Nixon urged death threats to Uruguayan prisoners

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post

Nixon urged death threats to Uruguayan prisoners
By RAUL O. GARCES
The Associated Press
Friday, August 13, 2010; 2:56 AM

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Long-secret diplomatic cables show President Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to save the life of a kidnapped U.S. agent 40 years ago this week.

The National Security Archive, which published the papers Wednesday, said the State Department cables suggest the U.S. government knew about death squads that cracked down on violent leftist insurgencies after the agent was slain in 1970, even before military dictatorships ousted democracies across much of South America in the years that followed.

The cables - obtained through Freedom of Information requests - focus on the kidnapping of Dan Mitrione, a former Indiana police officer and FBI agent who had been advising Latin American governments, including Uruguay's, on techniques for interrogating suspects.

Mitrione's 10 days in captivity were part of a wave of kidnappings of foreign officials by the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas who hoped to use them in a prisoner exchange and eventually topple the Uruguayan government. Instead, it prompted an intense police and military response that resulted in the arrest of Tupamaros' leader Raul Sendic and hundreds of other guerrillas, events that set the stage for Uruguay's dictatorship in 1973.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081300384.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Someone is having a good laugh at us with this blather. Dan Mitrione was a MONSTER.

From an article I posted here June 22, 2009:

Daniel Mitrione was born in Italy on 4th August, 1920. The family emigrated to the United States and in 1945 Mitrione became a police officer in Richmond, Indiana.

Mitrione joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1959. The following year he was assigned to the State Department's International Cooperation Administration. He was then sent to South America to teach "advanced counterinsurgency techniques." His speciality was in teaching the police how to torture political prisoners without killing them.

~snip~
In 1967 Mitrione returned to the United States to share his experiences and expertise on "counterguerilla warfare" at the Agency for International Development (AID), in Washington. In 1969, Mitrione moved to Uruguay, again under the AID, to oversee the Office of Public Safety. At this time the Uruguayan government was led by the very unpopular Colorado Party. Richard Nixon and the CIA feared a possible victory during the elections of the Frente Amplio, a left-wing coalition, on the model of the victory of the Unidad Popular government in Chile, led by Salvador Allende.

The OPS had been helping the local police since 1965, providing them with weapons and training. It is claimed that torture had already been practiced since the 1960s, but Dan Mitrione was reportedly the man who made it routine. He is quoted as having said: "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." It has been alleged that he used homeless people for training purposes, who were allegedly executed once they had served their purpose.

On July 31, 1970, the Tupamaros kidnapped Daniel Mitrione and an Agency for International Development associate, Claude L. Fly. Although they released Fry they proceeded to interrogate Mitrione about his past and the intervention of the U.S. government in Latin American affairs. They also demanded the release of 150 political prisoners. The Uruguayan government, with U.S. backing, refused, and Mitrione was later found dead in a car. He had been shot twice in the head but there was no evidence that he had been tortured.

The Secretary of State William P. Rogers and President Nixon's son-in-law David Eisenhower attended Mitrione's funeral. The Uruguayan ambassador, Hector Luisi, promised that the people responsible for Mitrione's death would "reap the wrath of civilized people everywhere".

A few days after the funeral, a senior Uruguayan police officer, Alejandro Otero, told the Jornal do Brasil that Mitrione had been employed to teach the police to use "violent techniques of torture and repression". The US government issued a statement calling this charge "absolutely false" and insisted he was a genuine member of the Agency for International Development.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmitrione.htm

http://cache.daylife.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserve/0flbcol0cc2rL/610x.jpg

Getty Images 27 months ago
Members of leftist groups demonstrate against the visit of US President George W.Bush, in the
Uruguayan city of Colonia on March 9th, 2007. Bush will meet on Saturday with leftist Uruguayan
President Tabare Vasquez in Anchorena, a presidential retreat 200 km west of Montevideo, in the
department of Colonia, as part of a Latin American tour that also includes Brazil, Colombia,
Guatemala and Mexico. The xxxx reads "Wlecome Mr.Bush to the final resting place of Mitrione".

[superconnected]

12. Wow, thanks for posting this. Mitrone was a monster.

[Judi Lynn]

21. When I heard about this guy, and learned the U.S. was involved in actual torture in the 1960's,

ALL of 20th century U.S. history suddenly took on a far different look.

It's a shame this kind of thing went on all this time before the advent of quick communication made it possible for us to learn about Abu Ghraib, etc. and we were able to see so much more clearly how deeply our own corporate media is involved in keeping U.S. American citizens COMPLETELY ignorant. People like Mitrione would NEVER have the support of the majority of the country's population. This line of action in Latin America has only been unnecessary, sadistic violence, abuse of people just for the ####ing hell of it, to express brute power to others, and instill fear.

Once you've seen enough on Mitrione, you'll never forget it, if it hits you as hard as the information hit me. He did this for a LIVING!



YouTube:
Dan Mitrione and the CIA in Uruguay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9TRc8-tRQA

Court testimony of someone who witnessed Mitrione's work in Montevideo.
Segment in which he discusses Mitrione took beggers from the street,
to use for lessons in torture. Subtitled. They died without even
answering any questions, as no questions were asked. They were just
tortured, and they died.
Lasts 2 1/2 minutes.

[Judi Lynn]

2. More material on professional torturer with Nixon's State Dept.,Dan Mitrione,posted here 10-22-2009:

The Tupamaros were quite different from other groups. Unusual people.
Uruguay is the country where Nixon sent U.S. torturer, Dan Mitrione, to "educate" the local police in ways to torture any rebels they could locate.

See this video with comments by former US CIA guy, Phillip Agee, and an excellent author, A.J. Langguth. A little over 4 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIodEJ_EcY8

The Tupamaros Interrogate Dan Mitrione: Rare Audio Recording (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyUk_YRdiXU&feature=rela...

Costa-Gavras made a movie based on his story, "State of Siege," and it was scheduled to open in a premier at the Kennedy Center, and it was abruptly cancelled. It did NOT show widely in the U.S. It was not covered by critics. It was suppressed. It's virtually impossible to run down a copy to see at home.


Daniel A. Mitrione (August 4, 1920–August 10, 1970) was an Italian-born<1> American police officer, FBI agent and a United States government security advisor for the CIA in Latin America.

Career
Mitrione was a police officer in Richmond, Indiana from 1945 to 1947 and joined the FBI in 1959. In 1960 he was assigned to State Department's International Cooperation Administration, going to South American countries to teach "advanced counterinsurgency techniques." A.J. Langguth, a former New York Times bureau chief in Saigon, claimed that Mitrione was among the US advisers teaching Brazilian police how much electric shock to apply to prisoners without killing them<2> Langguth also claimed that older police officers were replaced "when the CIA and the U.S. police advisers had turned to harsher measures and sterner men."<3> and that under the new head of the U.S. Public Safety program in Uruguay, Dan Mitrione, the United States "introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil… torture had become routine at the Montevideo jefatura." <4>

From 1960 to 1967, Mitrione worked with the Brazilian police, first in Belo Horizonte then in Rio de Janeiro. A trainer in torture classes given to Brazilian police in Belo Horizonte, he led "practical demonstrations" of torture techniques using prisoners and beggars taken off the streets. According to a former student, Mitrione has insisted, in agreement with the CIA manual, that effective torture was science. He returned to the US in 1967 to share his experiences and expertise on "counterguerilla warfare" at the Agency for International Development (AID), in Washington D.C.. In 1969, Mitrione moved to Uruguay, again under the AID, to oversee the Office of Public Safety. Screenwriter Franco Solinas, a member of the Italian Communist Party, claims Mitrione was also in the Dominican Republic after the 1965 US intervention.<5>

Uruguayan posting and death
In this period the Uruguayan government, led by the Colorado Party, had its hands full with a collapsing economy, labor and student strikes, and the Tupamaros, a left-wing urban guerilla group. On the other hand, Washington feared a possible victory during the elections of the Frente Amplio, a left-wing coalition, on the model of the victory of the Unidad Popular government in Chile, led by Salvador Allende, in 1970. <6> The OPS had been helping the local police since 1965, providing them with weapons and training. It is claimed that torture had already been practiced since the 1960s, but Dan Mitrione was reportedly the man who made it routine.<7> He is quoted as having said once: "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." <8> Former Uruguayan police officials and CIA operatives claimed Mitrione had taught torture techniques to Uruguayan police in the cellar of his Montevideo home, including the use of electrical shocks delivered to his victims' mouths and genitals.<9> He also helped train foreign police agents in the United States in the context of the Cold War. It has been alleged that he used homeless people for training purposes, who were allegedly executed once they had served their purpose.<10>

As the use of torture grew and the tensions in Uruguay escalated, Mitrione was eventually kidnapped by the Tupamaros on July 31, 1970. They proceeded to interrogate him about his past and the intervention of the U.S. government in Latin American affairs. They also demanded the release of 150 political prisoners.<11> The Uruguayan government, with U.S. backing, refused, and Mitrione was later found dead in a car, shot twice in the head and with no other visible signs of maltreatment (beyond the fact that, during the kidnapping, Mitrione had been shot in one shoulder—for which he had evidently been treated while in captivity).<12>

After being released from prison the leader of the Tupamaros, Raul Sendic, revealed that Mitrione had not been suspected of teaching torture techniques to the police. He had trained police in riot control and was targeted for kidnapping as retaliation for the deaths of student protestors. <13>

Nixon Administration accolade
For its part, the Nixon Administration through spokesman Ron Ziegler affirmed that Mitrione's "devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain as an example for free men everywhere" <14>.

Personal life
Mitrione was married and he had nine children. His funeral was largely publicised by the U.S. media, and it was attended by, amongst others, David Eisenhower and Richard Nixon's secretary of state William Rogers. Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis held a benefit concert for his family in Richmond, Indiana.<15>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hello, Mitrione! More on the life of this Nixon employee:

Assassination Attempts: Dan A. Mitrione Government Agent Part 1
About the assassination of Dan A. Mitrione a U.S. government agent, his biography and history in Uruguay.

The Victim: DAN A. MITRIONE. Mitrione was a U.S. Government agent who was dispatched to Latin America as part of the U.S. Government's attempt to maintain totalitarian puppet-allies. He supposedly advised local officials on traffic safety, but his real job was to create sophisticated police states in order to minimize the possibility of popular rebellion against dictatorial regimes.

Dan Mitrione started as a cop in Richmond, Ind., in 1945. He became police chief in 1955 and joined the FBI in 1957. In 1960, under the State Department's International Cooperation Administration (predecessor of the Agency for International Development-AID), he went to Brazil to train police there in advanced counterinsurgency techniques. During his 7 "Public Safety" years in Brazil, the use of torture against opponents of the military regime became virtually routine. In addition, the Brazilian police, many of whom were trained by Mitrione, formed a vigilante "Death Squad" which disposed of over 100 "undesirables" without arrest or trial.

Documentation of Mitrione's activities has been compiled by a wide range of investigators, from religious groups to Hollywood film makers. NARMIC, a research/action arm of the American Friends Service Committee, reported that:

. . . after training such a police force, Mitrione returned to the U.S. as a Latin America expert. In 1967 he trained foreign officers in the techniques of counterguerrilla warfare at the AID-Public Safety Police Academy in Washington, D.C. In July of 1969, Mitrione headed for South America again, this time to Uruguay for AID. He was the leader of a 4-man team of Public Safety advisors that trained 1,000 Uruguayan police in police management, patrolling, use of scientific and technical aids, antiguerrilla operations and border control. These trainees have in turn instructed an untold number of police in more outlying regions of the country.

Mitrione himself, during his year-long stay, trained personnel in transportation techniques, established a police training facility and a radio network for Montevideo police, and set up a joint operations center of communications to facilitate cooperation between the police and the army.

To accomplish what he called "Uruguay's total penetration," Mitrione designed and initiated the following measures according to Costa-Gavras and Franco Solinas, authors of State of Siege:

A network of spies and infiltrators in high schools and universities.

Hidden cameras in terminals, etc., to photograph all persons traveling to socialist countries.

An increase in the size of the city militia from 600 to 1,000 men.

New gases, new .45-caliber machine guns, an increase in the use of shotguns. Inspection of all mail and publications coming from socialist countries.

More:
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/assassination-attempts-dan-a-mitrione-government-agent-part-1.htm

~~~~~
Forever Missing Part 2
Bob Norman
Published on August 11, 2005

~snip~
Daniel A. Mitrione, Sr. was never an FBI man; he was a small-town Indiana police chief who helped lead a covert war against leftist groups in Latin America.

In the late Fifties, Mitrione, Sr. was officially employed by the U.S. State Department, though the CIA was deeply involved in his work. He was first sent to Brazil and then Uruguay to teach what the State Department termed "public safety" to police. Traveling with him were his wife Henrietta and nine children, including young Dan, who was born in 1947 and basically grew up in South America, learning Spanish and idolizing his father.

But in 1970, after more than a decade in foreign lands, disaster struck the Mitrione clan. Dan, Sr. was kidnapped by the Tupamaro guerrilla group in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. As the family -- and America -- anxiously waited and watched the national news reports on the ordeal, he was held for eleven days. The group demanded the release of numerous political prisoners, but the Uruguayan government refused to negotiate. On August 10, Mitrione's bound and gagged body was discovered in the trunk of a stolen 1948 Buick convertible on a Montevideo street. He'd been shot twice in the head.

In the United States, the fallen father was hailed as a hero and martyr for freedom. President Richard Nixon sent his son-in-law, David Eisenhower; Secretary of State William Rogers; and a red, white, and blue commemorative wreath to the funeral in Mitrione's hometown of Richmond, Indiana.

"Mr. Mitrione's devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain as an example for free men everywhere," White House spokesman Ron Ziegler announced.

Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis flew to Richmond and put on a benefit concert that raised $20,000 for the family. "I never met Richmond's son, Dan Mitrione," Sinatra said to the crowd after Lewis warmed them up. "Yet he was my brother ... as all of us in America are brothers."

What the general public didn't know was that Mitrione, Sr. had been doing far more than teaching helpful police tactics in South America. Former Uruguayan police officials and CIA operatives claimed Mitrione had taught brutal, deadly techniques of torture in the cellar of his Montevideo home. They alleged he electrically shocked his victims' mouths and genitals, among other ghastly things. In one of the most disturbing revelations, reported by a CIA operative from Cuba named Manuel Hevia Conculluela, Mitrione was said to have practiced on beggars picked up from the capital's streets, four of whom reportedly died while serving as human guinea pigs.

More:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2005-08-11/news/forever-missing-part-2/

[hughee99]

7. Nixon employee? Sounds like he was in business for more than just

the Nixon Administration.

[Judi Lynn]

10. He was employed as a torturer by Richard M. Nixon. It will take more investigation to determine

what else he did, and for whom.

[rabs]

15. Brazil

Prior to being dispatched to Montevideo, Mitrione was "advising" the Brazilian military in the finer aspects of torture using electricity.

Excellent movie:

The 1973 movie State of Siege by Costa-Gavras is based on the story of Mitrione's kidnapping.

[Judi Lynn]

16. I just looked it up after seeing your comment, saw Brazil was stuck with a military dictatorship

from 1964 to 1985. Long time for another murderous, torturing right-wing regime. We were completely kept in the dark about that!

I heard the Catholic Church in Brazil secretly collected personal testimonies from former prisoners of the regime and put them together in a book called "Never More!" This was an amazing effort by the Church conducted in the name of the people.

It's a shame politics blacklisted the "State of Siege" film. It deserved to be shown, people had the right to see it. Very few US Americans know about it.

[rabs]

17. The book was a best seller and contributed to democracy in Brazil

The infamous "Pau de Arara," a particularly painful method of torture used in Brazil during the long dictatorship. (Pau de Arara = parrot's perch)

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Pau de arara can also refer to a physical torture technique designed to cause severe joint and muscle pain, as well as headaches, and psychological trauma. The technique consists of a tube, bar, or pole placed over the victim's biceps and behind the knees while tying the victim's both ankles and wrists together. The entire assembly is suspended between two metal platforms forming what looks like a parrot's perch.

This technique is believed to originate from Portuguese slave traders, which used Pau de arara as a form of punishment for disobedient slaves. Its usage has been more recently widespread by the agents of the political police of the Brazilian military dictatorship against political dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s and it still believed to be in use by Brazilian police forces<1>, although outlawed<1>. The device was often used as a restraint for a combination of other torture techniques, such as water boarding, nail pulling, branding, electric shocks, and sexual torture.

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About the book:

Brazil: Never Again (Brasil: Nunca Mais) is a book edited by Paulo Evaristo Arns, in which episodes of torture under the military dictatorship in Brazil between 1964 and 1979 are documented. With the assistance of the Presbyterian minister Jaime Wright, he photocopied the military government's records on torture, which were used as his source.

In total, the book documents 17,000 victims and the details of 1,800 torture episodes. The book was kept secret for five years under the dictatorship, and only published with the return to democracy. The book was a bestseller and provoked a wide scale movement for change.

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(Translation mine)

Contavam as desventuras de pessoas que lutavam por um ideal; que queriam um Brasil livre e democrático, pessoas essas que “alguns” Generais tachavam de bandidos, revolucionários, subversivos, comunistas, etc.

(The book exposes what happened to persons who were fighting for an ideal; who wanted a free and democratic Brazil, persons who "some" generals branded as bandits, revolutionaries, subversives, communistas, etc.)

Eram, tenham certeza, pessoas das mais diversas classes, alguns sem muito estudo, outros com muito; semi-analfabetos ou doutores em letras, homens e mulheres idealistas que muitas vezes passaram pelos “porões” do antigo “DOPS.”

They were, you can be sure, persons of the most diverse classes, some without much education, others with a lot; semi-literates or PH.Ds, idealistic men and women who often passed through the "basements" of the former DOPS (Brazilian military security agency).

Havia também, músicos, sociólogos, poetas, escritores, que foram obrigados a deixar o País para não sofrerem o que pessoas outras estavam sofrendo.

(There were also musicians, sociologists, poets, authors, who were forced to leave the country to avoid suffering what other persons were suffering.)

[Judi Lynn]

18. Never would have known without seeing this background you've added.

It's meaningful that this was such a painful punishment/torture it was better imprinted in the public perception with a vivid 3 dimensional image. It does convey aspects which couldn't be grasped easily through words alone.

Unbelievable when one realizes how much time had passed chronilogically from the slave-trading days to the 1960's, even though it seems morally things stayed the same in so many ways.

Thanks for the images, details.

[rabs]

4. Buried in the story

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Another jailed Tupamaro, Jose Mujica, also served a lengthy prison term, then renounced violence after the amnesty. He entered politics and became Uruguay's president this year.

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Jose "Pepe" Mujica, former Tupamaro, now president of Uruguay


With his former Tupamaro wife and now Senator Lucia Topolansky


To think Nixon would have had these people killed.

[Judi Lynn]

8. As some of us have learned, Jose Mujica is very resepected in his country,

will always be, and that he is one of a group of Latin American leaders who were deeply abused by the US-supported fascist radical, brutal governments who tortured, murdered, and "disappeared" leftists, or even people suspected of being leftists.

It will become clear to anyone who starts researching it that this horrendous right-wing bloodbath in Latin America goes back MUCH farther than has EVER been acknowledged publicly by most government officials. A lot of it has to be learned personally, by living with awareness in Latin American countries, close to the history as it has happened, or to learn through research, as it has always been intentionally obscured, and accomplished with the assistance of our own corporate media.

It's amazing to have found out about Jose Mujica so MUCH later when he was so well known long ago at home. What a fantastic step in his life it has been to be so highly regarded he was chosen as Uruguay's President after all he has actually suffered for his beliefs.

[Soylent Brice]

5. all amazing info.

Thank you for all the great info. I knew nothing about Mitrione.

K&R

[gratuitous]

6. Can we render a further judgment on Nixon now?

After all, we've been admonished not to judge Nixon except on the entirety of his career, and sensible liberals all agree that that should be the case. So, how many puppies did Nixon not kick, and how many unkicked puppies would it take to atone for this?

The unvarnished truth is that Nixon was an evil motherfucker, and his proscription for Alger Hiss should have been carried out on his traitorous ass.

[totodeinhere]

13. Be that as it may, on many issues Nixon was to the left of many of today's Democrats.

Of course that doesn't excuse things like the subject of this thread. I'm just saying.

[defendandprotect]

23. Nixon was persecuting Alger Hiss/liberal reformer while allied with

Jack Ruby during the HUAC hearings!!

And probably long before and long after!!

Nixon is emblematic of the right wing slime that invaded government with help of the

Bush cartel --

Watergate goes on and on --

And WWII never really ended --



And, call me crazy, but I really don't see -- as a liberal myself -- that corrupting

government and committing treasonous crimes is balanced out by other political acts!!

[Judi Lynn]

9. TO SAVE DAN MITRIONE NIXON ADMINISTRATION URGED DEATH THREATS FOR URUGUAYAN PRISONERS

TO SAVE DAN MITRIONE NIXON ADMINISTRATION URGED
DEATH THREATS FOR URUGUAYAN PRISONERS

In Response Uruguayan Security Forces Launched Death Squads to Hunt and Kill Insurgents

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 324


By Carlos Osorio and Marianna Enamoneta
With the Collaboration of Clara Aldrighi


Posted – August 11, 2010

Washington, D.C., August 11, 2010 - Documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 40th anniversary of the death of U.S. advisor Dan Mitrione in Uruguay show the Nixon administration recommended a “threat to kill Sendic and other key MLN prisoners if Mitrione is killed.” The secret cable from U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, made public here for the first time, instructed U.S. Ambassador Charles Adair: “If this has not been considered, you should raise it with the Government of Uruguay at once.”

The message to the Uruguayan government, received by the U.S. Embassy at 11:30 am on August 9, 1970, was an attempt to deter Tupamaro insurgents from killing Mitrione at noon on that day. A few minutes later, Ambassador Adair reported back, in another newly-released cable, that “a threat was made to these prisoners that members of the ‘Escuadrón de la Muerte’ would take action against the prisoners’ relatives if Mitrione were killed.”

Dan Mitrione, Director of the U.S. AID Office of Public Safety (OPS) in Uruguay and the main American advisor to the Uruguayan police at the time, had been held for ten days by MLN-Tupamaro insurgents demanding the release of some 150 guerrilla prisoners held by the Uruguayan government. Mitrione was found dead the morning of August 10, 1970, killed by the Tupamaros after their demands were not met.

“The documents reveal the U.S. went to the edge of ethics in an effort to save Mitrione—an aspect of the case that remained hidden in secret documents for years,” said Carlos Osorio, who directs the National Security Archive’s Southern Cone project. “There should be a full declassification to set the record straight on U.S. policy to Uruguay in the 1960’s and 1970’s.”

More:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB324/index.htm

[formercia]

11. Reddy Kilowatt says:

We have ways to make you talk.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Would have Benjamin Franklin spinning in his grave, no doubt!

How odd it is Americans believed Abu Ghraib, etc. were clear exceptions to the way U.S. has conducted business in other countries!

[Judi Lynn]

19. Did you know Jonestown monster Jim Jones' life intersected with Dan Mitrione's?

I learned about this several years ago and haven't had the time needed to start doing the research needed to get a better grasp of it:

~snip~
Dan Mitrione

Perhaps the most mysterious and dubious connection that Jim Jones had was his childhood friend, Dan Mitrione. The two met back in Richmond, Indiana, when Jones was a young boy preaching on street corners in a black neighborhood, and Mitrione was a Richmond Police Officer. Although Mitrione was a few years older, he took Jones under his wing. Mitrione later became Chief of the Richmond PD, and some say that he was the only reason that Jones did not get arrested and run out of town. Mitrione was later was recruited into the CIA, under State Department cover, in May of 1960, and was trained in counter-insurgency and torture techniques. Coincidentally, Mitrione had traveled to Brazil as an OPS adviser at the U.S. Consulate not long before Jones had arrived. A CIA file (201) was opened on Jim Jones at about that time. Although Jones later denied having any contact with Mitrione in Brazil, he did admit that he sought him out and actually met with Mitrione’s family while there.

Manuel Hevia Conculluela worked for the CIA in Uruguay’s police program. In 1970, his duties brought him in contact with Dan Mitrione in Montevideo. In his book, Passporte 11333: Eight Years With the CIA, which chronicles his CIA exploitations, Manuel wrote of the many pointers Mitrione gave him on how to torture and interrogate subjects.

Former CIA agent John Stockwell wrote a book entitled, The Praetorian Guard in which he explained a particular CIA training session for new recruits. After watching various films and teaching various torture techniques, the recruits were sent out on kidnapping missions. Stockwell identifies Dan Mitrione as the teacher of this training session. According to Stockwell, Mitrione gave almost identical advice on how to torture suspects to his students as he gave to Manuel.

Not long after Mitrione gave advice to Manuel, he was kidnapped by Tupermaro guerillas in Uruguay, interrogated and murdered. He was found dead in the back seat of a stolen car. Mysteriously, Jones’ 201-file was purged by the CIA immediately after Mitrione was kidnapped and murdered in Montevideo, Uruguay. Whether or not Jim Jones was an apprentice of Dan Mitrione is not known, but there is a strong possibility based on the circumstances and their history.

More:
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JonestownReport/Volume10/Savive.htm

[mitchtv]

20. See "State of Seige" a Costa-Garvas film

it is about those people. A great movie

[Judi Lynn]

22. The Tupamaros Interrogate Dan Mitrione: Rare Audio Recording (1970)

53 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyUk_YRdiXU