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October 2, 198]

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TORTURE. INC. |

 
  

DAN MITRIONI,A U.S.
ADVISOR TO THE UR-
UGUAYAN POLICE,
FOUND THAT THE
POLICE WERE USING
OBSELETE ELECTRIC
NEEDLES TO TORTURE
PRISONERS. HE ORDER-
ED SOME NEW, MOD-
ERN NEEDLES.

 

 

 

 

ELECTRIC NEEDL
ARE INSERTED UNDER
THE SKIN AND A POWER-
FUL ELECTRIC CURRENT
PASSED THROUGH IT. THEY
LEAVE ONLY A SMALL
HOLE IN THE SKIN, THE :
NEW NEEDLES EVENT—
UALLY ARRIVED VIA

| US. DIPLOMATIC POUCH.

 

   
   
     
       

 

 

AN ISOLATED INCIDENT ? UH-UH.
THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN
KNOWN TO SUPPLY TORTURE TECH-
NOLOGY € INSTRUMENTS TO.
—— "CLIENT STATE'S” MILITARY € POL-
ICE "FORCES. THERES ALSO CON-
SWERABLE EVIDENCE THAT THE
US. SETS UP *INTEROGATION
SCHOOLS” AND DEMONSTRATES
METHODS, USING POLITICAL PRISON
ERS AS GUINEA PIGS.

   

 

 

 

 

A GOOD EXAMPLE 1S THAT
OF SAWAK, THE IRANIAN
SECRET POLICE. SAVAK
WAS PROBABLY THE MOST
VICIOUS AND SADISTIC
POLICE FORCE IN THE
WORLD. SAWK AGENTS
HAD BEEN KNOWN TO
AMPUTATE THE LIMBS
OF CHILDREN IN ORDER
TO GAIN INFORMATION
FROM RELATIVES.

 

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THE CIA SET UP
SAVAK IN 145%.
ITS AGENT WERE
TRAINED BY THE
US. "AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT”
WHO SPENT OVER
$2 MILLION ON
THE PROGRAM.

 

 

 
 
  

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El Satvador
no figures available

Nicaragua
4,897
$25.5

 
 

 

THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN THE US. TRAN—
ING TORTURERS (IF ANYTHING COULD BE
WORSE, IS. THE US.A'S CONTINUAL SUPPORT

(Fl & OF TORTURE IN CLIENT
STATES. OF THE S IN THE
WORLD THAT USE ON AN ADMIN-

ASTRATIVE BASIS, 26 OF THEM ARE US.
CLIENT STATES RECEVING US. MILITARY
AID,MILITARY PERSONNEL, AND IN MOST CASES
US. TRAINING FOR THIER POLICE FORCES.

COUNTRIES USING TORTURE FROM 1970-1979,

 

 

 

 

Shaded—use torture

First figure—Number of
U.S. military personnel,
1950-1975

Second figure—Total U.S.
military aid in millions,
1946-1975

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WHENEVER A CLIENT STATE SEEMS
TO REFORM ITSELF (EG-CHILE IN
1970), THE US TAKES STEPS TO KEEP
THE COUNTRY IN LINE — USUALLY BY
MANIPULATING THE MILITARY (EG—
CHILE IN 1943). TORTURE IS USED
[TO PERPETUATE THE SYSTEM.

 

 

TORTURE RANGES FROM SAVAGE BEATING,

TO SENSORY DEPRIVATION; FROM HITTING

A VICTIM WITH A TWO-BY-FOUR, 10 UTILIZING
SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED TO
CAUSE EXTREME PAIN JN AHUMAN BEING.
ALL METHODS ARE DESIGNED TO HUMILIATE
AND MAIM, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY.

THE WORLD'S CHIEF EXPORTER OF TORTURE

I$ THE UNITED, STATES OF AMERICA.

 

 

 

 

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FOR MORE INFORMATION |
ON THIS DISGUSTING
TOPIC, READ “THE WASH-
INGTON CONNECTION AND

_ THIRD WORLD FASCISM” BY
NOAM CHOMSKY ¢
SEDWARD HERMAN, ALSO
HIDDEN TERRORS" BY
A.J. LANGGUTH (ABOUT
THE OVERTHROW OF THE
BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT).
AND, OF COURSE, ANNESTY

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