Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)

The work of the DIA, an agency belonging to the U.S. intelligence community and attached to the Pentagon, is to gather and analyze information on foreign armies, especially those of Latin America and the Caribbean. Among the tasks of its attaches, who routinely travel from country to country, are selecting candidates for U.S. training programs, following up on promotions and identifying promising officials who could rise to powerful positions and one day recruit intelligence sources. With this information, the DIA produces “military intelligence summaries,” biographical profiles of key officers, general orders (which track down changes in military high commands) and detailed intelligence analysis on security matters. More than a few DIA trainees have become leaders and officials who participated in state terrorism activities in the region. Latin American intelligence services have regarded U.S. intelligence agencies as allies and given them timely and detailed information on their repressive activities. The author has come into possession of three documents which reveal that information obtained through the torture of detainees who were later executed and disappeared, which was given to the CIA, FBI and DIA. There is no doubt that U.S. officials had knowledge of the torture, as is concluded in chapter 6 of John Dinge’s book Mission in Paraguay, chapter 12 of Kissinger and Argentina’s Problem and in chapter 13 of Ed Koch’s “Condor’s Endgame.”

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