-Caveat Lector- > ******The information below may be found at SOA WATCH WEB PAGE at: > http://www.soa.org/********************************************** > > US Defense Department says teaching manuals violated > US policy > > On September 20, the U.S. Defense Department admitted that manuals used to train soldiers at the US Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, included practices that were outlawed in the 1980s. According to the Pentagon, the manuals suggested that informants could be controlled with fear, beatings, truth serum, and death threats. > > One manual, entitled "Handling of Sources" stated that "The counterintelligence agent must offer presents and compensation for information leading to the arrest, capture or death of guerrillas." Another manual, entitled "Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla" suggested using extortion in interrogations and that counterintelligence agents' duties should include specifying "targets for neutralizing." > > The Pentagon said that the manuals were used at the School of the Americas from 1989 to 1991 and by trainers in Latin America from 1987 to 1989. According to Lt. Col. Arne Owens, a Pentagon spokesman, "The problem was discovered in 1992, properly reported and fixed." On July 4, 1996, in response to an Intelligence Oversight Board report, School of the Americas spokesman Major Gordon Martel stated that "All of the manuals used by the School of the Americas are approved by the Army, and the school has never done those things [executions and physical abuse], ever, in its history... I'm flabbergasted. I don't know how they could say such things without ever having come down here to the School of the Americas. " The manuals specifying such methods of operation, which violated Army policy at the time. The Defense Department claims that is trying to collect the manuals, but noted that "due to incomplete records, retrieval of all copies is doubtful." > > White House spokesman Mike McCurry, when asked about the School of the Americas during a press conference on Monday, September 23, stated that "the School for the Americas is not the school that would have entertained the use of these very inappropriate manuals long ago." > > The Center for International Policy has made the following related documents available online: > > Defense Department "Fact Sheet" detailing the manuals' use and > quoting the objectionable passages. March 10, 1992 Defense > Department report of the investigation into the manuals' content. 1992 Department of Defense memo detailing "policy on intelligence and counterintelligence training of non-United States persons." > > > > ___________________________________________________ > NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-N.A.P.To know about us visit: > http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm (spanish) > ******************* > In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107,this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest. This information is for non-profit research and education purpuses only. **We encourage you to reproduce this information but please give credit to the source, translator and publication. thank you.** > General Director:Roger Maldonado-Mexico Director Europe: Darrin Wood-Spain > Advisor and Special Correspondent:Guillermo Michel-Mexico. > NAP Coordination:Susana Saravia > *************[EMAIL PROTECTED]************* ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
