Dan Mitterrand person
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Claims (18)
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. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:04:37
Dan Mitterrand worked_for
International Harvester documented
“Dan also followed in his father's footsteps and went to work at none other than International Harvester. A year goes by. Anyone might have predicted that Dan was firmly launched on a path to mirror his father's. Dan would marry an Italian g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 35:26
Dan Mitterrand married
Henrietta Lind documented
“and attention to detail both in his dress and grooming. In the nearby town in Michigan, he also met his wife. He asked Henrietta Lind, L-I-N-D, to marry him, and she accepted. The marriage took place in Richmond, and she converted to Cathol…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 37:53
Dan Mitterrand joined
Richmond Police Department documented
“When he was discharged from the Navy, Dan had, for the moment, no better thought than to return to International Harvester. He moved his new family into his parents' wood grain house. By then, they had escaped the railroad tracks and had mo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 39:22
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
Dan Mitterrand trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“So it does seem like they were setting the stage to sabotage the JFK administration. So before the end of the decade, Dan Mitterrand, along with hundreds of other public safety advisors, had been sent into combat against the quote-unquote c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 11:42
Dan Mitterrand supplied_arms_to
National Police Board book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 4:31
Dan Mitterrand trained
National Police Board book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 4:31
Julius Mader exposed
Dan Mitterrand documented
“By 1968, the rumor had traveled far enough that when the East German publisher named Julius Motter brought out a book entitled The Who's Who and CIA, he actually listed Dan Mitterrand as a CIA agent. Mitterrand was merely smart and ambitiou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 54:36
Roland Cutter appointed
Dan Mitterrand documented
“who barely had 10 years experience on the force. Major Cutter appointed him immediately. The new chief was no hero, nor did he pretend to be. He was, however, the first scientifically selected professional chief of police Richmond had ever …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:03:04
Dan Mitterrand worked_for
USAID host_asserted
“Love you, Dan. So again, this verifies that Dan was working for the Office of Public Safety under the USAID. In view of that appeal, the Wire story speculated that the president in Iroquois would now declare a general amnesty for the politi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 55:46
Lewis Gibbs owed_job_to
Dan Mitterrand documented
“Lewis Gibbs owed his job to Dan Mederone, and he realized on a day like this much more. Gibbs had applied to the police force six times, and each time he had left his political affiliation blank. Someone in the department didn't like that, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:07:05
Dan Mitterrand member_of
USAID documented
“with the CIA to its fullest. But those of us who know, he worked for the Office of Public Safety, which is USAID, which is a CIA front. So he, in effect, was a CIA asset agent. That's a distinction without a difference. Brazilian police off…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 54:58
Dan Mitterrand member_of
CIA book_quoted
“and had a campaign stop there. And it says that was three months before Dan left for Brazil, which was his first posting working for the CIA under the USAID Office of Public Safety. And so he was there in charge of security when the Kennedy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 2:19
Dan Mitterrand appointed
Brazil host_asserted
“Clean and pretty, the yard was surrounded by a low wall with an iron railing, which was for decoration, not security. Very few Brazilians knew that the U.S. had sent a police chief to their country, and those aware of Mitterrand's presence …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 39:34
Dan Mitterrand trained
Brazil host_asserted
“Doesn't that tell you something? The corporal said, you have strong arguments. Let me go away or you'll convince me. Mario Pinto da Silva had been a schoolboy in Brazil when Dan Mitterrand arrived to show the police how to be more effective…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 36:25
Dan Mitterrand member_of
USAID book_quoted
“and had a campaign stop there. And it says that was three months before Dan left for Brazil, which was his first posting working for the CIA under the USAID Office of Public Safety. And so he was there in charge of security when the Kennedy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 2:19
Dan Mitterrand trained
Brazil book_quoted
“So it does seem like they were setting the stage to sabotage the JFK administration. So before the end of the decade, Dan Mitterrand, along with hundreds of other public safety advisors, had been sent into combat against the quote-unquote c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 11:42
Mentions (74)
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was the main law enforcement body in the civilian sector. Calfee understood that he was being shut out from any meaningful work that he thought he was supposed to be doing there, and he eventually resigned in two years. The attitude of the …
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lieutenants and captains faced the same judging process in South Vietnam. Jack Goyen had warned Mitterrand of the police hazing that he would receive. To minimize mistakes, Mitterrand conducted official business through an interpreter, a 19…
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Everything about the Mitterrand family was attractive, particularly their two teenage daughters, but he knew his station and never approached either. Other young people was also drawn to the Mitterrand household. At first, they could not se…
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Clean and pretty, the yard was surrounded by a low wall with an iron railing, which was for decoration, not security. Very few Brazilians knew that the U.S. had sent a police chief to their country, and those aware of Mitterrand's presence …
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Immaculate, it was beautiful. Yet Hank Mitterrand, Dan Mitterrand's wife, was not always happy to be there. Buying meat at an outdoor stall did not meet with her standards. Running the drinking water through a charcoal filter was a nuisance…
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Immaculate, it was beautiful. Yet Hank Mitterrand, Dan Mitterrand's wife, was not always happy to be there. Buying meat at an outdoor stall did not meet with her standards. Running the drinking water through a charcoal filter was a nuisance…
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fell on deaf ears. Only once did an outsider hear Dan Mitterrand say, quote, in the States, I couldn't make $15,000 a year and you couldn't have two maids. Here we can, unquote. At the office, Mitterrand's routine ran smoothly. His duties w…
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to improve communications, create a police academy, etc. In Brazil, with its history of military takeovers, the civil police were under the wing of the army. Their commander was a political appointee, generally a career army colonel. So the…
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of the Republican Party's stranglehold on the police. It became his announced creed that in Brazil, policemen must be apolitical, and he expounded upon that to the Brazilians. Mitterrand himself could not at all times meet his own high stan…
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redistributed from the oligarchs to the middle class. Conversations like that left Mitterrand infuriated. Although he had learned to harness his temper, once back in his own office, he would stew over these exchanges. Dealing with Richmond'…
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In Brazil, he tried to impart those qualities to the policemen. The Brazilian police, however, didn't care about any of that. They just wanted their new toys. There was over $100,000 worth of expensive cameras, projectors, screens, fingerpr…
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for practice shooting. Now the USAID program was sending targets and ammunition for him to pursue. For crime scene training, there were kits of tools and bags for taking soil, wood slivers, and all kinds of different things. The traffic dep…
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police cars. There was not much that could be done for the cop on the beat. He still had to call headquarters from a public phone at the time he got there. Mitterrand had kept his faith in the value of appearances when the police received n…
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a way of keeping his name alive in Richmond because he wanted to return there. Now he told the folks at home that in their new uniforms, they look like Richmond's finest. He also added our public relations program includes changing the traf…
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to Dan Mitterrand, as we discovered early on in the story, was very, very important. Other advisors very occasionally lured Mitterrand out to explore the local nightlife, but left him to himself generally. Though Hank now had maids, she was…
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to Dan Mitterrand, as we discovered early on in the story, was very, very important. Other advisors very occasionally lured Mitterrand out to explore the local nightlife, but left him to himself generally. Though Hank now had maids, she was…
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In Richmond, she had mastered many different dishes inherited from Dan's mother. As a result, Mitterrand was gaining a lot of weight. To his Brazilian host, he remained the model of professional behavior, a Democrat who never failed to gree…
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had begun his career in the local area where Dan was stationed. And Niedermeyer had basically made that entire area very nice. About the same time, political tensions were rising elsewhere.…
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Brazil was still a democracy and Brazil's president still had the ability to act. When a team of undergraduate scientists journeyed to the area, Dan Mitterrand was already deep in his efforts to improve the local police force. The students …
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It is very interesting. And this book does have a lot of details that were not available to me in any of the other research that I had done, which is why when I got the book, I knew immediately that we had to go through it. Not just of Dan …
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Dan Mitterrand and what was really going on, we covered Mexico. We covered Cuba. Che Guevara gets involved. We covered Uruguay and Brazil all in one day. It just, you can't make this stuff up. Well, and interestingly enough, you see how it …
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Doesn't that tell you something? The corporal said, you have strong arguments. Let me go away or you'll convince me. Mario Pinto da Silva had been a schoolboy in Brazil when Dan Mitterrand arrived to show the police how to be more effective…
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significantly, like spankings and everything, by Dan. He was the disciplinarian in the family, not the dad and not the mom. When the high school days came to an end, Dan may have given a thought to college. He had been only an average stude…
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Dan also followed in his father's footsteps and went to work at none other than International Harvester. A year goes by. Anyone might have predicted that Dan was firmly launched on a path to mirror his father's. Dan would marry an Italian g…
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where many of them came back heroes that came back. Later years, when Dan felt cheated because he didn't get to go abroad, he was left here in the United States. Years later, when he was sent to Latin America, he said that his belated duty …
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When he was discharged from the Navy, Dan had, for the moment, no better thought than to return to International Harvester. He moved his new family into his parents' wood grain house. By then, they had escaped the railroad tracks and had mo…
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He would treat the police as an extension of his Navy duty. He was partnered with a very easygoing cop named Orville Conyers, C-O-N-Y-E-R-S. Conyers was destined never to be called by his Christian name. His nickname was Red because of the …
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loaded things onto the railroad yards. They also cultivated private patrons like the manager of the local Sears, which I thought was very interesting since we've already tied the guy that owns Sears to the private intelligence network that …
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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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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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The State Department spokesman protested that by not getting Dan to a hospital, they had magnified the inhumanity of the act, but the Tuporero bulletin had been couched in medical language and specified that no vital organs had been damaged…
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local newspaper, very few employees had the courage on election day to ask for a Democrat ballot. They voted Republican or they stayed home. In the hearts of policemen like Dan Mederone, might be with the New Democrat Coalition, but when Ci…
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The new city attorney tried to explain what he felt about being part of a minority. The United States was a colossus, Ciceri would say. It had great biceps, bulging thighs, but he would add, it was we Italians who gave it a big heart. Now, …
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and he went to the newsroom to inspect a fax that had come over the wire. It was a note from Dan to his wife, Hank. Ray looked it over and verified that the handwriting was, in fact, Dan's. The note had been found after a tupperero called a…
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And basically that message was then passed to Richmond. It read, Dear Henrietta, I am recovering from the wound I received when I was taken. Please tell the ambassador to do everything possible to liberate me as soon as possible. I have bee…
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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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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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With good reason, Roland Cutter believed that he had launched Dan Mitterrand on a career that would end at St. Catholic's Cemetery. Until the past week, the part he had played was a matter of pride to him. In some puzzlement, he had watched…
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could never help but think of his chief fondly as little Danny Meterone, the Italian boy from Goosetown. So this, one of the things that during our research in the Office of Public Safety that kept coming up repeatedly as we looked into Dan…
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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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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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So where we left off yesterday was Mitterrand's funeral. And about the only thing left of chapter one was the, it talked about, it just so happened that John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy during 1960 in April came through Richmond, Indiana.…
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and had a campaign stop there. And it says that was three months before Dan left for Brazil, which was his first posting working for the CIA under the USAID Office of Public Safety. And so he was there in charge of security when the Kennedy…
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were instructing police in Brazil and Uruguay, two stations that Mitterrand had been at, in the techniques of torture. And he mentioned Dan by name. The local newspaper that had been filled with Dan Mitterrand stories basically decided not …
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Jerry Lewis was with them, and they talk a little bit about the event. Moving on to Chapter 2, it talks about Dan Muterone's departure from Indiana as part of a team that Dwight Eisenhower was building against the nation's newest and most p…
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So it does seem like they were setting the stage to sabotage the JFK administration. So before the end of the decade, Dan Mitterrand, along with hundreds of other public safety advisors, had been sent into combat against the quote-unquote c…
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characterization was truer still of the hidden war in which Mitterrand had volunteered. Even when the shooting in Brazil began, Mitterrand's routine remained comparatively the same. It was filled with inspection tours and conversations amon…
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Police advisors like Mitterrand were the foot soldiers in Latin America. The CIA officials were the officer corps. The ambassadors and ranking military attachés and the CIA station chiefs were the upper echelons of each U.S. embassy. They w…
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The CIA officials and the ambassadors overshadowed and basically ignored the troops on the ground. Had Mitterrand chosen to stay in Indiana, he would be years away from his retirement. And it was basically decided that, as we discussed yest…
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and Uruguay happened to coincide with critical periods in both countries. In other words, he's one of the people that showed up every time there was going to be a coup. Mitterrand deserves no more than a footnote in the history chapters. Th…
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The message behind his killing requires turning away from his everyday routine and looking deeper into the overall involvement. It was not considered unusual behavior for a Midwesterner at the threshold of 40 who had never traveled abroad, …
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Four years after he became chief of police, some said that it was just because he ran out of challenges. He had asked the city for a pay raise. They had turned him down. That's the reason why some people speculated it was because of money. …
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The State Department had began to recruit advisors to train police forces overseas. Dan secretly submitted his application. So again, this FBI training school served as a scouting program for them to contact people to work in USAID CIA-cont…
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Indiana is the home of the Ku Klux Klan, and Mississippi wasn't very far behind. By enlisting Engel, Dan Mitterrand received more money. When they contacted him, the offer was too good to walk away from. So in May of 1960, a month after Joh…
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The International Cooperation Administration interviewed Dan in Washington and basically offered him a job. In Richmond, Dan went in to speak with the mayor about a leave of absence. They decided that he couldn't have a leave of absence bas…
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Standard training at the time called for five weeks in Washington, D.C. and a three-month study of the Portuguese language through an immersion program in Brazil before Dan would begin his duties. Dan, along with most other U.S. public safe…
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Harvard University, the dean of the faculty, was understood to have been referring to Latin America when he remarked, second-rate subjects attract second-rate minds. Six months after Dan Mitterrand arrived in Brazil, the dean of Harvard, Ge…
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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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In February of 1963, Dan Mitterrand had been transferred to Rio, where he began to spend more time with the police upper echelon, like the colonels. The people in the national police very much liked him because he got quote-unquote results.…
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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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assignment to Rio, and he worked very closely with the state police. One of the colonels who said that he had never driven an actual police car, he had only ever driven an army jeep, and they were using, again, American procured sedans for …
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four hours with the new commander discussing budgets, distribution of equipment, the assignment of men. And after they ran through all of the major topics, he would repeat the discussion with the commander's top 12. And then what they expec…
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He spent a lot of time at the police barracks. Mitterrand, obviously, was fluent in Portuguese, which was the primary language used. For months before the coup, the officers had grievances, each day sharing the most recent outrages committe…
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Most of the U.S. advisers, unless they were CIA officers using the USAID program for cover, had not faced the problem of political subversion. Now there was a new class of criminals, the political rebels, and they had sympathies with the po…
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That was done in Texas. As far as kidnapping, extortion, and assassination, they weren't there to prevent that. They were there to do that. Candidates were expected to be between the ages of 21 and 45, which oftentimes got waived, especiall…
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If he had a person in his unit that had basically been selected to be a student for the CIA because it came through the CIA and they had stores of that in Panama under an organization called the Technical Services Division. Mitterrand had f…
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By 1968, the rumor had traveled far enough that when the East German publisher named Julius Motter brought out a book entitled The Who's Who and CIA, he actually listed Dan Mitterrand as a CIA agent. Mitterrand was merely smart and ambitiou…
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as far back as the Vargas years, but now it had gotten much more precise thanks to the Office of Public Safety. Dan Mederone was quoted as saying, a dead prisoner could not tell anyone very much. He preferred torture. The CIA and the Brazil…
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These reports did not receive the new mechanisms immediately. They resorted to using the field telephones with electrical leads. They had been given the requirement to produce information, and they were going to do so. From the viewpoint of…
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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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rebellion against the CIA-installed dictator was growing. Mitterrand had spent five years in Brazil by that time. Later, the Office of Public Safety would claim to have taught over 100,000 policemen in Brazil, which ended up being one-sixth…
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That's a good place to stop because we're going to get a little bit more into that. And we're going to talk a little bit more about some of the stuff that happened in Brazil before, after Mitterrand left, but that he started. And I'm going …
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You remember Uruguay, where our cop from Richmond, Dan Mitterrand, went to set up the Office of Public Safety, USAID, CIA, torture, kidnapping, assassination program? Yeah, same time. They were there at the same time. Isn't that weird? Okay…
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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.…