mind, we haven't even got to the part, but Dan Meterone was using the basement of a building to torture people. This is the guy that was using homeless people and handicapped people in the basement of a building to teach the na…
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to get the most pain and leave the least evidence that they were being tortured. And he had his family with him while he was doing it. Dan's four oldest daughters and sons were all living around Washington, D.C. Does anybody find that weird…
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and his four oldest kids are all living in Washington, D.C. They were flown to Uruguay to accompany their father's body and the rest of the family back to the U.S. The Air Force jet carrying the family landed on a Wednesday morning, August …
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City officials had planned to have Dan's body lay in state all day Thursday. But Hank, who had endured the tension for nearly two weeks, wanted the speediest end possible. The honor guard, 40 airmen from right pat, used a hydraulic lift to …
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which is really weird. Traveling at a 45-mile-an-hour police-escorted ride back into Richmond, state troopers from Indiana and Ohio joined the entourage. The procession pulled into the funeral home, where for two hours Hank received Dan's f…
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Hank had boarded a plane in Uruguay wearing a coat and sunglasses. By 1 p.m., Dan's body was laying in state at the new municipal building. Red Conyers was outside the building with a police guard that lowered the flag to half staff. For si…
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An expression of grief unmatched in Richmond history. The pastor of the local Presbyterian chief was among those who stopped by, and he told of the day Dan had come to address the youth service. Quote, at the time, Roman Catholic and Protes…
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And he sang along with everyone else. On Tuesday morning, the homage and the public mourning reached their climax. Shortly before 10 a.m., Secretary of State William Rogers and his wife arrived at the Holy Family Parish along with the Urugu…
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Skip that part. This just is talking about the height of people in the local town. Father Minton did not mean to be patronizing, and he exempted men like Dan Meterone, who was shorter than he was, but still basically said, we're all good It…
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And they didn't even have a parish. He created it. And it just so happens that's where Dan Mitterrand comes from. Weird. And oh, by the way, Dan Mitterrand graduated from elementary school at one of the local parishes. So I don't guess they…
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So, it says the people of his parish were much like Ray, simple and unspoiled. I don't know about the unspoiled. I think torturing people is kind of spoiled. But among the 500 families at the Holy Family Church, there was only one professio…
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But when he spoke before service clubs and the local chamber of commerce, he left behind an impression of competence and almost a spellbinding way. Once, it was before Dan became chief, when he was still a juvenile officer, he told a church…
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When Dan left Richmond, his first destination was none other than Brazil. Now, what was going on in Brazil during that time? Oh, that's right. We were overthrowing that government, too. So I think that's probably a good place to leave it, b…
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SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and welcome back. I'm sure everybody's glad you're back. Thank you. And thank you, everybody, for attending here today and those on Rumbles as well. I'm wondering if Dan Mitterrand had anything to do or …
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It's crazy. Illini, did you have something you wanted to add? Hey, Colonel. You know, I don't know. I haven't bought the book. I think I'm going to order it. And I don't want to jump ahead here. But you take a look at the background here. A…
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We later found out Indiana University was part of this entire operation as well, which is where Dan Mederone went for training when he was the Richmond police chief. So Michigan State was exposed. Basically, their entire public security, th…
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During that time, because this is a time when Dan Mederone was training his police officers at IU where they were supporting the Office of Public Safety for USAID. And he's right in the middle of that, too. I'll tell you a bit more about th…
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around the world in Amnesty International human rights violation reports. And here is where we find one of our favorite characters in Operation Gladio, Dan Mitteroni, who was the Richmond, Indiana friend of Jim Jones, who shows up. It also …
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And he was employed by USAID in the Office of Public Safety. He was in Uruguay, though, as his primary place. But he basically was doing there in his basement of a house that was provided to him by the State Department, by the way, using th…
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Prior to being executed by the freedom fighters in Uruguay in 1970, Mitteroni had advised police forces in Brazil and also in Uruguay. Isn't that interesting? All right. So, and of course, all of those countries are the very countries that …
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All up in that shit. All up in there. And that there were even flying Brazilians to be trained with MI6 and MI5. And David Phillip Attlee was there as well doing his business. So I'm going to try and see if I can wrangle in the Klaus Barbie…
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I would be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised in real world, but that probably is going to be a little more tricky. But I want to say based on what I was remembering, and again, I got so much shit in my head, it ain't even funny, that I bel…
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as it related to Brazil, was there earlier and was setting up kind of the footprint and then brought him in as they transitioned. Like Jim Jones went to California and Dan Mitterrand went to Uruguay. And I think that this French guy may hav…
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Yes, Dan Mitry, Mitterrand, and Jim Jones were in, it's called Belo Horizonte. It looks like Belo Horizonte, but it's Belo Horizonte. And that's where the whole...…
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All over the place. And even in Brazil, because a lot of South America, it seems, was trained in this French torture technique. But some of the Brazilian torture bastards or guys or whatever were trained.…
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That guy's body had all of the hallmarks of Operation of Public Safety, Dan Meterone, torture. The excessive bruising on the feet. You guys went through that whole book with me. You know exactly what they do with the electrodes and cutting …
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And so he had a lot of experience in the CIA operations. A childhood friend of his by the name of Dan Mitteroni went down to be the crafter of a national police in South Africa to train them how to torture, kidnap and kill people. And he sn…