http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/Colonia%20Dignidad%20in%20Chile.html--an older piece on Dignity Colony...worth noting, also, because of the accusations about the use of drugs and child prostitutes via another person in Omaha who ended up in a late night tour of the Reagan White House---
"It seems," the report said, "that in Colonia Dignidad there is a specially equipped underground torture center with small soundproofed cells, hermetically sealed. The detainees' heads are covered with leather hoods, which are stuck to their faces with substances that are supposedly chemicals. In these cells, interrogations are carried out through electronic equipment, including loudspeakers and microphones, while detainees are tied naked to metal frames to receive electric shocks."
Allegations that the colony had become involved in political repression under the Pinochet government received dramatic support in 1977 from Juan Rene Munoz Alarcon, a former Socialist Party member who turned collaborator with Pinochet's secret police and was later imprisoned by the government for trying to protect a one-time leftist colleague.
...Abu Ghraib, anyone? ...but how could the CIA have learned such techniques from Nazis?
http://www.themedianews.com/DAGGER/CLOAK%20WIRE/consortiumnews.htmSecret documents declassified by the Clinton administration show that the CIA's collaboration with the ex-Nazis was not merely a marriage of convenience. It was more like a deal with the devil.
The documents reveal that Gehlen had hired and protected hundreds of Nazi war criminals. The more notorious of these Hitler henchmen included Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man in orchestrating the Final Solution, and Emil Augsburg, who directed the Wansee Institute where the Final Solution was formulated and who served in a unit that specialized in the extermination of Jews. Another was the former Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller, Adolf Eichmann's immediate superior whose signature appears on orders written in 1943 for the deportation of 45,000 Jews to Auschwitz for killing.
Furthermore, the Gehlen Org was so thoroughly penetrated by Soviet spies that CIA operations in Eastern Europe often ended in the murder of its agents. To top it off, the Org fed the CIA a steady diet of misinformation that fanned the flames of East-West hostility – and thus assured the Org the continued patronage of Washington.
http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/chile/chile.htmColonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony), a small German settlement in the southern town of Villa Baviera (near Parral), was founded in 1961 and has since the mid-1960s been accused of being a haven for ex-Nazis. The German government has periodically, over the years, investigated its activities. During the Pinochet regime, rumours circulated that it was also used as a centre for governmental repression of political opponents.
In 1997 police attempted in vain to arrest Paul Schaefer - a suspected child molester, an active neo-Nazi sympathizer and the apparent head of the 'state within a state' at Colonia Dignidad - who had gone into hiding in a remote valley in the Andes after police entered the colony in May and discovered that he had illegally adopted 300 German children. Schaefer, who served as a medical orderly in Hitler's Wehrmacht, came to Chile in 1961 after fleeing paedophilia charges in Germany.
(just a reminder, but last year, Riggs Bank, whose board included Jonathan Bush, Dubya's uncle, was fined millions for laundering money for Pinochet, still...)
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/10/11/chile.german.colony.ap/In 2000, Dignity Colony was accused to helping Pinochet torture Chilean citizens, and the govt. expelled three members. Sometimes justice is delayed...
In case you don't know...
Operation Paperclip
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/nazi-war-crimes-list.htmhttp://www.angelfire.com/ca3/jphuck/Book14Ch.3.html
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