the 2nd World War also became major right-wing, torturing, genocidal monstrosities themselves.
So few people have ever even heard about any of this, and then, beyond that, NEVER knew how deeply the U.S. was involved in it ALL.
The attempt to mass inform people about U.S. C.I.A. torture specialist (and former Indiana police chief) Dan Mitrione, Sr., through the movie by Costa-Gavras,
State of Siege got the film banned in some countries, and in various places in the U.S., where it was heavily suppressed generally. No one wanted the public to know there were torture specialists working for the government decades ago in the Western Hemisphere.
Dan Mitrione joined the State Department when Eisenhower was still President! Nixon gave him a hero's funeral. Between the two dates he tortured people TO DEATH in the instances he deemed gave him the "luxury" of being able to "let them die," specifically if they had no powerful relatives or contacts. Mitrione even used homeless people the kidnapped off the streets to use as dummies in order to instruct local police people in torture techniques. Simply nothing but evil.
Interesting that the current President (Fernandez) of Argentina's husband, the former President Kirchner was HIMSELF a victem of torture at the hands of the right-wing junta in Argentina, isn't it? How wonderful they have found the way to get the war criminals' immunity put aside, which had been given them ALL by
Bush family friend, President Carlos Saúl Menem.
Here's another document which Bill Clinton had his administration open to declassification:
STATE DEPARTMENT OPENS FILES ON ARGENTINA'S DIRTY WAR
New Documents Describe Key Death Squad Under Former Army Chief Galtieri
First Bush Administration Declassification Praised by Human Rights Monitors
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 73 - Part I
Edited by Carlos Osorio~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Washington D.C. : The National Security Archive and its partner NGO, the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), today praised the State Department's declassification of more than 4,600 previously secret U.S. documents on human rights violations under the 1976-83 military dictatorship in Argentina.
"The documents provide clues to the fate of 'disappeared' citizens in Argentina by an unchecked security apparatus, and tell the story of a massive and indiscriminate counterinsurgency campaign carried out by the military dictatorship targeting real or imagined subversives including thousands of labor leaders, workers, clergymen, human rights advocates, scientists, doctors, and political party leaders" said Carlos Osorio, director of the National Security Archive's Argentina Documentation Project.
The special declassification, initiated by the Clinton Administration and completed by the Bush administration, has yielded hundreds of cables, memoranda of conversations, reports and notes between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, that help clarify a handful of cases of disappearances. "They are a clear contribution to families seeking information about their missing relatives and to Judges seeking to make the military accountable for past abuses," Osorio added.
On July 10, 2002, Argentine Judge Claudio Bonadio charged former President Galtieri along with 30 other military officers for the disappearance of a dozen Montonero subversives in 1980, among them Horacio Campiglia and Susana Binstock. The documents provide new information on several issues:
- The abduction of Horacio Campiglia and Susana Binstock by Argentine intelligence with Brazilian collaboration in Brazil, their detention and disappearance from the Campo de Mayo detention center, as well as hints on the fate of dozens of other disappeared people captured by the military in 1979 and 1980;
- Clarification of a handful of cases of disappeared people and useful information on others;
- Structure and modus operandi of the security and intelligence apparatus involved in the disappearances in 1979 and 1980 - chain of command of military intelligence Battalion 601 and the joint operations center known as Reunion Central leading up to the then Army commander in chief Leopoldo Galtieri;
- Torture in detention centers and assassinations and disappearances as a counterinsurgency policy of government forces;
- The cooperation between intelligence and security forces of Argentina and Brazil in illegal cross border detentions as well as with other Southern Cone intelligence services, mainly Uruguay and Chile, under Operation Condor in the mid 1970's;
- The spill over of counterinsurgency operations of Argentina's intelligence and security units into neighboring Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, as well as Spain in the early 1980's;
- The meticulous documentation by the U.S. Embassy's human rights team of nearly 10,000 human rights violations - most of them disappeared.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index.htm
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