AS d ramatica|IY written as a suspense story£®
H£¬dden Terrors teIlS about how the C IA£®the
Pentagon£®and hundreds of U£®S£®police advisors
encouraged the overthrow of democracy in
B raziI and set UP a pattern for m¡tary takeovers
in Uruguay£¬Chile£¬and Argentina£®A£®J£®Langguth
focuses his account on one symbolic figure£¬
Dan Mitrione£®the U£®S£®police advisor who
gained internationaI attention in 1 970£®when he
was kidnapped and Iater murdered by Urugua-
yan guerr¡aS£®Mitrione may be remembered by
most Americans as the protagonist in the con-
troversial f£®1m State of Siege£®
ThiS book explains how a hometown boy and
former poI£®ce chief of Richmond£®1ndiana¡ª¡ª
someone most Americans would consider de-
cent and respectablemcould£¬in the service of
his government abroad£®become involved ln
acts that destroyed iust such rights£®1t lays out
the ways in which his iob Ied him inextricably
and without resistance into a web of brutaIity
and torture£®
Langguth reconstructs Mitrione¡¯S I£®fe and
death through the eyes of those who carried out
and those who opposed U£®S£®policy in Latin
America£®The reader moves right UP the U£®S£®
chain of command into the White House itself£»
i nto the conference rooms of embattled Amer¡ª
ican embassies£ºinto the hideouts of Urban
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