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WikiLeaks: How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq
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How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it
JULIAN ASSANGE / Wikileaks.org | June 23, 2008
Wikileaks has released a sensitive 219 page US military counterinsurgency manual. The manual, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004), may be critically described as "what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places". Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, history making.
The leaked manual, which has been verified with military sources, is the official US Special Forces doctrine for Foreign Internal Defense or FID.
FID operations are designed to prop up "friendly" governments facing popular revolution or guerilla insurgency. FID interventions are often covert or quasi-covert due to the unpopular nature of the governments being supported ("In formulating a realistic policy for the use of advisors, the commander must carefully gauge the psychological climate of the HN [Host Nation] and the United States.")
The manual directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and (under varying circumstances) the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates employing terrorists or prosecuting individuals for terrorism who are not terrorists, running false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it repeatedly advocates the use of subterfuge and "psychological operations" (propaganda) to make these and other "population & resource control" measures more palatable.
The content has been particularly informed by the long United States involvement in El Salvador.
In 2005 a number of credible media reports suggested the Pentagon was intensely debating "the Salvador option" for Iraq.[1]. According to the New York Times Magazine:
The template for Iraq today is not Vietnam, with which it has often been compared, but El Salvador, where a right-wing government backed by the United States fought a leftist insurgency in a 12-year war beginning in 1980. The cost was high — more than 70,000 people were killed, most of them civilians, in a country with a population of just six million. Most of the killing and torturing was done by the army and the right-wing death squads affiliated with it. According to an Amnesty International report in 2001, violations committed by the army and associated groups included ‘‘extrajudicial executions, other unlawful killings, ‘disappearances’ and torture. . . . Whole villages were targeted by the armed forces and their inhabitants massacred.’’ As part of President Reagan’s policy of supporting anti-Communist forces, hundreds of millions of dollars in United States aid was funneled to the Salvadoran Army, and a team of 55 Special Forces advisers, led for several years by Jim Steele, trained front-line battalions that were accused of significant human rights abuses.
The same article states James Steele and many other former Central American Special Forces "military advisors" have now been appointed at a high level to Iraq.
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In 1993 a United Nations truth commission on El Salvador, which examined 22,000 atrocities that occurred during the twelve-year civil war, attributed 85 percent of the abuses to the US-backed El Salvador military and its paramilitary death squads.
It is worth noting what the US Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert E. White (now the president for the Center for International Policy) had to say as early as 1980, in State Department documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act:
The major, immediate threat to the existence of this government is the right-wing violence. In the city of San Salvador, the hired thugs of the extreme right, some of them well-trained Cuban and Nicaraguan terrorists, kill moderate left leaders and blow up government buildings. In the countryside, elements of the security forces torture and kill the campesinos, shoot up their houses and burn their crops. At least two hundred refugees from the countryside arrive daily in the capital city. This campaign of terror is radicalizing the rural areas just as surely as Somoza’s National Guard did in Nicaragua. Unfortunately, the command structure of the army and the security forces either tolerates or encourages this activity. These senior officers believe or pretend to believe that they are eliminating the guerillas.[2]
Selected extracts follow. Note that the manual is 219 pages long and contains substantial material throughout. These extracts should merely be considered representative. Emphasis has been added for further selectivity. The full manual can be found at US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual FM 31-20-3.
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Im sure that’ll be on first thing on the main stream media news tomorrow morning right after they stop talking about Obama’s new shoes and the factor it might play in the elections.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:15 am
This Field Manual was updated in February 2007 and redesignated FM 3-05.202.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“The manual directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and (under varying circumstances) the suspension of habeas corpus”
are they talking about a foriegn country or America?
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June 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
There you go. So if you want to know what Bush really means when he says we’re bring freedom to the Iraqi people, well there’s his definition of freedom.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Here’s an idea-why don’t we start an information campaign where we print out these leaked information and drop them off in common spots-like shopping malls and doctor offices?
June 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
HELP RADIO TALK SHOW HOST DON IMUS (IN THE MORNING) NOW. HE IS BEING DEMANDED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE AIRWAVES AGAIN THIS TIME JUST FOR ASKING IF SOMEONE WAS A BLACK MAN. AL SHAPTON IS HIS WORST ENEMY. IT IS ALL OVER THE NEWS. THE MEDIA SHUT OUT OF MICHAEL REAGAN CALLING FOR THE MURDER OF MARK DICE NEEDS TO BE PUT INTO THE NOW OPEN EARS OF THE MEDIA. HELP IMUS AND MARK GETS HELP. THE MEDIA GATES ARE OPEN NOW. MAYBE THE GATES CAN BE KEPT OPEN IF OUR HELP FOR IMUS IS STRONG WHILE HIS BATTLE IS PRESENTLY GOING ON. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rhonda
June 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
#3, roberto, your site is great, but how do you just watch – say- the John Taylor Gatto vid w/o your podcast continuing? I did not see where to click…………….
June 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
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Masonic-Zionism, is the Red Dragon. (Masonry or
Freemasonry represent ‘government,’ while Zionism
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a particular man, who is the devil incarnate. This man
remains hidden and in the background for the time being,
directing all opposition to God the Father, the God of all
Creation, as he tries to subject the whole world to his
diabolical government and money order. The present
system of world dominance by evil is most sinister to say
the least. The powers of evil are now in control of the
design, manufacturing, and distribution of weapons of
mass destruction and are so complete, that no nation upon
the earth at this time can oppose these evil powers. Today
this evil is government controlled by the angels of Satan,
tomorrow it will be Satan incarnate as stated above who
will be in control of this evil. These powers of evil
government control oil production, taxation of the
populace, and nations ‘right’ to exist, as long as those
nations submit to their particular form of ‘democracy.’ “I
heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living
creatures, saying: ‘Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and
thrice two pounds of barley for a penny, and see you hurt
not the wine and the oil.’”30 The penny is the smallest
denomination of money, and here it represents the poor in
their struggle to pay for the minimal goods necessary for
survival. The oil represents the power of control by evil,
and the wine represents the luxury which can only be
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June 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!1
June 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
USA shares nukes with france back in’04
7 June 2004
Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_d.....-cont.html
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[Federal Register: June 7, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 109)]
[Notices]
[Page 31818]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07jn04-44]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Nonproliferation Policy; Proposed Subsequent
Arrangement
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of subsequent arrangement.
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SUMMARY: This notice has been issued under the authority of section 131
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The
Department is providing notice of a proposed “subsequent arrangement”
under the Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic
Energy between the United States and Canada and Agreement for
Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the United
States and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).
This subsequent arrangement concerns the retransfer of 813,600 kg
of U.S.-origin natural uranium hexafluoride, 550,000 kg of which is
uranium, from Cameco Corporation, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, to
Eurodif Production (Eurodif), Pierrelatte France. The material, which
is now located at Cameco Corp., Port Hope, Ontario, will be transferred
to Eurodif for enrichment. Upon completion of the enrichment, the
material will be used at Electricite de France as reactor fuel. Cameco
Corp. originally obtained the uranium hexafluoride under the UF6 Feed
Component Implementation Contract.
In accordance with section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, we have determined that this subsequent arrangement is not
inimical to the common defense and security.
This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than fifteen
days after the date of publication of this notice.
For the Department of Energy.
Kurt Siemon,
Acting Director, Office of Nonproliferation Policy.
[FR Doc. 04-12764 Filed 6-4-04; 8:45 am]
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