Alejandro Otero person
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Alejandro Otero member_of
International Police Services School book_quoted
“And listen to this, a student at the International Police Services School in Washington, D.C. Now, if you guys remember, I've talked about this quite a bit. This is much like the School of America's class that was actually hosted in Washing…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 12:42
Dan Mitrione trained
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 10:51
Dan Mitrione supplied_arms_to
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“Learn from informants that the Uruguayan police and how they were handling the Tupomaros. He had learned that Dan Mederone had bestowed technical equipment on the security police and the U.S. had introduced a system of nationwide identifica…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 14:30
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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 16:01
Dan Mitrione trained
Alejandro Otero book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 16:33
Alejandro Otero member_of
CIA host_asserted
“at large, included Colonel Ventura Rodriguez, and I haven't looked to see if he's actually related to Felix Rodriguez, Monteviego's chief of police, Carlos Martin, the deputy chief of police, Alexandro Otero, who we talked about yesterday, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 9:25
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In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to …
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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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Byron Engel later tried to explain it all away by saying, quote, the three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story. We found out later that it had been slipped into a paper by someone in the composing room. In other w…
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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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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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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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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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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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He also told the reporter that they were using electrical shocks under fingernails and on genital areas. He told Amor about his friend, the woman, who had been tortured as well. When Amor stood up, ready to go off and file his story, one la…
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Amor and a colleague presented themselves at the prison. They were locked in a small cell with no seats. They remained there for four hours. The other reporter, Alberto, was led away for questioning. Then Amor was called in. Why am I here, …
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was the source of what you reported. And they alleged that the assistant had said that he was. Amor knew immediately that they were lying because he hadn't told his assistant anything that he had written or filed. They put a piece of paper …
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Amor, small but bear-like, had his country's embassy behind him, as well as one of the continent's major newspaper. Still, he began to worry. It appeared Otero was denying having talked to him, only that he had criticized Mitterrand. Where …
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and they create other ones that are fake. In addition, a special branch for police intelligence work, secretly underwritten by the CIA, had been set up in Monteviedo. Its chief was an ambitious young police commissioner by the name of Aleja…
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He was Agui's age, 30, and although within his department, Otero was regarded as a spoiled child, the two men got along. Otero was no less intelligent than Fleury in Brazil, but his campaign against the revolutionaries never took the deadly…
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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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After that course, Otero was transferred for several weeks to undergo training controlled by the CIA. That's where he learned that basically the Office of Public Safety was part of this whole apparatus. Otero himself was on the CIA payroll.…
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as with other police officers contracted with the CIA, a CIA officer would first comment on the heavy expenses of a new office or process and suggest that since much of the information was useful for Washington, they'd just pick up the bill…
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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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at large, included Colonel Ventura Rodriguez, and I haven't looked to see if he's actually related to Felix Rodriguez, Monteviego's chief of police, Carlos Martin, the deputy chief of police, Alexandro Otero, who we talked about yesterday, …
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But on the other hand, they were very efficient. John Horton was a prototype of a sadistic CIA operator. Now, on the drive back, he referred to what they had heard from upstairs and gave his usual nervous laugh. Shortly afterward, Otero con…
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were at the root of his troubles. Substantial funds had been made available for intelligence work throughout Monteviego, especially for bribes to informers who could supply information about the workings of Uruguay's political parties. Sinc…
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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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of Alejandro Otero, the guy that's in charge of the police. In the course of the interrogation, she was tortured severely. When she was released, she contacted Otero and told her that Mitterrand had watched and assisted in her torture. For …
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For four years, he had known of intermittent torture, but with Mitterrand's arrival, it had only intensified. Otero rejected torture on pragmatist grounds. It only radicalized both the police and the Tupamaros, and it made both more violent…
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After all, Otero's methods had not worked. Once he had been standing beside Secretary of State Dean Rusk on a ceremonial platform and his squad had allowed a young man to rush up and spit in Rusk's face. The Tupomaros had been spitting in t…
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but he was not a torturer. Philip Agee had never heard of him torturing a prisoner, nor had anyone else. Torture seemed to offend Otero, and he was doubly affronted when he found out it was not only a woman, but a friend of his. He went to …