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A. J. Langguth

Hidden Terrors: The Truth about U.S. Police Operations in Latin America

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A devastating exposé of the United States' Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics-including torture-aimed at stomping out communism across South America. Though he was only a foot soldier in a larger secret campaign, he became a symbol of America's brutal interventionism when he was kidnapped and ex… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Miller, Mark Crispin (Solist)
  • ISBN: 978-1-5040-5006-7
  • EAN: 9781504050067
  • Produktnummer: 27396133
  • Verlag: Open Road Media
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 334 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.9 cm 381 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 27
  • Gewicht: 381

Über den Autor


A. J. Langguth (1933–2014) was an American author, journalist, and educator, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His works include several dark, satirical novels; a biography of the English short story master Saki; and lively histories of the political life of Julius Caesar, the Trail of Tears, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Vietnam War, and US involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College, Langguth was the South East Asian correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times during the Vietnam War. He also wrote and reported for Look magazine in Washington, DC, and the Valley Times in Los Angeles, California. Langguth joined the journalism faculty at the University of Southern California in 1976 and was professor emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 and received the Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation’s top journalism educators, in 2001.  

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