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Covert Operations. “History isn’t like that.

Covert Operations

History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always – eventually – manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.” ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort Counter Intelligence “Don’t put your trust in revolutions. Psychological Warfare ‘Psychological Operations: Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.

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School of the Americas 24th Vigil

Presente! Francisca Chavez, El Salvador. Presente! We tearfully placed the man and the baby’s little wooden crosses into the cyclone fence, one of three barbed-wired steal barriers separating thousands of peace-makers from the war-makers at Fort Benning, Georgia. New Documents Show Links between DHS, CIA, and Booz Allen. CONTACT: Beau Hodai, publisher@dbapress.com Guy Fawkes mask DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) release records obtained from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS I&A) pertaining to the operations of the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC).

New Documents Show Links between DHS, CIA, and Booz Allen

These records were recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request originally filed with DHS I&A in August, 2012. Among other things, these records disclose DHS I&A/DSAC private sector intelligence sharing concerning Wikileaks (a journalistic outfit) and 'hacktivist' group Anonymous; Booz Allen Hamilton work on behalf of DHS I&A/DSAC; and aspects of private sector involvement (corporations such as Merck & Co.) in the workings of the U.S. intelligence community. This article also discusses the involvement of career CIA officers in DHS I&A/DSAC. Read article here: Frankfurt: An American Military-Intel Metropolis. Frankfurt: An American Military-Intel Metropolis By Christian Fuchs, John Goetz, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer and Tanjev Schultz Espionage, Logistics, Attacks Orchestrated from the U.S.

Frankfurt: An American Military-Intel Metropolis

Consulate It’s understandable that the guards standing outside the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt are a little nervous. “What are you doing here?” It’s no wonder they’re so nervous here. NSA - United States. List of documents - Stratfor Thinks the CIA Is Incompetent, Yet They Can Lock You Up Forever? U.S. Instructed Latins On Executions, Torture. U.S.

U.S. Instructed Latins On Executions, Torture

Army intelligence manuals used to train Latin American military officers at an Army school from 1982 to 1991 advocated executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion against insurgents, Pentagon documents released yesterday show. Used in courses at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, the manual says that to recruit and control informants, counterintelligence agents could use "fear, payment of bounties for enemy dead, beatings, false imprisonment, executions and the use of truth serum," according to a secret Defense Department summary of the manuals compiled during a 1992 investigation of the instructional material and also released yesterday.

Its graduates have included some of the region's most notorious human rights abusers, among them Roberto D'Aubuisson, the leader of El Salvador's right-wing death squads; 19 Salvadoran soldiers linked to the 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests; Gen. Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past. Declassified Army and CIA Manuals. Declassified Army and CIA Manuals Used in Latin America: An Analysis of Their Content On September 20, 1996, the Pentagon released to the public seven training manuals prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses in Latin America and at the U.S.

Army School of the Americas (SOA). A selection of excerpts was distributed to the press at that time. The Pentagon press release accompanying the excerpts states that a 1991-92 investigation into the manuals concluded that "two dozen short passages in six of the manuals, which total 1169 pages, contained material that either was not or could be interpreted not to be consistent with U.S. policy. " A January 1997 "information paper" sent out by the School of the Americas in response to public inquiries on the manuals claims that SOA training material merely contained several passages with "words or phrases inconsistent with U.S. government policy. "