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A '''death squad''' is an armed group whose activity includes [[extrajudicial killing]]s, [[torture]] and [[forced disappearance]]s as part of political repression and [[ethnic cleansing]] during warfare (including [[civil wars]]) or revolutionary terror. Regular [[armies]] or [[police forces]] may form units that carry out this kind of activity.
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Death squads are distinct from [[Hit squad|assassination teams]] due to their permanent organization and the larger number of victims (typically thousands or more) who may not be prominent individuals.
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[[Wikipedia]] (as of April [[2022]]) notes that:<ref>http://archive.today/2022.04.09-034956/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad</ref>
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{{QB|Except in rare cases where they are formed by an insurgency, domestic or foreign governments actively participate in, support, or ignore the death squad's activities.}}
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Other violence, such as [[rape]], [[torture]], [[arson]], or [[bombings]] may be carried out alongside [[murders]]. They may comprise a secret police force, [[paramilitary militia]] groups, government [[soldiers]], [[policemen]], or combinations thereof. They may also be organized as [[vigilantes]]. When death squads are not controlled by the state, they may consist of insurgent forces or [[organized crime]], such as the ones used by [[cartels]].
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==CIA special activities==
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[[John Stockwell]]s activity as a CIA case officer and his participation in the [[Angola's bloody civil war|Angola war]] gave him insight into how the [[CIA]] actively trains and/or uses death squads in a strategy of destabilization (or keeps oversight and control by having the leadership of these groups under control).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220323104510/https://ourhiddenhistory.org/entry/john-stockwell-the-secret-wars-of-the-cia</ref><ref>https://noirg.org/articles/cia-whistleblower-john-stockwell-on-cia-torture-training-in-africa-1989/</ref><ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=FElp4V5YRi0 John Stockwell: The Secret Wars of the CIA] (1987)</ref> In an interview on [[Alternative Views]] in [[1980]] he commented on the training of police forces of several dictatorships around the world:
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|text=[...] in country, after country, after country, of our allies, or our client states in the third world, you've find that the CIA helped put in power the dictator, or reinforced someone who had just gotten into power, train their police, train them in oppression, suppression of the people [which includes heavy torture techniques as was discussed shortly before in the conversation] and it worked for a decade, a decade and a half, sometimes for twenty years [...] (25:20)
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|subjects=American fascism
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|authors=John Stockwell
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|date=1980
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|source_details=CIA WHISTLEBLOWER JOHN STOCKWELL, IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES, ON COMPANY BUSINESS ALTERNATIVE VIEWS (1980)
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|source_URL=https://www.bitchute.com/video/JxT5PEomsfed/
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==US sponsored death squads in South America==
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|text=They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.
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|authors=John Stockwell
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|date=1987
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|source_details=The Secret Wars of the CIA: part I
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|text=So what the US military advisors do, is to teach the people in the country how to organize themselves, and how to carry out missions, and how to keep their mouths shut about missions, and how to be more "professional" in the jobs that the ingenious troops want to carry out anyway. [...] It wasn't quite that the American advisors said thou shall create a death squad and you gonna report to me, no. What they said was: here is how to organize yourself, to conduct missions and don't report to me, because I don't want to know it.
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|subjects=Ukrainian death squad, Contras
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|authors=Christopher Simpson
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|date=2014
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|source_details=Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company (ca 17:35)
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|source_URL=https://vimeo.com/65148608
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===CIA Manual's===
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In [[1984]] the US press reported on a [[CIA]] manual that was: "advising Nicaraguan guerrillas how to kidnap, assassinate, blackmail and dupe civilians".<ref>http://intellit.muskingum.edu/cia_folder/cia1980s_folder/cia80smanual.html saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20031021110950/http://intellit.muskingum.edu/cia_folder/cia1980s_folder/cia80smanual.html Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.ph/vM1yr Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/10/21/the-cias-murder-manual/4cacbc42-1790-46db-baaa-02186a755758/</ref> It is sometimes referred to as ''CIA manual on assassination'',<ref>https://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/read-a-cia-manual-on-assassina.html saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20220517143714/https://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/read-a-cia-manual-on-assassina.html Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.ph/fR8MM Archive.is]</ref> or as ''A Study Of Assassination'', which is the naming the CIA used internally.<ref>https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html</ref> The 19 page type written document was released as part of collection of Central Intelligence Agency files related to CIA Operations; PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS. The original document was undated and unsigned but with an estimated publication date of Dec 31st 1953;<ref>http://archive.today/2022.11.09-221040/https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Ron-Collins/dp/1329459660</ref> declassified under the
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[[Freedom of Information Act]] on May 15, [[1997]].<ref>https://archive.org/details/CIAAStudyOfAssassination1953/</ref>
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Another handbook produced by the CIA was ''Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare'', which drew attention the same year,<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/workersvanguard/1984/0365_26_10_1984.pdf saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20210819204140/https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/workersvanguard/1984/0365_26_10_1984.pdf Archive.org]</ref> also discussed [[assassinations]].<ref>http://archive.today/2021.12.22-210307/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_in_Guerrilla_Warfare</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121012190053/http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/77479.html?nojs=1 saved at [https://archive.ph/Cbtqe Archive.is]</ref>
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===List of death squads in South America===
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Partial list of US sponsored death squads in [[South America]] <ref>http://archive.today/2022.04.09-031554/https://www.quora.com/What-have-been-the-causes-of-the-United-States-intervening-in-Central-America-How-were-both-parties-affected</ref> and elsewhere by [[serendipity.li]]:<ref>https://serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20191220123225/http://www.serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.ph/jneKL Archive.is]</ref> [[Document:CIA Support of Death Squads]]
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Latest revision as of 13:21, 13 September 2023

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Nicaraguan Contras being trained by U.S. troops at a Honduran base
Death squads carry out extrajudicial killings and torture.

A death squad is an armed group whose activity includes extrajudicial killings, torture and forced disappearances as part of political repression and ethnic cleansing during warfare (including civil wars) or revolutionary terror. Regular armies or police forces may form units that carry out this kind of activity.

Death squads are distinct from assassination teams due to their permanent organization and the larger number of victims (typically thousands or more) who may not be prominent individuals.

Wikipedia (as of April 2022) notes that:[1]

Except in rare cases where they are formed by an insurgency, domestic or foreign governments actively participate in, support, or ignore the death squad's activities.

Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out alongside murders. They may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary militia groups, government soldiers, policemen, or combinations thereof. They may also be organized as vigilantes. When death squads are not controlled by the state, they may consist of insurgent forces or organized crime, such as the ones used by cartels.

CIA special activities

John Stockwells activity as a CIA case officer and his participation in the Angola war gave him insight into how the CIA actively trains and/or uses death squads in a strategy of destabilization (or keeps oversight and control by having the leadership of these groups under control).[2][3][4] In an interview on Alternative Views in 1980 he commented on the training of police forces of several dictatorships around the world:

“[...] in country, after country, after country, of our allies, or our client states in the third world, you've find that the CIA helped put in power the dictator, or reinforced someone who had just gotten into power, train their police, train them in oppression, suppression of the people [which includes heavy torture techniques as was discussed shortly before in the conversation] and it worked for a decade, a decade and a half, sometimes for twenty years [...] (25:20)”
John Stockwell (1980)  [5]

US sponsored death squads in South America

“They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.”
John Stockwell (1987)  [6]

“So what the US military advisors do, is to teach the people in the country how to organize themselves, and how to carry out missions, and how to keep their mouths shut about missions, and how to be more "professional" in the jobs that the ingenious troops want to carry out anyway. [...] It wasn't quite that the American advisors said thou shall create a death squad and you gonna report to me, no. What they said was: here is how to organize yourself, to conduct missions and don't report to me, because I don't want to know it.”
Christopher Simpson (2014)  [7]

CIA Manual's

In 1984 the US press reported on a CIA manual that was: "advising Nicaraguan guerrillas how to kidnap, assassinate, blackmail and dupe civilians".[8][9] It is sometimes referred to as CIA manual on assassination,[10] or as A Study Of Assassination, which is the naming the CIA used internally.[11] The 19 page type written document was released as part of collection of Central Intelligence Agency files related to CIA Operations; PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS. The original document was undated and unsigned but with an estimated publication date of Dec 31st 1953;[12] declassified under the Freedom of Information Act on May 15, 1997.[13]

Another handbook produced by the CIA was Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, which drew attention the same year,[14] also discussed assassinations.[15][16]

List of death squads in South America

Partial list of US sponsored death squads in South America [17] and elsewhere by serendipity.li:[18] Document:CIA Support of Death Squads

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Examples

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ContrasSouth American death squads that were supported by the United States.
Counter-Guerrilla
Ukraine/Death squadUkrainian death squads carry out extrajudicial killings and torture.
Wagner GroupA well known ruthless private military contractor. Its founders were involved in a chaotic coup in 2023.
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References

  1. ↑ http://archive.today/2022.04.09-034956/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220323104510/https://ourhiddenhistory.org/entry/john-stockwell-the-secret-wars-of-the-cia
  3. ↑ https://noirg.org/articles/cia-whistleblower-john-stockwell-on-cia-torture-training-in-africa-1989/
  4. ↑ John Stockwell: The Secret Wars of the CIA (1987)
  5. ↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/JxT5PEomsfed/ CIA WHISTLEBLOWER JOHN STOCKWELL, IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES, ON COMPANY BUSINESS ALTERNATIVE VIEWS (1980)
  6. ↑ http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_1.html Third World Traveler - The Secret Wars of the CIA: part I
  7. ↑ https://vimeo.com/65148608 Vimeo Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company (ca 17:35)
  8. ↑ http://intellit.muskingum.edu/cia_folder/cia1980s_folder/cia80smanual.html saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  9. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/10/21/the-cias-murder-manual/4cacbc42-1790-46db-baaa-02186a755758/
  10. ↑ https://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/read-a-cia-manual-on-assassina.html saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  11. ↑ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html
  12. ↑ http://archive.today/2022.11.09-221040/https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Ron-Collins/dp/1329459660
  13. ↑ https://archive.org/details/CIAAStudyOfAssassination1953/
  14. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/workersvanguard/1984/0365_26_10_1984.pdf saved at Archive.org
  15. ↑ http://archive.today/2021.12.22-210307/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_in_Guerrilla_Warfare
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121012190053/http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/77479.html?nojs=1 saved at Archive.is
  17. ↑ http://archive.today/2022.04.09-031554/https://www.quora.com/What-have-been-the-causes-of-the-United-States-intervening-in-Central-America-How-were-both-parties-affected
  18. ↑ https://serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
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