Working on School
of Assassins
Very unpleasant idea this morning. The CIA handled the
training of forces like the contras in Central America
in the seventies and eighties. And the playbook included kidnapping, torture,
targeted assassinations; the more brutal the better. Much of it based on
experience in Viet Nam .
Now for the unpleasant thoughts. The CIA also trained and backed the forces
that opposed the Soviets in Afghanistan .
How much overlap in their training and the Latin American training was there? Did
they develop separate training programs? Or did they just use the same material
for both groups. And how much of that material came back to bite us on the ass
one sunny September morning.
Not exactly what I wanted to contemplate over my morning coffee and toast.
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