Daniel Anthony Meterone person
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USAID 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
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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 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 9:33
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St. Mary's book_quoted
“English, some Italian children came out still talking a bit louder and with their hands, which is a natural Italian thing to do. With Dan Meterone, the transformation seemed painless. He spent his first eight years at St. Mary's, which was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 33:14
Richard Nixon funded
Daniel Anthony Meterone book_quoted
“It says that President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon sent a commemorative wreath, both large and patriotic, with red carnations, white chrysanthemums, and blue cornflowers. The city officials greeted that as a tribute from the chief executive, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 12:01
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As we go through the first chapter, and I'm not even sure it's very long chapters, so I won't I don't know that we'll get through the first chapter in the first sitting of this book. I will try. But I want everyone to understand that there …
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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…
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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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the revelations of his death after he was kidnapped by the indigenous freedom fighters down there so the the skipping back and forth is a little confusing as the book does that i will let you know so just bear with me and that is one of my …
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And then go into the actual kidnapping. But the book is not written that way. So you'll just have to bear with me. All right. So it starts off with his body being brought back to his hometown, Richmond, Indiana. And I didn't realize this un…
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In kind of the southeastern quadrant of Indiana. Now, you guys know I'm originally from Indiana. We used to go up there all the time. My last time up there visiting my relatives, we came back in our motorhome through Richmond, Indiana. And …
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two years now, because I have pictures of the downtown area. The architecture, the old big houses in the downtown area is absolutely beautiful. We even looked at real estate up there because at the time when we went through there, it was di…
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It says that President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon sent a commemorative wreath, both large and patriotic, with red carnations, white chrysanthemums, and blue cornflowers. The city officials greeted that as a tribute from the chief executive, …
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There was another wreath from the Secretary of State. Now, that's a lot from some guy that supposedly was down in the bowels of the Office of Public Safety. And again, he was killed in a foreign government. But we have lots of people that a…
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by the calamity in Uruguay. Only three days had passed since the news of Dan's murder first reached them, and now, as though by miracle, his body was back from South America and on display in the lobby of a new municipal building. Hundreds,…
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The Iroquoian government had tried to demonstrate its profound regret by returning Dan's body sealed in a beautifully carved antique coffin. But Henrietta, the widow, asked for another casket, something that had been made at home. Dan's bro…
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While the morticians agreed to make the change, they requested that someone from the family be present when the old coffin was unsealed. Ray asked his older brother, Dominic, to be the witness, but Dominic refused. So it was Ray who stood b…
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casket maker for a coffin. Richmond had been one of the centers of the coffin industry for a very long time. They also needed a hacksaw to try to saw open the metal casket that was sealed inside of the wooden casket. All the while, they wer…
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would be extremely disagreeable. Reluctantly, Ray took the information back to Henrietta. Everyone had always called her Hank. Today, though, she looked tensed and drawn and was bearing up remarkably well under all that had unfolded. She li…
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was on his way home and would arrive in time to conduct the funeral. Robert Minton was the local Catholic priest. The family had never doubted that if they could reach him, he would be there. Dan's murder had also brought Ray back early fro…
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Like many bachelors, Ray turned on his radio each morning and listened to the news. However, that morning he had had the morning the news came in. He had had a flat tire that distracted him. Afterward, he wondered why no one at the gas stat…
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He had bought this cabin only a few months earlier and had been urging his brothers to make the cabin their retreat as well. Dom could come up on his days off from work as a greenskeeper, and Dan would relax there when he came home on leave…
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Men who did not know the brothers very well said that both their temperaments and looks, Ray, who was 42 in the summer of 1970, was a lot like Dan, who was eight years older than Ray. To Ray, such a claim would have been sacrilege. He never…
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Sometimes he would take items from it, but Ray loved that because he loved his big brother. After he fixed his flat tire, he headed back to the cabin. He was sorry to think that this was the last day of July and his vacation was almost half…
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What Ray deemed a job stuck to them as nothing more than a paid hobby. Early Monday morning, Ray loaded up his station wagon with sports equipment and set off cruising around Wayne County. And I'll save you the details, but basically he was…
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In his job, it meant that Ray basically knew everyone. And if you guys know anything about Indiana, sports is everything, especially baseball and basketball. In the last year, his black hair had gone a little bit gray. His body was getting …
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Ray did not have a telephone at the cabin, but as he pulled into the yard, he found his neighbors waiting to flag him down. His sister Rosemary had called long distance from Richmond. Ray first thought of his mother, who was 77, and she bas…
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The message had specifically said there was no emergency and for Ray not to worry, but that he needed to call Richmond right away. Ray got through to Rosemary. She asked him, you haven't heard from Dan? As she spoke, Rosemary was dazed. She…
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So she called Washington herself for confirmation. For the moment, Ray was still more curious than alarmed. No, I haven't heard a thing. The neighbor then said, Dan's been kidnapped. Usually the drive south to Richmond took him three hours.…
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from a radio station in one of the biggest cities near Richmond, Indianapolis, and others from as close as Dayton, Ohio. The newsman had reported that Dan had been murdered, but he had already retracted the story by the time Ray got home. N…