How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq
How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it
"what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places"
The leaked manual, which has been verified with military sources, is the official US Special Forces doctrine for Foreign Internal Defense or FID.
directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties
warrantless searches, detainment without charge and (under varying circumstances) the suspension of habeas corpus.
employing terrorists or prosecuting individuals for terrorism who are not terrorists,