Klare, Michael T. Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritarian
Regimes Abroad. Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1977. 72 pages.
Michael Klare is perhaps the only anti-Vietnam War activist who made
a career out of researching the U.S. defense establishment. He began with
the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in the late sixties;
we still recommend their 69-page Research Methodology Guide (1970). Ten
years later Klare was doing most of his work as a fellow at the Institute
for Policy Studies. Even some among the ruling class like his work: he has
been on the staff of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and
in 1985 received a three-year Ford Foundation grant to direct the Five
College Program in Peace and World Security Studies based at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He also writes for Nation magazine.
Almost half of "Supplying Repression" contains tables of U.S. aid and
corporate sales to foreign countries in the areas of military and police
training, narcotics control, and arms transfers, while the remainder of
this little book offers further historical details and commentary. "The
evidence suggests that our corporations and governmental agencies are
deeply involved in the supply of repressive technology and techniques to
many of the world's most authoritarian regimes..., [and] the measures
adopted by Congress in 1974 to restrict arms and training assistance to
foreign police forces have not been successful in cutting off the flow."
ISBN 0-89758-001-X
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