NATO in Colombia, wants Venezuela. The seven army manuals train Latin American militaries to infiltrate and spy upon civilians, including student groups, unions, charitable organizations and political parties; to confuse armed insurgencies with legal political opposition; and to disregard or get around any laws regarding due process, arrest and detention. What the manuals leave out is as important as what they include, and what they leave out is any understanding of democracy and the rule of law. The seven Spanish-language manuals were drafted in 1987 by U.S. Army military intelligence officers in Panama. They were based in part on lesson plans used by SOA instructors since 1982. The manuals as well as the SOA lesson plans, in turn, were also based in part on older material dating back to the 1960s from Project X, the U.S. Armys Foreign Intelligence Assistance Program, which provided training not just to Latin American nations but to U.S. allies around the world. Project X materials had been retained in the files of the Army Intelligence School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The U.S. government estimates that as many as a thousand copies of these manuals may have been distributed at the SOA and throughout Latin America. The manuals were used by U.S. military Mobile Training Teams in Latin America and were distributed both to students in these courses and to Latin American intelligence schools in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru. In 1989, the manuals were used at the School of the Americas in military intelligence courses attended by students from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. The manuals are entitled, Handling of Sources, Counterintelligence, Revolutionary War, Guerillas and Communist Ideology, Terrorism and the Urban Guerilla, Interrogation, Combat Intelligence, and Analysis I. The manuals do indeed appear to be older material that was inconsistently updated. Examples from 1988 in El Salvador have been inserted into Counterintelligence, but in some manuals there are references that do not seem to have been updated since the 1960s. lawg.org/our-publications/72-general/319-declassified-army-and-cia-manuals
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