So did the School of the Americas ever work together with the Stasi?

[Sephirstein]

It just sounds like a match made in Hell.

[rapier]

1. not sure

I'm not sure but Poindexter gets a woody just thinking about Stasi.

[carpetbagger]

2. It's unlikely.

Our greatest mistake in Latin America was that over the years we turned everything into a us vs. them thing. Anyone fighting for economic reform became "them". Anyone fighting against dictators who weren't Soviet clients were "them" fighting "us". The SOA became a place where grads were tagged "us", and we were too blind in the 70's and 80's to see their faults.

Since "them" was communism, it's very unlikely that the SOA, a part of the American government, would have much to do with the Stasi.

[Norm357]

3. No

They work with troops from Central and South America.

Norm

[Octafish]

4. We WERE the STASI.

Stanislaw Lem, the Polish author who helped establish SF as literature, wrote Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. In it, the fifth-generation (underground) Pentagon works in the perpetual war of the 21st Century as the base of operations for all the spies sent out against the Soviet's (! — it was 1972!) fifth-generation (underground) Pentagon.

All goes well until a spacecraft brings back a virus that contaminates earth and eats up all the paper, including the files, ledgers and memos that prop up each side's corrupt regime and civilization. Well, the book's about a guy sent into one of the Pentagons for a meeting with a particular bureaucrat. He discovers that everyone working in our Pentagon is a spy sent over from the other side's Pentagon and everyone working in that Pentagon is one of our spies.

A similar example might hold in the present case. Terror is terror, no matter what the flag. Freepers don't believe me, but what do they know about either Fidel Castro OR Orlando Bosch?