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*The Search for Truth* The Declassified Record on Human Rights Abuses in Peru
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB96 <snip>
Highlights from this briefing book include:
* An ex-Army officer, who reveals systematic human rights abuses committed by military and intelligence units, reminisces about his favorite forms of torture and discusses his use of US anti-bomb training assistance to perfect his bomb-making skills for use in assassination attempts. [Document 27]
* CIA intelligence analysis of the growing insurgent threat, ranging from early underestimations of the threat posed by the Shining Path to later overestimations of the threat posed by the MRTA to U.S. interests. [Documents 1, 2, 10, 15]
* A 1986 Embassy profile of the hostile relationship between newly elected Alan Garcia and the military, discussing the strains over human rights and counterinsurgency policy. [Document 9]
* The 1988-89 rise of the Rodrigo Franco death squad and its rumored links to the Peruvian government [Documents 11, 12, 13]
* A former ally of National Security Adviser Vladimiro Montesinos (now openly opposed to him) alleges that Montesinos was directly linked to a May 1990 bombing of opposition congressman Fernando Olivera; claiming Montesinos openly alluded to his involvement in the bombing during a campaign strategy session in front of President Fujimori. [Document 28]
* An April 1990 Defense Intelligence Agency analysis of the Shining Path policy of massacring Ashaninka Indians in the North Satipo Province. [Document 14]
The documents and analysis may be found at:
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB96 ___________________________________________________________________