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Assassination of Embassy Official
1:08:17 - 1:11:24 (03:07)
The speaker discusses an assassination of an embassy official and questions why there were no consequences for the perpetrator.
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The use of death squads in Myanmar is causing journalists and other people to notice the obvious patterns of assassinations happening in the country, but the US government hasn't taken any actions to stop military dictatorship and human rights violations.
1:08:17 - 1:09:09 (00:52)
Summary
The use of death squads in Myanmar is causing journalists and other people to notice the obvious patterns of assassinations happening in the country, but the US government hasn't taken any actions to stop military dictatorship and human rights violations.
ChapterAssassination of Embassy Official
EpisodePart One: The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads
PodcastBehind the Bastards
The US government occasionally wrote strongly worded letters to South American regimes but generally took no action against the human rights abuses perpetuated by regimes like Condor.
1:09:09 - 1:10:27 (01:18)
Summary
The US government occasionally wrote strongly worded letters to South American regimes but generally took no action against the human rights abuses perpetuated by regimes like Condor. Sometimes US Embassy officials would actively help individuals targeted by these regimes only to find themselves targeted and severely punished as a result.
ChapterAssassination of Embassy Official
EpisodePart One: The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Details are given about how the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate, with the help of right wing Cuban exiles, orchestrated the car bombing assassination of socialist foreign minister Orlando Ledier in Washington, DC in 1976.
1:10:27 - 1:11:24 (00:57)
Summary
Details are given about how the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate, with the help of right wing Cuban exiles, orchestrated the car bombing assassination of socialist foreign minister Orlando Ledier in Washington, DC in 1976. The American Dean operative who carried out the attack, Michael Townley, served only five years in prison and received FBI witness protection.