<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione</a><br><br><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">

He was a police officer in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Indiana" title="Richmond, Indiana" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Richmond, Indiana</a>, from 1945 to 1947 and joined the FBI in 1959. In 1960 he was assigned to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Department" title="State Department" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">State Department</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cooperation_Administration" title="International Cooperation Administration" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">International Cooperation Administration</a>, going to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" title="South America" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">South American</a> countries to teach "advanced counterinsurgency techniques." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Langguth" title="A. J. Langguth" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">A. J. Langguth</a>, a former <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">New York Times</a></i> bureau chief in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon" title="Saigon" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Saigon</a>, claimed that Mitrione was among the US advisers teaching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Brazilian</a> police how much electric shock to apply to prisoners without killing them.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="" style="line-height:1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[2]</a></sup> Langguth also claimed that older police officers were replaced "when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">CIA</a> and the U.S. police advisers had turned to harsher measures and sterner men."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="" style="line-height:1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[3]</a></sup> and that under the new head of the U.S. Public Safety program in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Uruguay</a>, Dan Mitrione, the United States "introduced a system of nationwide identification cards, like those in Brazil… [and] torture had become routine at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo" title="Montevideo" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Montevideo</a> [police] jefatura."<sup id="cite_ref-nsa71_4-0" class="" style="line-height:1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione#cite_note-nsa71-4" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[4]</a></sup></p>

<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">From 1960 to 1967, Mitrione worked with the Brazilian police, first in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Horizonte" title="Belo Horizonte" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Belo Horizonte</a> then in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Rio de Janeiro</a>. He returned to the US in 1967 to share his experiences and expertise on "counterguerilla warfare" at the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_International_Development" title="Agency for International Development" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Agency for International Development</a> (USAID), in Washington D.C. In 1969, Mitrione moved to Uruguay, again under USAID, to oversee the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Safety" title="Office of Public Safety" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Office of Public Safety</a>.</p>

<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mitrione was also in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">Dominican Republic</a> after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack" title="Operation Power Pack" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">1965 US intervention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="" style="line-height:1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[5]</a></sup></p>

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