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		Dan Mitrione did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay It had been perpetrated by the police at times from at least the early 1960s.
		Dan Mitrione had built a soundproofed room in the cellar of his house in Montevideo.
		It centered around Mitrione and the Tupamaros and depicted a Uruguayan police officer receiving training at a secret bomb school in the United States, though the film strove more to provide a composite picture of the role played by the US in repression throughout Latin America.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/Uruguay_KH.html (2285 words)

	newtimesbpb.com \| Finding Gary, Part 2 \| 2005-08-11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mitrione's nightmarish work was dramatized by filmmaker Costa-Gavras, who portrayed the former Indiana police chief in the 1973 film State of Seige as an amoral monster.
		Mitrione, whom other agents found competent if moody and hot-tempered, believed that his father had been murdered by his own government.
		One of Mitrione's closest friends in the bureau, Hugh Cochran, who is now a successful private investigator in Miami, felt that the agent looked upon his informant as "the father he did not have," according to FBI reports.
	music.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2005-08-11/news/feature_2.html (1034 words)

	"It’s as American as apple pie"
		Mitrione built a soundproofed room in the cellar of his home where he invited Uruguayan police officers to improve their torture techniques, working on beggars whose disappearances would go unnoticed.
		Mitrione suggested that after the information was extracted from the victim, it was good to apply a little more torture "as a political measure, to create a healthy fear of meddling in subversive activity."
		Mitrione’s devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain as an example for free men everywhere." Today we hear the same rhetoric covering up the same atrocities.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/499/499_09_ApplePie.shtml (659 words)

	Hidden Terrors Part 5 excerpted from the book Hidden Terrors the truth about U.S. police operations in Latin America by ...
		Hank Mitrione and her children could only meet the accusations with equal hyperbole about the Dan Mitrione they had known.
		Mitrione withdrew to a suburb of Washington to finish the job of raising her children.
		Had Dan Mitrione been the inquisitor that Costa-Gavras painted him, his character might have equipped him for the same sort of dramatic conversion.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Torture/Hidden_Terrors_5.html (2717 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Libyan Elected Human Rights President Despite U.S. Objections (U.N.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Uruguay, according to the former chief of police intelligence, Mitrione helped "professionalize" torture as a routine measure and advised on psychological techniques, such as playing tapes of women and children screaming giving the impression that the prisoner's family was being tortured.
		Between mid-1970 and early 1971, the Tupamaros kidnapped Mitrione and an American agronomist, as well as a Brazilian and a British diplomat, and requested in exchange the liberation of 150 guerrilla prisoners.
		If you want to find out more about Dan Mitrione, who was beloved by Richard M. Nixon, who gave him a hero's funeral, which was attended by his son-in-law, David Eisenhower, and buttheads like Frank Sinatra, just look up Dan Mitrione in Google, and read some of the 3,190 entries.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID61/11984.html (1885 words)

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		Dan Mitrione was a policeman in Richmond, Indiana from 1945 to 1957.
		Eleven years later, in August of 1970, Mitrione was kidnapped, held for ransom, and eventually executed by Tupamaros guerrillas (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional) in Uruguay; sparking an international incident.
		What most American's didn't know at that time, and their government and media were not exactly falling over themselves to tell them, was that Dan Mitrione, when he was living large, was a walking breathing nightmare factory.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5674986&postID=109031420787137588 (427 words)

	Hidden Terrors Part 6 excerpted from the book Hidden Terrors the truth about U.S. police operations in Latin America by ...
		In a meeting with Manuel, Mitrione explained that the rules were changing and that the U.S. advisers would not be spending much time at the Montevideo police headquarters.
		Instead, Mitrione had secured a house in the city's Malvm section with a cellar and a door to the inside from the garage.
		In Uruguay, I had heard many accusations about Mitrione's role in the torture and I had sifted through them trying to be accurate and fair to his memory.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Torture/Hidden_Terrors_6.html (1516 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		...The government to which the United States loaned Dan Mitrione was the democratically elected government of Uruguay, a nation which at the time was rightfully considered the showcase of democracy in Latin America...
		...Mitrione was listed as an AID official, which gave him a para-diplomatic status in Uruguay...
		.............20/COMMENTARY FEBRUARY 1979 Dan Mitrione was meant to be part of this help, but he was kid- napped and assassinated, and the Tupamaros went on from success to success...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V67I2P6-1.htm (8986 words)

	Costa-Gavras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		State of Siege, (1973), is set in Uruguay under a conservative government in the early 1970s.
		A radical leftist group kidnaps an American embassy official loosely based on the case of CIA torture expert Dan Mitrione.
		Missing (1982) is about an American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Costa-Gavras (323 words)

	Genocide at Jonestown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Coincidentally, Mitrione was there as well, having advanced quickly in the IPA, and, while training security forces in torture and assassination, had beggars kidnapped so he could keep in practice.
		Mitrione was later kidnapped and murdered by guerrillas in Uruguay, which became the basis of the Costa Gavras film "State of Siege".
		Dan Webber, sent to Guyana after the massacre, was CIA as well.
	www.io.com /~patrik/jimjones.htm (4039 words)

	JONESTOWN
		Mitrione would later enter the International Police Academy, a CIA front for training counterinsurgency and torture techniques.
		Mitrione had honed his skills at torture and assassination by practicing on kidnapped beggars.
		Considering his dear friendship to Mitrione and the funding of "ministries" in Latin America by the CIA, the theory that Jones was a U.S. intelligence asset makes quite a bit of sense.
	www.geocities.com /northstarzone/JONESTOWN.html (3466 words)

	newtimesbpb.com \| News \| Finding Gary, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mitrione told his superiors that, to build trust with his Colombian contacts, he would have to let 50 kilograms "walk" into the United States, according to FBI reports.
		Sandini also wrote that Mitrione told him "the only reason he went with the Bureau was to find out who had killed his father or who had ordered the killing."
		"Dan asked me to secure several guns with silencers, including a machine gun," he wrote, adding that Mitrione had assembled an unofficial "assassination squad" of friends who would kill his father's murderers.
	music.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2005-08-11/news/feature_3.html (759 words)

	Amazon.ca: Suddenly Gone: The Kansas Murders of Serial Killer Richard Grissom: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mitrione's writing of this book, more specifically the book's subject matter, is an understatement.
		I agree that this story should have been told to honor the victims-especially the young women whose bodies were not recovered-their families, and the incredible dedication of the law enforcement officers.
		Mitrione was the one to tell it, and I am left wondering why he did.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1886039232 (700 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Suddenly Gone: The Kansas Murders of Serial Killer Richard Grissom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I give a lot of credit to Dan Mitrione for taking on this project and going through all of the trouble of interviewing all of the people involved with this case to accurately tell his story.
		Mitrione makes us feel the pain of loss of the families of the missing girls and the agony of never being able to lay them to rest.
		I was familiar with this case, and Dan Mitrione did a good, detailed job of telling a tragic story.
	amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/1886039232/customer-reviews (922 words)

	Jonestown Massacre: A 'Reason' to Die
		Dan Mitrione was the local police chief in the early days of Jones’s "ministry" in Indianapolis.
		Mitrione later entered the International Police Academy, supposedly a CIA front for training in counterinsurgency and torture techniques.
		Dan White, described as being in a "zombie state" at the time of the killings, murdered them.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/mass/jonestown/connections_5.html (1751 words)

	Alternative Press Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mitrione arrived in Uruguay at a time of unrest, monetary collapse resulting in demonstrations, and “resourceful sophisticated urban gorilla actions” organized by the Tupamaros “with a deft touch for capturing the public imagination...
		Mitrione, writes Blum, built a soundproof room in the cellar of his residence and assembled police officers to demonstrate his refined torture methods.
		Mitrione's devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain as an example for man everywhere.” “A perfect man,” said his widow.
	www.altpr.org /print.php?sid=161 (1937 words)

	ZNet \| Foreign Policy \| "We can use the fruits of it"
		One of the techniques Mitrione taught involved placing the end of a reed in the anus of a naked man hanging suspended.
		Blum writes of Mitrione's use of four street beggars to demonstrate the effects of different voltages on different parts of the body.
		Mitrione was eventually kidnapped and killed by the Tupamaros.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2809§ionID=11 (757 words)

	Uruguay: How We Crush Nonviolent Protest against a Corrupt Regime, Using the SOA to Undermine Our Own Laws - Eric ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mitrione’s demise, and the role of the SOA …
		Dan Mitrione was finally kidnapped in 1970 by the Tupamoros.
		Mitrione’s "Office of Public Safety" has trained over a million policemen in the Third World.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/poli/soa/uruguay.htm (818 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| News \| Forever Missing Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In one of the most disturbing revelations, reported by a CIA operative from Cuba named Manuel Hevia Conculluela, Mitrione was said to have practiced on beggars picked up from the capital's streets, four of whom reportedly died while serving as human guinea pigs.
		And soon thereafter Mitrione took the reins of Operation Airlift, the FBI's very first foray into the drug war.
		At age 56, the Philadelphia-born con man called "Sandy" was old enough to be Mitrione's father -- and was said to bear a striking resemblance to the assassinated official.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2005-08-11/news/feature2_2.html (753 words)

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		After negotiations with relatives and foreign governments the majority of the victims were freed unharmed%2C but the Uruguayan and U.S. governments as a matter of policy refused to negotiate with the kidnappers.
		When it came to light she was American%2C the torture was stopped to avoid a political incident.
		If you want to find out more about Dan Mitrione%2C who was beloved by Richard M. Nixon%2C who gave him a hero%27s funeral%2C which was attended by his son-in-law%2C David Eisenhower%2C and buttheads like Frank Sinatra%2C just look up Dan Mitrione in Google%2C and read some of the 3%2C190 entries.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID61/Data/11984.txt (1163 words)

	Uruguay 1964-1970: Torture – as American as apple pie by William Blum 2003
		And it was through the diplomatic pouch that Mitrione got some of the equipment he needed for interrogations, including these fine wires." [10]
		There was no interrogation, only a demonstration of the effects of different voltages on the different parts of the human body, as well as demonstrating the use of a drug which induces vomiting – I don't know why or what for – and another chemical substance.
		Mitrione's devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain as an example for free men everywhere." [19]
	www.doublestandards.org /blum14.html (3529 words)

	Nygaard Notes #257
		Too bad, since those who know about Dan Mitrione are likely to have a much easier time understanding the recent headlines from Iraq than those who do not know this history.
		A small-town police chief from Indiana, Dan Mitrione ended up working for the United States Agency for International Development, or AID, in their Office of Public Safety, an office with strong ties to the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Mitrione became such a symbol of oppression that he was eventually kidnapped by the Tupamaros.
	www.nygaardnotes.org /issues/nn0257.html (2894 words)

	The impartiality of Mr Blum and his sources - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The chapter begins with these sinister words of, allegedly, Dan Mitrione the head of the Montevideo branch of the Office of Public Safety, "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.".
		Although Cosculluela was, supposedly, a Cuban CIA agent who worked with Mitrione, he claims to have been simply an observer, along with selected Uruguayan police officers who were being trained in torture techniques.
		Of Mr Blum's 30 sources for his allegations against the activities of Mitrione and the OPS no less than a dozen are attributed to the Langguth and Cosculluela books.
	www.danielpipes.org /comments/39876 (810 words)

	Jonestown
		Two possibilities suggest themselves: either Mitrione was counseling in Jones in the way policemen sometimes counsel children, or their relationship may have been professional.
		Whether or not Mitrione was an undercover CIA officer, it is a fact that the CIA's Office of Security opened a file on Jones, and conducted a name-check on him, coincident with Mitrione's departure for Rio.
		Which is to say that the lifespan of Jones's file at the CIA coincided precisely with the dates of Dan Mitrione's rather suspect tenure at the State Department.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~remoore/jonestown/AboutJonestown/Articles/print_hougan-lobster.htm (9000 words)

	Baggage Carousel 4 » Blog Archive » brasil: nunca mais
		it is known that one of the first to introduce this pragmatic approach in Brazil was the U.S. policeman Dan Mitrione (later transferred to Montevideo [Uruguay] where he wound up being kidnapped and killed).
		As an instructor in Belo Horizonte during the early years of the military regime, Mitrione used vagrants picked up on the streets to train the local police.
		J - Your link on mitrione took me to an 1979 op ed piece that used a cuban government double agent as the main source of informaiton about AIDs torture plot in latin america.
	www.laloca.org /archived/4052 (544 words)

	Rubenstein \| Living with Terror
		The organization got to the point where their approach was "We have to destroy in order to rebuild." Their violence touched us all when they kidnapped Dan Mitrione, a USAID advisor to the Uruguayan police, and Gordon Jones, a young economics officer, one Friday morning.
		Gordon, while bound and wrapped in a blanket, and suffering from a severe gash on his head, was, nevertheless, able to escape from the back of the pickup truck in which they were carrying him to a hiding place.
		When my tour of duty was ending, Ambassador Charles Adair hosted a farewell party for me. It was the first social event he had hosted since Dan Mitrione (father of nine children) had been killed by the Tupamaros and since Dr. Claude Fly, an elderly American agronomist, had been kidnapped.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_10-12/rubenstein_living/rubenstein_living.html (839 words)

	Bravo \| Suddenly Gone : The Terrifying True Story of a Serial Killer's Grisly Kidnapping-Murders of Three... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Detective Ken Landwehr is described as a trained profiler who investigated a 1989 Wichita murder in part by writing a profile of the killer.
		In 2004 Landwehr became head of the BTK Task Force, so according to author and former FBI agent Dan Mitrione, the BTK Task Force was headed by a long time profiler.
		Former FBI agent Dan Mitrione follows the dark, twisted path of a man with all the cunning, sexy good looks, sexy good looks and deadly charm of Ted Bundy, exposing Grissom's secret bloody past that shocked even the most jaded detectives.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dkahzqduhh (1027 words)

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