There is also a book on the Phoenix program called The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine. It is fairly critical but it is not untrue, and received
a lot of good press.
OK I sent the above to author/writer Douglas Valentine after I had listened to the interview he did with Brady - posted on archives.org
Brady corroborates his interview with Douglas Valentine in a follow-up interview he did.
that was the source of the quote but he also reiterates much of the information he shared with Douglas Valentine also.
OK so Brady went on to very high levels of military planning - research, etc.
The Phoenix Program
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1992
The book was originally published by a big corporate book publisher but as Douglas Valentine points out the CIA got a CIA insider "journalist" to dismiss the book in the NY Times.
The Phoenix Program, functionally, was the birthplace of the modern counterinsurgency programs the US has now spread across the world. The techniques of information gathering, political warfare, police/intelligence/military coordination used in Phoenix are the foundations upon which things like Operation Condor and even modern police Fusion Centers are built on. The modern panopticon inside the US, where the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, and various police and military intelligence programs cooperate to suppress dissent is all founded on the techniques of Phoenix.
While there may be more detail on the specifics of the bureaucracy within the program than necessary, this book documents how the US has developed its techniques of "low intensity warfare" that it has used to crush and destroy liberation movements around the world.
In 1982, a man by the pseudonym René Hurtado found himself living in a suburban church in Minnesota. He had fled El Salvador, his home country, after participating in a U.S.-backed military unit during a civil war. After coming to the United States, he spoke out about the terrible things he had done—torturing prisoners with electrocution and needles, for example—as a member of the CIA-trained Salvadoran military. El Salvador wanted him back, and the U.S. government wanted him deported. Instead, Hurtado hunkered down at St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Hennepin County, Minnesota, while his case played out in the national media and in immigration courts.
No comments:
Post a Comment