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Claims (21)
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
Gerald Ford commended
Byron Engle documented
“going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Uruguayan government had done all in its powe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:06:05
Byron Engle recruited
William P. Bundy host_asserted
“from the Agency of International Development, AID, which is the precursor to USAID. So they're going to take this guy who was on the payroll of the Army, working basically for the CIA, and they're going to make him work for the CIA under th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 59:51
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
Byron Engle appointed
Laurence Gowan book_quoted
“Before that, he had directed a crime lab in Pittsburgh. It was this varied background that led Byron Engel to send him to Rio as an advisor and to conduct investigations. Gowen's work took him to the state of Minas Gervais, where he could e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 34:20
Byron Engle trained
Brazil book_quoted
“When the exchange of gunfire, two policemen were killed. None of the rebels were hit. Murillo was charged with four crimes, unlawful possession of a gun, being a member of an illegal association, armed actions, and assassination. As a resul…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 36:59
Byron Engle appointed
International Police Academy book_quoted
“And remember where we left off with Dan Mitterrand is he was at the International Police Academy in Washington, D.C., because he had left Brazil already. And so he wanted to go back overseas. Mitterrand had been a good instructor at the IPA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 40:26
Byron Engle appointed
Uruguay book_quoted
“Ingle said, we've been thinking about an overseas assignment for you. Mitterrand said, you know, I love working here at the academy. But Ingle said, yes, but how would you like to go to Uruguay? And Mitterrand's response was, boss, when do …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 40:59
Byron Engle denied
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Ingle said, we've been thinking about an overseas assignment for you. Mitterrand said, you know, I love working here at the academy. But Ingle said, yes, but how would you like to go to Uruguay? And Mitterrand's response was, boss, when do …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 40:59
Byron Engle headed
USAID book_quoted
“The head of the program was a guy by the name of Byron Engel. And before we go any further, I do want to go back and talk about one thing. You remember yesterday when we were talking about the Indiana University School of Police Administrat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 16:34
Byron Engle trained
Japan book_quoted
“He had been chosen because of his experience in training Japanese police in the immediate aftermath of World War II. And again, for anyone new, MacArthur was basically running Japan. And they created a national police force using the same f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 28:20
Byron Engle funded
Bolivia documented
“They were active in over 52 countries. And his initial budget was $200 million through USAID and CIA funds for weaponry, communications, and tactical equipment, which sounds exactly like Operation Gladio. Well, that was the specific OPS ini…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:08:41
Byron Engle funded
Ghana documented
“$1.75 million program in 56. That's a ton of money to, quote, train their police in Ghana. And oh, by the way, don't forget what we learned a long time ago. The Office of Public Safety also used the Los Fresnos, Texas.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:09:10
Byron Engle trained
CIA documented
“since he had already been responsible for training over 100,000 Japanese police in just under two months. Johnson talked with the CIA director and got permission for Engel to go into the job. Next came the setting of standards for recruits …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 40:22
Byron Engle founded
Public Safety Division host_asserted
“The Public Safety Division is the same entity that we found in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil. They do all of their mass murder under the header of public safety. It was created by the CIA officer Byron Engel, E-N-G-E-L, in 1954.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 32:49
Byron Engle headed
USAID book_quoted
“this course were also administered through the USAID. Along with foreign students, the Institute trained U.S. officers destined for South Vietnam. And we know how that turned out. As head of the Office of Public Safety, Byron Engel was more…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 21:51
Byron Engle recruited
Los Angeles Police Department book_quoted
“Under the pressure from Kennedy's administration, Engel borrowed four Spanish-speaking officers from the LAPD that had been trained by the CIA and sent them to Caracas to give intensive classes in police work. Had the mission been exposed, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 25:15
Byron Engle member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Officially, the new advisory unit was given to the State Department to be administered as part of foreign aid program, but Engel had other allegiances. He had been recruited by the CIA after it was established in 1947. Engel satisfied the n…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 32:58
Byron Engle member_of
National Police Board book_quoted
“The closer their ties to Brazil's business and military circles, the more strongly they believe that the coup was long overdue. It didn't trouble the military advisors that overnight there was a change in their role. There's another guy who…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 3:20
Byron Engle funded
Congo host_asserted
“explosives from simple materials um but anyway it ended up going on about the congo during lub mamba yeah he spent five million dollars uh venezuela vietnam thailand um but one of the other big telling things was one of the books that was w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:10:06
Byron Engle trained
Grey Wolves host_asserted
“He also did a tour in Turkey. And what was going on in the aftermath of World War II? They were setting up the Gray Wolves. And the National Police were involved in training the Operation Gladio program called the Gray Wolves. So, Engel is …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 29:21
Mentions (61)
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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…
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Byron Engel later tried to explain it all away by saying, quote, the three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story. We found out later that it had been slipped into a paper by someone in the composing room. In other w…
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And he's going to, of course, work in the public safety program because of the oxymoron names of all these things. The public safety program tortures people. So the guy that was running the public safety program of torture for the State Dep…
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The Public Safety Division is the same entity that we found in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil. They do all of their mass murder under the header of public safety. It was created by the CIA officer Byron Engel, E-N-G-E-L, in 1954.…
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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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Officers at the police academy attributed this to two preoccupations, the Vietnam War and his great society. During Nixon's first term in office, the president told Byron Ingalls that the advisory program was a good one and he felt it was i…
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Before that, he had directed a crime lab in Pittsburgh. It was this varied background that led Byron Engel to send him to Rio as an advisor and to conduct investigations. Gowen's work took him to the state of Minas Gervais, where he could e…
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When the exchange of gunfire, two policemen were killed. None of the rebels were hit. Murillo was charged with four crimes, unlawful possession of a gun, being a member of an illegal association, armed actions, and assassination. As a resul…
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to a special jail for political prisoners in a different section on the outskirts of Rio. Morello was led from the jail with nine other prisoners and ordered to wait in an open courtyard. Seven of the nine were also political prisoners from…
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And then the book goes along and basically they made them think that they were all going to be assassinated, like at a firing squad. But instead, basically what they did was tortured each one of them in basically like a classroom setting. T…
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And they did it like on a platform, like a stage. And they read out dossiers on each of the people. They also put them on display with electrical shocks. So basically they were doing a training class on how to torture people in an open sett…
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And it talks about them shoving needles underneath their fingernails and attaching wires to all the various places. But also the one that we had talked about before about putting it on one of their fingers and then in their ear. They beat t…
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And, of course, it talks about Murillo's specific torture that one of the guys in the audience watching all this had to get up and go vomit. It was so repulsive. It also showed him how to hook up the telephone to the electrical clips.…
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and where to place the clips in their ear for the most painful electrocutions. So when Dan Mitterrand, and that's the end of that chapter, when Dan Mitterrand asked Byron Engel to give him another overseas assignment, Engel knew that the re…
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And remember where we left off with Dan Mitterrand is he was at the International Police Academy in Washington, D.C., because he had left Brazil already. And so he wanted to go back overseas. Mitterrand had been a good instructor at the IPA…
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Ingle said, we've been thinking about an overseas assignment for you. Mitterrand said, you know, I love working here at the academy. But Ingle said, yes, but how would you like to go to Uruguay? And Mitterrand's response was, boss, when do …
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the rebel movement in Uruguay, or that he had chosen to send Mitterrand there because of his experience with the Brazilian police. Ingalls preferred to be seen as an ingenious administrator, knowledgeably professional, and a tough cop, just…
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not as a troubled country, but as one of the nicest, most peaceful places on earth. So he's either a criminal or a liar for both. If Engel's account were true, he would have had to have blinded himself to the field reports from Uruguay pass…
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Despite later disclaimers, it was clear Mitterrand was headed to Uruguay entirely aware of his assignment and what he was going to be doing in training the police to deal with the Tupomaros. As rebellion spread across the world, criticism o…
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At first, this new ban sought to avoid confrontation with police, a tactic that earned Byron Ingalls contempt. Cowardly, he called them, you know, the people he didn't know existed, because they wouldn't stand up and fight. Halfway around t…
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Something of a pass for a gee and his. Where did Bridget go? Can you guys still hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. We can hear you. Drop down to listener. I don't know if you can bring her back. I just did. She said she lost her sound. So let m…
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And he is going to get replaced with Dan Meterone. So the. All right. Let me bring her back up. OK. Siennes had been a former cop in L.A. And we know all about the CIA's agreement with the L.A. Police Department. So at the time, John Horton…
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had to race the clock setting a charge against a gas tank or a telephone pole in a specified amount of time. They learned how to catapult bombs, practicing on camp fences. The students were called guerrillas while they were there because th…
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going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Uruguayan government had done all in its powe…
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Byron Engel, the director of the Office of Public Safety. So he is praising the guy in charge of the program to create terrorists. Louis Gibbs owed his job to Dan Mitterrand. Okay, so we're jumping back in the past. Sorry.…
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The head of the program was a guy by the name of Byron Engel. And before we go any further, I do want to go back and talk about one thing. You remember yesterday when we were talking about the Indiana University School of Police Administrat…
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then Michigan State University, which ran the Phoenix program. So I just wanted to let you know I went back and found that. That is absolutely crazy. So moving on. Let's see. So Byron Engel, when he was selected to head this program, he had…
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And Kansas City comes up not real often, but often enough for me to know that Kansas City, Missouri, was a hotbed of feeders of their police department into very nefarious things. And it was basically ran as kind of a Democrat stronghold to…
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Engel purposely set all of the federal salaries in the Office of Public Safety high enough above any police chiefs in order to be able to recruit them away from those jobs. He primarily focused his recruitment on Mississippi and Indiana bec…
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that they had vital knowledge that they needed to inject into Latin America. And of course, that was all because they had found oil and gold and all kinds of natural resources down there that the oligarchs wanted. In Washington, Byron Engel…
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They had a show trial in Japan, much like the show trial called Nuremberg, that held none of the key fascists responsible for anything that they had done. And you have the exact same thing happening in country after country after country af…
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He also did a tour in Turkey. And what was going on in the aftermath of World War II? They were setting up the Gray Wolves. And the National Police were involved in training the Operation Gladio program called the Gray Wolves. So, Engel is …
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Officially, the new advisory unit was given to the State Department to be administered as part of foreign aid program, but Engel had other allegiances. He had been recruited by the CIA after it was established in 1947. Engel satisfied the n…
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and launched what was come to be nicknamed the Free World's Police Force. From the start, some officials within the foreign aid program did not like Engel's operations. Economists happened to be the most outspoken about it. They all said th…
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were the last to change. But change itself, at least orderly change, depended on the stability, and Washington was not prepared to underwrite what he had in mind. If Engel was not finding much support at the State Department, he didn't find…
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for the CIA to conduct operations in these countries. And he believed Engel's appointment proved his point. At the CIA, the advantages of putting U.S. operatives in close contact with local police was obvious. But as late as the 1960s, with…
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was allowed to operate outside of what was official CIA, but to be used by them for their operations. When Dan Mederone applied to the program in the spring of that year, he was put through a rigorous security check. Since Engel was the onl…
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Until 1959, Engel's outline had called for combating communism and subversion. But then the king of Iran was assassinated by an armored unit said to owe its fidelity to Nasser of Egypt. And more alarming was 200 men sent by Fidel Castro to …
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A State Department veteran, future Ambassador Johnson, found it easy to insist that training of police was a civil function and couldn't be done in the Department of Defense. Having won the battle, Johnson was concerned that the officials o…
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since he had already been responsible for training over 100,000 Japanese police in just under two months. Johnson talked with the CIA director and got permission for Engel to go into the job. Next came the setting of standards for recruits …
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tablet that he gave around the table to the people to say, what kind of qualities do you want? And after everybody wrote down what they wanted, he gathered up all the papers and he said, one of you wants them to be young, athletically built…
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So something has to give. So he basically ignored what everybody said in the meeting by doing this exercise and decided that he himself was going to have sole authority over all hiring. After all, he had done that in Kansas City. It was not…
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Until then, the State Department had been importing promising young officers into the U.S. and training them in none other than local police departments, basically riding along with other cops. He didn't want that to continue. So the first …
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So basically just throw out the counter argument and move on. In August of 1962, John F. Kennedy approved the counterintelligence group's report. However, a year later, the police academy was still functioning in Panama while it was suppose…
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finding a place. Then he discovered a thing called the car barn. The barn, more than 200 years old, had been a tobacco warehouse and had been turned into a manufacturing of streetcars for the District of Columbia. O. Roy Chalk, the owner of…
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Forrestal had served on Johnson's committee, the one that created the whole program. And Forrestal's home estate was next door to this place. I'm sure that's a coincidence. So, only then did Engle realize that the site he had chosen was nex…
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Drawing on the Inter-American Police Academy, Engel imported the 20 instructors as the nucleus for his new school. They all spoke Spanish. And since Washington's chief concern remained Latin America, even the FBI donated people to the staff…
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On our next show. Bridget go ahead. Oh my god. This Byron Engel. Oh my god. Yeah I have a whole thing on him. Go ahead and talk about him. Okay well. I'm trying not to jump too far ahead. But that's part of my nature. Did you know he was th…
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Can I give you a little... Yeah, go ahead. Okay. I'm just going to give you a brief, grokkish kind of thing. Because, as it turns out, she was... Hang on. It started with a quote. And I'll read you the quote, and then I'll tell you what. In…
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was recruited by the CIA to act as a liaison between the CIA and her husband's international cooperation agency slash public safety operation at the State Department. So I asked Grog to detail about that. He goes on to say, let's see, blah,…
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who then returned to Brazil and took over clandestine roles in the anti-Goliath conspiracy. The farm workers of the Northeast then had reason to be suspicious of any outsider and all police whom they regarded as agents of the CIA. During Te…
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was the care and attention that U.S. training lavished on their political thinking. For instance, under Byron Ingalls' direction, a student at the police academy devoted 165 class hours, about one-third of his total studies, to internal sec…
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The closer their ties to Brazil's business and military circles, the more strongly they believe that the coup was long overdue. It didn't trouble the military advisors that overnight there was a change in their role. There's another guy who…
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this course were also administered through the USAID. Along with foreign students, the Institute trained U.S. officers destined for South Vietnam. And we know how that turned out. As head of the Office of Public Safety, Byron Engel was more…
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that spying was going on. His new associates at the Office of Public Safety heard him arguing heatedly with a CIA officer in Langley, Virginia, as he tried to retain some measure of being a separate entity. Throughout the early 60s, Engel s…
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But when put to the test during the Kennedy administration, the Office of Public Safety quickly demonstrated that there were few hesitations about breaking the rule to achieve their success. Since the irregularities were all for the quote-u…
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Under the pressure from Kennedy's administration, Engel borrowed four Spanish-speaking officers from the LAPD that had been trained by the CIA and sent them to Caracas to give intensive classes in police work. Had the mission been exposed, …
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compensating their families because it was all off the record. What was behind the scenes? That was behind the scenes. The public image of Engel's program remained positive. Bobby Kennedy, now a senator in New York, had been happy to addres…
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USAID Office of Public Safety in South America under CIA agent Byron Ingalls? Yes, folks. Yes, he is another Mitterrand. He is another Mitterrand. Manuel Pina is another Dan Mitterrand.…