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'''Daniel Anthony "Dan" Mitrione''' was a US policeman turned spook who taught [[torture]] techniques to police in [[South America]].
  
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
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Daniel Mitrione joined the [[FBI]] in 1959.<ref name=spartacus>http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmitrione.htm</ref>
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In 1960, he was assigned to the [[US 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 [[Brazil]]ian police how much electric shock to apply to prisoners without killing them.<ref>Langguth, p. 40</ref> 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"<ref>Langguth, p. 286</ref> and that under Mitrione as the new head of the US Public Safety program in [[Uruguay]], the United States "introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil… [and] torture had become routine at the [[Montevideo]] [police] jefatura."<ref name="nsa71">[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB71/ Nixon: "Brazil Helped Rig the Uruguayan Elections", 1971], ''[[National Security Archive|National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 71]]'', June 20, 2002</ref>  
 
In 1960, he was assigned to the [[US 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 [[Brazil]]ian police how much electric shock to apply to prisoners without killing them.<ref>Langguth, p. 40</ref> 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"<ref>Langguth, p. 286</ref> and that under Mitrione as the new head of the US Public Safety program in [[Uruguay]], the United States "introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil… [and] torture had become routine at the [[Montevideo]] [police] jefatura."<ref name="nsa71">[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB71/ Nixon: "Brazil Helped Rig the Uruguayan Elections", 1971], ''[[National Security Archive|National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 71]]'', June 20, 2002</ref>  
  
In 1978 [[Manuel Hevia Cosculluela]], a CIA agent who had worked with Mitrione in Montevideo, published a book about his experiences (Eight Years with the CIA). According to Cosculluela, Mitrione had tortured four beggars to death with electric shocks at a 1970 seminar to demonstrate his techniques for Uruguayan police trainees. Cosculluela reported that Mitrione worked under William Cantrell, another CIA agent.<ref>http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmitrione.htm</ref>
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In 1967 Mitrione returned to the United States to share his experiences and expertise on "counterguerilla warfare" at [[USAID]].<ref name=spartacus/>
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In 1978 [[Manuel Hevia Cosculluela]], a CIA agent who had worked with Mitrione in [[Montevideo]], published ''Eight Years with the CIA'', a book about his experiences. According to Cosculluela, Mitrione had tortured four beggars to death with electric shocks at a 1970 seminar to demonstrate his techniques for Uruguayan police trainees. Cosculluela reported that Mitrione worked under William Cantrell, another CIA agent.<ref>http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmitrione.htm</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 02:16, 21 March 2020

Person.png Daniel Mitrione   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(policeman, deep state operative)
Daniel Mitrione.gif
BornAugust 4, 1920
DiedAugust 10, 1970 (Age 50)
Cause of death
gunshot
Victim ofmurder
Intereststorture
US policeman turned spook who taught torture techniques to police in South America.

Daniel Anthony "Dan" Mitrione was a US policeman turned spook who taught torture techniques to police in South America.

Career

Daniel Mitrione joined the FBI in 1959.[1]

In 1960, he was assigned to the US 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 Mitrione as the new head of the US Public Safety program in Uruguay, the United States "introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil… [and] torture had become routine at the Montevideo [police] jefatura."[4]

In 1967 Mitrione returned to the United States to share his experiences and expertise on "counterguerilla warfare" at USAID.[1]

In 1978 Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, a CIA agent who had worked with Mitrione in Montevideo, published Eight Years with the CIA, a book about his experiences. According to Cosculluela, Mitrione had tortured four beggars to death with electric shocks at a 1970 seminar to demonstrate his techniques for Uruguayan police trainees. Cosculluela reported that Mitrione worked under William Cantrell, another CIA agent.[5]

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