The book's main character and journalistic "hook" is Dan Mitrione, an
employee of the Office of Public Safety (a division of the Agency for
International Development), which provided foreign police with equipment
and training to make them more effective in suppressing dissent. Mitrione
was alleged to have conducted training in torture techniques in Brazil and
Uruguay. In 1970 in Uruguay he was abducted and later executed by the
flamboyant urban guerrillas known as the Tupamaros. His story was portrayed
in the 1972 film "State of Siege" by Costa-Gavras. This was the final nail
in the Office of Public Safety's coffin, as OPS was already known to have
provided cover for CIA dirty work in Vietnam. It was finally abolished by
Congress in the mid-1970s.
-- William Blum
ISBN 0-394-73802-0
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