Reply #52: Well.....Yes they did.

[quaker bill]

CIA produced the manuals on the most efficient techniques. Some turned up during that little Iran-Contra thing in the 1980's.

They trained Iran's secret police in these techniques well enough to bring about an Islamic revolution.

(no they didn't, it couldn't be true, Clark wouldn't support this)

Yes they did, my daddy was a civil servant working for DOD, who let the contracts to buy military equipment in the US for the Shah, and other now infamous characters in Central America and supervised delivery of the purchased goods.

He had meetings with commanders at SOA to assess their needs. He believed that he was helping in the effort to protect democracy. Then he went to Iran about 2 weeks before the revolution. He came back very scared. This reaction, from a man that was a foot soldier in the campaign to retake Italy in WWII, was a bit surprising to me. But then 2 weeks later...

SOA was everything people on the left believed it to be and perhaps more.

The only problem I have with closing this facility is that this alone will not be enough if the program just continues at other locations. A true change away from the diplomacy of coercion is needed. Coercive diplomacy is a cause of war and terrorism, not the solution.

Clark's support of this program indicates that he is not the candidate who would achieve this.