International Police Academy organization
also: IPAC, IPA
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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
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
Juan Maria Lucas member_of
International Police Academy host_asserted
“experienced a marked increase in U.S. equipment being delivered to include tear gas, gas masks, police batons, and other things. When a police commissioner named Juan Maria Lucas, who had studied at the International Police Academy, and Mit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 22:23
Francois Mitterrand member_of
International Police Academy host_asserted
“experienced a marked increase in U.S. equipment being delivered to include tear gas, gas masks, police batons, and other things. When a police commissioner named Juan Maria Lucas, who had studied at the International Police Academy, and Mit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 22:23
Robert F. Kennedy member_of
International Police Academy book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 25:44
International Police Academy trained
National Police Board book_quoted
“was not so adept. His successor basically did not have a high view of the candidates and didn't think most of them warranted the money used to send them to the United States. Brazilian officers attending the International Police Academy oft…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 29:26
Jack Goin member_of
International Police Academy documented
“Even students not considered sufficiently qualified to be passed on to the CIA for professional intelligence work, they were instructed on how to effectively combat communism. One of the things that they said, there was a guy by the name of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 39:12
International Police Academy spied_on
United States host_asserted
“the Congress that Israel owns, every single member of our Congress has an IPAC handler. I believe Thomas Matthews said he's the only one that he's aware of that does not have an IPAC handler.…”
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the Congress that Israel owns, every single member of our Congress has an IPAC handler. I believe Thomas Matthews said he's the only one that he's aware of that does not have an IPAC handler.…
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the schools. The name of the place, Los Fresnos, F-R-E-S-N-O-S, is the place in Texas that taught them how to blow things up. And the, let's see, the International Police Academy was the name of the school in Washington, D.C. that they trai…
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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 …
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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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You must believe that we are honorable men, CIA Director Richard Helms said. When the Office of Public Safety was abolished, its funds cut off in the car barn, which is where the International Police Academy doors were locked. Some advisors…
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former model of democracy, there was now no dancing for anyone. In spring of 1977, a military court finally sentenced a suspected Tupomaro for the killing of Dan Mederone, for the shooting and his alleged part in the kidnapping of Jeffrey J…
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A Greek film director hired an Italian, Franco Salinas, as his scriptwriter, and together they set off for Latin America to make a film about the death of Dan Mitterrand. Salinas, a member of the Italian Communist Party, had written the scr…
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In Uruguay, young men and women considered themselves idealist. The U.S. government had developed harsh methods both in South Vietnam and Latin America. Dan Mitterrand made use of them. In the 12 years of the Office of Public Safety, a tota…
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Noises were piped into these rooms like screams and gunshots to scare the people that were being tortured. The interrogation technique followed the lesson plan from Panama and from the International Police Academy in D.C. by presenting one …
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She also heard news that Mario Alves, the founder of the organization that she belonged to, the police had stuck a broomstick so far up his back end that they had ruptured his spleen, trying to make him talk. They also pulled out his teeth.…
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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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He was too preoccupied with the fortunes of his fellow officers, always sure the ones he basically was paranoid. He was thinking because he was younger than all of them that they were always going to be plotting against him. There were feud…
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experienced a marked increase in U.S. equipment being delivered to include tear gas, gas masks, police batons, and other things. When a police commissioner named Juan Maria Lucas, who had studied at the International Police Academy, and Mit…
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and told them, now we have someone who will support our activities. As it had been in Brazil, Mudron's assignment also led to an increase in the number of Uruguayans sent to the United States for training. But these days, all students did n…
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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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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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revolvers, radios, riot control equipment. He also was able to get more people into the police academy in Washington, D.C. because he had left there before coming to Brazil. He introduced the policeman's notebook, a standard procedure used …
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The Washington students at International Police Academy would later be shown a film called The Battle of Algiers. Now, keep in mind that the Battle of Algiers was the French keeping Algeria as a slave colony. The film portrayed policemen lo…
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that wrecked reprisals on Nigerian nationalists, bombing their homes and killing their families. So while the National Police Academy in Washington, D.C. didn't tell them to do those things, there was a series of movies shown to the student…
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Besides the course at the International Police Academy, the CIA was sending foreign police officers to its own clandestine center, a four story townhouse in Washington, D.C. There, under the name of International Police Services, Inc., Asia…
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that the world today is buffeted by winds of change. At the academy, however, most of the actual training seemed aimed at preventing that change, although the intention was seldom committed to paper. The training syllabus, which was not cla…
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And we didn't want to help them. The training sheets that were eventually made available were very vague. The foreign policemen themselves understood why they were being sent to Washington. Even before the coup in July 1963, one Brazilian o…
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was not so adept. His successor basically did not have a high view of the candidates and didn't think most of them warranted the money used to send them to the United States. Brazilian officers attending the International Police Academy oft…
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that the courses, like those that had been offered in Panama, were beneath them. 60% of the student body came from Central and South America. And some Brazilians didn't like attending class with Costa Ricans and Guatemalans. And that goes b…
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Infiltrators from Malian were staging a national disturbance. The villains in every semester, this delighted the students, were instructors from the International Police Academy faculty. Their mugshots emphasizing a sinister look. One instr…
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enjoyed the people's confidence because they had restored peace. The IPA officials anticipated that some of the students might object to the film. To cope with them, the instructor was told to break in at any sign of restiveness to assure t…
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on interrogation that was created by the FBI. They dubbed it in Portuguese. During class hours at the International Police Academy, discussions of domestic politics was not allowed. The academy's official liked to point out that whether you…
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And that was the communist threat. Few students missed the purpose behind the International Police Academy. The academy had been set up to train police to fight, quote unquote, communism. Wherever it existed, it didn't matter if it was a wo…
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that they dropped the charges because if they didn't, it was going to be an international national security problem. Once an African student was picked up on a rape charge during a lineup, the victim had positively identified him and those …
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He also discussed starving a man, hitting him, or subjecting him to steady drops of water on his head. But he concluded that those things should be used as a last resort because sometimes, again, people just talk. Another guy from Nepal rep…
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Stories came up in different areas about the torture of prisoners, and his former Brazilian colleagues debated what Mitterrand would do if a police officer began to abuse a prisoner in front of him. One officer said he'd just leave. He woul…
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Through the world in 1968 was a year of demonstrations. Back in Washington, Dan Mitterrand was finding the U.S. far different from the country he had left eight years earlier. Brazilian students at the International Police Academy sometimes…
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a firm that got its start in the air cargo business in the 1940s and later developed a reputation of serving America in dangerous areas. They were a favorite of the CIA. DynCorp had supplied former police officers for the International Poli…