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A 16-page comic book for Nicaraguans; its more than 40 illustra-tions showed the reader how s/he could liberate Nicaragua from oppression and misery of the Marxist tyranny by a series of useful sabotage techniques . Amongst these were:

Stop up toilets with sponges...pull down power cables...put dirt into gas tanks...put nails on roads and highways...cut and perforate the upholstery of vehicles.. .cut down trees over highways...telephone to make false hotel reservations and false alarms of fires and crimes...hoard and steal food from the government...leave lights and water taps on...steal mail from mailboxes...go to work late...call in sick...short-circuit electricity...break light bulbs...rip up books... spread rumors...threaten supervisors and officials over the phone...

CIA, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare , 1984 8

A manual designed for the US-backed Contra forces (the guerrillas) fighting in Nicaragua against the leftist Sandinista government. It advised:

Kidnap all officials or agents of the Sandinista government and place them in public places.

Shame, ridicule and humiliate the personal symbols of the government of repression in the presence of the people and foster popular participation through guerrillas within the multitude, shout-ing slogans and jeers.

If a guerrilla fires at an individual, make the town see that he was an enemy of the people and that if that citizen had managed to escape, he would have alerted the enemy that is near the town or city, and they could carry out acts of reprisal such as rapes, pillage, destruction, captures, etc...Make the population see that it was the repressive system of the regime that...really killed the informer, and that the weapon fired was one recovered in combat against the Sandinista regime.

It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, mesta judges [justices of the peace], police and State Security officials, CDS [Sandinista Defense Committees] chiefs, etc. (As writer Holly Sklar has noted: A hit list that starts with court judges and ends with etcetera is a mighty broad license for murder. )

The notification of the police, denouncing a target who does not want to join the guerrillas, can be carried out easily...through a letter with false statements of citizens who are not implicated in the movement.

If possible, professional criminals will be hired to carry out specific selected jobs.

Specific tasks will be assigned to others, in order to create a martyr for the cause, taking the demonstrators to a confrontation with the authorities, in order to bring about uprisings or shootings, which will cause the death of one or more persons, who would become the



martyrs, a situation that should be made use of immediately against the regime, in order to create greater conflicts.

Shock Troops. These men should be equipped with weapons (knives, razors, chains, clubs, bludgeons) and should march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants.

Throughout, the manual reads like what the Western world was always taught was the way communists scheme and indoctrinate.

The World Court found that in producing and disseminating this manual, the United States encouraged the commission...of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949. 9

CHAPTER 5 : Torture

The first jolt was so bad 1 just wanted to die.

Gloria Esperanza Reyes, speaking of her torture in Honduras, where electric wires were attached to her breasts and vagina

They always asked to be killed. Torture is worse than death. Jose Barrera, Honduran torturer 1

Turkey, July 14, 1999, the police break into the home of a Kurdish family and announce they want to take the two daughters-Medine, 14, and her younger sister Devran-in for questioning. I headed for the bedroom to get dressed, said Devran later, but Medine...went straight to the window and jumped.

Medines mother explained: My daughter, you see, preferred death to being tortured once again. 2

Torture might last a short time, but the person will never be the same. Amnesty International report3

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture.

The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Article 2, S24



Physical abuse or other degrading treatment was rejected, not only because it is wrong, but because it has historically proven to be ineffective, said Richard Stolz, Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1988.5

The CIA likes to say things like this because they think it sounds like good plausible denial But who can believe that torture does not loosen up tongues, that for such purpose it is not exceedingly effective? Richard Stolz and the CIA would have us believe that Medine, in the above example, if denied the opportunity to kill herself, would not talk under torture. Tortures effectiveness extends yet further, for its purpose is frequently not so much to elicit information as it is to punish, to coerce the victims from any further dissident activity by gouging out the idealism from their very being, and as a warning to their comrades.

For these ends, the CIA has co-existed with torture for decades. (Turkey, it must be remembered, is one of Washingtons very closest strategic allies; for Honduras, see below.) Sleeping with friendly torturers has been a closely guarded secret at the Agency, and for that reason the actual painful details have been difficult to come by over the years. But here is some of the record that has made its way to the light of day.

Greece

During the late 1940s, the CIA was instrumental in the creation of a new internal security agency, KYR Before long, KYP was carrying out all the endearing practices of secret police everywhere, including systematic torture. It was most active during the regime of the military junta, 1967-74, a period of routine horrific torture. Amnesty International later reported that American policy on the torture question as expressed in official statements and official testimony has been to deny it where possible and minimize it where denial was not possible. This policy flowed naturally from general support for the military regime. 6

James Becket, an American attorney sent to Greece by Amnesty, wrote in 1969 that some torturers told prisoners that some of their equipment had come as US military aid. One item was a special thick white double cable whip that was scientific, making their work easier ; another was the head screw, known as an iron wreath , which was progressively tightened around the head or ears. 7 American support, reported Becket, was vital to the torturers:

Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by Inspector Basil Lambrou, who sits behind his desk which displays the red, white, and blue clasped-hand symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoner the absolute futility of resistance: You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world is divided in two. There are the communists on that side and on this side the free world. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the U.S. You cant fight us, we are Americans. 8



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