Jean-Marc van der person
also: Jean-Marc, John Mark
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Claims (15)
Jean-Marc van der member_of
Brazil host_asserted
“That was in Brazil. So they negotiated the release of the Swiss ambassador. And that's where Jean-Marc came into play. Because remember, his dad was originally from Switzerland. He had moved to Brazil and married a local Brazilian.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:08:38
Jean-Marc van der member_of
Switzerland host_asserted
“That was in Brazil. So they negotiated the release of the Swiss ambassador. And that's where Jean-Marc came into play. Because remember, his dad was originally from Switzerland. He had moved to Brazil and married a local Brazilian.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:08:38
Helvecio Lete spied_on
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“During his imprisonment, he was questioned at length by an army colonel, Helvecio Lete, who was notorious as a torturer. Lete threatened Jean-Marc with beatings and worse, but on the occasion, he was only blustering, and after the interroga…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 25:48
Jean-Marc van der member_of
National Student Association host_asserted
“from other states out of his jail and ordered his men to work around the clock to identify who they all were. Prior to the raid, Jean-Marc had been elected as the new president of the student union. Because he was also the only one among th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 32:13
Sinamar spied_on
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“He had accumulated the names of people who might help him. His first calls let him know that Sinamar, the Navy's intelligence section, had discovered that he had boarded the bus and officers were already checking all traffic in and out of t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 34:13
Governor Saldanha da Gama member_of
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“a town outside of San Pablo. Jean-Marc argued against the secrecy. Let the meeting be in public, he said, and let the police, if they dare, break it up. The resulting publicity would only win students more converts. By this time, the studen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 29:44
Jean-Marc van der carried_out_attack
Brazil host_asserted
“All of this supposedly for setting a jeep on fire that he had nothing to do with and running. On the seventh day, blindfolded and beaten on the ears until his eardrums felt like they were going to burst, Jean-Marc learned the answer. He hea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 53:57
Jean-Marc van der member_of
Brazilian Marines host_asserted
“Jean-Marc drew himself up when the first policeman approached. Jean-Marc presented his credentials as a reserve officer in the Brazilian Marines. He said, I can be arrested only by a Marine officer in the rank of captain or above. The perpl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 22:55
Jean-Marc van der spied_on
Brazil documented
“Jean-Marc was hiding in a house of a physician who had been attending the president of Brazil. Jean-Marc called, had heard that Silva had had a stroke from the doctor. He got so excited about that news that he set off to a house of some fri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 44:18
Brazil assassinated
Jean-Marc van der documented
“had called a mass demonstration to be joined by professors, workers, and city poor. A cadre of students surrounded Jean-Marc and called on him to address the crowd. He was a wanted man and he couldn't afford to be a celebrity. Twice he trie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 34:43
Jean-Marc van der spied_on
United States documented
“Jean-Marc also heard a man speaking to the commander in English with a U.S. accent. At the time, Jean-Marc was hanging upside down, trussed like a roasting chicken, his wrists and ankles tied to a pole called a parrot's perch. The guards we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 54:26
Brazilian Air Force assassinated
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“Their estimate became more credible when an Air Force officer said that the rescue teams from the Air Force had killed many demonstrators that day, collecting their bodies and disposing of them in the ocean. After the shootings, the student…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 24:15
Switzerland funded
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“And they were trying to arrange his release with the prisoner release, which he did eventually get released and flown to Algiers. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Okay. Anyone else? All right. So I am going to announce.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:09:08
Switzerland funded
Jean-Marc van der host_asserted
“That was in Brazil. So they negotiated the release of the Swiss ambassador. And that's where Jean-Marc came into play. Because remember, his dad was originally from Switzerland. He had moved to Brazil and married a local Brazilian.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:08:38
Jean-Marc van der member_of
OBAN speculative
“Jean-Marc also heard a man speaking to the commander in English with a U.S. accent. At the time, Jean-Marc was hanging upside down, trussed like a roasting chicken, his wrists and ankles tied to a pole called a parrot's perch. The guards we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 54:26
Mentions (51)
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One officer who had tortured him was a captain by the name of Dalmo Cirillo. Late in 75, Marcus read in the newspaper that a metal worker had been killed in the torture rooms. One of the men implicated in the death was Cirillo, who had rece…
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That was in Brazil. So they negotiated the release of the Swiss ambassador. And that's where Jean-Marc came into play. Because remember, his dad was originally from Switzerland. He had moved to Brazil and married a local Brazilian.…
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And they were trying to arrange his release with the prisoner release, which he did eventually get released and flown to Algiers. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Okay. Anyone else? All right. So I am going to announce.…
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It didn't matter that you fled your own country because they shared this database together. And also part of that was Crypto AG, the communications that the CIA was monitoring throughout all of the countries in Latin America. On the Isle of…
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at that future day when they were running the country, but only in extreme cases. Jean-Marc said, I may be a purist, but the moment you accept one exception to the rule, you accept them all. And speaking practically, torture is a weapon tha…
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had arbitrary arrest quotas to meet, and they hauled in all kinds of people. One evening, the police hauled in a young man with an obsession. When he could hold a job, he had assisted a truck driver. The duty that must have weighed most on …
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They're not torturers. And it's just like, no, they're not. But I would have changed my mind in a heartbeat on that one. Well, but then you're like them, then you can't. And that's what John Mark was saying as a captive in Brazil against th…
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in Brazil, like that was ever going to happen. Robert Kennedy visited Rio in 1965 and agreed to meet with students at the Catholic University. By that time, few Brazilian officials would risk visiting a campus, and Kennedy got good marks fo…
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observed that more of his classmates knew about Brazilians' history and what was very suspicious about Kennedy's visit. Jean-Marc was a very intelligent, high-energy person.…
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During the 1964 coup, when Lacerda had asked his supporters to rally at the governor's palace, he was there. Sure that Gouliard intended to become another Vargas, Jean-Marc had dashed to the palace where he found no signs of resistance. His…
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And they lived a very comfortable life. Jean-Marc's college experiences were leaving him completely disillusioned with the military government. He had resisted blaming the U.S. for Brazilians' dictatorship, but it was obvious that based on …
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he began to see what was really going on. And all of his classmates were basically saying, this is what U.S. imperialism looks like. It is under the cloak of covert operations. The U.S. oligarchs will come into countries after they help wit…
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Without going through a lot of the details here, basically, Jean-Marc decides that even though he has a lot of, he ends up graduating with his degree in engineering, but a lot of the, there wasn't a lot of jobs for the locals because people…
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And so he was at a like a coffee shop and a bunch of cops come in that were trained by the Office of Public Safety and basically starts arresting students in this coffee shop. And Jean-Marc was clubbed by a couple of police who U.S. adviser…
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John Mark's next political lesson was a little bloodier. There was a student that was shot to death during a demonstration that was pivotal in the gaining strength of the rebellion forces in Brazil. They were basically having a protest in f…
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food place that supplied food for the students while they were going to school. And their protest was that the food was not edible. And for that, one of the students got shot. So he decides that he's not interested in pursuing his degree as…
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And again, there was more bloodshed. So after all of that happens, Jean-Marc ends up, let's see. So after the second murder that happens by the police, 5,000 students marched three miles to a cemetery to bury the most recent victims. The po…
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was a military dictatorship in the worst Latin American tradition. Ambassador Tuthill also came under attack when it was revealed that he had been meeting with Luzardo and listening to him complain about the U.S. government's role in the co…
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He and his colleagues called for a strike, and to generate support, Jean-Marc was chosen to speak on television. At that time, television and press were not totally censored. On their screens, viewers were confronted by Jean-Marc's well-spo…
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to increase its funds and keep it free from government intervention. The last point interested the former union organizers who were forbidden to speak so directly. Jean-Marc's group attracted a wider and more aggressive following until by t…
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The students tried to petition the minister of education with their grievances. The police blocked them from even gaining access to the government building. They found 20,000 police from all over Rio on the call ready to address the group t…
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to a clearly tense situation. The wide streets was jammed with students and their sympathizers, perhaps approximately 7,000 people. Before Jean-Marc could reach them, they rushed the police and took control of the ministry steps. Most peopl…
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Both sides in the political dispute know the power of a symbol. During that same period, anti-war protesters in the U.S. were demonstrating against Vietnam. To John Mark, the soldiers at that point seemed to lose control. He was among those…
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Jean-Marc drew himself up when the first policeman approached. Jean-Marc presented his credentials as a reserve officer in the Brazilian Marines. He said, I can be arrested only by a Marine officer in the rank of captain or above. The perpl…
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From the ground, no one could say whether those security guards were from Brazil or the United States. They began shooting into the crowd. The number killed that day was never resolved. John Mark's friends later showed him where two victims…
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Their estimate became more credible when an Air Force officer said that the rescue teams from the Air Force had killed many demonstrators that day, collecting their bodies and disposing of them in the ocean. After the shootings, the student…
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Rio, the demonstrators went home for dinner and Bloody Friday was ended. Jean-Marc heard about the riot from his jailers at the Army's 1st Armored Brigade. All day, the brigade had been on alert when the wires to the headquarters were cut a…
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During his imprisonment, he was questioned at length by an army colonel, Helvecio Lete, who was notorious as a torturer. Lete threatened Jean-Marc with beatings and worse, but on the occasion, he was only blustering, and after the interroga…
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that the president wanted to speak with him. He took it as a joke, the only humor on that menacing day. Then Silva personally called him and said, I want you at my office. Drummond boarded a military aircraft and flew to the Capitol with se…
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All stops should be pulled out in order to hold them accountable. The next week was quiet, each side weighing the strengths and responses of the other. Believing the future of his government at stake, Silva agreed to meet with the delegatio…
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normal legal proceedings, not a gesture by Silva to the demonstrators. Four months later, John Mark went on trial in a military court. The government had one star witness, the driver of the Jeep, who testified that he had heard John Mark ex…
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films of the Jeep being set on fire showed John Mark nowhere around it. When the court adjourned to deliberate, John Mark was ordered to return for the verdict. From the tenor of the preliminaries, he was convinced there would only be one o…
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had called a mass demonstration to be joined by professors, workers, and city poor. A cadre of students surrounded Jean-Marc and called on him to address the crowd. He was a wanted man and he couldn't afford to be a celebrity. Twice he trie…
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He borrowed a car and drove to the airport. Police were stationed at the train and bus depots and along the roads. They were making motorists get out of their cars so they could search their trunks. They were not watching the airport. Jean-…
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none other than Jean-Marc. Rockefeller was still the governor of New York when Richard Nixon sent him to Latin America to prepare a policy report. The governor was scheduled to spend only a few hours in any one capital, but even the short d…
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The Latin American police must be strengthened. That spring, there was more than the Rockefeller mission to occupy Jean-Marc. In February, the government had issued Decree 477 forbidding all political activity within the university. The aut…
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through a man named Boyleson. Jean-Marc spent many months underground without being forced to resort to false documents. Challenged for identification, he would either show his Swiss passport or his card as a Marine officer. With a glance a…
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Jean-Marc was hiding in a house of a physician who had been attending the president of Brazil. Jean-Marc called, had heard that Silva had had a stroke from the doctor. He got so excited about that news that he set off to a house of some fri…
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and minutes later, the house was raided. Police on the street was watching the door, and when they seized him, Jean-Marc told the officers that he was simply a student that had come to the wrong address. The government had discovered the ra…
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the police, where he found six other suspects already waiting. For half an hour, they were beaten on their kidneys with clubs. That was punishment for not answering questions. No questions had been asked. It was a preliminary lesson. Jean-M…
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reported later to his readers that there were radio monitors in the ministry. He said that what the prisoners had heard were, hold on a second, what the prisoners had heard was not actual U.S. intelligence officers in the room, but a radio.…
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thought an excuse was so transparent that it should only confirm the accusation in a neutral mind. But who was listening, either to the charge or to Buckley's rebuttal? After being held at Cinemar, Jean-Luc was shipped across the bay to a p…
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consecutive hours jean-marc was beaten with clubs and shocked with electrical wires at first the torture was simply administrative but on the third day his captures discovered his identity and the brutality of his beatings intensified the i…
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Montero came only twice to watch Jean-Marc's torture. The prisoners were blindfolded, but Montero's distinctive voice gave him away. Women who were imprisoned there were tortured after they were stripped naked. Among torturers themselves, t…
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the Navy commander who had been so impressed by his U.S. training in psychological warfare at Fort Bragg. Hawk tried to protect his reputation by using an alias called Dr. Mike. The assault of these men on Jean-Marc astounded him. He saw ho…
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who let him know that they hated him and felt no trace of compassion for him. These men routinely wrapped wires around his penis and testicles, betraying no embarrassment in doing so. Jean-Marc had another stuck in... One of the leads was a…
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connected to a battery-operated field phone. Jean-Marc recognized the phone. His Marine unit had equipment just like it, supplied by the United States. The crank was turned, voltage leaked between the wires, shocking Jean-Marc. When they wa…
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Other times, wires were attached to his fingers with clothes pins. Brazilians called the pins crocodiles because of their wooden jaws. Jean-Marc found it disturbing to see those harmless utensils that you see used commonplace in a home bein…
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The guards took paddles, flat wood pieces with holes drilled in them that would have normally been used as a paddle. A swat or two would leave a nasty sting. However, the torturers used them for hours on end, beating him in the head, his ki…
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All of this supposedly for setting a jeep on fire that he had nothing to do with and running. On the seventh day, blindfolded and beaten on the ears until his eardrums felt like they were going to burst, Jean-Marc learned the answer. He hea…
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Jean-Marc also heard a man speaking to the commander in English with a U.S. accent. At the time, Jean-Marc was hanging upside down, trussed like a roasting chicken, his wrists and ankles tied to a pole called a parrot's perch. The guards we…