Tupamaros organization
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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 …”
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Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Gordon Jones documented
“Meanwhile, Gordon Jones had come into the basement and saw Roosevelt's body on the floor. He ran over to examine the body and the Tupomaros jumped him. While they were tying him up, Jones puffed out his chest enough so that he could exhale …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 54:01
Dan Mitterrand kidnapped_by
Tupamaros documented
“The mom kept asking him when he would go visit, had they heard from Dan? And Ray would lie to her and basically say, yeah, we just heard from him the other day. It pained Ray to lie to his mother, but until he had more details, he didn't wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 44:29
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Nathan Rosenfeld documented
“With that, two men jumped Rosenfeld from behind, waving a .45 automatic gun, and Rosenfeld was told, don't say anything, we're Tupomaros. Rosenfeld was twice the age of his assailants. The most aggressive thing about him was his wardrobe. H…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 53:01
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Olocia Mares Diaz Gomadi documented
“who has a long name, Olocia Mares Diaz Gomadi, had been abducted that same morning by four other Tupomaros pretending to be telephone repairmen. His wife and six children that were also in the house were unharmed. Had the Tupomaros' plan su…”
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Tupamaros assassinated
Héctor Romero Morón Carcuaró documented
“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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Dan Mitterrand killed_by
Tupamaros documented
“Some of them even remembered to send condolences to the Mitterrand family. The two highest ranking responses did not come from men from the buildings. The White House said today, began an Associated Press account, the kidnap murder of U.S. …”
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Alejandro Otero trained
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Otero had been teaching at the Monteviego Police Academy, and a meeting was arranged in his office. Otero confided all of his resentments. He began by granting that in conducting an interrogation, the police were justified in many deception…”
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Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Jeffrey Jackson book_quoted
“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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Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Billy Rial book_quoted
“He had been playing it over and over and listening for clues. And if you guys remember back at the beginning of the story, there was an Uruguayan that showed up in Richmond and spoke to Ray at his sporting goods store. And Ray was convinced…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 24:49
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Dr. Clyde Fayerweather book_quoted
“Dr. Claude Fly suffered a heart attack in his underground hiding place. The Tupomaros first took him to one of their sympathizers, a heart surgeon, who examined him and insisted he be sent immediately to a hospital. So, of course, the Tupom…”
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Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Fernando Gabeira book_quoted
“In Brazil, the kidnapping of Burke Elbrick had gone so successfully that the rebels employed the same tactic on three more occasions. In June 1970, while Fernando Garbera was in prison in Rio, a broadcast was interrupted with a news bulleti…”
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Fernando Gabeira member_of
Tupamaros book_quoted
“through the cell, and stripped away all radios. One prisoner managed to hide his under the pillow, and everyone was waiting around for the next bulletin. In that prison alone, over 120 political prisoners were living. They debated until daw…”
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Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Jean-Marc Arruda book_quoted
“in December of 1970, it seemed fitting that one of the hostages that they should demand for his release was the son of a Swiss father, Jean-Marc. It was Christmas Eve before word of the trade reached Jean-Marc, and then the news came from a…”
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Tupamaros kidnapped
Nelson Bardacio documented
“facilitated by the CIA's communication. So everybody that left Brazil for another Southern Cone country was murdered in that other country. Before the Tupomaros were exterminated and Uruguay's democracy snuffed out, Nelson Bardacio was kidn…”
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Nelson Bardacio confessed_to
Tupamaros documented
“In a series of interviews held underground, he confessed to police bombings and described the link between the police and the military in Uruguay and Argentina. Before it was finally suppressed and then printed in a transcript later, the tw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 35:40
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
Adolf Sien spied_on
Tupamaros book_quoted
“and sent by the guy there, Adolf Sienz, the chief advisor whom Mitterrand would be replacing, treated Uruguay's political problems, or he conveyed them in exhaustive detail. The labor strikes, the student unrest, the revolutionaries who cal…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 42:28
Raúl Sendic member_of
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Although the police intelligence unit began to suspect these armed thefts were connected, it was not until 1965 that their scraps of information began to fit a pattern. There were dissidents, and eventually they became known as the Tupomaro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 55:54
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Swiss Club book_quoted
“A group of burglars had broke into the Swiss Club, a hunting lodge outside of Montevideo, and made off with some of the old, worthless weapons. Five men were involved, and one of them was syndic. Another was a medical doctor and a club memb…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 55:25
Tupamaros attempted_assassination_of
Ulysses Pereira book_quoted
“necessarily dislike them. They understood what they were doing. They kidnapped the closest friend of President Jorge Arrico, a guy by the name of Ulysses Reverbal, and held him captive in what they called a people's prison. From a public re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 58:25
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Piera Revolval host_asserted
“She helped run a thrift store for the women from the U.S. consulate. The Tupamaros allowed the new chief advisor no time at all for settling in before they made another dramatic strike. It had been more than a year since Piera Revolval had …”
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Bardasio carried_out_attack
Tupamaros host_asserted
“Bardasio called on an SIDE captain who gave him three charges of basically explosives to deliver to Peron. Bardasio and his associates then formed an organization which bombed the houses of lawyers and teachers considered sympathetic to Tap…”
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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…”
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Daniel Anthony Meterone trained
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Who do we know Dan Meterone to be? Dan Meterone was the guy that went down to Uruguay as an employee of USAID's Office of Public Safety. He was instrumental in teaching the national police in Uruguay after the CIA coup and installation of a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 9:02
Tupamaros assassinated
Daniel Anthony Meterone book_quoted
“kidnap and disappear people. That's what his job was down there. And he was eventually captured by the indigenous freedom fighters fighting back against the CIA's occupation there and their occupation government. And he was killed. And the …”
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Jorge Pacheco Areco refused_to_negotiate_with
Tupamaros documented
“He was quoted as saying he would never negotiate with the criminals. Yet there were hopeful signs. Representatives of the Vatican in Uruguay was trying to start negotiations to free Dan. Ray also received a call from a man who identified hi…”
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Charles Burke Elbrick kidnapped_by
Tupamaros documented
“the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported tha…”
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CIA carried_out_attack
Tupamaros host_asserted
“And he talks about the fact that we were in Brazil, we were in Bolivia in 1967, we were in Uruguay killing all the Tupomaros, which were the resistant fighters or the nationalists from 1968 to 73. And then of course, overlapping that,…”
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Christian David assassinated
Tupamaros book_quoted
“for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to be assassinated for the CIA propped up …”
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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…”
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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…”
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American Field Service trained
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Many of the Tupamaros had gone as students on scholarships from an organization called American Field Service or Youth for Understanding. Those two programs were used and the Tupamaros had been college educated in the United States. Almost …”
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Youth for Understanding trained
Tupamaros book_quoted
“Many of the Tupamaros had gone as students on scholarships from an organization called American Field Service or Youth for Understanding. Those two programs were used and the Tupamaros had been college educated in the United States. Almost …”
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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…”
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CIA ordered_assassination_of
Tupamaros book_quoted
“and basically called Uruguay's period from 1972 to 1983, Uruguay's dirty war, and said that orders came down from the U.S. to kill captive members of the Tuporaros after interrogating them. Quote, the guidance was sent from the U.S., said M…”
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Mentions (98)
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became known as the Tupamaros, T-U-P-A-M-A-R-O-S. They were very resourceful. And of course, they immediately got branded as urban guerrillas because they were trying to restore sanity while the CIA was trying to destroy their country. A lo…
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type organization trying to give power back to the people and away from the government and the CIA-backed perpetrators, primarily residing in the police force. So, however, there were also people that were embedded in the banks and the univ…
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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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They had added a scientific refinement and to that a psychology to create despair by playing a tape in the next room of women and children screaming and telling the prisoner that was his family being tortured. Quote, the violent method whic…
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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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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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death squads, which was created throughout Latin America, primarily by police officers who bombed and strafed the homes of suspected Tupomaro sympathizers and engaged in assassination and kidnapping. The death squads received some of the mo…
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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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everywhere, as he took freedom away from thousands of people in Uruguay. His widow would call him a perfect man, and his daughter said that he was a great humanitarian. The military's entry into the escalating conflict signaled the beginnin…
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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…
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and basically called Uruguay's period from 1972 to 1983, Uruguay's dirty war, and said that orders came down from the U.S. to kill captive members of the Tuporaros after interrogating them. Quote, the guidance was sent from the U.S., said M…
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What had to be done with the captured gorillas was to get information and then afterwards they didn't deserve to live, unquote. So that's the part from the book. But I did want to go a little bit further and talk to you guys briefly about s…
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And you know way more than anybody else in this space about Chile. Isn't that the same thing that happened with the Tupomoros? The Tupomoros were the people that banded together after the overthrow of their elected president, Salvador Allen…
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When, in fact, the Office of Public Safety and people like, you know, although it was a different country, Dan Mederone, but his counterparts in Chile were training the actual terrorists were the national police and the DINA. And any time t…
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If we hadn't been down there assassinating presidents, we may have never even had a FARC. Good point. And if it wasn't for CIA intervention, a lot of countries, we probably wouldn't have a drug problem. Or at least it wouldn't be that serio…
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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…
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how that whole process works. And the most interesting part of this entire chapter was this part right here. In the Monteviedo jails, the prisoners joked about the fact that both political factions had been to the U.S. Both the police were …
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Many of the Tupamaros had gone as students on scholarships from an organization called American Field Service or Youth for Understanding. Those two programs were used and the Tupamaros had been college educated in the United States. Almost …
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The education for both of these sides was being provided by the United States. I find I found that very interesting. And then there's a lot more conversation about what the CIA was doing in Uruguay. And they seemed very knowledgeable about …
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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…
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Tupomaro's even knew about the weather underground in the United States and movements like that. And so they have quite a lengthy conversation over the days of that he's held captive there. Towards the end, they begin talking about the deat…
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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…
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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…
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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 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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Alejandro Otero. He was no longer the leading specialist in combating the Tupomaros, having been replaced months before when the CIA and U.S. police advisors had turned to harsher measures and sterner men. Author Amor, a Brazilian journalis…
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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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The consul's wife had raised over a quarter of a million dollars, and he had been held for six months. He eventually was released February 21, 1971, but the kidnapping story began to slow down after Mitterrand's body was found. Amor asked o…
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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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it most likely would not get published without a name. Otero said, if my name appears, I not only will lose my job, I likely will become a prisoner. How Otero thought his name might be used without compromising him is hard to understand. Th…
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The chief asked Amor about his political philosophy and how he regarded the Tupamaros. Amor responded in single words. The chief grew angry and warned that he would suffer repercussions if he didn't start talking. At 4 p.m., Amor was releas…
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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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He paid for the lack of security with eight months in an underground cell. At the U.S. Embassy, the political staff watched with fascination when an agent from the British Secret Service arrived to set about working to get Jackson free. The…
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At first, journalists treated the incident as one more example of incompetence by the Iroquoian police. When the Tupomaros released Jackson, however, it began to look like that was actually condoned in order to get Jackson released. So the …
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had not suffered from the jailbreak. He was promoted afterwards. In Richmond, Ray Mitterrand read of the jailbreak and noticed that one of the occupants of the house through which Tuporaro escaped was a guy by the name of Billy Rial, R-I-A-…
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He had been playing it over and over and listening for clues. And if you guys remember back at the beginning of the story, there was an Uruguayan that showed up in Richmond and spoke to Ray at his sporting goods store. And Ray was convinced…
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Dr. Claude Fly suffered a heart attack in his underground hiding place. The Tupomaros first took him to one of their sympathizers, a heart surgeon, who examined him and insisted he be sent immediately to a hospital. So, of course, the Tupom…
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for saving somebody's life. Morris Zimmerman, an elderly U.S. businessman in Monteviego, was shocked by the news because the same Dr. Dubras had pulled him through on his own heart episode. You never could tell, Zimmerman and his wife agree…
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facilitated by the CIA's communication. So everybody that left Brazil for another Southern Cone country was murdered in that other country. Before the Tupomaros were exterminated and Uruguay's democracy snuffed out, Nelson Bardacio was kidn…
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Then when the substitutions of X for the names of police and military officers, Bardacio's confession confirmed that Uruguayan death squads had been bombing and scraping houses of lawyers and journalists suspected of being sympathetic to th…
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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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and sent by the guy there, Adolf Sienz, the chief advisor whom Mitterrand would be replacing, treated Uruguay's political problems, or he conveyed them in exhaustive detail. The labor strikes, the student unrest, the revolutionaries who cal…
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40 weapons or made off with 140 kilos of dynamite or distributed tracts of leaflets, it was immediately reported to Washington in his reports. When suspected Tuporeros were arrested, their full names were passed along to Washington, D.C. fo…
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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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faced serious problems in 1969. Its connections with the CIA, the war in Vietnam, and similar accounts of torturing turning up all over the world were rendering the advisory program politically vulnerable. Worse yet, the rebel movements, es…
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Although the police intelligence unit began to suspect these armed thefts were connected, it was not until 1965 that their scraps of information began to fit a pattern. There were dissidents, and eventually they became known as the Tupomaro…
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In time, the Tupomaros produced their share of revolutionary literature. Words divide us, action unites us was their motto. The decision to forego a manifesto as opposed to action led to a rise in notoriety. Throughout 1965, the Tupomaros b…
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subsidiaries of U.S. corporations. They did not maim or kill anyone. Their bombs were only noisy PR devices to introduce themselves, so they left their leaflets behind. Tupomaro's came from an indigenous Indian chief, so that became their n…
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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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When the Tupomaros did appear in public, they took the guise of public benefactors. They stole trucks and give the food to the poor. Breaking into armories, the Tupomaros stole police uniforms and wore them to hold up banks. The clerks woul…
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necessarily dislike them. They understood what they were doing. They kidnapped the closest friend of President Jorge Arrico, a guy by the name of Ulysses Reverbal, and held him captive in what they called a people's prison. From a public re…
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who once killed a newsboy for stealing a paper, was denounced as one of the most hated men in Uruguay. The Tuporaros held Pereira four days, but it was long enough to set the Uruguayans laughing at him at the police department and at the pr…
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The government of Uruguay was in fact undergoing changes very different from what the Tupamaros were promoting. Since 1950, Uruguay had been part of the International Monetary Fund. Bastards. Disregarding Battelle's admonition about getting…
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They knew that the police officers were skimming money off of it, but they didn't care. The CIA officer increased the monthly payments until there could be no question they had their hooks into them. Otero had succumbed to these blackmail t…
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So the threats continued to grow of the Tuporaros. The police chief ordered small wooden guard posts installed at each door around the city in order to try to give them some protection and provide them kind of like a lookout. But the pay of…
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to the not inconsiderable rank of sub-commissioner, only two grades below the inspector. As he advanced, he distinguished himself as a very vocal enemy of the Tupomaros. Around police headquarters, Uruguayan and U.S. advisors alike called t…
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He was quoted as saying, we really ought to get those bastards. That type of a style was not Otero's. As his associates saw it, Otero was still charging out against the Tupamaros like a knight going to battle with a worthy adversary, but he…
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Tupomaros were still stealing cash from banks, and they were liberating records from finance companies and published what they found, especially when it exposed fraud within the government. Pacheco's government was failing in public esteem,…
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She helped run a thrift store for the women from the U.S. consulate. The Tupamaros allowed the new chief advisor no time at all for settling in before they made another dramatic strike. It had been more than a year since Piera Revolval had …
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has become a specialist in explosives. That is why the different governments have chosen their favorite persons, unquote. Mitterrand sent at least seven men to take the CIA's course at Los Fernos. Among them was Inspector Lucas, who had jus…
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Bardasio called on an SIDE captain who gave him three charges of basically explosives to deliver to Peron. Bardasio and his associates then formed an organization which bombed the houses of lawyers and teachers considered sympathetic to Tap…
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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…
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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 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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another office in Buenos Aires. Only a few Uruguayan police officers learned that the improved torture equipment, the wires, the generators, as well as explosives, were passed through Argentina before they got to Uruguay. When it came to in…
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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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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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Nathan Rosenfeld, the embassy's cultural attache, called the apartment of Gordon Jones, a young member of the political section, to say that he was ready to leave work. Two men lived in the same building, and most mornings they drove togeth…
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With that, two men jumped Rosenfeld from behind, waving a .45 automatic gun, and Rosenfeld was told, don't say anything, we're Tupomaros. Rosenfeld was twice the age of his assailants. The most aggressive thing about him was his wardrobe. H…
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Rosenfeld said no, he was not. Jones was 27 years old and could have been his son. They pushed Rosenfeld to the wall. Get your hands up, the voice commanded. When he felt metal connecting to his head, Rosenfeld gave the Tupamaros what he co…
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Meanwhile, Gordon Jones had come into the basement and saw Roosevelt's body on the floor. He ran over to examine the body and the Tupomaros jumped him. While they were tying him up, Jones puffed out his chest enough so that he could exhale …
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who has a long name, Olocia Mares Diaz Gomadi, had been abducted that same morning by four other Tupomaros pretending to be telephone repairmen. His wife and six children that were also in the house were unharmed. Had the Tupomaros' plan su…
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of their Brazilian colleagues. They wanted the release of other prisoners. In the last six years, Uruguayan liberals, even those with no admiration for the Tupomaros, had apprehensively watched the development in Brazil. Arriving in Montevi…
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The Brazilian government had shown the same harshness that the Brazilian government had shown on four separate occasions. It was willing to trade, despite the harshness, they were willing to trade prisoners to save a diplomat's life. If Pac…
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that when Mitterrand's activities with the police were exposed, even apolitical Uruguayans would concede that he was a natural target. After the exchange of prisoners, Mitterrand would be sent back to the United States in disgrace, and the …
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closed society to meet with a range of Irigoyens. Given Monteviego's temper at the time, many of his acquaintances were either Tupomaro's or their friends, who expected that Jones was so knowledgeable and opinionated, would have a great dea…
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any more than Elbrick's abductors had, thought that the large families of two of their victims made them the perfect target. Jorge Pacheco Arrico probably would not have agreed to release 150 prisoners the Tupamaros were demanding. Even his…
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kidnap and disappear people. That's what his job was down there. And he was eventually captured by the indigenous freedom fighters fighting back against the CIA's occupation there and their occupation government. And he was killed. And the …
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that his brother's abductors called themselves the Tupamaros, another name strange to his ear. In his entire life, Ray could remember meeting only one Iroquoian, and that was just about a year ago. A clean-cut, well-dressed fellow, suit and…
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The mom kept asking him when he would go visit, had they heard from Dan? And Ray would lie to her and basically say, yeah, we just heard from him the other day. It pained Ray to lie to his mother, but until he had more details, he didn't wa…
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He was quoted as saying he would never negotiate with the criminals. Yet there were hopeful signs. Representatives of the Vatican in Uruguay was trying to start negotiations to free Dan. Ray also received a call from a man who identified hi…
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After spending four years in Monteviego, he knew them like a book, he said, and they were not bad people. That was the phrase Ray remembered, not bad people. In addition, the newspaper sometimes recounted the fate of other kidnapped victims…
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the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported tha…
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Harder to believe that this horror could end with his being restored to them. News accounts made it sound as though the Uruguayan government was putting hundreds of suspects in jail. But the president went on refusing to free the original 1…
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There was, however, a worse effect to the delay. The kidnappers were giving signs that their patients were running out. In a note delivered to a local radio station in Uruguay, the Tuporeros said that they would wait until midnight Friday, …
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that it was not clear whether the last sentence constituted a threat. I'm pretty sure it was a threat. By the weekend, there was a feeling throughout Richmond that events in Iroquois were out of control. A new note from the two Pereros accu…
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that had massacred entire populations in Vietnam, Santo Domingo, and other places, unquote, which is absolutely true. Then came the explicit threat the family had been dreading. Unless the Uruguayan government agreed to release its prisoner…
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At about 4.30 a.m. Monday, Ray's telephone rang in his apartment. It was a UPI reporter from Indianapolis. He had spoken with Ray on Sunday, and Ray had asked him to call back the minute they got any news. The reporter said, we just heard t…
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So just to kind of reiterate this, dissident movements would be the Tupamarys in Latin America, right? They've installed a military dictator who's basically privatized everything and allowed Western corporations to come in and rape over the…
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for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to be assassinated for the CIA propped up …
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Kruger supplies the details of the arms transactions by which David was able to penetrate to the very heart of the Tupomaro organization. And once again, Kruger, who points out that David's service against the Tupomaros were part of an effo…
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The guy that was a retired Richmond, Indiana police chief that was well known to be working for USAID's Office of Public Safety and training the National Police Force in Iroquois to kidnap, torture, and assassinate Tupamaros, who were the i…
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in Iroquois. He goes on to say it's the same meter on that New York Times reporter A.J. Languth arranged for the Iroquoian police to obtain superior electric torture needles through U.S. diplomatic pouches. So for those of you who are new, …
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to the criminal smuggler that David was able to persuade the Argentine and Uruguayan rebellion, I call them freedom fighters, leadership that he would procure arms for them. That was his in. He had an arms network that he could help them wi…
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And trafficking arms through Israel into South Africa and then into Angola. So again, hope you're seeing the pattern here. He then moves on to chapter 24, South America. With the title of that chapter, the beat goes on. Because again, it do…