Daniel A. Mitrione
Daniel Anthony Mitrione (born August 4, 1920 in Italy , † August 10, 1970 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) was an Italian-American police officer. After making a name for himself as the Police Chief of Richmond , Indiana , he made a career as an FBI agent. Most recently he was in the service of the CIA "security advisor" for the Uruguayan Ministry of the Interior.
In the Tarnbeschäftigung an official of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) he trained police officers in various allied with the United States in Latin America of countries, including in the fight against leftist system opposition movements - including interrogation techniques by means of torture by electric shocks.
In 1970 he and two other foreign officials / diplomats were abducted by Tupamaros and held hostage for ten days . After their demand for the release of political prisoners from the then authoritarian regime in Uruguay, which was then ruled by an oligarchic upper class , had not been met, Mitrione was murdered by the urban guerrillas and the other two hostages were released.
Life
Mitrione's parents migrated from Italy to Richmond, Indiana with their son. There he was appointed Chief of Police in 1945.
In 1959 Mitrione became a special agent for the FBI . In 1960 he joined the US State Department's International Cooperation Administration . The Kennedy administration tried João Goulart , in after he took office in 1961 Brazil to isolate. The Johnson administration staged a military coup against Goulart on March 31, 1964. From 1960 to 1967 Mitrione served as a police advisor in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro . He taught técnicas avanzadas de contrainsurgencia , by which he understood non-fatal torture with electro- pulse weapons . Daniel Mitrione was involved in Operation Power Pack .
From 1967 to 1969 Mitrione was employed at the International Police Academy , an institute of the Office of Public Safety in Washington. Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta is said to have been one of Mitrione's pupils . In June 1969 Mitrione came to Montevideo , the capital and seat of government of Uruguay, with his wife and six of their nine children . Daniel Mitrione was employed by the US-AID to train the repressive forces of the Jorge Pacheco Areco government . His executive officer from the CIA was William Cantrell. Allegedly Mitrione murdered three beggars with an electro-pulse weapon at a seminar for Uruguayan security personnel to demonstrate his interrogation methods.
On July 31, 1970 Mitrione, Claude L. Fly and the Brazilian Vice Consul Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide were abducted by the Tupamaros . The Tupamaros accused Mitrione of scientifically optimizing the interrogation methods of the Uruguayan security authorities. In a statement, the Tupamaros announced that Mitrione could be exchanged for 150 prisoners from the Pacheco government. The Pacheco government declared a state of emergency , ransacked apartment by apartment, arrested thousands of people and tortured them. Tupamaros were among the many arrested. Mitrione was found handcuffed and gagged in the back seat of a 1948 Buick Convertible early that morning on August 10, 1970 . He was killed with two shots in the back of the head.
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide was released by the Tupamaros on February 22, 1971 and Claude L. Fly on March 2, 1971. Costa-Gavras made the film État de siège from the subject .
literature
- David Ronfeldt: The Mitrione Kidnapping in Uruguay . 2nd ed. Rand Corporation , Santa Monica, Calif. 1987 (English)
Web links
- biographical article about Daniel Mitrione with picture on spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk (English)
- To save Dan Mitrione Nixon Administration urged Death Threats for Uruguayan prisoners (translated headline: "To save Dan Mitrione, the Nixon government urged death threats against Uruguayan prisoners") documents available online on the National Security Archive portalof George Washington University (www .gwu.edu) on the behavior of the US government under President Nixon in the case of the kidnapping of Daniel Mitrione
Individual evidence
- ↑ AJ Langguth : Hidden Terrors . Pantheon Books, New York, 1978
- ↑ A secret order like the SS . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1984 ( online - SPIEGEL report on the death squads in El Salvador).
- ↑ Drugs: The Fbi Gets Its Man . In: Time , March 25, 1985
- ↑ Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, Pasaporte 11333: ocho años con la CIA, Presencia Latinoamericana, 1981, 287 pp.
- ↑ Defense in The Times . In: Die Zeit , No. 34/1970
- ^ Time , Mar. 15, 1971, TERRORISM: Ransoms for Revolution
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitrione, Daniel A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitrione, Daniel Anthony (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American police officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1970 |
| Place of death | Montevideo , Uruguay |