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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Text
Introduction
Part I. Taking Up the “White Man’s Burden”: Imperial Policing in the Philippines and the Caribbean
1. The First Operation Phoenix: U.S. Colonial Policing in the Philippines and the Blood of Empire
2. “Popping Off” Sandinistas and Cacos: Police Training in Occupied Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua
Part II. Under the Facade of Benevolence: Police Training and the Cold War in Southeast Asia from the “Reverse Course” to Operation Phoenix
3. “Their Goal Was Nothing Less than Total Knowledge”: Policing in Occupied Japan and the Rise of the National Security Doctrine
4. "Law in Whose Name, Order for Whose Benefit?" Police Training, "Nation-Building” and Political Repression in Postcolonial South Korea
5. "Free Government Cannot Exist Without Safeguards against Subversion": The Clandestine Cold War in Southeast Asia I
6. The Secret War in Laos and Other Vietnam Sideshows: The Clandestine Cold War in Southeast Asia II
7. “As I Recall the Many Tortures”: Michigan State University, Operation Phoenix, and the Making of a Police State in South Vietnam
Part III. The Cold War on the Periphery: Police Training and the Hunt for Subversives in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East
8. Arming Tyrants I: American Police Training and the Postcolonial Nightmare in Africa
9. Arming Tyrants II: Police Training and Neocolonialism in the Mediterranean and Middle East
10. The Dark Side of the Alliance for Progress: Police Training and State Terror in Latin America during the Cold War
Conclusion: The Violence Comes Full Circle-From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Index
Back Cover
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A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Edited by Christian G. Appy Other titles in the Series James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy Lee Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, and Michael E. Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale’s Cold War James Peck, Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism Edwin A. Martini, Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War Maureen Ryan, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War David Hunt, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War Patrick Hagopian, The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs Robert Surbrug Jr., Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990 Larry Grubbs, Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s Robert A. Jacobs, The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age Andrew J. Falk, Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960 Jerry Lembcke, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America Kathleen Donohue, ed., Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign
Modernizing Repression Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
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*UT QSPQPOFOUT WJFXFE UIF SFGPSN PG UIF DSJNJOBM KVTUJDF TZTUFN JODMVEJOH UIF DSFBUJPO PG KVWFOJMF DPVSUT VOJGPSN TFOUFODJOH BOE IVNBOF QSJTPOT BT JOUFHSBMUPUIFTUBUFCVJMEJOHQSPDFTTBOEUIFSFBMJ[BUJPOPGBNPSFKVTUTPDJFUZ 1SPGFTTJPOBMJTNJOQPMJDJOHJOTUJUVUJPOTXBTTFFOBTFTQFDJBMMZWJUBMUPUIFUBTL PGSFTUSBJOJOHUIFBOBSDIZPGBSBQJEMZFYQBOEJOHDBQJUBMJTNBOEFTUBCMJTIJOH internal security and order in an age of increasing social agitation and unrest.5 "T 8JMMJBN & -FVDIUFOCVSH OPUFE PWFS B IBMG DFOUVSZ BHP JNQFSJBMJTN XBTBMPHJDBMFYUFOTJPOPGQSPHSFTTJWJTNćFOFXUFDIOPDSBUJDFMJUFUIBUJUGPTtered believed in their own capacity not only to regulate social life within the 6OJUFE4UBUFTCVUBMTPUPBQQMZUIFTBNFUFDIOJRVFTPGHPWFSOBODFUP"NFSJDBO colonial enclaves abroad. In their view, Third World peoples could be uplifted UISPVHI UIF JNQPSUBUJPO PG NPEFSO UFDIOPMPHZ BOE 8FTUFSO BENJOJTUSBUJWF TZTUFNT PG XIJDI QPMJDJOH XBT TFFO BT B DPSOFSTUPOF6 Local hostility and resistance, however, and a political context unlike that of the United States, UIXBSUFE UIFJS EFTJHOT 0ďDJBMT BQQSPQSJBUFE "NFSJDBO BTTJTUBODF GPS UIFJS PXOQVSQPTFTBOEIFMEEJČFSFOUWJTJPOTPGIPXUPNBOBHFTPDJFUZćF6OJUFE 4UBUFT XBT ĕYBUFE GVSUIFSNPSF PO TUBNQJOH PVU SFTJTUBODF HSPVQT BOE UIVT NPCJMJ[FEQPMJDFBMPOHQPMJUJDBMBOENJMJUBSZMJOFT XIJDISFTVMUFEJOUIFTQSFBE PGBNQMFWJPMFODFBOEUFSSPS*EFPMPHJDBMJNQFSBUJWFTVMUJNBUFMZDPNCJOFEXJUI BOJNQFSJBMESJWFGPSIFHFNPOZBOEDPOUSPMUPFODPVSBHFUIFHSPXUIPGIJHIMZ DPFSDJWFQPMJDJOHBOETVSWFJMMBODFOFUXPSLT XIJDIXFSFMBUFSSFJNQPSUFECBDL IPNFUPTJNJMBSMZSFQSFTTJWFFČFDU7 -JCFSBMDPNNFOUBUPSTIBWFPęFOIFSBMEFEUIF1SPHSFTTJWF&SBSFGPSNTBOE SJTFPGUIFiBENJOJTUSBUJWFTUBUFwBTBQPTJUJWFTUFQJOUIFFWPMVUJPOPGEFNPDSBUJD HPWFSOBODFJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFT8JUISFHBSEUPDSJNJOBMKVTUJDF UIFTFDMBJNT BSFOPUUPUBMMZNJTQMBDFE%VSJOHUIF(JMEFE"HF QPMJDFXFSFOPUPSJPVTMZDPSSVQUBOECFIPMEFOUPXFBMUIZJOEVTUSJBMJTUTBOEQPMJUJDBMNBDIJOFT*OTUFBEPG going on patrol, officers often spent their shifts drinking in a local bar.8 They JOUJNJEBUFEWPUFSTEVSJOHFMFDUJPOT TQJFEPOSBEJDBMTPDJBMPSHBOJ[BUJPOT BOE WJDJPVTMZ CSPLF VQ XPSLFS EFNPOTUSBUJPOT BOE TUSJLFT PęFO JO DPOKVODUJPO with the antiunion Pinkerton Detective Agency. Police were further prone to excessive force, including the use of billy clubs to bludgeon suspects, a proclivJUZ NBHOJĕFE CZ SBNQBOU OBUJWJTN BOE BOUJJNNJHSBOU TFOUJNFOU9 Lincoln 4UFČFOT UIFGBNPVTNVDLSBLFS BOEBGPSNFSQPMJDFSFQPSUFS SFDBMMFEJOIJT BVUPCJPHSBQIZ i.BOZBNPSOJOHXIFO*IBEOPUIJOHFMTFUPEP*TUPPEBOE saw the police bring in and kick out their bandaged, bloody prisoners, not only TUSJLFSTBOEGPSFJHOFST CVUUIJFWFTUPP BOEPUIFSTPGUIFNJTFSBCMF GSJFOEMFTT USPVCMFTPNFQPPSw10 1SPHSFTTJWFSFGPSNFST JODMVEJOHćFPEPSF3PPTFWFMU IFBEPGUIF/FX:PSL $JUZ1PMJDF$PNNJTTJPOGSPNŴŻżŸUPŴŻżź FNQIBTJ[FEUIBUQPMJDFTIPVMECF DPNNJUUFEUPBOJEFBMPGQVCMJDTFSWJDFćFZTPVHIUUPJODSFBTFBENJOJTUSBUJWF FďDJFODZBDDPSEJOHUPUIFQSJODJQMFTPGUIFNBOBHFSJBMSFWPMVUJPO TUBOEBSEJ[F Introduction
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XFBQPOT BOEQSPNPUFEVFQSPDFTT TQFFEZTFOUFODJOH BOEUIFQSPUFDUJPOPG DJWJMMJCFSUJFT5PNJOJNJ[FDPSSVQUJPO QBZXBTJODSFBTFE BOEDIJFGTXFSFQSPNPUFEPOUIFCBTJTPGUIFJSSFDPSEPGTFSWJDFSBUIFSUIBOQPMJUJDBMDPOOFDUJPOT 5SBJOJOHXBTTZTUFNBUJ[FEUISPVHIUIFVTFPGUFYUCPPLTBOEUIFEFWFMPQNFOU PG QPMJDF BDBEFNJFT 1SPHSFTTJWFT DPODFJWFE PG NPEFSO QPMJDJOH BT B TDJFODF BOEUPPLQBJOTUPJODPSQPSBUFOFXUFDIOPMPHJFTćFBVUPNPCJMFBOEUXPXBZ SBEJP IFMQFE USBOTGPSN UIF OBUVSF PG QPMJDF XPSL BMMPXJOH GPS XJEFS QBUSPM networks and coordination between units. Advances in photography led to the GBNFE NVH TIPU BOE XBOUFE QPTUFST ćF BEWFOU PG UIF #FSUJMMPO QSPDFEVSF VTJOH QIZTJDBM NFBTVSFNFOUT BOE ĕOHFSQSJOUJOH FOIBODFE UIF FďDJFODZ PG SFDPSEHBUIFSJOHTZTUFNT WJUBMUPNPEFSOQPMJDJOH11 %JQMPNBUJDPďDJBMTTPVHIUUPSFQSPEVDFUIFTFJOOPWBUJPOTHMPCBMMZBTQBSU PG UIF BUUFNQU UP JOUFSOBUJPOBMJ[F UIF "NFSJDBO DSJNJOBM KVTUJDF TZTUFN BOE QSPNPUFiOBUJPOCVJMEJOHwBOEQSPHSFTTUISPVHIUIFJNQPSUBUJPOPG8FTUFSO JOTUJUVUJPOTBOEHPWFSOJOHTZTUFNT"DPNNJUNFOUUPMFHBMQSPDFEVSFBOEEVF QSPDFTTXBTQFSDFJWFEBTBEFĕOJOHGFBUVSFPG8FTUFSOTPDJFUJFTBOEBNBSLFSPG their civility, to be replicated in colonial enclaves. Paradoxically, the Progressive &SBSFGPSNTXFSFEFDJEFEMZMJNJUFEJOUIFJSFČFDUBOECPSFEBNBHJOHDPOTFRVFODFTJOUIFFČPSUUPTUBCJMJ[FUIFFYJTUJOHQPMJUJDBMBOEFDPOPNJDTUSVDUVSF Police brutality continued to proliferate, especially against working-class JNNJHSBOUTBOE"GSJDBO"NFSJDBOTi3FETRVBETwVTFETPQIJTUJDBUFETVSWFJMMBODFUFDIOPMPHJFTUPNPOJUPSBOEIBSBTTVOJPOBDUJWJTUTBOEMFęJTUT12 The 1931 8JDLFSTIBNSFQPSU DPBVUIPSFECZ"VHVTU7PMMNFS UIFiGBUIFSPGNPEFSOMBX FOGPSDFNFOU wLOPXOGPSIJTJOOPWBUJPOTBTQPMJDFDIJFGJO#FSLFMFZ $BMJGPSOJB QPJOUFE UP UIF QFSQFUVBUJPO PG iĘBHSBOU DPSSVQUJPOw BOE iUIJSE EFHSFFw NFUIPETPGUPSUVSF DPODMVEJOHUIBUiMBXFOGPSDFNFOUBHFODJFTBSFVTVBMMZIFME JODPOUFNQUBOEMBXFOGPSDFNFOUJTPOFPGPVSOBUJPOBMKPLFTw0WFSUJNF BO BDDFMFSBUJOHFNQIBTJTPOUSBJOJOHBOEQBSBNJMJUBSZQPMJDJOHMFENBOZEFQBSUNFOUTUPCFDPNFiQPXFSGVM JOEFQFOEFOUQPMJUJDBMFOUJUJFT wJOUIFXPSETPG-PT "OHFMFT1PMJDF%FQBSUNFOUIJTUPSJBO+PF%PNBOJDL BOEIFMQFEUSBOTGPSNUIF DSJNJOBMKVTUJDFTZTUFNJOUPBWBTUiDSJNJOBMKVTUJDFJOEVTUSZw13 ćF NPEFSOJ[BUJPO PG QPMJDF JOTUJUVUJPOT JO UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT EVSJOH UIF 1SPHSFTTJWFBOE/FX%FBMFSBTXBTBDDPNQBOJFECZBUUFNQUTUPVQHSBEFUIF QSJTPOTZTUFN JODMVEJOHFČPSUTUPJNQSPWFTBOJUBUJPOBOEQSPNPUFSFIBCJMJUBUJPO XIJDIQPMJDZNBLFSTBHBJOTPVHIUUPEVQMJDBUFXPSMEXJEF$POWJDUMFBTJOH XBT PVUMBXFE BOE MJUFSBDZ SFDSFBUJPO BOE WPDBUJPOBM USBJOJOH QSPHSBNT XFSFFTUBCMJTIFE BMPOHXJUIKVWFOJMFGBDJMJUJFTBOEBQBSPMFTZTUFN JOQBSUJO SFTQPOTFUPJONBUFBDUJWJTNćFSFXFSFFWFOFYQFSJNFOUTJOTFMGHPWFSOBODF14 "T XJUI UIF QPMJDF UIF SFGPSNT XFSF SFTUSJDUJWF JO UIFJS FČFDUT BOE OPU VOJGPSNMZ JNQMFNFOUFE " DPOUJOVFE FNQIBTJT PO PSEFS BOE EJTDJQMJOF UPPL precedence over the idealistic vision of progressive penologists. The conditions JONPTUQSJTPOTSFNBJOFEIBSTIBOE BDDPSEJOHUPMFBEJOHTPDJPMPHJDBMTUVEJFT 4
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DSFBUFECSFFEJOHHSPVOETGPSDSJNF#FBUJOHTCZHVBSETBOEESBDPOJBOTPMJUBSZ DPOĕOFNFOUQSBDUJDFTSFNBJOFEDPNNPOQMBDF3FBEJOHNBUFSJBMXBTVTVBMMZ SFTUSJDUFE MBCPSSFHJNFOTSFNBJOFEFYQMPJUBUJWF BOESBDJBMTFHSFHBUJPOXBTUIF OPSN15ćFDSJNJOPMPHJTU+PIO-(JMMJOXSPUFJOBŴżŶŴTUVEZi.POVNFOUTUP stupidity are these institutions we have built. . . . How silly of us to think that we DBOQSFQBSFNFOGPSTPDJBMMJGFCZSFWFSTJOHUIFPSEJOBSZQSPDFTTPGTPDJBMJ[BUJPOTJMFODFGPSUIFPOMZBOJNBMXJUITQFFDI SFQSFTTJWFSFHJNFOUBUJPOPGNFO ڀڀPVUXBSEDPOGPSNJUZUPSVMFTXIJDISFQSFTTBMMFČPSUTBUDPOTUSVDUJWFFYQSFTTJPO XPSLXJUIPVUUIFPQFSBUJPOPGFDPOPNJDNPUJWFT NPUJWBUJPOCZGFBSPG QVOJTINFOUSBUIFSUIBOCZIPQFPGSFXBSEPSBQQFBMUPUIFJSIJHIFSNPUJWFTw16 ćFNPTUĘBHSBOUBCVTFTPDDVSSFEJOTPVUIFSOQSJTPOTTVDIBT1BSDINBO 'BSN JO .JTTJTTJQQJ XIFSF NPTUMZ CMBDL JONBUFT XFSF GPSDFE UP MBCPS GSPN dawn to dusk in the hot sun, fed wretched food, and subjected to electroshocks BOEXIJQQJOHTCZUSVTUJFT QSJWJMFHFEJONBUFTSFTQPOTJCMFGPSEJTDJQMJOF17 ConEJUJPOTJOUIFSFTUPGUIFDPVOUSZXFSFPęFOOPUNVDICFUUFS*OIFSŴżŵŶNFNoir, the socialist Kate O’Hare, who was incarcerated in Missouri for speaking out against U.S. entry in World War I, recounted being ordered to bathe after a XPNBOJOGFDUFEXJUITZQIJMJTBOEPQFOTPSFT XIPIBEESJQQJOHQVTBOENBHHPUTTUSFBNJOHPVUPGĕMUIZCBOEBHFT4IFXSPUFUIBUDFMMBSFBTXFSFiWFSZEJSUZ . . . shabby and unsanitary” and “every crack and crevice of the cellhouse was GVMMPGWFSNJOڀڀ3BUTPWFSSBOUIFQMBDFJOTXBSNT TDBNQFSFEPWFSUIFEJOJOH UBCMFT OJCCMFEڀڀBOEDSFQUJOUPCFEXJUIVTw18 *O TQJUF PG SFQFBUFE FČPSUT BU SFGPSN JOKVTUJDFT DPOUJOVFE UISPVHI UIF FOTVJOH EFDBEFT (FPSHF +BDLTPOT NFNPJS Soledad Brother sheds light on UIFTZTUFNBUJDSBDJBMEJTDSJNJOBUJPOJO$BMJGPSOJBQSJTPOTMFBEJOHUPWJPMFODF and rebellion during the 1960s.19 In 1970 Attorney General John A. Mitchell EFTDSJCFEUIFQFOBMTZTUFNUPBWashington PostSFQPSUFSBTBiOBUJPOBMTIBNFw ćFSFQPSUFSFEJUPSJBMJ[FEUIBUQSJTPOFSTJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTXFSFiNPSFDBSFMFTTMZIBOEMFEUIBOBOJNBMTJOPVS[PPT(ڀڀVBSETBSFOUFWFOQBJEBTNVDI as zookeepers.”20 $POEJUJPOTPOMZXPSTFOFEUIFSFBęFSXJUIUIFBCBOEPONFOU PG UIF HPBM PG SFIBCJMJUBUJPO BOE SBNQBOU PWFSDSPXEJOH TQBXOFE CZ UPVHI PODSJNFQPMJDJFTTVDIBTUIFi8BSPO%SVHTw*O+VOFŵųųŻ ŵ ŶŴų żŻŷQSJTPOers were being held in federal or state prisons or local jails, by far the highest JODBSDFSBUJPOSBUFJOUIFXPSME4VQFSNBYGBDJMJUJFTIBWFCFDPNFJODSFBTJOHMZ QSFWBMFOU JOXIJDIJONBUFTBSFMPDLFEVQGPSUXFOUZUISFFIPVSTBEBZVOEFS JOUFOTFFMFDUSPOJDTVSWFJMMBODF XJUIBMNPTUOPTPDJBMJOUFSBDUJPO.VNJB"CV +BNBMXSPUFJOLive from Death Row of the “profound horror . . . in the day-today banal occurrences in prison . . . a second-by-second assault on the soul.”21 ćFIBSTISFBMJUZDVUTEFFQJOUPNZUITPGOBUJPOBMFYDFQUJPOBMJTNBOEWJSUVF FNCSBDFECZUIPTFXIPIBWFTPVHIUUPSFNBLFPUIFSDPVOUSJFTJOUIF"NFSJDBO JNBHFBOEFYQPSUUIFNPEFMPG"NFSJDBODSJNJOBMKVTUJDFćF6OJUFE4UBUFT TZTUFNIBTOFWFSCFFOJEFBM Introduction
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ćFBCVTFTTQBXOFECZJOUFSOBUJPOBMUSBJOJOHQSPHSBNTUIFSFGPSF EJEOPU FWPMWF BT TPNF LJOE PG BCFSSBUJPO CVU XFSF SBUIFS BO FYUFOTJPO PG EPNFTUJD practice. Anthony Russo of the RAND Corporation, indicted with Daniel &MMTCFSH JO UIF 1FOUBHPO 1BQFST DBTF SFNBSLFE JO B Ŵżźŵ Harper’s NBHB[JOF JOUFSWJFX UIBU IF ĕOBMMZ VOEFSTUPPE iXIZ XF UPSUVSF QFPQMF JO 7JFUOBN because we torture people herećF"NFSJDBOBEWJTFSTUPUIFQFPQMFXIPSVO UIFQSJTPOTJO7JFUOBNBSFSFUJSFEXBSEFOT SFUJSFEQPMJDFNFO SFUJSFEIJHIXBZ QBUSPMNFO QFPQMFXIPXPSLJOUIFTPDBMMFEMBXBOEPSEFSĕFMEIFSFJOUIF United States.” Russo went on: *LOFXBNBOXIPXPSLFEGPS64"*%QVCMJDTBGFUZXIPIBECFFOBXBSEFOIFSF JOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFT*VTFEUPUSZBOEUBMLUPIJNBOEUSZUPHFUTPNFSFBTPOPVU PGIJNDPODFSOJOHUIFDPOEJUJPOTPGQSJTPOTJO7JFUOBN)FVTFEUPBMXBZTDPNF back to his experience with prisons here in the United States. . . . He was trying to HFUBDSPTTUPNFUIBUDPOWJDUTBSFTDVN)FTBJE i8FHPUPBMMUIJTUSPVCMFUPLFFQ UIFNJOQSJTPOXIFOXFTIPVMEUBLFUIFNPVUJOBTIJQBOEESPQUIFNPVUBUTFB KVTUUISPXUIFNPWFSCPBSEćFZSFXPSUIMFTTIVNBOCFJOHTćFSFTOPSFBTPOUP LFFQUIFNBMJWFćFZSFOPHPPEUPBOZCPEZw22
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were subjected to surveillance, arrest, and torture. The architects of the police QSPHSBNT CFMJFWFE UIF TVQQSFTTJPO PG MFęXJOH HSPVQT JODMVEJOH UISPVHI QBSBNJMJUBSZ QPMJDF SBJET UP CF MFHJUJNBUF JO QSFTFSWJOH UIF HPWFSONFOUT BVUIPSJUZBOENBJOUBJOJOHMBXBOEPSEFS BTJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZXBTUIPVHIUUPCF BQSJNBSZSFTQPOTJCJMJUZPGUIFQPMJDF.BOZPGUIFWJPMFOUFYDFTTFTUIBUFOTVFE were tacitly sanctioned or covered up as part of a counterterror doctrine which IFMEUIBUTJODFJOTVSHFOUTEJEOPUUZQJDBMMZBCJEFCZ8FTUFSOMFHBMOPSNT OFJUIFSTIPVMEUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTPSJUTQSPYJFTJOEFBMJOHXJUIUIFN26 %VSJOH UIF ŴżŸųT BOE ŴżŹųT QPMJDF GSPN BSPVOE UIF XPSME XFSF TFOU UP PCTFSWF UIF XPSLJOHT PG UIF '#* XIPTF NFUIPET JU XBT IPQFE UIFZ XPVME FNVMBUF(JWFOUIFBHFODZTDIFDLFSFEQBTU UIJTCPEFEJMMGPS DJWJMMJCFSUJFT 'PVOEFE JO ŴżųŻ XJUIJO UIF %FQBSUNFOU PG +VTUJDF UIF 'FEFSBM #VSFBV PG *OWFTUJHBUJPOXBTBRVJOUFTTFOUJBMMZQSPHSFTTJWFJOTUJUVUJPOEFTJHOFEUPFYQBOE UIFHPWFSONFOUTTPDJBMDPOUSPMDBQBCJMJUJFTBOEDFOUSBMJ[FBOUJSBEJDBMBOEBOUJVOJPOQVSTVJUTćPVHIJUCFDBNFJOWPMWFEJODPNCBUJOHPSHBOJ[FEDSJNFBOE QSPTUJUVUJPO JUTPWFSSJEJOHGPDVTXBTJOUIFSFBMNPGQPMJUJDBMJOUFMMJHFODFBOE the suppression of groups that threatened the existing power structure, such as the anarcho-syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World. In August 1919, BęFSUIFCPNCJOHPGIJTIPNF "UUPSOFZ(FOFSBM".JUDIFMM1BMNFSDSFBUFE a Radical Division headed by a young J. Edgar Hoover, who saw in the unrest PG UIF QFSJPE B iWBTU BOE NPOTUSPVT DPOTQJSBDZw UP EFTUSPZ UIF iSFMJHJPOT HPWFSONFOUT BOEJOTUJUVUJPOTPGUIF+VEFP$ISJTUJBOXPSMEw27 With Hoover’s TVQQPSU 1BMNFSJOJUJBUFEBTFSJFTPGSBJETMFBEJOHUPUIFCFBUJOHBOEBSSFTUPG PWFSUFOUIPVTBOETVTQFDUFESBEJDBMT UIFSBOTBDLJOHPGPďDFTBOEIPNFT BOE UIFEFQPSUBUJPOPGŸŸŹQFPQMF JODMVEJOHUIFBOBSDIJTU&NNB(PMENBO28 #FHJOOJOHJOUIFMBUFŴżŶųT UIF'#*VOEFSUPPLJUTĕSTUJOUFSOBUJPOBMPQFSBUJPOT USBJOJOHUIFTFDSFUQPMJDFPGUIF$IJOFTF(VPNJOEBOHJOUIFVTFPGMJF detectors, police dogs, weaponry, and electronic surveillance, and during 8PSME8BS**XPSLFEXJUIQPMJDFBHFODJFTJO-BUJO"NFSJDBUPUSBDLEPXO"YJT QPXFSTZNQBUIJ[FST0XJOHUPGBVMUZJOUFMMJHFODFBOEQBSBOPJEGFBSTPGTVCWFSTJPO NBOZSPVOEFEVQJOUIFTFDBNQBJHOTXFSFSJWBMTPG64CBDLFEEJDUBUPST PS(FSNBO+FXJTISFGVHFFTGPSDJCMZJOUFSOFEBMPOHTJEFBGFXHFOVJOF/B[JTJO UIF5FYBTEFTFSU*OTQJUFPGJUTĘBXT BTUIFTPDJPMPHJTUT$FDJMJB.FOKÓWBSBOE /ÏTUPS3PESÓHVF[QPJOUPVU UIFQSPHSBNXBTTJHOJĕDBOUJOUIFFWPMVUJPOPGUIF Bureau’s practices. It put in place a “new science and technology of surveillance BOE TPDJBM DPOUSPM B CVSFBVDSBUJD NFUIPE PG GPMMPXJOH ATVTQFDUT HBUIFSJOH JOGPSNBUJPO GSPN AJOGPSNBOUT PS AJOUFSSPHBUJPOT LFFQJOH ĕMFT DPOTUSVDUJOH AMJTUT BOEDFOUSBMJ[JOHAEBUBBUIJHIBENJOJTUSBUJWFMFWFMT wXIJDIXBTGPVOEBUJPOBMUPUIFHMPCBMQPMJDFQSPHSBNT29 ćF '#* FYQFSJFODFE JUT NPTU FYQMPTJWF HSPXUI JO UIF ŴżŸųT EVSJOH UIF McCarthy era, when it was called upon to enforce loyalty oaths, carry out secuSJUZDIFDLT BOEFNQMPZJOWFTUJHBUJWFUFDIOJRVFTTVDIBTXJSFUBQQJOH CSFBLJOT Introduction
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JNQPSUJOHUIFTDJFOUJĕDQPMJDJOHNPEFMQSFWBMFOUJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTBOEUP NPEFSOJ[JOH QPMJDF BENJOJTUSBUJPO ćFZ TUSFTTFE UIF JNQPSUBODF PG SFDPSE LFFQJOH BT B NFBOT PG FMFWBUJOH BSSFTU BOE QSPTFDVUJPO SBUFT BOE QSPWJEFE GVOET UP VQHSBEF QPMJDF QBZ BOE CFOFĕUT JO PSEFS UP MJNJU DPSSVQUJPO ćFZ GVSUIFSTVQQMJFETUBUFPGUIFBSUFRVJQNFOU JODMVEJOHSBEJPTBOEUFMFDPNNVOJDBUJPOHFBS ĕOHFSQSJOULJUT SFWPMWFST IBOEDVČT BOEMBCPSBUPSZNBUFSJBMT JO BEEJUJPOUPQPMJDFDSVJTFSTBOEWFIJDMFT IBOEHSFOBEFT HBTNBTLT BOETIJFMET for riot control.35 *U XBT OPU QPMJDF NPEFSOJ[BUJPO JO JUTFMG IPXFWFS CVU UIF QPMJUJDBM DPOUFYUJOXIJDIUIFQSPHSBNTXFSFJNQMFNFOUFEUIBUSFTVMUFEJOUIFTQSFBEPG NBKPS IVNBO SJHIUTBCVTFT#FDBVTFQPMJDFUSBJOFE CZ UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT GSFRVFOUMZTFSWFEBTUIFFOGPSDFNFOUBSNPGVOEFNPDSBUJDSFHJNFTWBMVFECZUIF "NFSJDBOTGPSQSPNPUJOHGSFFUSBEFBOEBOUJDPNNVOJTNBOEPSJFOUFEUPXBSE JOUFSOBM TFDVSJUZ BOE TPDJBM DPOUSPM UIF OFX FRVJQNFOU GSFRVFOUMZ BJEFE BO JOUFOTJĕDBUJPO PG TUBUF SFQSFTTJPO JO FČFDU NPEFSOJ[JOH JU ćF DSFBUJPO PG elaborate intelligence infrastructures allowing for better coordination in tracking down “subversives,” who often represented popular aspirations for social KVTUJDFBOEDIBOHF BDDFMFSBUFEUIJTEFWFMPQNFOU Although in theory trainees were supposed to be apolitical, when “all the DIJQTXFSFEPXO wSFQPSUTDPODFEFE UIFZXFSFNJMJUBOUMZBOUJDPNNVOJTUBOE conservative, owing in part to the ideological conditioning they underwent. An internal blueprint stated that “political orientation should be subtly included JOUIFPWFSBMMJOTUSVDUJPOwBOEUIBUiUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTIBTTPNFUIJOHUPTFMMB GBWPSBCMFJNQSFTTJPOPGEFNPDSBDZw$PNJOHGSPNBTPDJBMTFDUPSEFTDSJCFECZ Los Angeles police chief Willie Parker in the early 1960s as “conservative, ultraDPOTFSWBUJWFBOEWFSZSJHIUXJOH wQPMJDFBEWJTFSTXFSFJOĘVFOUJBMJOIFMQJOHUP JNQBSUBOPCTFTTJPOXJUITFDVSJUZ SFTVMUJOHJOUIFDSFBUJPOPGNBTTTVSWFJMMBODF TUBUFT BOE UIF EFWBMVJOH PG QFSTPOBM MJCFSUJFT "NFSJDBO QPMJDF XFSF UIFNTFMWFTPSHBOJ[FEBMPOHBVUIPSJUBSJBOBOEQSFEPNJOBOUMZNJMJUBSZMJOFT JOQBSU CFDBVTFMFBEJOHQSPQPOFOUTPGQPMJDFQSPGFTTJPOBMJTNXFSFNJMJUBSZWFUFSBOT which was not conducive to the spread of enlightened practice.36 "ęFS8PSME8BS** QPMJDFQSPHSBNTFNFSHFEBTBDSVDJBMEJNFOTJPOPGUIF U.S. occupation of South Korea and in Japan, where they were designed to conTPMJEBUFUIFQPXFSPGUIFQSP8FTU-JCFSBM%FNPDSBUJD1BSUZBOEDSBDLEPXO PO UIF +BQBOFTF $PNNVOJTU 1BSUZ BOE MBCPS NPWFNFOU %VSJOH UIF &JTFOhower presidency, police training was institutionalized under what was known BTUIFŴŵżųEQSPHSBN MBUFSUIF0WFSTFBT*OUFSOBM4FDVSJUZ1SPHSBN 0*41
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WBQJEJUZPGBDBEFNJDNPEFSOJ[BUJPOUIFPSJTUTXIPDIBNQJPOFENJMJUBSZBOE QPMJDFUSBJOJOHQSPHSBNTBTBNFBOTPGQSPWJEJOHUIFTFDVSJUZEFFNFEOFDFTTBSZGPSFDPOPNJDiUBLFPČ wXIJDIDPVMEUIFOVOEFSDVUTVQQPSUGPSMFęXJOH NPWFNFOUT48 " LFZ BTQFDU GPS 8BMU 8 3PTUPX UIF NPTU QSPNJOFOU PG UIF NPEFSOJ[BUJPOUIFPSJTUTBOEB4QFDJBM(SPVQNFNCFS XBTUIBUDPNNVOJTN was a “disease of the transition”; it prospered when the need for savings reduced TUBOEBSETPGMJWJOHCFGPSFOBUVSBMFDPOPNJDHSPXUIDPVMEUBLFIPME$PVOUFSJOTVSHFODZXBTUIVTOFDFTTBSZUPNBJOUBJOPSEFSBOETUBCJMJUZBTBQSFDPOEJUJPO GPSEFWFMPQNFOUBOEGPSBUUSBDUJOHGPSFJHOJOWFTUNFOU49 (FPSHF ' ,FOOBO UIF JOĘVFOUJBM 4UBUF %FQBSUNFOU QMBOOFS XIPTF WJFXT SFTFNCMFEUIFNPEFSOJ[BUJPOUIFPSJTUT UPMEBHSPVQPG-BUJO"NFSJDBOBNCBTTBEPSTJOŴżŸųi*UNBZCFVOQMFBTBOUCVUXFTIPVMEOPUIFTJUBUFCFGPSFQPMJDF SFQSFTTJPOCZUIFMPDBMHPWFSONFOU*ڀڀUJTCFUUFSUPIBWFBTUSPOHSFHJNFJO QPXFSUIBOBMJCFSBMHPWFSONFOUJGJUJTJOEVMHFOUBOESFMBYFEBOEQFOFUSBUFE CZDPNNVOJTUTw50ćFTFSFNBSLTIFMQFYQMBJOUIFTUSBUFHJDDBMDVMBUJPOTVOEFSMZJOH "NFSJDBO TVQQPSU GPS SJHIUXJOH EJDUBUPST EVSJOH UIF $PME 8BS BOE UIFJNQPSUBODFBUUBDIFEUPQPMJDFUSBJOJOHJOCPMTUFSJOHUIFJSQPXFS,FOOBO SFGFSSFEUPIVNBOSJHIUTJOUIF'BS&BTUBTBOVOSFBMJTUJDPCKFDUJWFUPQVSTVF owing to the region’s perceived backwardness and need to deal in “straight QPXFS DPODFQUTw ćF 4UBUF %FQBSUNFOU BUUSJCVUFE IVNBO SJHIUT BCVTFT JO -BUJO "NFSJDB NFBOXIJMF UP iQFSWBTJWF DVMUVSBM BOE MFHBM BUUJUVEFT UZQJDBM PGMFTTFSEFWFMPQFEDPVOUSJFT wXIJDI JUQSFEJDUFE XPVMEiCFPWFSDPNFBTUIF DPVOUSZHSBEVBMMZNPEFSOJ[FTw51 /PU DPJODJEFOUBMMZ HJWFO TVDI BUUJUVEFT "NOFTUZ *OUFSOBUJPOBM EPDVNFOUFEXJEFTQSFBEQIZTJDBMBOEQTZDIPMPHJDBMUPSUVSFCZQPMJDFJOUXFOUZGPVS PGUIFGPSUZOJOFOBUJPOTUIBUIPTUFEQPMJDFUSBJOJOHUFBNT%FDMBTTJĕFEJOUFSSPHBUJPONBOVBMTVTFEBUUIF*OUFSOBUJPOBM1PMJDF"DBEFNZTIPXBQBSUJDVMBS FNQIBTJTPOTFOTPSZEFQSJWBUJPOBOEPUIFSQTZDIPMPHJDBMUPSUVSFUFDIOJRVFT EFSJWFE GSPN $*"GVOEFE NJOEDPOUSPM FYQFSJNFOUT XIJDI XFSF XJEFMZ adopted across the so-called Third World. Special Forces officer Donald DunDBOUFTUJĕFECFGPSFUIF*OUFSOBUJPOBM8BS$SJNFT5SJCVOBM PSHBOJ[FEJOŴżŹŹ CZUIFQIJMPTPQIFS#FSUSBOE3VTTFMM UIBU"NFSJDBOBEWJTFSTSBSFMZQBSUJDJQBUFE UIFNTFMWFT JO UPSUVSF TFTTJPOT EFGFSSJOH UP UIFJS QSPUÏHÏT MBSHFMZ GPS UBDUJDBM SFBTPOT ćFZ EJE OPU XBOU UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT UP CF JEFOUJĕFE XJUI QPMJUJDBM SFQSFTTJPOBOEDPVMEDMBJNQMBVTJCMFEFOJBCJMJUZXIFOBCVTFTHPUPGIBOE BT XJUIUIFDPWFSU1IPFOJYQSPHSBN XIJDIBJNFEUPXJQFPVUUIFMFBEFSTIJQPG UIFSFWPMVUJPOBSZNPWFNFOUJO4PVUI7JFUOBNUISPVHIDPPSEJOBUFEQPMJDJOH and targeted assassination.52 ćFQPMJDFQSPHSBNTVMUJNBUFMZFYFNQMJGZUIFEBOHFSTPGTPDJBMFOHJOFFSJOH FČPSUTCZUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTBOEUIFIJEEFOBOEDPFSDJWFBTQFDUTPG"NFSJDBO QPXFS 6OMJLF UIF TQFDUBDVMBS CVU FQIFNFSBM QZSPUFDIOJDT PG UIF CBUUMFĕFME UIFTF USBJOJOH QSPHSBNT VTVBMMZ IBE MPOHUFSN DPOTFRVFODFT GPS UIF TVCKFDU Introduction
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TPDJFUZGPTUFSJOHOFXFMJUFT DSFBUJOHBMBTUJOHBQQBSBUVTPGTPDJBMDPOUSPM BOE PęFOJOUSPEVDJOHBQPUFOUNFDIBOJTNGPSUIFTVQQSFTTJPOPGTPDJBMSFGPSN*O UIJTMBTUSFTQFDU UIFZQSPWFEFČFDUJWFJOBEWBODJOH"NFSJDBOJNQFSJBMBNCJtions, which were rooted in part in the desire to integrate countries of the develPQJOHXPSMEJOUPUIFHMPCBMDBQJUBMJTUFDPOPNZBOEDSFBUFBTUBCMFFOWJSPONFOU GPSJOWFTUNFOUBOEUSBEF53ćFQPMJDFQSPHSBNTDPVMEBMTPCBDLĕSF IPXFWFS and breed uncontrollable violence, instability, and resistance in a “blowback FČFDUw*OOVNFSPVTDBTFTUIFZGVFMFEUIFSJTFPGSPHVFPQFSBUPSTXIPVTFEUIF QPMJDJOHBQQBSBUVTCVJMUVQCZUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTUPDBSWFPVUQFSTPOBMĕFGTBOE XJQFPVUSJWBMT XBSQJOHEFNPDSBUJDEFWFMPQNFOU 0XJOH UP DVMUVSBM CBSSJFST BOE BO VOEFSMZJOH QBUFSOBMJTN QPMJDF DPNNBOEFSTPęFOIBEMJUUMFSFTQFDUGPS64BEWJTFSTCVUBDDFQUFEXFBQPOSZPVU PGTFMGJOUFSFTU"MBSHFEFHSFFPGDZOJDJTNDPOTFRVFOUMZBDDPNQBOJFEUIFQSPHSBNT&OHMFHSVNCMFEUPDPMMFBHVFTUIBUXIBUiBMMUIFTFDPVOUSJFTXBOUFEXBT BOAFRVJQNFOUESPQBOEOPUPVSBEWJDFw#VUBTB64"*%PďDJBMSFDPHOJ[FE iUPIBWFBGPSNFSEFTLTFSHFBOUJOTPNFUXPCJUUPXOXIFSFIFXBTSFTQPOTJCMF GPSUXFOUZQPMJDFNFOHJWFBEWJDFUPBXFMMFEVDBUFEQPMJDFHFOFSBMXIPDPNFT GSPNUIFTPDJBMFMJUFPGIJTDPVOUSZBOEDPNNBOETMJUFSBMMZUIPVTBOETPGNFOJT an insult.”54 While differing political contexts have ensured different results historically, UIFSFBSFTPNFQBUUFSOTUIBUFNFSHFBTVOJWFSTBM JOQBSUJDVMBSUIFSPMFPGUIF 6OJUFE4UBUFTJOQSPWJEJOHTPQIJTUJDBUFEQPMJDJOHFRVJQNFOUBOEUSZJOHUPQSPGFTTJPOBMJ[FUIFJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZBQQBSBUVTPGDMJFOUSFHJNFTBTBNFBOTPGGPSUJGZJOHUIFJSQPXFS/FXUFDIOPMPHJFTXFSFEFWFMPQFEJOBOBUUFNQUUPBEWBODF UIFFďDJFODZPGUIJTMBUUFSUBTL UIPVHIUIFPWFSSJEJOHHPBMSFNBJOFEUIFTBNF GSPNUIF1IJMJQQJOFTPDDVQBUJPOPOEPXO ćJT CPPL CSFBLT OFX HSPVOE JO QSPWJEJOH B DPNQBSBUJWF BOBMZTJT PG UIF QPMJDFQSPHSBNTTQPOTPSFECZUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTBOEUIFJSMJOLUPUIFTQSFBE PGQPMJUJDBMSFQSFTTJPOćFUPQJDIBTCFFOJHOPSFEJONPTUTUBOEBSEIJTUPSJFT Martha K. Huggins’s Political Policing offers a notable exception in detailing the IJTUPSZPGQPMJDFUSBJOJOHBOEUIFMJOLUPNBKPSIVNBOSJHIUTWJPMBUJPOTJO#SBzil. A. J. Langguth’s Hidden Terrors is a revealing journalistic exposé of police USBJOJOHBOETUBUFTQPOTPSFEUFSSPSJTNJO-BUJO"NFSJDBEVSJOHUIF$PME8BS ćPNBT -PCFT EJTTFSUBUJPO DPWFST UIF JNQBDU PG UIF QSPHSBNT JO ćBJMBOE Michael T. Klare’s War without End and Michael McClintock’s Instruments of Statecraft and The American ConnectionTIPXUIFDFOUSBMJUZPGUIFQSPHSBNTUP HMPCBMDPVOUFSJOTVSHFODZTUSBUFHJFT/PBN$IPNTLZBOE&EXBSE4)FSNBO in The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism and Gabriel Kolko in Confronting the Third World DPOUFYUVBMJ[FUIFNBTQBSUPGBMBSHFSQBUUFSO PG TVCWFSTJPO JO UIF ćJSE 8PSME ESJWFO CZ FDPOPNJD BOE PUIFS JNQFSJBMJTU NPUJWFT XIJMF"MGSFE8.D$PZJOA Question of Torture shows their contribution to the spread of torture. More recently, in Policing America’s Empire, 14
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McCoy chronicles the history of the Philippines constabulary and its adoption PG BEWBODFE NFUIPET PG TVSWFJMMBODF JOUJNJEBUJPO BOE WJPMFODF UP TFDVSF JNQFSJBMEPNJOBUJPOćFTFNFUIPETXFSFMBUFSBQQSPQSJBUFECZQPMJDJOHJOTUJtutions in the United States, contributing to an erosion of civil liberties.55 Building on these invaluable works, Modernizing Repression incorporates OFXMZ EFDMBTTJĕFE EPDVNFOUT JODMVEJOH UIF ĕFME SFQPSUT PG QPMJDF BEWJTFST UP QSPWJEF B DPNQBSBUJWF BOBMZTJT PG UIF QPMJDF USBJOJOH QSPHSBNT BOE UIFJS IBSNGVMFČFDUT*ONZWJFX UIFQSPHSBNTFODBQTVMBUFIPXUIF6OJUFE4UBUFT SFTFNCMFTPUIFSFNQJSFTJOCFJOHTVTUBJOFECZWJPMFODFBOEDPFSDJPO56 Much SFDFOUTDIPMBSTIJQJO"NFSJDBOEJQMPNBUJDIJTUPSZIBTGPDVTFEPONPEFSOJ[BUJPOUIFPSZBOEBOUJDPNNVOJTUiOBUJPOCVJMEJOHwBTUIFLFZNPUJWBUJOHGBDUPST ESJWJOH"NFSJDBOGPSFJHOQPMJDZEVSJOHUIF$PME8BS57 Police training can be seen as central to both processes. It served key political and ideological funcUJPOTJOFTUBCMJTIJOHUIFJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZEFFNFEOFDFTTBSZGPSMJCFSBMDBQJUBMJTU EFWFMPQNFOU BOEJUXBTDSVDJBMBTXFMMJOVQHSBEJOHUIFTVSWFJMMBODFDBQBDJUZPGTUBUFTJOUIFEFWFMPQJOHXPSME UIVTBMMPXJOHGPSNPSFFYUFOTJWFTPDJBM DPOUSPMUIF VMUJNBUF NBSLFS PG NPEFSOJUZ JO UIF QPTU&OMJHIUFONFOU FSB58 Therein lay its dark side. ćFĕSTUTFDUJPOPGUIFCPPL i5BLJOH6QUIFA8IJUF.BOT#VSEFO wEJTDVTTFTUIFQJPOFFSJOHFČPSUTCZUIF64NJMJUBSZUPDSFBUFQPMJDFDPOTUBCVMBSJFT in the Philippines and the Caribbean in order to solidify colonial occupations JOUIFĕSTUIBMGPGUIFUXFOUJFUIDFOUVSZ%SBXJOHPOUIFEPNFTUJDJOOPWBUJPOT PGUIF1SPHSFTTJWF&SB "NFSJDBODPNNBOEFSTJNQBSUFETPQIJTUJDBUFEQPMJDF UFDIOPMPHJFTBOEQTZDIPMPHJDBMXBSGBSFUFDIOJRVFTXJUIUIFBJNPGTVQQSFTTJOH OBUJPOBMJTUBOENFTTJBOJDQFBTBOUNPWFNFOUTćF6OJUFE4UBUFTJOUVSOIFMQFE UPFTUBCMJTITPNFPGUIFĕSTUNPEFSOQPMJDFTUBUFT XIJDIQSPWJEFEBNPEFMGPS TVCTFRVFOUJOUFSWFOUJPOT ćFTFDPOETFDUJPO i6OEFSUIF'BDBEFPG#FOFWPMFODF wFYBNJOFTUIFFWPMVUJPOPGUIFQPMJDFQSPHSBNTEVSJOHUIF$PME8BSQFSJPEBOEUIFJSDFOUSBMJUZ UP PQFSBUJPOT NFBOU UP iSPMM CBDLw UIF QSPHSFTT PG DPNNVOJTN JO 4PVUIFBTU Asia. The “reverse course” in Japan was a watershed in that, fearing the loss of BCFBDIIFBEJOUIF"TJBO1BDJĕDXJUIUIFUSJVNQIPGUIF$IJOFTFSFWPMVUJPO UIF 4VQSFNF $PNNBOE PG UIF "MMJFE 1PXFST BCBOEPOFE FČPSUT UP QSPNPUF DJWJMMJCFSUJFTBOENPCJMJ[FEQPMJDFUPDSBDLEPXOIBSTIMZPOUIFMFę"NFSJDBO BEWJTFSTMFECZBZPVOH#ZSPO&OHMFUBVHIUOPWFMUFDIOJRVFTPGQPQVMBUJPODPOUSPM JODMVEJOHUIFVTFPGUFBSHBTUPRVFMMVSCBOEFNPOTUSBUJPOT XIJDICFDBNF BGFBUVSFPGUIFQSPHSBNT*O4PVUI7JFUOBN XIFSFJUIBEUIFMBSHFTUCVEHFU the OPS laid the groundwork for Operation Phoenix, though it spiraled out of DPOUSPM CSFFEJOHJOEJTDSJNJOBUFWJPMFODF ćF UIJSE TFDUJPO ićF $PME 8BS PO UIF 1FSJQIFSZ w FYBNJOFT UIF QPMJDF QSPHSBNTPOUIFFEHFTPGUIF$PME8BS XIFSFNBOZPGUIFTBNFNFUIPETXFSF JODPSQPSBUFEBTJO4PVUIFBTU"TJB CZNBOZPGUIFTBNFQFSTPOOFM BOEXJUIB Introduction
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Part I Taking Up the “White Man’s Burden” Imperial Policing in the Philippines and the Caribbean Do his orders come at one a.m., He’s on his way by two. Tho’ lacking rations for his men, He’ll stay till he gets through. He may be gone a week or month. To Samar or to—well, The daily papers never learn What this young man could tell. i$POTUBCVMBSZ.BO wQPQVMBSTPOH We were all imbued with the fact that we were trustees of a huge estate that belonged to minors. (eneral Smedley Butler )BJUJ
From the Philippine Islands in 1901 to Afghanistan in 2012, police training, through a cadre of technical specialists, has been a central facet of Washington’s foreign interventions. The programs evolved in distinctive ways and have been carried out by different bureaucratic agencies, including the military, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and, more recently, private mercenary firms such as DynCorp and Xe ( formerly Blackwater). The primary motive, consistent across time and space, has been to fortify and gain leverage over the internal security apparatus of client regimes and to root out groups resisting U.S. power. In addition, the programs have provided an opportunity for exporting new policing technologies and administrative techniques, as well as modern weaponry and equipment which has all too often been used for repressive ends. American imperialism has been driven by a yearning for commercial trade and growth as well as a missionary-like zeal to export American institutions and ideologies abroad. The Progressive Era was a watershed moment, owing to the maturation of an industrial economy with a productive capacity outstripping domestic demand, the flowering of social Darwinian philosophies, and the development of a modern military and government bureaucracy. The new American 17
empire required an infrastructure of shipping lanes, naval bases, treaty ports, and coaling stations, which fueled the conquest of the Philippines, and that of Haiti and Nicaragua following the construction of the Panama Canal.1 The creation of indigenous constabularies provided a key, cost-effective mechanism for projecting American power. The organizations were conceived in the belief that the centralization of state authority and regulation of social life were conducive to the development of a modern nation-state, and that a professional police force could ensure the domestic stability needed to spur foreign investment and allow for economic development. In the eyes of policymakers, the United States was at once helping to uplift the native population by aiding in the creation of a modern administrative state while advancing American strategic interests. The architects of the programs could thus always feel good about what they were doing, even if the forces under their command acted cruelly. Local elites welcomed the programs because they shared a similar worldview, and they used the technical aid and weapons to strengthen their authority. Trained in counter-guerrilla warfare and espionage, the constabularies assisted the U.S. Marines in pacification and sought to ensure a smooth transition from direct to indirect colonial rule. Many of the tactics developed, including training academies, the novel data management and fingerprinting techniques, penal reforms, and psychological warfare, were foundational to the global police programs. They contributed to the growth of modern surveillance states, supple in their omnipresence, as the historian Alfred W. McCoy notes, yet suffocating in their omniscience.2 Like their European counterparts, the first wave of U.S. advisers came from military backgrounds and endured harsh jungle conditions while carrying out clandestine intelligence operations. Many devoted years of service and learned local languages, which helped them in recruiting native forces, penetrating enemy encampments, and winning over sectors of the population. Colorful figures such as “Black Jack” Pershing, Lewis “Chesty” Puller, and Smedley Butler earned public fame through their exploits and went on to decorated military careers. Constabulary officers saw themselves as contributing to the advancement of civilization through the spread of Western technology and were endowed with enormous powers compared to their successors, becoming district and provincial governors. The opportunities for private enrichment and corruption were consequently rife, and many took advantage. Wide-scale violence was rationalized by demonizing opponents, who were characterized as “bandits,” “savages,” “ladrones,” and “gugus,” among other refrains. True to Orwell’s observations, American police officials embodied the repressive underpinnings of the American empire. In taking the call of Rudyard Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” to heart, they tortured those who did not acquiesce to their whims, provided intelligence for bombing attacks, oversaw forced labor projects, and were implicated in massacres, such as the slaughter of over six hundred 18
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people in the Moro province of the Philippines. After American troops were withdrawn, the police institutions they created remained the all-powerful instrument of authoritarian leaders. The United States left not only a legacy of violence and social division but also sophisticated apparatuses of social control, which paved the way for continued governmental repression over the long term.
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Chapter 1 The First Operation Phoenix U.S. Colonial Policing in the Philippines and the Blood of Empire To be outnumbered, always, to be outfought, never. 1IJMJQQJOFTDPOTUBCVMBSZTMPHBO FBSMZT The history of the American occupation of the Philippines is in large measure the history of the Philippines constabulary—for it was this force of native infantry that applied the finishing touches of civilization to a jungle land that had known no law. 7ic Hurley, Jungle Patrol
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XIPXBTDPNNJTTJPOFSPGDPNNFSDFBOEQPMJDFJO UIF 1IJMJQQJOFT GSPN Ŵżųŷ UP ŴżųŻ BOE HPWFSOPSHFOFSBM GSPN Ŵżųż UP ŴżŴŶ TUBUFEUIBUGPVS'JMJQJOPTDPVMECFNBJOUBJOFEGPSMFTTUIBOUIFQSJDFPGPOF "NFSJDBO TPMEJFS9 ćF DPOTUBCVMBSZ HSFX UP TJY UIPVTBOE JO UIF ĕSTU GFX years. Many recruits had served in the Spanish colonial Guardia Civil or as OBUJWF TDPVUT ćF DPNNJTTJPO SFQPSUFE ićF DBMMT VQPO UIFN GPS UIF TVQQSFTTJPOPGMBESPOJTNBOEPUIFSEJTUVSCBODFTIBWFCFFOTPOVNFSPVTUIBUUIFSFIBTOPUCFFOUJNFPSPQQPSUVOJUZJYZFBSTPGXBSIBTDSFBUFEBSFTUMFTTDMBTTPGNFOMBDLJOH in the habits of industry” and prone to disrupt occupational initiatives.10 The police thus developed into an overtly politicized force, which accounted for their repressive character. 4FUUJOHBOJNQPSUBOUCFODINBSL UIF6OJUFE4UBUFTPSHBOJ[FEBTFDSFUTFSWJDFCVSFBVXIPTFQSJNBSZBJNXBTUPEFUFDUBOEGSVTUSBUFQMPUTBHBJOTUUIF HPWFSONFOU BOE DBQUVSF UIF SFDPSET BOE NVOJUJPOT PG JOTVSHFOUT .JMJUBSZ JOUFMMJHFODF PďDFST JNQBSUFE OFX NFUIPET PG EBUB NBOBHFNFOU BOE TVSWFJMMBODF ćF SFDSVJUNFOU PG FYJOTVSHFOUT BOE PUIFST MPZBM UP FYJMFE MFBEFS &NJMJP"HVJOBMEPXBTQJWPUBMJOQFOFUSBUJOHQSJWBUFTQBDFBOEDPPQUJOHUIF OBUJPOBMJTUNPWFNFOU11 In 1907, after Harry H. Bandholtz, a West Point graduBUFSFTQPOTJCMFGPSDSVTIJOHBDPBMNJOFSTTUSJLFJO8FTU7JSHJOJB UPPLPWFS UIFDPOTUBCVMBSZ NFNCFSTPGUIFTFDSFUTFSWJDFBEPQUFEOPWFMQTZDIPMPHJDBM XBSGBSFUFDIOJRVFT TVDIBTXFBSJOHEJTHVJTFT GBCSJDBUJOHEJTJOGPSNBUJPO BOE SFDSVJUJOH QBJE JOGPSNBOUTBOETBCPUFVSTJOUIFJS FČPSUT UP iCSFBL VQ CBOET PG QPMJUJDBM QMPUUFSTw ćFZ NPOJUPSFE UIF QSFTT CSPLF VQ SBEJDBMT TUSFFU SBMMJFT DBSSJFEPVUQFSJPEJDBTTBTTJOBUJPOT BOEDPNQJMFEEPTTJFSTPOUIPVTBOET PG JOEJWJEVBMT BT XFMM BT JOGPSNBUJPO PO UIF DPSSVQUJPO PG LFZ HPWFSONFOU MFBEFST XIJDIXBTVTFEBTMFWFSBHFUPLFFQUIFNMPZBMUPUIFPDDVQBUJPOćF EFDMBSBUJPOPGNBSUJBMMBXFOBCMFEUIFTFDSFUTFSWJDFUPDBSSZPVUTVSWFJMMBODF BOENBLFBSSFTUTXJUIPVUUIFBQQMJDBUJPOPGEVFQSPDFTT12 ćFFďDJFODZPGUIFJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZBQQBSBUVTXBTFOIBODFECZUIFJNQPSThe Philippines and the Blood of Empire
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UBUJPOPGUIFNPTUBEWBODFEDSJNFDPOUSPMUFDIOPMPHZ JODMVEJOHBDFOUSBMJ[FE UFMFQIPOFOFUXPSL FMFDUSJDTUSFFUMJHIUT BOEUIF#FSUJMMPOQIPUPJEFOUJĕDBUJPO BOE MBUFS ĕOHFSQSJOUJOH TZTUFN XIJDI FOBCMFE QPMJDF UP FTUBCMJTI BO iBMM FNCSBDJOHJOEFYĕMFwPOUIFQPMJUJDBMCFMJFGTPGOFBSMZźųQFSDFOUPG.BOJMBT population. Through these initiatives the United States helped to create one of UIFĕSTUNPEFSOTVSWFJMMBODFTUBUFT BGFBUVSFPGDPMPOJBMSVMFTFFOBTBNBSLFS PGJUTNPEFSOJUZ13 The reach of the constabulary was so deep that it was able UP JOĕMUSBUF BOE TPX EJTTFOTJPO XJUIJO SBEJDBM PSHBOJ[BUJPOT JODMVEJOH BO JODJQJFOUMBCPSNPWFNFOU BOEFWFOQMBZFEBSPMFJOBQPTUPMJDTVDDFTTJPOCZ VOEFSNJOJOH #JTIPQ (SFHPSJP "HMJQBZ UISPVHI UIF TQSFBE PG EJTJOGPSNBUJPO"HMJQBZXBTBOBUJPOBMJTUXJUITPDJBMJTUTZNQBUIJFTXIPTFTFSWJDFTXFSF attended by thousands of the urban poor.14 0OF PG UIF DSPXOJOH UFDIOJDBM BDIJFWFNFOUT XBT UIF JOTUBMMBUJPO PG B (BNFXFMMQPMJDFBOEĕSFBMBSNTZTUFNJO.BOJMBUPDVSCEFQFOEFODZPOUIF QVCMJD UFMFQIPOF TZTUFN ćF 1IJMJQQJOFT DPNNJTTJPO QSPVEMZ SFQPSUFE UIBU UIJTiQVUUIFDJUZPOFRVBMGPPUJOHXJUIBOZJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTw15 In 1902 the DPNNJTTJPOQBTTFEBTFEJUJPOMBXXIJDIJNQPTFEUIFEFBUIQFOBMUZPSBMPOH QSJTPO UFSN PO UIPTF BEWPDBUJOH JOEFQFOEFODF BOE B CSJHBOEBHF BDU DMBTsifying guerrilla resistance as banditry. The constabulary was given the task PGFOGPSDJOHUIFTFMBXT8JFMEJOHJNNFOTFQPXFST GBSHSFBUFSUIBOUIPTFPG police forces in the United States, it also oversaw forced labor codes designed to CVJMEUIFDPVOUSZTSPBEJOGSBTUSVDUVSF SBOUBYDPMMFDUJPOBOERVBSBOUJOFQSPHSBNT IFMQFEEFWFMPQIFBMUIDMJOJDTBOETDIPPMT BOEIBEJUTPďDFSTBQQPJOUFE as governors in districts inhabited by rural people such as the Bontoc, Ifugao, and Kalinga whose head-hunting practices they sought to curtail. In addition, DPOTUBCVMBSZ PďDFST QSPUFDUFE UFMFHSBQI MJOFT VTFE UP DPPSEJOBUF NJMJUBSZ PQFSBUJPOTBOEDPNNFSDJBMEFWFMPQNFOUBOEFOGPSDFEMBXTBHBJOTUWBHSBODZ HBNCMJOH BOEPQJVNQSPNPUFECZ1SPUFTUBOUNJTTJPOBSJFT16 Owing to deeprooted cultural acceptance, the reception of kickbacks by police, and the ingeOVJUZPG$IJOFTFTNVHHMFST UIFTFMBXTXFSFQSFEPNJOBOUMZVOTVDDFTTGVMBOE DPOUSJCVUFEUPUIFHSPXUIPGPSHBOJ[FEDSJNJOBMOFUXPSLT%FTQJUFUIFTFJ[VSF PGMBSHFBNPVOUTPGDPOUSBCBOEJOSBJET BTMBUFBTŴżŶų"NFSJDBOJOWFTUJHBUPST GPVOEUIBUPQJVNXBTFBTJMZPCUBJOBCMFBOEUIBUUIFUSBEFXBTTPMVDSBUJWFUIBU JUIBEDPSSVQUFEFMFNFOUTPGUIFQPMJUJDBMFMJUFćFIJTUPSJBO"MGSFE8.D$PZ DPODMVEFEUIBUJO.BOJMB iQPMJDFJOFČFDUCFDBNFQBSUOFSTJODSJNF BDDFQUJOH CSJCFTUPQSPUFDUPQJVNEFOTBOEHBNCMJOHIPVTFTwBTXFMMBTCSPUIFMTXIJDI TQSBOHVQUPTFSWJDF"NFSJDBOT1FSJPEJDFYQPTVSFTFSWFEUPVOEFSNJOFUIF MFHJUJNBDZPGUIFDPMPOJBMPSEFS TQBSLJOHTFWFSBMIJHIMZQVCMJDJ[FEUIPVHIVMUJNBUFMZMJNJUFEFČPSUTBUSFGPSN17 *O ŴżųŹ UIF HPWFSOJOH DPNNJTTJPO BQQSPWFE UIF DSFBUJPO PG B OBUJPOBM QPMJDFTDIPPMBU#BHVJP XIFSFDPVSTFTXFSFPČFSFEJONBSLTNBOTIJQ QPMJDF BENJOJTUSBUJPO BOE HVFSSJMMB XBSGBSF $POTUBCVMBSZ PďDFST XFSF SFRVJSFE 24
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UP XFBS OFX VOJGPSNT JO LIBLJ BOE SFE BOE XFSF FRVJQQFE XJUI NPEFSO XFBQPOSZ JODMVEJOH3FNJOHUPOBOE$PMUSFWPMWFSTBOE4QSJOHĕFMEDBSCJOFT 1PMJDF IFBERVBSUFST XFSF SFQBJSFE BOE OFX POFT CVJMU UP FODPVSBHF B NPSF QSPGFTTJPOBMBUNPTQIFSF0ďDFSTXFSFSFRVJSFEUPUBLFGPVSIPVSTPGXFFLMZ instruction in the law related to arrests, search warrants, and processing eviEFODF .FEJDBM DBSF XBT QSPWJEFE BOE QIZTJDBM ĕUOFTT XBT FNQIBTJ[FE JO USBJOJOH"UUFNQUTXFSFNBEFUPTUBOEBSEJ[FQBZBOEFOTVSFUIBUVQQFSMFWFM BQQPJOUNFOUT XFSF NBEF GSPN XJUIJO UIF SBOLT " QFOTJPO BOE SFUJSFNFOU GVOEXBTFTUBCMJTIFEUPQSPNPUFMPZBMUZBOEBMMPXDPOTUBCVMBSZNFNCFSTUP view policing as a career.18 ćFTF NFBTVSFT XFSF BMM DPOTJTUFOU XJUI QSPHSFTTJWFTUZMF SFGPSNT JNQMFNFOUFEBTQBSUPGUIFNBOBHFSJBMSFWPMVUJPOJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTćFZFYFNQMJĕFEUIFEFTJSFPG"NFSJDBODPMPOJBMPďDJBMTUPSFNBLFUIF1IJMJQQJOFTJOUIF "NFSJDBOJNBHFBOEUPQSPNPUFQSPHSFTTUISPVHIUIFJNQPSUBUJPOPG8FTUFSOJOTUJUVUJPOTBOEHPWFSOJOHTZTUFNT19"T.D$PZEPDVNFOUT JOOPWBUJPOT pioneered in the Philippines further contributed to the evolution of policing QSBDUJDFTJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFT JODMVEJOHUIFBEWFOUPGBGPSNJEBCMFTVSWFJMMBODF BQQBSBUVTTFUJOQMBDFEVSJOHUIFĕSTU3FE4DBSF$POTUBCVMBSZWFUFSBOTTVDI BT3BMQI7BO%FNBO LOPXOBTUIFiGBUIFSPG64NJMJUBSZJOUFMMJHFODFwBOEPG UIFi"NFSJDBOCMBDLMJTU wQMBZFEBDSVDJBMSPMFJOBQQMZJOHUIFJSFYQFSUJTFJOUIF DMBOEFTUJOFBSUTUPTQZPOBOESFQSFTTSBEJDBMPSHBOJ[BUJPOTTVDIBTUIF"NFSJDBO$PNNVOJTU1BSUZBOEUIF*OEVTUSJBM8PSLFSTPGUIF8PSME DPOUSJCVUJOH UPUIFJSEFNJTF"NFSJDBO$JWJM-JCFSUJFT6OJPOBUUPSOFZ'SBOL%POOFSDIBSBDUFSJ[FE7BO%FNBOBTiPOFPGUIFHJBOUTPGBOUJDPNNVOJTN BTVQFSIBXL . . . a phobic nativist red-hunter” whose “undercover network penetrated not POMZUIF$PNNVOJTU1BSUZCVUBXIPMFTQFDUSVNPGMJCFSBMUBSHFUT JODMVEJOH religious, civil rights, and labor organizations.”20 .PTUDPOTUBCVMBSZPďDFSTDBNFGSPNNJMJUBSZCBDLHSPVOETBOEXFSFTPMEJFSTPGGPSUVOFBOEPSWFUFSBOTPGUIF*OEJBO8BSTćFIJTUPSJBOćPNBT" 3FQQFUUPDIBSBDUFSJ[FEUIFNBTBiXJMECVODI wFQJUPNJ[FECZ8JOĕFME4DPUU Grove, chief of detectives in Manila, who beat up the governor of Laguna PVUTJEF BO PďDJBM SFDFQUJPO BOE +FTTF (BSXPPE B XFTUFSO HVOĕHIUFS XIP seduced local officers’ wives, shot apples off the head of his houseboy, and PČFSFECPVOUJFTGPSDVUUJOHPČFOFNZIFBET)BSEFOFECZUIFJSUJNFPOUIF GSPOUJFS UIFZDMBJNFEUPiVOEFSTUBOEUIFXBZTPGXJMEQFPQMF wBOEGFMUJUXBT UIFJS SFTQPOTJCJMJUZ UP iNFOE B DPVOUSZ XSBDLFE CZ XBS BOE OPX TVCKFDU UP SBJET QJSBUFT QMVOEFSFST BOE NVSEFSFSTw 0OF NFNCFS PG UIF DPOTUBCVMBSZ )BSPME)&MBSUI MBUFSDPNNFOUFE i8FCFHBOUPMJWF,JQMJOHGPSPVSTFMWFTw21 "OVNCFSPGUIFPďDFSTMFBSOFEMPDBMEJBMFDUTBOEEFWPUFEZFBSTPGTFSWJDF HBJOJOHBTFOTFPGBUUBDINFOUUPUIFDPVOUSZUIBUXBTMBDLJOHBNPOHUIFJSIFJST JO MBUFS JOUFSWFOUJPOT 4PNF CVJMU TDIPPMT BOE GPTUFSFE BHSJDVMUVSBM EFWFMPQNFOU UIPVHI NBOZ BCVTFE UIFJS QPXFS JNQPTJOH GPSDFE MBCPS SFHJNFOT UP The Philippines and the Blood of Empire
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FYQBOEUIFIJHIMBOEUSBJMOFUXPSLBOEDPNQJMJOHGPSUVOFTJOTIBEZCVTJOFTT EFBMJOHTBOETQFDVMBUJPOJONJOJOHBOEHPME8IFOTPNFPOFDPNQMBJOFEUIBU 8BMUFS')BMF MJFVUFOBOUHPWFSOPSJOUIF,BMJOHBTVCQSPWJODF XBTiNPOPQPMJ[JOHUIFSJDFUSBEFwBOEVOEFSNJOJOHMPDBMQSPEVDUJPO )BMFSFTQPOEFEi6Q IFSF*BN(PE:PVEPXIBU*UFMMZPVw22 6OUJMŴżŴź XIFO$PMPOFM3BGBFM$SBNF #BOEIPMU[TQSPUÏHÏ CFDBNFDIJFGPG UIFDPOTUBCVMBSZ 'JMJQJOPTDPVMEOPUCFOBNFEUPDPNNBOEQPTJUJPOT'PSCFT BO JOWFTUNFOU CBOLFS XIP DPBDIFE UIF )BSWBSE GPPUCBMM UFBN XSPUF JO IJT EJBSZUIBU"NFSJDBOMFBEFSTIJQXBTDSVDJBMJOiNBLJOHUIFQPMJDFPCTFSWFUIF rules of civilized warfare. . . . The native, when given authority, is very brutal to IJTPXOQFPQMFBOEXPVMEUSFBUUIFNUPBMJUUMF4QBOJTIEFWJMUSZJGVODIFDLFEw *GUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTXJUIESFX IFBEEFE UIFDPVOUSZXPVMECFDPNFFONFTIFE JOiIPQFMFTTBOBSDIZ wBOEFWFSZWBMMFZXPVMECFDPNFiSFEXJUICMPPEw23 EpitoNJ[JOHUIFFUIOPDFOUSJTNVOEFSMZJOH64QPMJDZ 7JD)VSMFZJODMVEFEJOIJT NFNPJSJungle Patrol the photo of a longhaired Filipino wearing nothing but BTUSJOHBSPVOEIJTXBJTU/FYUUPUIJTXBTBNPSFSFDFOUQJDUVSFPGUIFNBO ESFTTFEJOIJTDPOTUBCVMBSZVOJGPSN)FXBTOPXDMFBOMZTIBWFOBOEIBETIPSU hair. The caption reads, “Exposed to civilization.”24 With Us or Against Us: Misperceptions of a Dehumanized Enemy
ćF ĕSTU DIJFG PG UIF DPOTUBCVMBSZ )FOSZ 5 "MMFO FNCPEJFE UIF EPNJOBOU NBSUJBM BOE JNQFSJBMJTU TQJSJU PG UIF BHF #PSO JOUP BO BOUFCFMMVN ,FOUVDLZ IPVTFIPMEXJUIFMFWFOTMBWFT "MMFOHSBEVBUFEGSPN8FTU1PJOUJOŴŻŻŵ MFEBO FYQMPSBUJPONJTTJPOJO"MBTLB BOEUIFOKPJOFEUIFNJMJUBSZTOFXJOGPSNBUJPO EJWJTJPOJO4U1FUFSTCVSHBTBTQZPOCFIBMGPGUIFUTBSJTUSFHJNF)JTTVQFSJPST faulted his reports for being “too political.” Allen went on to serve in the SpanJTI"NFSJDBO8BSJO$VCBBOEXJUIUIF'PSUZUIJSE*OGBOUSZEJWJTJPOJOUIF 1IJMJQQJOFT DBNQBJHO JO 4BNBS XIFSF IF DPOEFNOFE (FOFSBM +BDPC 4NJUIT TDPSDIFEFBSUIQPMJDZBTBiEJTHSBDFw)FVSHFEIJTTVCPSEJOBUFTUPNBTUFSUIF MPDBMMBOHVBHFBOEVOEFSTUBOEUIFOBUJWFTJOPSEFSUPHBJOiUIFDPOĕEFODFPG UIF QFPQMF w PS BT IJT TVDDFTTPST XPVME QVU JU XJO UIFJS iIFBSUT BOE NJOETw "MMFOBUUIFTBNFUJNFTBODUJPOFENFSDJMFTTUBDUJDTBHBJOTUSFTJTUBOU'JMJQJOPT XIPNIFDIBSBDUFSJ[FEBTTVČFSJOHGSPNiJOUFOTFJHOPSBODFwBOEUIFiGBOBUJDBMwDIBSBDUFSJTUJDTPGiTFNJTBWBHFSZw25"ęFSIJTBQQPJOUNFOUBTDPOTUBCVMBSZ DIJFG IFXSPUFUP(FOFSBM3PCFSU1)VHIFTi$POTJEFSBCMFLJMMJOHTUJMMSFNBJOT to be done. I suspect that we will have a lot of trouble in Negros before all the ladronesBOEPUIFSTFRVBMMZEFTFSWJOHBSFLJMMFEUIFSFw26*OBTVCTFRVFOUMFUUFS UP5Bę "MMFOSFNBSLFEi&EVDBUJPOBOESPBETXJMMFČFDUXIBUJTEFTJSFE CVU XIJMFBXBJUJOHUIFTF ESBTUJDNFBTVSFTBSFPCMJHBUPSZڀڀćFPOMZSFNFEZJT LJMMJOHBOEGPSUIFTBNFSFBTPOUIBUBSBCJEEPHNVTUCFEJTQPTFEPGw27 ćFTF DPNNFOUT SFWFBM UIF EFIVNBOJ[JOH MBOHVBHF VTFE UP SBUJPOBMJ[F 26
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wide-scale violence. Writing to the secretary of the province of Leyte, Allen DPNNFOUFE i*U JT BCTPMVUFMZ JNQPSUBOU UIBU UIF CBOET PG ladrones infesting DFSUBJOQBSUTPGUIFQSPWJODFCFFYUFSNJOBUFEćFGVUVSFPG-FZUFUIFOFFEFEDBQJUBMUPDPOTUSVDUSBJMXBZTBOETUBSUVQPUIFSFOUFSQSJTFTڀڀ depends on this.”281SFTBHJOHUIFPVUMPPLPGNPEFSOJ[BUJPOUIFPSJTUTEVSJOHUIF Cold War, Allen saw the opponents of the United States as a barrier to the proHSFTTJWFTPDJBMDIBOHFUIBUUIFJNQPSUPGOFXUFDIOPMPHJFTPTUFOTJCMZPČFSFE )FQPSUSBZFEUIFNBTSFMJDTPGBOFBSMJFSQIBTFPGDJWJMJ[BUJPOXIPTFSFNPWBM XPVME DMFBS UIF XBZ GPS OBUJPOBM EFWFMPQNFOU ćF MPHJD JT OPU EJTTJNJMBS UP UIBUPGPUIFSTXIPIBWFDPNNJUUFEHFOPDJEFPSTFFOUIFLJMMJOHPGMBSHFHSPVQT BTĕUUJOHJOUPBCSPBEFSTPDJBMPSIVNBOJUBSJBOEFTJHO*UBMTPĕUUIFQBUUFSOPG SBDJBMWJPMFODFDIBSBDUFSJTUJDPG8FTUFSOJNQFSJBMJTNBOE"NFSJDBOMJGFJOUIF early twentieth century.29 Most individuals pursued by the constabulary were nationalists who served JOUIFMJCFSBUJPOBSNJFT"MMFOBDLOPXMFEHFEJOŴżųŵUIBUiGPVSZFBSTPGĕHIUJOH BJEFECZUIFMPTTPGMJGFCZDIPMFSBBOEQMBHVFPGBOJNBMTCZSJOEFSQFTU BOEPGDSPQTJONBOZQMBDFTCZMPDVTUTIBTCFFOEFNPSBMJ[JOHUPUIFQFPQMFBOE GBWPSBCMFUPUIFEFWFMPQNFOUPGMBESPOJTNw30 San Miguel was declared an outlaw after he helped to revive the anticolonial Katipunan Party. He had ties with UIFMBCPSNPWFNFOU BDPOTUBOUUBSHFUPGDPOTUBCVMBSZTVSWFJMMBODFBOEIBSBTTNFOU XIJDI XBT FWFOUVBMMZ DPPQUFE GSPN XJUIJO31 General Macario Sakay XBTQSFTJEFOUPGUIF/FX,BUJQVOBONPWFNFOU XIJDI"MMFOSFGFSSFEUPBTB iEJTFBTFPGUIF5BHBMPHNJOEw(SFFUFEBTBIFSPJO.BOJMB IFQSPNPUFEDMBTT consciousness and sought to establish a breakaway Tagalog republic. In 1907 his TFDPOEJODPNNBOE $PSOFMJP'FMJ[BSEP XBTBNCVTIFEBOEIBDLFEUPEFBUI XIJMFVSJOBUJOH BOE4BLBZXBTCFUSBZFECZJOGPSNBOUT4UBOEJOHPOUIFFYFDVUJPOQMBUGPSNJOUIF#JMJCJEQSJTPOQMB[B 4BLBZEFDMBSFEi%FBUIDPNFTUPBMM PGVTTPPOFSPSMBUFS TP*XJMMGBDFUIFMPSE"MNJHIUZDBMNMZ#VU*XBOUUPUFMM ZPVUIBUXFBSFOPUCBOEJUTBOESPCCFST BTUIF"NFSJDBOTIBWFBDDVTFEVT CVUNFNCFSTPGUIFSFWPMVUJPOBSZGPSDFUIBUEFGFOEFEPVSNPUIFSDPVOUSZ UIF 1IJMJQQJOFT 'BSFXFMM -POH MJWF UIF 3FQVCMJD BOE NBZ PVS JOEFQFOEFODF CF born in the future!”32 .BOZDPOTUBCVMBSZUBSHFUTTVDIBTUIFTPDJBMJTU'FMJQF4BMWBEPSQSPNPUFEB NFTTJBOJDJEFPMPHZNJYJOHGPMLSFMJHJPOBOEQPQVMJTUOBUJPOBMJTN*O/FHSPT province, Dionisio Sigobela (known as “Papa Isio”), a displaced sugar laborer, QSFBDIFEBEPDUSJOFPGGSFFMPWFBOEQSPNJTFEGPMMPXFSTJNNVOJUZGSPNEJTeases bred by the ravages of war. He was arrested by Colonel John R. White, a veteran of the Greek Foreign Legion, who gained great repute through his exploits. Forbes referred in his journals to Papa Isio’s death in February 1905 BU TJYUZTFWFO BT VOUJNFMZ CFDBVTF iJU TIPVME IBWF PDDVSSFE ŴŹ ZFBST BHPw33 7JPMFOU TDPSDIFE FBSUI DBNQBJHOT BHBJOTU SFCFM GPSDFT XIJDI JO TPNF DBTFT SFTVMUFEJOUIFUBLJOHPGIVNBOĘFTIBTBUSPQIZ DPOUJOVFEUISPVHINVDIPGUIF The Philippines and the Blood of Empire
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ŴżŴųT&MBSUIXSPUFJOIJTNFNPJSTUIBUBęFSUIFMBTUFNCFSTPGUIFJOTVSSFDUJPO died down in 1911, it took another ten years of “strenuous patrolling” by the DPOTUBCVMBSZCFGPSFiQFBDFDPOEJUJPOTwFNFSHFE34 1BDJĕDBUJPOJOUIF.PSPQSPWJODFTPG.JOEBOBPBOE4VMVUPPLFWFOMPOHFS and was never fully achieved. In 1903 the United States abrogated the agreeNFOUQSPNJTJOHBVUPOPNZUPUIF.PSPT .VTMJNTXIPIBEOFWFSBDRVJFTDFE to Spanish rule either, and appointed General Leonard Wood head of the QSPWJODF " GPSNFS DPMPOJBM HPWFSOPS PG $VCB BOE EFDPSBUFE WFUFSBO PG UIF DBNQBJHOBHBJOTU(FSPOJNPT"QBDIFT 8PPEBOEIJTBTTPDJBUFTTIPXFEMJUUMF SFTQFDUGPS.PSPUSBEJUJPOTBOEDVMUVSFBOECFMJFWFE MJLFUXFOUZĕSTUDFOUVSZ OFPDPOTFSWBUJWFT UIBU.VTMJNTDPVMEPOMZVOEFSTUBOEGPSDF$FOUSBMUPUIFJS TUSBUFHZXBTUIFDSFBUJPOPGBOBUJWFDPOTUBCVMBSZUPiUBNFwUIPTFXIPSFTJTUFE "NFSJDBOIFHFNPOZBOE BTPOFPG8PPETCJPHSBQIFSTQVUJU IFMQiQMBOUUIF TFFETPGDJWJMJ[BUJPOJOUIFJSNJOEw35 .VDICMPPEXBTTQJMMFEJOUIFBUUFNQUUPBDIJFWFUIFTFBJNT1FBTBOUTXFSF ESJWFO JOUP HPWFSONFOUDPOUSPMMFE FODMBWFT PWFSTFFO CZ UIF DPOTUBCVMBSZ XIFSFUIJODIJMESFOXJUICMPBUFEBCEPNFOTSFNJOEFEPCTFSWFSTPGiUIFQJDUVSFT PGSFDPODFOUSBUJPOJO$VCBBOEGBNJOFJO*OEJBw36 John White, who served in 'SBODFJO8PSME8BS* SFDPVOUTIPXNFOVOEFSIJTDPNNBOECVSOFEIPVTFT MPBEFEUIFNTFMWFTEPXOXJUIMPPU BOEEFTUSPZFETVHBSBOEPUIFSGPPETUVČT JOUIFBUUFNQUUPJTPMBUFBOETUBSWFUIFFOFNZćFZMFęiUIFQSFUUZQMBUFBVB burned and scarred sore.” This “was hard,” he wrote, “but necessary, for we did OPUXBOUUIFKPCPGUBLJOH.BOTBMBOBPBHBJOw37 *O ŴżųŹ 64 "SNZ BOE DPOTUBCVMBSZ VOJUT NBTTBDSFE PWFS TJY IVOESFE .PSPT JODMVEJOHXPNFOBOEDIJMESFO BUBWPMDBOJDDSBUFSJO#VE%BKPBęFS they refused to pay a head tax. Theodore Roosevelt congratulated Wood for iVQIPMEJOHUIFIPOPSPGUIF"NFSJDBOĘBHw"DDPSEJOHUPUIFBOUISPQPMPHJTU %FBO8PSDFTUFS JUiXBTOPNPSFQPTTJCMFUPBWPJELJMMJOHXPNFOBOEDIJMESFO UIBOJUXBTڀڀJOUIF8PVOEFE,OFFĕHIUw38 In another atrocity seven ZFBSTMBUFSPO.PVOU#BHTBL DPOTUBCVMBSZNFOVOEFS+PIO+1FSTIJOH BWFUFSBOPGUIF4JPVYBOE"QBDIFDBNQBJHOT iFYUFSNJOBUFEBMMUIF.PSPTXIPIBE taken their stand,” as Forbes put it favorably. According to Pershing, who was QSPNPUFE GSPN DBQUBJO UP CSJHBEJFS HFOFSBM B iTFWFSF UIPVHI XFMMEFTFSWFE QVOJTINFOUwXBTBENJOJTUFSFE39 Warfare continued until as late as 1935. Much BTUIFZXPVMEXJUIUIFi7JFUDPOHwEFDBEFTMBUFS "NFSJDBOTEFWFMPQFEBHSVEHJOHSFTQFDUGPSUIFĕHIUJOHDBQBCJMJUZPGUIF.PSPT CVUSFGFSSFEUPUIFNJOSBDJTUUFSNTBTi.PIBNNFEBOGBOBUJDT wiNFEJFWBMTBWBHFT wBOEBLJOUPBiTXBSN of hornets.”40 3FCFMDPNNBOEFSTPęFOJNQPTFEFTQFDJBMMZIBSTIQFOBMUJFTGPSDPMMBCPSBtion with the occupying forces, including the cutting of tendons and feet, and FYUPSUFE GPPE GSPN WJMMBHFST XIFO QPQVMBS TVQQPSU XBOFE41 One realistic aspect of White’s Bullets and Bolos is the hardship experienced by constabulary 28
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ćFNJMJUBSJ[BUJPOPGUIFQPMJDJOHQSPHSBNTXBTBNBKPSGBDUPSBDDPVOUJOHGPS UIFIJHIMFWFMTPGBCVTF4FUUJOHUIFQSFDFEFOUGPSUIFBOUJ)VLDBNQBJHOPGUIF 1950s in the Philippines (to be discussed in chapter 5) and the Phoenix proHSBN XIJDIBJNFEUPXJQFPVUUIFMFBEFSTIJQPGUIF7JFUOBNFTFSFWPMVUJPOBSZ NPWFNFOU DPOTUBCVMBSZVOJUTNFBTVSFEUIFJSTVDDFTTCZUIFOVNCFSPGFOFNZ DBQUVSFEPSLJMMFEćFPCKFDUJWFXBTMBJEPVUJOUIFUSBJOJOHNBOVBMi$BQUVSF PSEFTUSPZMBESPOFTw"OPUIFSQBTTBHFSFDPNNFOEFEi0ODFBMBESPOFDBNQJT MPDBUFE UIFSFNVTUCFOPIFTJUBODZJOBUUBDLJOHWJHPSPVTMZćFCFTUUJNFGPS attack is at or before daylight and during rainy weather.”43 Field reports provide a good indication of the high casualty rates. Henry ,OBVCFSSFQPSUFE GPSFYBNQMF PO+VOFŴŴ ŴżųŶ UIBUIJTVOJUIBEiLJMMFEŻPVUMBXTwBOETFJ[FEiŶSJĘFT ŴSFWPMWFS TFWFSBMCPMPTBOEPOFUSVNQFUXIJMFMPTJOH only one horse.”44)FOSZ"MMFOCPBTUFEUPUIF1IJMJQQJOFTDPNNJTTJPOUIBUPOB IBSSPXJOHFYQFEJUJPOIJTNFOiLJMMFEŵMBESPOFT DBQUVSFEŵŶJODMVEJOHŴ$PNNBOEBOUF wBEEJOHUIBUiżŶTVSSFOEFSFEVODPOEJUJPOBMMZ ŹżDPOEJUJPOBMMZ BOE UIBUżŹSJĘFTBOEŶŹSFWPMWFSTXFSFDBQUVSFEw0OFNPOUIMBUFS"MMFOXSPUFUP Senator Albert Beveridge that because of recent successes, he believed “within a couple of years practically every band of ladrones in the island (Moro country OPUJODMVEFE DPVMECFFYUFSNJOBUFEw45 8IJUFT NFNPJS Bullets and Bolos JT SFQMFUF XJUI TUPSJFT NBOZ PG UIFN FNCFMMJTIFE PGIJTQSPXFTTJODBQUVSJOHBOELJMMJOHPVUMBXGPSDFT)FXSPUF i8IJMFMJWJOHUIFTIFMUFSFEMJGF JUTFFNTBSBUIFSBXGVMUIJOHUPĕOETQPSUJO UBLJOHIVNBOMJGFڀڀZFUڀڀJUXBTFJUIFSLJMMPSCFLJMMFEBOEJUNVTUCFFNQIBTJ[FEUIBUUIFFOFNZIBEFWFSZBEWBOUBHFw46ćFTFDPNNFOUTEFNPOTUSBUFUIF NJOETFUPGTPMEJFSTJOUIFĕFME XIP JOUIFGBDFPGDPOTUBOUEBOHFSBOEBIPTUJMF population, did what they felt was necessary to protect their own lives. FurUIFSNPSF UIFZXFSFTFFLJOHUPVQIPMEBOJEFBMPGNBTDVMJOJUZUIBUXBTEFFQMZ SPPUFE JO "NFSJDBO DVMUVSF BOE DPOUJOHFOU PO UIF BDIJFWFNFOU PG NJMJUBSZ prowess and the ability to project strength in the face of adversity.47 8IJUF BOE IJT DPOUFNQPSBSJFT XFSF IPOPSFE XJUI NFEBMT PG WBMPS GPS LJMMJOH JOTVSHFOUT BOE UIFZ SPTF JO UIF NJMJUBSZ IJFSBSDIZ )BSSZ #BOEIPMU[ CFDBNF QSPWPTU NBSTIBM BOE XFOU PO UP GPVOE UIF 64 .JMJUBSZ 1PMJDF EVSing World War I. “Black Jack” Pershing led the punitive expedition against the Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa alongside Henry Allen and The Philippines and the Blood of Empire
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CFDBNF DPNNBOEJOH HFOFSBM BU UIF FOE PG UIF (SFBU 8BS48 +BNFT )BSCPSE UIF DPOTUBCVMBSZT UIJSE DPNNBOEFS TFSWFE BT 1FSTIJOHT DIJFG PG TUBČ BOE UIFOQSFTJEFOUPGUIF3BEJP$PSQPSBUJPOPG"NFSJDB 3$" GSPNŴżŵŶUPŴżŷź 0UIFSWFUFSBOTXFOUPOUPIBWFEJTUJOHVJTIFEMBXFOGPSDFNFOUDBSFFSTJOUIF 6OJUFE4UBUFTBOEUPIFBEDPOTUBCVMBSZGPSDFTJOUIF$BSJCCFBO JNQBSUJOHUIF skills they had developed while chasing Filipino rebels. Rough Rider George R. Shanton headed the Insular Police in Puerto Rico and oversaw policing of UIF1BOBNB$BOBM;POF XIFSFIFPSHBOJ[FEUIFQMBJODMPUIFTTVSWFJMMBODFPG workers and the blacklisting and deportation of radicals.49 ćFBCVTFTPGUIF1IJMJQQJOFTDPOTUBCVMBSZ MJLFUIPTFPGJUTOVNFSPVTTQJO PČT XFSFTZOPOZNPVTXJUIJUTTPDJBMDPOUSPMGVODUJPO*OBŴżŶŶTUVEZ .BKPS &NNBOVFM#BKBSFQPSUFEUIBUJUSFQFBUFEMZDBSSJFEPVUUIFiXBUFSUPSUVSFwBOE PUIFS IBSTI JOUFSSPHBUJPO NFUIPET JODMVEJOH CFBUJOH TVTQFDUT XJUI TOBLFT UP FYUSBDU JOGPSNBUJPO i(FU ZPVS NBOw XBT UIF TMPHBO PG QBUSPMT SFTVMUJOH JOFYDFTTJWFGPSDFBOECSVUBMJUZ0ďDFSTFOHBHFEJOCMBDLNBJM UFSSPSJTN BOE FYUPSUJPOBOETUPMFGPPEGSPNUIFQFBTBOUSZćFZTFYVBMMZBTTBVMUFEXPNFO BOEJO.JOEBOBPXFSFBVUIPSJ[FEUPUBLFUIFNBTDPODVCJOFT JSPOJD HJWFO UIBU.VTMJNTMBWFSZXBTBEPQUFEBTNPSBMKVTUJĕDBUJPOGPSUIFDPORVFTUPGUIF Moro).507JPMFOUQPMJUJDBMQPMJDJOHPQFSBUJPOTXFSFHFOFSBMMZTFFOBTDPNQBUJCMFXJUIEFNPDSBUJ[BUJPOJOWJFXPGUIFOFFEGPSPSEFSBOETUBCJMJUZBTBQSFDPOEJUJPOGPSEFWFMPQNFOU"ęFSUIFTVTQFOTJPOPGUIFXSJUPGIBCFBTDPSQVTJO Cavite and Batangas due to heavy guerrilla activity, Forbes noted in his journal that the constabulary was now “free to run in the suspects. . . . A lot of innocent QFPQMFXJMMCFQVUJOKBJMGPSBXIJMF CVUJUXJMMBMTPNFBOUIBUTPNFHVJMUZPOFT will catch it and the whole cancer will be cut out.”51ćJTDPNNFOUFYFNQMJĕFT UIFQIJMPTPQIZPGiUIFFOEKVTUJĕFTUIFNFBOTwXIJDIVOEFSMBZUIFWJPMBUJPOPG IVNBOSJHIUT TFUUJOHUIFTUBOEBSEGPSUIFi"NFSJDBODFOUVSZw “Total Institutions”: The Philippine Penal Apparatus as an Instrument of Social Control
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GFTTFEJEFBMT SBDJTNPOUIFQBSUPGDPMPOJBMPďDJBMTBOESBNQBOUPWFSDSPXEJOH DBVTFECZIFJHIUFOFEQPMJDJOHMFEUPUIFCSFBLEPXOPGSFGPSNBOEUIFQSPMJGFSation of barbaric abuses.53ćF"NFSJDBOFYQFSJFODFJOUIF1IJMJQQJOFTBOEMBUFS JOUFSWFOUJPOTTVDIBTJO7JFUOBNĕUXJUIUIJTOPSN#FDBVTFPGUIFQFSTJTUFODF PGXBSBOEIJHIDSJNFSBUFTCSFECZUIFSBWBHFTPGUIFPDDVQBUJPO 1IJMJQQJOF QSJTPOTCFDBNFĕMMFEUPPWFSDBQBDJUZ SFTVMUJOHJOiIFMMJTIDPOEJUJPOT wBTFZFXJUOFTTFTEFTDSJCFEUIFN.BOZQSJTPOFSTEJFEPGVOEFSOPVSJTINFOU DIPMFSB PSCFSJCFSJ DBVTFECZBEFĕDJFODZPGWJUBNJO# *O.BOJMBT#JMJCJEQSJTPO CVJMUCZ4QBJOJOŴŻŹŹBTBNPEFM#FOUIBNJUFQBOPQUJDPOXJUIBDFOUSBMUPXFSGSPNXIJDIHVBSETDPVMETFFJOTJEFBMMSBEJBUJOH DFMMCMPDLT UIFEFBUISBUFSPTFGSPNźŵQFSŴ ųųųJOŴżųŵUPŷŶŻQFSŴ ųųųJOŴżųŸ )PTQJUBMGBDJMJUJFTXFSFJOBEFRVBUFćFGPPEXBTVTVBMMZSPUUFOBOE BDDPSEJOH UPPOFDPNNJTTJPOSFQPSU iUPPBHFEUPCFQBMBUBCMFw54 The dilapidated buildJOHTIBEIPMFTJOUIFSPPĕOHBOEXBMMT XIJDIMFęJONBUFTVOQSPUFDUFEGSPN CBE XFBUIFS CVU BMTP FOBCMFE TPNF UP FTDBQF ćF EFBUI QFOBMUZ XBT XJEFMZ applied, particularly for political offenders. Colonial officials introduced the HSVFTPNFBQQBSBUVTPGUIFFMFDUSJDDIBJS UZQJGZJOHUIF64SPMFJONPEFSOJ[JOH SFQSFTTJPOUISPVHIUIFJNQPSUBUJPOPGOFXUFDIOPMPHJFT55 0O %FDFNCFS ź Ŵżųŷ B SJPU CSPLF PVU JO XIJDI OJOFUFFO QSJTPOFST XFSF killed and forty wounded before order was restored. Forbes boasted that iQSPNQU VTF PG B HBUMJOH HVO JO UIF UPXFS BOE UIF SJPU HVOT XJUI XIJDI UIF HVBSET PO UIF XBMMT XFSF BSNFE FOEFE UIF USPVCMF JO FJHIU NJOVUFTw "ęFS BOPUIFSSFCFMMJPOBUUIFDPOWJDUMBCPSDBNQBU"MCBZ 'PSCFTQVUBSNFETDPVUT JOUIFUIJDLMZQMBOUFEIFNQĕFMETUPLFFQJONBUFTGFBSGVMBOEPCFEJFOU56 0WFSUJNF UIF1IJMJQQJOFTDPNNJTTJPOBUUFNQUFEUPJNQSPWFQSJTPODPOditions, largely to advance political reeducation efforts. In an extension of the QSPHSFTTJWF SFGPSNT JO UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT GBDJMJUJFT XFSF SFOPWBUFE KVWFOJMFT BOEUIFJOTBOFXFSFSFNPWFEUPTFQBSBUFJOTUJUVUJPOT BOEBMFQFSDPMPOZXBT FTUBCMJTIFEPOUIFJTMBOEPG$VMJPO1SJTPOSFDPSETXFSFTZTUFNBUJ[FE BOEXBSEFOTXFSFUSBJOFEJOBENJOJTUSBUJWFNFUIPET"SFXBSETTZTUFNXBTJOJUJBUFE B MJCSBSZXBTFTUBCMJTIFE BOEDMBTTFTXFSFPČFSFEJOSFBEJOH XSJUJOH BOENBUIFNBUJDT 3FMJHJPVT TFSWJDFT BOE SFDSFBUJPOBM QSPHSBNT XFSF BMTP PSHBOJ[FE JODMVEJOHCBTFCBMMHBNFTBOEUIFBUSJDBMQFSGPSNBODFTPOXFFLFOET TPNFMFE CZBOJONBUFCBOE'MZQSPPGIPTQJUBMGBDJMJUJFTXFSFCVJMUPOQSJTPOHSPVOET BOETJDLQSJTPOFSTXFSFHJWFOBDDFTTUPNFEJDBMDBSFBOEESVHUSFBUNFOUBOE cleansed of intestinal parasites.57 These practices resulted in a decline in overall NPSUBMJUZSBUFT UIPVHIJOBEPQUJOHQVCMJDIFBMUIJOOPWBUJPOT PďDJBMTTPNFUJNFTUSFBUFEQSJTPOFSTBTPCKFDUTPGTDJFOUJĕDTUVEZBOEHVJOFBQJHTGPSOFX WBDDJOFT*OŴżųŹ UFOQSJTPOFSTEJFEGSPNUIFCVCPOJDQMBHVFXIFO%S3JDIard P. Strong injected subjects with the virulent plague bacillus.58 #FZPOETVDINFEJDBMFYQFSJNFOUBUJPO UIFQFOBMSFGPSNTXFSFMJNJUFECZ UIFDPSSVQUJPOPGHVBSET XIPTNVHHMFEJOESVHTBOETZSJOHFTGPSNPSQIJOF The Philippines and the Blood of Empire
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JOKFDUJPOT BOECZDISPOJDPWFSDSPXEJOHSFTVMUJOHGSPNUIFSPVOEVQPGQPMJUJDBM QSJTPOFST*OŴżŵŶ #JMJCJEIPVTFEź żŻŹJONBUFTXIFOJUXBTJOUFOEFEGPSŶ ŷųų %FUBJOFFTXFSFDSBNNFEJOUPQPPSMZWFOUJMBUFEDFMMTMBDLJOHQSPQFSUPJMFUT BOE UIFZFOEVSFEGPPETIPSUBHFTBOEĘPPEJOH*OŴżŵŶ UIF1IJMJQQJOFTDPNNJTTJPOSFDPSEFEUIBUPWFSUISFFEP[FOQSJTPOFSTIBEEJFEGSPNUVCFSDVMPTJTBOE BOPUIFS UIJSUZTFWFO GSPN QOFVNPOJB ćF SBUFT JODSFBTFE TJHOJĕDBOUMZ PWFS the next four years. The 1928 annual report of the director of prisons acknowlFEHFEUIBUUIFTQSFBEPGEJTFBTFTXBTiUIFOBUVSBMTFRVFODFPGUIFDPOHFTUFE conditions of the prison.”59 " DFOUSBM BJN PG UIF OFX QFOPMPHZ XBT UP JODVMDBUF BO JOEVTUSJPVT TQJSJU BNPOHJONBUFTXJUIPVUBMMPXJOHUIFJSMBCPSUPCFFYQMPJUFECZQSJWBUFJOUFSFTUT BT VOEFS UIF DPOWJDUMFBTJOH TZTUFN JO UIF +JN $SPX 4PVUI 1SJTPOFST XFSF USFBUFEMJLFTPMEJFST MJWJOHJOCBSSBDLTBOEGPSDFEUPVOEFSHPESJMMGPSNBUJPOT They worked on labor projects; were instructed in trades such as woodworking, DBSQFOUSZ QMVNCJOH BOECMBDLTNJUIJOH BOEQSPEVDFEGVSOJUVSFPGBQQBSFOUMZ IJHIRVBMJUZ*OTUSVDUPSTXFSFBMTPTFOUJOUPXPNFOTQSJTPOTUPUFBDIIBOEJcrafts, including needlework and sewing, as well as stenography. Repair of BVUPNPCJMFTBOENBDIJOFSZXBTQFSGPSNFEPOTJUFGPSBTNBMMSFNVOFSBUJPO60 Colonial officials took pride in the latest innovations and sought to porUSBZUIFNBTBNBSLFSPGQSPHSFTTćF4UBUF%FQBSUNFOUTQPOTPSFEBNPUJPO QJDUVSFUSBWFMPHVFCZ#VSUPO)PMNFT BQJPOFFSPGUIFHFOSF UJUMFEGoing to Jail in Manila,XIJDIGFBUVSFEJONBUFTCFJOHUSBJOFEBU#JMJCJEJOTJMWFSTNJUIing and wicker-working. The advent of a Taylorized routine resulted in the efficient production of goods. The director of the prison stated, “Our objecUJWFJTUPUSBOTGPSNUIFIVNBOCFJOHJOUPBNBOUPDIBOHFXFBLTIJęMFTTOFTT into active responsibility.”61ćJTDPNNFOUTVNNFEVQUIFJEFPMPHZPGUIFOFX QFOPMPHZ XIJDI BďSNFE B GBJUI JO JOEJWJEVBMJTN BOE BDIJFWFNFOU UISPVHI work and discipline. *O BDUVBMJUZ IPXFWFS BCVTJWF QSBDUJDFT DPOUJOVFE 3FDBMDJUSBOU JONBUFT XFSFUISPXOJOUPTPMJUBSZDPOĕOFNFOUBOEGPSDFEUPXFBSMFHJSPOTKPJOFECZ BDIBJO BNFUIPEDPOEFNOFECZ8FTUFSOQFOPMPHJTUTBTSFTFNCMJOHNFEJFWBM UPSUVSF 8IFO RVFTUJPOFE BCPVU UIFJS VTF CZ B WJTJUJOH BDBEFNJD PCTFSWFS John L. Gillin, the director of Bilibid responded, “We have to deal here with BQFPQMFJOBEJČFSFOUTUBHFPGTPDJBMEFWFMPQNFOUUIBOUIPTFZPVEFBMXJUIJO the United States.”62 The adoption of racist stereotypes to rationalize draconian NFBTVSFTFYFNQMJĕFEUIFDPOUJOVJUZGSPNUIF4QBOJTIFSB GSPNXIJDITPNFPG UIFUPSUVSFBSUJGBDUTXFSFJSPOJDBMMZLFQUPOEJTQMBZJOBOPOTJUFNVTFVN 1BSUPGUIFQSPCMFNXBTUIFBUUFNQUUPFNVMBUF"NFSJDBOQFOBMQSBDUJDF XIJDIXBTNBSSFECZSBDJBMWJPMFODF PWFSDSPXEJOH BOEIBSTIQVOJUJWFQPMJDJFT"DDPSEJOHUP(JMMJO UIFDPOEJUJPOTJO#JMJCJEXFSFDPNQBSBCMFUPUIPTFJO iOJOFUFOUITPG"NFSJDBOQSJTPOTJOUFSNTPGUIFEJTDJQMJOFDBSSJFEPVU wBQPXFSGVMDPNNFOUBSZPOUIFSFQSFTTJWFDIBSBDUFSPGUIF"NFSJDBOQFOBMTZTUFN63 32
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ćFNPTUBNCJUJPVTQFOBMJOJUJBUJWFXBTBOBHSJDVMUVSBMDPPQFSBUJWFPOUIF JTMBOEPG1BMBXBOBU*XBIJHBOEBU4BO3BNPOJOUIFQSPWJODFPG;BNCPBOHB XIFSFQSJTPOFSTFOHBHFEJOTFMGNBOBHFNFOUBOEQPMJDJOHBOEHSFXUIFJSPXO GPPEPOPWFSŴųų ųųųBDSFTPGMBOEćFZBMTPQBSUJDJQBUFEJOMVNCFSJOHBOE ĕTIJOH IBEBQJHBOEQPVMUSZIPVTF BOEQSPEVDFEIBOEJDSBęTGPSTBMF JODMVEing hats, raincoats, and furniture.69 If they behaved well, prisoners could own MJUUMFGBSNTBOEMJWFJOBIVUXJUIUIFJSGBNJMJFTćFOFYUTUFQXBTBGVMMQBSEPO ćFJOTUJUVUJPOTXFSFNPEFMFEBęFSUIF(FPSHF+VOJPS3FQVCMJD BSFGPSNBUPSZ TDIPPMJOVQTUBUF/FX:PSLXIFSFEFMJORVFOUDIJMESFOMJWFEJOGBNJMZDPUUBHFT BOEXFSFUBVHIUUPCFDPNFQSPEVDUJWF TFMGHPWFSOJOHDJUJ[FOT70 *XBIJHJOQBSUJDVMBSXBTIFSBMEFEBTBNPEFMPGQSPHSFTTJWFSFGPSNBOEJOĘVFODFEUIFEFWFMPQNFOUPG"NFSJDBOQFOBMGBSNT8IJUF XIPXBTBQQPJOUFE XBSEFO XSPUFJOIJTNFNPJSTUIBU'PSCFTXBTiBOJEFBMJTUwXIPCFMJFWFEUIBU iNFOJOUIFQFOBMDPMPOJFTXFSFSFEFFNBCMFw)ڀڀJTWJTJPOXBTUPiBQQMZUP 'JMJQJOPPVUMBXTڀڀBOEGBOBUJDT NVSEFSFSTBOEDBUUMFUIJFWFT JOTVSHFOUTBOE QPMJUJDBM JOUSJHVFST UIF TBNF NFEJDJOF UIBU IBE DVSFE "NFSJcan boys.”718IFO*XBIJHXBTĕSTUFTUBCMJTIFEJOŴżųŷ 8IJUFOPUFEUIBUUIF EFBUISBUFXBTPWFSŵŸųQFSŴ ųųų iNFOEJFEMJLFĘJFTPGCFSJCFSJ NBMBSJB BOE EZTFOUFSZ BOEXBMMPXFEJOUIFJSPXOĕMUIVOUJMUIFSFNBJOEFSSPTFJOSFWPMU OFBSMZLJMMJOHUIFOFHMFDUGVMTVQFSJOUFOEFOU.BOZPGUIFDPOWJDUTĘFEUPUIF XJMENPVOUBJOJOUFSJPSPGUIFJTMBOEXIFSFUIFZMJWFEXJUIUIFQBHBO5BHCBOVB tribes.”72 &WFOUVBMMZUIFJONBUFTDMFBSFEUIFMBOEBOEEFWFMPQFEUIFOFDFTTBSZJOGSBTUSVDUVSF UP BMMPX GPS JUT TVTUBJOBCJMJUZ BMUIPVHI NBMBSJB SFNBJOFE FOEFNJD and cases of beriberi were still recorded. Progressives took pride in the fact that while Bastille-type prisons were being built in the United States, Iwahig XBTCPSOXJUIPVUQSJTPOXBMMTPSHVBSETBOEHBWFJONBUFTUIFPQQPSUVOJUZUP SFHBJOUIFJSTFMGSFTQFDUćF8PPE'PSCFTNJTTJPOJOŴżŵŴDIBSBDUFSJ[FEJUBT BNPOHUIFNPTUTVDDFTTGVMJOTUJUVUJPOTDSFBUFECZUIFDPMPOJBMPDDVQBUJPOBTB SFTVMUPGUIFBEPQUJPOPGiBEWBODFESFGPSNBUPSZNFUIPET wXIJDIZJFMEFEMPX SFDJEJWJTNSBUFT737JDF(PWFSOPS/FXUPO8(JMCFSUXBTRVPUFEJOUIFManila Times as saying that he had observed convicts living and working together in IBSNPOZBTQSBDUJDBMMZGSFFNFOXJUIUIFBCTFODFPGWJPMFODFBOEiOPUBTJOHMF HVOPOUIFJTMBOEڀڀćFIVNBOJUBSJBOTQJSJUXIJDIFOHFOEFSFEUIFJEFBPGB QFOBMDPMPOZNBZOPXCFTBJEUPIBWFCFFOGVMMZKVTUJĕFEćFTVDDFTTPGUIF FYQFSJNFOUJTXPOEFSGVMw74 In 1931, after visiting penitentiaries throughout the United States and the XPSME UIFDSJNJOPMPHJTU+PIO(JMMJOGPVOE*XBIJHUPCFUIFNPTUSFNBSLBCMF FYQFSJNFOU JO QFOBM SFGPSN UIFO JO FYJTUFODF75 While Iwahig was indeed JOOPWBUJWFJONBOZPGJUTJEFBMT DPOEJUJPOTXFSFOFWFSUIFMFTTGBSGSPNVUPQJBO .BOZ PG UIF JONBUFT XFSF QPMJUJDBM QSJTPOFST JODMVEJOH DBQUVSFE MFBEFST PG UIFNFTTJBOJDQFBTBOUNPWFNFOUTBOEUIF.PSPSFTJTUBODF%JTDJQMJOFDPVME 34
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Chapter 2 “Popping Off” Sandinistas and Cacos Police Training in Occupied Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua Who are We? We are Tigers! What do Tigers eat? Blood! Whose Blood? The Blood of the People! /JDBSBHVBO(VBSEJBDIBOU T It seems funny as hell to me, every once in a while some misguided fool up in the States, who knows nothing of the trouble here sets up a howl over a few black bandits being knocked off. -ewis B. “Chesty” Puller MFUUFSUPGFMMPXNBSJOF+PIO1VMMFO I know of no inhumane action and crimes greater than those committed by the U.S. against the defenseless peoples of Latin America through its legally authorized agents and representatives. ). H. Knowles GPSNFSNJOJTUFSPG/JDBSBHVB FBSMZT
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do. We do not believe your politicians. Our own politicians have lied to us. We UIJOLZPVIBWFDPNFUPUBLFPVSDPVOUSZBOENBLFVTZPVSTMBWFT8FXBOUUP LFFQPVSDPVOUSZBOEPVSGSFFEPN8FJOUFOEUPESJWFUIFblancsJOUP the sea.”24ćFTFDPNNFOUTQSPWJEFJOTJHIUJOUPUIFNPUJWFTPGUIF$BDPNPWFNFOUJOWJFXPGUIFJSMPOHIJTUPSZPGPQQSFTTJPOCZXIJUFT .BLJOH VTF PG DBQUVSFE EPDVNFOUT BOE TQJFT UIF (FOEBSNFSJF FWFOUVBMMZ USBDLFE EPXO #BUSBWJMMF LJMMJOH IJN BOE EP[FOT PG IJT NFO EFBMJOH B deathblow to the insurgency. Jungle patrols continued into the early 1920s to TVQQSFTTiNBMDPOUFOUTXIPEJEOPUTVSSFOEFS wNPTUOPUBCMZUIF$BDPDIJFGT &TUSBWJMMF +FBO+BDRVFT"MCFSU BOE"MDJVT+FBO XIPWPXFEUPSFTJTUVOUJMUIF end. Monthly intelligence reports in 1921 noted that Estraville was sick with TNBMMQPY BOE "MDJVTT GPMMPXFST XFSF TVSWJWJOH iNBJOMZ PO GSVJUw BOE XPSF iQPPSMZQSPWJEFEDMPUIFT wEFNPOTUSBUJOHUIFJSXFBLFOFETUBUFćPVHIiCBOEJUTTUJMMSPBNFEUIFDPVOUSZTJEF< >BMMBSFFYIBVTUFEBOEJOQPPSIFBMUIڀڀ ćFZ FOHBHF JO GFX EFQSFEBUJPOT FYDFQU UIF JMMFHBM QSPDVSFNFOU PG GPPE CZ PDDBTJPOBMGPSBHJOHwćF+VMZSFQPSUSFDPSEFEUIFEFBUIPGPOFPG"MDJVTTNFO XIPIBECFFOiTFWFSFMZNBDIFUFECZBOBUJWFHVJEFwBęFSIJTDBQUVSFOFBSUIF CPSEFSPGUIF%PNJOJDBO3FQVCMJD#Z0DUPCFS NPTUPGUIFSFNBJOJOHDIJFGT IBECFFODBQUVSFEBOELJMMFE"OUJPDDVQBUJPOTFOUJNFOUSFNBJOFEQFSWBTJWF OFWFSUIFMFTT BOE64JOUFMMJHFODFGFBSFEUIFSFUVSOPG%S#PCPGSPNFYJMFJO +BNBJDB25 ćF(FOEBSNFSJFTiTVDDFTTwBUQBDJĕDBUJPOXBTBJEFECZJNQSPWFNFOUTJO SBEJPUFDIOPMPHZBOEDPNNVOJDBUJPOT*OBUBTLMBUFSQFSGPSNFECZ64"*% BSNZFOHJOFFSTDPOTUSVDUFEBOEPWFSTBXUIFSFQBJSPGUFMFHSBQIMJOFT BMMPXing for better coordination in pursuit of guerrillas. Introducing the use of airQMBOFT JO TFBSDIJOH PVU SFNPUF NPVOUBJO DBNQT XBT BOPUIFS UVSOJOH QPJOU 0O"VHVTUŷ Ŵżŵų 8JMMJBNTSFQPSUFEUIBUUXP(FOEBSNFSJFQMBOFTIBEĕSFE Ŵ ŵųųNBDIJOFHVOSPVOETBUBCBOEJUDBNQ DPOUSJCVUJOHUPJUTEFTUSVDUJPO*O BSBEJPHSBNUPUIF4UBUF%FQBSUNFOU $PMPOFM++.FBEFTUBUFEićFQMBOFT NBOFVWFSFEFYDFMMFOUMZBOEEJSFDUFEUIFJSĕSFXJUIBQQBSFOUMZHPPEFČFDU UBLJOHCBOEJUTGSPNUIFJSIJEJOHQMBDFTڀڀćJTEFNPOTUSBUFTUIBUBJSQMBOFTBSF a success in such affairs. Bandits thought they were safe but found out there is OPQMBDFUIBUXJMMQSPUFDUUIFNw26 The adoption of aerial technology helped to usher in a new age of “total war” in which people could be killed without ever TFFJOHUIFGBDFPGUIFJSBUUBDLFS'PS)BJUJBOTPOUIFHSPVOE UIFDPOTFRVFODFT were terrifying. “Like Being Back in the Days of Boss Tweed”: Further Misconduct and the McCormick Commission
A lack of legal regulations broadened the scope of police abuses throughout UIFPDDVQBUJPO5PSUVSF PSUIFiUIJSEEFHSFF wXBTDPOTJEFSFEiKVTUJĕBCMFVOEFS Occupied Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua
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“Pursuing an Active Campaign of Harassment”: The Duvalier Era and Legacies of Colonialism
"NFSJDBODPMPOJBMSVMFXBTPOUIFXIPMFBEJTBTUFSGPS)BJUJćF6OJUFE4UBUFT failed to develop viable social institutions, including in public health and eduDBUJPO BOE UIF SPBE JOGSBTUSVDUVSF XBT QSJNBSJMZ EFTJHOFE UP JNQSPWF BSNZ USBOTQPSUBUJPO BOE FYQFEJUF USBEF UP UIF CFOFĕU PG "NFSJDBO DPSQPSBUJPOT The police constabulary served as one of the few enduring institutions, and its MFHBDZXBTPWFSXIFMNJOHMZOFHBUJWF &NJMZ#BMDI BQSPGFTTPSPGFDPOPNJDTBU Wellesley College who traveled to Haiti in 1927 with a peace delegation, warned BCPVUiTFMGNBJOUFOBODFJOQPXFSPGXIPNTPFWFSIBTDPOUSPMPGUIJTGPSDF TVCKFDUPOMZUPUIFEFWFMPQNFOUPGBTJUVBUJPOXIFSF MJLFUIF1SFUPSJBOHVBSE UIF TPMEJFSTTFMMUIFNTFMWFTUPUIFIJHIFTUCJEEFSw34 This is exactly what transpired. 1SJPSUPUIFXJUIESBXBMPGUIFNBSJOFTJOŴżŶŷ UIFBENJOJTUSBUJPOPG'SBOLMJO 3PPTFWFMU TUFQQFE VQ SJPU DPOUSPM USBJOJOH BOE TFMFDUFE QSP"NFSJDBO $PMPOFM%FNPTUIÒOF$BMJYUFUPIFBEUIF(FOEBSNFSJF)FVTFEIJTQPTJUJPOUP MBVODIBDPVQ XIJDIXBTTVQQSFTTFECZ4UFOJP7JODFOU BNPEFSBUFOBUJPOBMist who, along with his corrupt and autocratic successor Elie Lescot, intensiĕFEUIFQPMJUJDJ[BUJPOPGUIFGPSDF QMBDJOHJUĕSNMZVOEFSIJTDPOUSPM35 Then, BęFSBTDFOEJOHUPQPXFSJOŴżŸźGPMMPXJOHBQFSJPEPGNJMJUBSZSVMF 'SBOÎPJT “Papa Doc” Duvalier used the policing apparatus built by the United States UPCSVUBMJ[FPQQPOFOUTPGIJTSFHJNF)JT5POUPO.BDPVUFT PSTFDSFUQPMJDF XFSF EFTDSJCFE BTiUIVHT UIJFWFTBOENVSEFSFSTw " .BZ ŴżŸż 4UBUF %FQBSUNFOU SFQPSU NFOUJPOFE B UZQJDBM JODJEFOU JO XIJDI B TUVEFOU XIP DSJUJDJ[FE UIFHPWFSONFOUXBTLJEOBQQFECZ5POUPO.BDPVUFT XIPCVSOFEPČIJTCFBSE with a lighter. The report concluded that the “regular and secret police pursue BOBDUJWFDBNQBJHOPGIBSBTTNFOUBOEUFSSPSJTNBMMPWFSUIFDPVOUSZw36 ćF6OJUFE4UBUFTUPMFSBUFEUIFTFNFUIPETCFDBVTFPG%VWBMJFSTBOUJDPNNVOJTNBOEPQFOOFTTUPGPSFJHOJOWFTUNFOU"TTimeNBHB[JOFFEJUPSJBMJ[FE i8JUIDPNNVOJTU$VCBPOMZŸųNJMFTBXBZ UIF64DBOOPUDVUĘBUCSPLF)BJUJ off the dole without risking a red takeover.”37 The bulk of police aid was proWJEFEUISPVHIBNJMJUBSZBTTJTUBODFQSPHSBNIFBEFECZ$PMPOFM3PCFSU)FJOM Jr., whose own son was arrested, allegedly for asking why peasants had nothing UPFBU3FUBJOJOHPMEDPOUBDUT JODMVEJOHBSNZDIJFGPGTUBČ"OUPOJP,ÏCSFBV XIPMPPLFEVQPOIJNBTBGBUIFSĕHVSF -FNVFM4IFQIFSE+S GPSNFSDPNNBOEBOUPGUIF.BSJOF$PSQT XBTJOĘVFOUJBMJOBEWPDBUJOHGPSUIFDPOUJOVBUJPOPG QPMJDFUSBJOJOHGPSJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZQVSQPTFT"NFSJDBOBEWJTFSTXPSLFEXJUI the presidential guard, who in turn trained the Tonton Macoutes in order to iLFFQ%VWBMJFSJOQPXFSTPIFDPVMEGVMĕMMIJTGVMMUFSNJOPďDFBOENBZCF longer,” as Heinl put it.38ćF64BNCBTTBEPSBSHVFE ićPVHIDSJUJDTXPVME DIBSHFXFBSFBCFUUJOHSFQSFTTJPO UIFFNCBTTZGFFMTUIBUBOZSFBTPOBCMFQFSTPO FWFOJGDSJUJDBMPGUIF%VWBMJFSSFHJNF XPVMEBENJUUPUIFOFDFTTJUZPGUIFQPMJDF
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1PMJDFBJEJOUIF%PNJOJDBO3FQVCMJD )BJUJTOFJHICPSPOUIFJTMBOEPG)JTQBOJPMB ZJFMEFEBTJNJMBSPVUDPNFUPUIBUJO)BJUJ*O"QSJMŴżŴź BZFBSBęFSUIF NBSJOFTJOWBEFE BOPQFSBUJPOEFTJHOFEUPTIPSFVQ"NFSJDBTSFHJPOBMQPXFS and protect its sugar interests), governor Harry S. Knapp issued an executive PSEFS BQQSPQSJBUJOH žŸųų ųųų GPS iPSHBOJ[JOH FRVJQQJOH BOE NBJOUBJOJOH B OBUJPOBM%PNJOJDBOQPMJDFGPSDF wUIF(VBSEJB/BDJPOBM XIJDIXBTDPOTJEFSFE CZUIF4UBUF%FQBSUNFOUUIFiNPTUTPMFNOPCMJHBUJPOXFIBWFBTTVNFEXJUIJO UIJTSFQVCMJDw"NBJOQVSQPTFXBTUPĕHIUJOTVSHFOUTJOUIFFBTUFSOQSPWJODFT XIPXFSFBQSPEVDUPGUIFEJTFNQPXFSNFOUPGMPDBMDBVEJMMPTBOEUIFVQSPPUJOHPGUIFQFBTBOUSZDBVTFECZUIFFDPOPNJDSFPSJFOUBUJPOUPXBSEDBTIDSPQ exports.40 "SHVJOH UIBU JOUFSWFOUJPO XBT OFDFTTBSZ UP UFBDI UIF %PNJOJDBOT UIF advantages of industry and provide education, which was lacking in even iSVEJNFOUBSZGPSN wNJOJTUFS8JMMJBN83VTTFMMSFDSVJUFE1VFSUP3JDBOPďDFSTFYQFSJFODFEJOFOGPSDJOHDPMPOJBMPDDVQBUJPO%PNJOJDBOT IFCFMJFWFE iXPVMEOPUCFBTFďDJFOUBT"NFSJDBOPďDFSTXIPTFQMBDFTUIFZXJMMUBLFw41 ćFGPSDFXBTDPNNBOEFECZ$PMPOFM(FPSHF34IBOUPO DIJFGPGUIF*OTVMBS 1PMJDFPG1VFSUP3JDPBOEBGPSNFS3PVHI3JEFSXIPXBTTBJEUPiLOPXUIF OBUJWFTXFMMw*UXBTQMBHVFE IPXFWFS CZQPPSEJTDJQMJOFBOEMPXNPSBMF IBWJOHBOBCOPSNBMMZIJHISBUFPGDPVSUTNBSUJBM"WJTJUPSPCTFSWFEUIBUPďDFST IBEBiDPDLZBOEJOTPMFOUBJS wBOEUIFJSOVNCFSTiJODMVEFETPNFPGUIFXPSTU rascals, thieves, and assassins in the country,” who used their position to “vent private hates.”42 *O %FDFNCFS Ŵżŵŷ BęFS UIF XJUIESBXBM PG UIF NBSJOFT 3VTTFMM MBNFOUFE UIBU iQPMJUJDT JT GBTU EFTUSPZJOH UIF FďDBDZ PG UIF %PNJOJDBO QPMJDFw ćF TFDPOEJODPNNBOEXBTGPSDFEUPSFTJHOCFDBVTFIFGBJMFEUPCBDL1SFTJEFOU )PSBDJP7ÈTRVF[FOUIVTJBTUJDBMMZ)JTSFQMBDFNFOU 3BGBFM-5SVKJMMP BGBJUIGVM Horacista, rose to lieutenant colonel owing to his expertise as an interrogator BOEJOGPSNBOU435SVKJMMPTBMMFHFENFOUPS $BQUBJO$IBSMFT.FSLFM DPNNJUUFE TVJDJEFPOUIFFWFPGIJTUSJBMGPSXIBUUIFEJQMPNBU4VNOFS8FMMFTSFGFSSFEUP BTiUIFNPTUSFWPMUJOHBDUTPGCBSCBSJTNDIBSHFEBHBJOTUUIFGPSDFTPGPDDVQBUJPOJOUIF&BTUFSO1SPWJODFTw5SVKJMMPIJNTFMGIBECFFOJOEJDUFEJOŴżŵųPO 46
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worked vigorously to haul snow out of the prison yard to allow for recreation, JOJUJBUFE DPVOTFMJOH QSPHSBNT BOE LFQU UIF QSJTPOFST QSPEVDUJWF UISPVHI XPSLJOWBSJPVTJOEVTUSJFTBOEPOBOBEKBDFOUGBSNUIBUIFIFMQFEEFWFMPQ35 ćFBEVMBUJPOGPS,VTPNPUPFYFNQMJĕFTUIFTQJSJUPGQSPHSFTTJWFTUZMFSFGPSN QSPNPUFE CZ "NFSJDBO PďDJBMT BOE UIFJS CFMJFG JO UIF DBQBDJUZ PG UIF QFOBM TZTUFNUPSFIBCJMJUBUFJONBUFTBOENPMEUIFNJOUPQSPEVDUJWFDJUJ[FOT The Fuchu prison outside Tokyo, whose warden had been injured in the BUPNJDCMBTU XBTIFSBMEFEBTBOPUIFSNPEFMPGSFGPSN1PJOUJOHUPEFDMJOJOH UVCFSDVMPTJTSBUFT BTRVFBLZDMFBONFTTIBMM BOEUIFNBOVGBDUVSFCZQSJTPOFST of pins, bike parts, cigarette lighters, and locks, a laudatory article in Japan News QSPDMBJNFE 'VDIV iBO JOTUJUVUJPO PG XIJDI BOZ DPVOUSZ DPVME CF KVTUJĕBCMZ QSPVE#ZOPTUSFUDIPGJNBHJOBUJPODPVMEUIFQSJTPOCFEFTDSJCFEBTDPNGPSUBCMF ZFUUIFDPOEJUJPOTVOEFSXIJDIQSJTPOFSTMJWFDPVMEIBSEMZCFJNQSPWFE XIJMFTUJMMLFFQJOHJUBQMBDFPGQVOJTINFOUćFBUNPTQIFSFJTUIBUPGBNPEFSO GBDUPSZJOXIJDIUIFXPSLFSTBSFHFUUJOHBGBJSEFBMGSPNNBOBHFNFOUw36 #FOFBUIUIFSBEBSPG4$"1TQVCMJDSFMBUJPOTNBDIJOF IPXFWFS QSPCMFNT MVSLFE"GPSNFSHVBSEBUUIFQSJTPO .VSBJ,B[VP DPNQMBJOFEBCPVUJMMFHBM GPPEEJTUSJCVUJPO UIFBQQSPQSJBUJPOPGHPWFSONFOUTVQQMJFTCZHVBSETGPSQFSTPOBMVTF BOEUIFDSVFMUZPGUIFDIJFGKBJMFS XIPESPWFBUMFBTUPOFJONBUFUP IBOHIJNTFMG"QSJTPOFSIFJOUFSWJFXFETUBUFE i*UTFFNTBTJGXFIBWFDPNFUP UIFQSJTPOOPUUPCFHJWFONPSBMUSBJOJOHCVUUPTUVEZIPXXFDBOSBUJPOBMJ[F UIFNFUIPETPGSPCCJOHUIFQSJTPOFSTw37 ćFTFDPNNFOUTQPJOUUPUIFQFSTJTUFODFPGTFSJPVTBCVTFTJOFWFOUIFCFTU of Japan’s prisons, which PSD officials tried to keep under wraps. Inspection SFQPSUTEFUBJMDPOUJOVFEQPPSTBOJUBUJPOBOENFEJDBMDBSFBTXFMMBTPWFSDSPXEJOHJONBOZGBDJMJUJFT XIJDI-FXJTTUFBNXBTVOBCMFUPDVSC PXJOHJOQBSUUP DVMUVSBMBOEMPHJTUJDBMCBSSJFSTBTXFMMBTJOEJČFSFODFPOUIFQBSUPGUIF"NFSJDBOTTUFNNJOHGSPNUIFSBDJBMJ[FECFMJFGUIBU+BQBOFTFEJEOPUWBMVFUIFiXPSUI PGUIFJOEJWJEVBMw*O)VFOP XIFSFNFBMTXFSFQSPWJEFECZBMPDBMSFTUBVSBOU CVU POMZ JG JONBUFT DPVME QBZ -JFVUFOBOU $PMPOFM 3PCFSU ' .BMCVSH B -PT "OHFMFTQPMJDFPďDFSXIPXPVMEHPPOUPCFDPNFQPMJDFDIJFGJO-BT7FHBT SFQPSUFEUIBUĕęFFOZFBSPMETXFSFJODBSDFSBUFEXJUIBEVMUTJOBiEJSUZTUJOLJOH DPOEJUJPOPGTMPWFOMJOFTTXJUIUIFDFMMTPTNBMMUIBUBMMIBEUPTMFFQCPEZUPCPEZJOBTUJĘJOHIFBUwćF)JSPTIJNBQSJTPO NFBOXIJMFXBTOFWFSQSPQFSMZSFCVJMUBęFSCFJOHSBWBHFECZUIFBUPNJDCPNC Lieutenant George Cornelius reported that rats pervaded the facility and that JONBUFTDPVMEXBTIUIFJSVOEFSXFBSPOMZPODFFWFSZUFOEBZT38 *O"QSJMŴżŷż 14%DIJFG)&1VMMJBNFYQSFTTFEDPODFSOUP-FXJTBCPVUUIF QPPSNPSBMFBOEFTQSJUEFDPSQTBNPOHUIFQSJTPOCSBODIBOEDPNQMBJOFEUIBU “the stars” were not pulling together, notably Fitzgibbon and McCorkle.39 The iSFWFSTFDPVSTFwBOEIBSEFOJOHBOUJDPNNVOJTUTFOUJNFOUTXFSFMFBEJOHUPB HFOFSBMTIJęBXBZGSPNUIFHPBMPGSFIBCJMJUBUJPO4UBSUJOHJOŴżŷż SFQPSUTTIPX Policing in Occupied Japan
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GFBSTBCPVUUIFXBOJOHPG"NFSJDBOIFHFNPOZBOECPMTUFSFEUIFNPWFNFOU toward expanded police authority. MacArthur told the Nippon Times that “the DVSSFOUDPOĘJDUJO,PSFBTQFBLTUPVTPGIPXUFSSJCMFTVCWFSTJWFBDUJWJUJFTBOE UIFQMBOOJOHPGMBXMFTTNJOPSJUJFTBSFćFBVHNFOUBUJPOPGQPMJDFTUSFOHUIJT VOEPVCUFEMZBEFTJSFPGUIFNBKPSJUZPGUIFQFPQMFFYDFQUUIFDPNNVOJTUTw)F XBSOFEPGUIFOFFEUPQBZBUUFOUJPOUPUIFiTMJQQJOHPGSJHIUJTUTBNPOHUIFN who have a hallucination to take the current international situation for the revival of a past golden age.”56ćFTFDPNNFOUTDPOWFZ.BD"SUIVSTEFTJSFUP JOUJNJEBUFUIF+$1 XIJDIIFDIBSBDUFSJ[FEBTUIFiTBUFMMJUFPGBOJOUFSOBUJPOBM QSFEBUPSZ GPSDF w XJUIPVU HJWJOH UIF JNQSFTTJPO UIBU IF XBT BDDPNNPEBUJOH SJHIUXJOH VMUSBOBUJPOBMJTUT /FWFSUIFMFTT IF XBT DPNNJUUFE UP VTJOH UIF QPMJDFUPDSBDLEPXOPONBOZPGUIFTBNFGPSDFTUIBUPQQPTFENJMJUBSZSVMFBOE TVQQPSUFENBOZPGUIFTBNFUBDUJDT The PSD worked increasingly to enhance police surveillance and espionage DBQBCJMJUJFT XIJDI.VMCBSBOE&OHMFXFSFXFMMFRVJQQFEUPEP8JUIDPMMFBHVFT such as Arthur M. Thurston, an FBI agent with the national defense division who had headed the OSS counterespionage branch in China during World 8BS ** BOE -JFVUFOBOU -FF &DIPMT B iEZOBNJD FYUSPWFSUFE FHPUJTU w BDDPSEJOHUPIJT044QFSTPOBMJUZTLFUDI iQPTTFTTJOHGFBSMFTTDPVSBHFBOETUBNJOBCVU WFSZMJUUMFJOUFMMFDUVBMBCJMJUZ wUIFZQSPWJEFEFMFDUSPOJDCVHHJOHFRVJQNFOUBOE TPVOESFDPSEJOH NBDIJOFT ĕSTU EFWFMPQFE CZ B $IJDBHP TDJFOUJTU JO ŴżŶŹ GPS eavesdropping. They also assisted the special investigations bureau headed by GPSNFS5PLLÙPďDFS.JUTVTBEB:PTIJLBXBJODVMUJWBUJOHJOGPSNBOUTBOEDPNQJMJOHEBUBCBOLTPOiDPNNVOJTUBHJUBUPSTwBOEiTVCWFSTJWFTw57 Orrin DeForest, a CIA counterintelligence specialist and national police liaison who later TPVHIUUPBQQMZ+BQBOFTFQSPDFEVSFJO7JFUOBN XSPUFJOIJTNFNPJSTUIBUUIF +BQBOFTFXFSFiGBOBUJDDPMMFDUPSTPGJOGPSNBUJPO BMXBZTFYFSUJOHUIFNTFMWFTUP BDIJFWFBDPNQSFIFOTJWFVOEFSTUBOEJOHPGBQFSTPOBOEIJTBDUJWJUJFTCFGPSF NBLJOHBOZPWFSUNPWFTBHBJOTUIJNڀڀćFJSHPBMXBTOPUIJOHMFTTUIBOUPUBM knowledge.”58 ćFTFDPNNFOUTSBJTFRVFTUJPOTBCPVUXIPXBTBEWJTJOHXIPNBOEQPJOU UPUIFTUSJWJOHPG"NFSJDBOBEWJTFSTGPSUPUBMJOGPSNBUJPODPOUSPM XIJDIXBT BQQMJFEJOMBUFSJOUFSWFOUJPOT BOEBUIPNFVOEFSUIF'#*T$0*/5&-130 " Z Special Unit attached to the PSD’s Special Operations Branch kidnapped leftXJOHEJTTJEFOUT TVDIBTUIFDPNNVOJTUJOUFMMFDUVBM8BUBSV,BKJ XIPIBECFFO JOWPMWFEJOFČPSUTUPSFFEVDBUF+BQBOFTF*NQFSJBM"SNZ108TJO$IJOB BOE plotted secret operations against North Korea and possibly the Soviet Union. 'SPN0LJOBXB XIFSFPOFPGUIFBENJOJTUSBUPST 1BVM)4LVTF MBUFSSFDSVJUFE )NPOH USJCBM MFBEFST GPS UIF $*" JO -BPT TPNF EFUBJOFE DPNNVOJTUT XFSF TIJQQFEUP#PMJWJB"UUIFCFIFTUPG$IBSMFT8JMMPVHICZ XIPSFDSVJUFE*NQFSJBM"SNZHFOFSBMTMBUFSMJOLFEUPBŴżŸŵDPVQQMPUJOUP(ŵTIJTUPSJDBMCSBODI police spied on SCAP officials and Japanese politicians suspected of having Policing in Occupied Japan
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CFFOFNQMPZFE*OIJTWJFX "NFSJDBOUSBJOJOHIBEiQBJEPČBOEBUISFBUUP JOUFSOBMPSEFSXBTSJHIUFEXJUIUIFNJOJNBMBNPVOUPGDBTVBMUJFT wEFNPOTUSBUJOHUIFJNQPSUBODFPGUIFQPMJDFUPJOUFSOBMEFGFOTF65 This is the idea he would QSPNPUFBTIFBEPGUIFŴŵżųEQSPHSBNBOE014 XIJDIFWPMWFEJOUIFTBNF TQJSJUBTUIFQSPHSBNTJO+BQBOBOECVJMUPONBOZPGUIFJSJOJUJBUJWFT +BQBOFTFQPMJDFXFSFGBSGSPNBNPEFMPGFďDJFODZ IPXFWFSćF.BUTVLBXB incident, involving a case of railway sabotage in Taira in which three people XFSFLJMMFE UVSOFEBOBUJPOBMTQPUMJHIUPOUIFJSPęFOTMJQTIPENFUIPET*OB DBTFFRVJWBMFOUUPUIF3PTFOCFSHBOE)JTTDBTFTJOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFT UXFOUZ MPDBMDPNNVOJTUTXFSFDIBSHFEXJUIBDPOTQJSBDZUPEFSBJMBUSBJOJOSFTQPOTF UPUIFĕSJOHPGXPSLFSTVOEFSUIF%PEHFSFGPSNT*OUIFDPVSTFPGUIFJOWFTUJHBUJPO QPMJDFSFQFBUFEMZNJTIBOEMFEFWJEFODF LFQUTIPEEZSFDPSET BOEGPSDFE DPOGFTTJPOTPVUPGUIFEFGFOEBOUT XIPXFSFBMMFWFOUVBMMZBDRVJUUFE4QFDVMBUJPOBCPVOETBTUPXIFUIFSUIFZXFSFGSBNFEBTBNFBOTPGEJTDSFEJUJOHUIF JCP.66 0WFSBMM UIFQPMJDFQSPHSBNTFYBDFSCBUFEIVNBOSJHIUTWJPMBUJPOTCZQSPviding advanced surveillance and crowd control technologies and instilling B GFSWFOU BOUJDPNNVOJTN UIBU CSFE JOUPMFSBODF UPXBSE EJTTFOU PG BOZ LJOE Under PSD oversight, police attacked youths protesting the dropping of the BUPNJDCPNCT TIBEPXFEJOUFMMFDUVBMTTVDIBTUIFQIZTJDJTU4IPJDIJ4BLBUBXIP DBNQBJHOFEGPSUIFQFBDFGVMVTFPGBUPNJDFOFSHZ TQJFEPOTUVEFOUTJO,PSFBO TDIPPMTDPOTJEFSFECSFFEJOHHSPVOETGPSDPNNVOJTN BOESBJEFEVOJWFSTJUZ DBNQVTFT67 As Robert Textor described it: “Groups of cops pounce down upon TPNF IPMFJOUIFXBMM TIPWF UIF LJET BSPVOE XJUI OJHIUTUJDLT TUVČ UIFJS USVDLTXJUIQBSUZMJUFSBUVSF QBNQIMFUT FUD IBVMBGFXLJETUPKBJMćJT JTFNCBSSBTTJOHUPUIFPDDVQBUJPOXIPDBOUHJWFUIFQPMJDF)FMMGPSEPJOHJO UIFJSPXOXBZXIBUXBOUTEPOFJOJUTPXOXBZw68 &YFNQMJGZJOHUIFXJEFTDBMFPGCSVUBMJUZ ćFPEPSF$PIFO DIJFGPG4$"1T MBCPSEJWJTJPOBOEIJNTFMGBUBSHFUPG(ŵTVSWFJMMBODF PCTFSWFEXPSLFSTGSPN Japan’s third-largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shinbun, being subjected to “unnecesTBSJMZIBSTIUSFBUNFOUڀڀIFMEJODPNNVOJDBEPGPSBXFFL POFIBEBCBEDIFTU CSVJTFBOEOPXUIFZIBETIPXOVQNBOBDMFEMJLFBDIBJOHBOHw14%BENJOJTUSBUPS1BVM)BSSJTPO BO'#*BHFOUGSPN-PT"OHFMFT SFQPSUFEUIBUXBSSBOUT were often not issued. In Kyoto, police arrested speakers at an antifascist youth rally and beat up participants trying to take their pictures. Borrowing a page GSPNUIF'#*QMBZCPPL UIFNVOJDJQBMQPMJDFJO"TBIJHBXBFWFOIJSFEBQSPGFTTJPOBMCVSHMBSJOBOBUUFNQUUPPCUBJOFWJEFODFBHBJOTUB+$1NFNCFSXIP BMMFHFEMZNBEFBOUJPDDVQBUJPOSFNBSLT69 To protest police brutality, prisoners conducted hunger strikes, and young +$1 BEIFSFOUT CFHBO UISPXJOH .PMPUPW DPDLUBJM CPNCT BU QPMJDF CPYFT BOE PSHBOJ[FEiBDUJWJTUVOJUTwJOTFMFDUNPVOUBJOWJMMBHFTUIBUDPVMECFEFWFMPQFE JOUPHVFSSJMMBCBTFTBMPOHUIF$IJOFTF:FOOBONPEFM70 In Tokyo, after police Policing in Occupied Japan
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Chapter 4 “Law in Whose Name, Order for Whose Benefit?” Police Training, “Nation-Building,” and Political Repression in Postcolonial South Korea Beautiful land, Korea our country, covered with flowers of hibiscus in full bloom, That’s where our noble brethren live staunchly, That’s where the democratic police stand resolutely, with a glorious mission on their shoulders. ,PSFBO/BUJPOBM1PMJDFTPOH MBUFT Are you not from the Korean nation? Have you not the same blood and bone? Why do you fire on Koreans? 1FPQMFT$PNNJUUFFQBNQIMFU $IJOKV The tragedy of the liberation period and the depth of American responsibility are most evident in the history of the Korean National Police (KNP) during [the] occupation. #ruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War,
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XIPTFPČFOTFDPOTJTUFEPOMZPGiQBSUJDJQBUJPOJOJMMFHBMNFFUJOHTBOEEFNPOstrations and distributing handbills.”43"VUIPSJUJFTFTUBCMJTIFEXPSLDBNQTJO PSEFSUPiVUJMJ[FUIFDBQBCJMJUJFTPGUIFJONBUFTJOVTFGVMPDDVQBUJPOT wXIJDI PęFOFOUBJMFEQFSGPSNJOHEVUJFTGPSUIF"NFSJDBONJMJUBSZ&OBDUJOHUIFJEFBMT PGUIFQSPHSFTTJWFNPWFNFOU 64BEWJTFSTJOUSPEVDFEWPDBUJPOBMUSBJOJOH B SFXBSET TZTUFN QSJTPO JOEVTUSJFT BOE NPWJFT BOE SFDSFBUJPO ćFZ CSPVHIU in chaplains, constructed juvenile facilities, and established a guard training TDIPPMXJUIDPVSTFTJONPEFSOQFOPMPHZ ĕOHFSQSJOUJOH BOEXFBQPOT44 8IBU FČFDU UIF SFGPSNT IBE JT VODMFBS BT QSJTPOT SFNBJOFE SJEEMFE XJUI BCVTF "DDPSEJOH UP UIF 64 "SNZ HVBSET EJTQMBZFE B iIBSTIOFTT UIBU XBT SFQVHOBOUUP%FQBSUNFOUPG+VTUJDFMFHBMBEWJTFSTw"UUIF*ODIPO#PZT1SJTPO JONBUFT XFSF EFQSJWFE PG FYFSDJTF BOE GPSDFE UP XPSL BU NBLJOH TUSBX SPQF without sufficient light. Prisoners engaged in hunger strikes and led jailbreaks. *O ,BOHKV PO "VHVTU ŶŴ Ŵżŷź Ŵźŵ JONBUFT PWFSQPXFSFE HVBSET BOE TFWFO ESJMMFEUIFJSXBZUPGSFFEPN5XPZFBSTMBUFSJO.PLQP OFBS4FPVM ŵŶźHVFSSJMMBTGSPN$IFKVEP*TMBOEXFSFLJMMFECZQPMJDFBOE64"SNZTPMEJFSTBęFS CSFBLJOH GSFF JOUP UIF OFJHICPSJOH IJMMT BOPUIFS FJHIUZĕWF XFSF DBQUVSFE alive.450OUIFXIPMF UIFQSJTPODPOEJUJPOTDPOUSBEJDUUIFNZUIUIBUUIF"NFSJDBOJOĘVFODFJO4PVUI,PSFBXBTTPNFIPXCFOJHO"TJOMBUFSJOUFSWFOUJPOT UIFSFQSFTTJWFDMJNBUFDBUBMZ[FEUIFPQQPTJUJPOBOEIBTUFOFEBSNFESFTJTUBODF “A Cloud of Terror”: The Cheju-do Massacre and Korean War Atrocities
4PNFPGUIFXPSTUQPMJDFDSJNFTPDDVSSFEJOTVQQSFTTJOHUIFVQSJTJOHPOUIF island of Cheju-do at the southern tip of the country. The source of the upheaval XBTVOFRVBMMBOEEJTUSJCVUJPOBOEQPMJDFCSVUBMJUZ BTUIF$*"BDLOPXMFEHFE )PEHF JSPOJDBMMZ UPME B HSPVQ PG DPOHSFTTNFO UIBU $IFKVEP XBT B USVMZ iDPNNVOBM BSFB ڀ ڀQFBDFGVMMZ DPOUSPMMFE CZ UIF 1FPQMFT $PNNJUUFF w XIP QSPNPUFE B DPMMFDUJWJTU BOE TPDJBMJTU QIJMPTPQIZ iXJUIPVU NVDI $PNJOUFSO JOĘVFODFw46 In March 1947, as the AMG tried to assert its authority, the KNP ĕSFE JOUP B DSPXEBOELJMMFEFJHIUQFBDFGVMEFNPOTUSBUPST UIFO JNQSJTPOFE BOPUIFSGPVSIVOESFE(PWFSOPS1BL,ZPOHKVOXBTEJTNJTTFEGPSCFJOHiUPP SFEwBOESFQMBDFECZ:V)BFKJO BOFYUSFNFSJHIUJTUEFTDSJCFEBTiSVUIMFTTBOE dictatorial in his dealing with the opposing political parties.”47 KNP units and SJHIUXJOHZPVUIHSPVQTUFSSPSJ[FEUIF1FPQMFT$PNNJUUFFBOEDVUPČUIFĘPX of food and construction supplies, turning the island into an open-air prison. In response, the Cheju-do branch of the SKLP, long known for its anticoloOJBMEFĕBODF FTUBCMJTIFEHVFSSJMMBVOJUTJOUIF)BMMB.PVOUBJOTTVQQPSUFECZ BOFTUJNBUFEŻųQFSDFOUPGUIFQPQVMBUJPO48 In April 1948 the rebellion spread to the west coast of the island, where guerrillas attacked twenty-four police TUBUJPOT ,/1 BOE DPOTUBCVMBSZ VOJUT PQFSBUJOH VOEFS 64 NJMJUBSZ DPNNBOEBOEBJEFECZBFSJBMSFJOGPSDFNFOUTBOETQZQMBOFTTXFQUUIFNPVOUBJOT “Nation-Building” and Political Repression in Postcolonial South Korea
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XBHJOHiBOBMMPVUHVFSSJMMBFYUFSNJOBUJPODBNQBJHO wBT&WFSFUU%SVNXSJHIU PG UIF "NFSJDBO FNCBTTZ DIBSBDUFSJ[FE JU NBTTBDSJOH QFPQMF XJUI CBNCPP TQFBSTBOEUPSDIJOHIPNFT0OFSFQPSUTUBUFE i'SVTUSBUFECZOPULOPXJOHUIF JEFOUJUZPGUIFTFFMVTJWFNFO UIFQPMJDFJOTPNFDBTFTDBSSJFE PVUJOEJTDSJNJOBUFXBSGBSFBHBJOTUFOUJSFWJMMBHFTw#FUXFFOŶų ųųųBOEŹų ųųų people were killed out of a population of 300,000, including the guerrilla leader :J5ÙLLV BOEBOPUIFSŷų ųųųXFSFFYJMFEćFGFSPDJUZPGUIFWJPMFODFXBTJO QBSUBUUSJCVUFEUPSBDJTNEJSFDUFEBHBJOTU$IFKVOT XIPXFSFTFFOBTCBDLXBSE DPNQBSFEUPUIF,PSFBONBJOMBOEFST49 1PMJDF BUSPDJUJFT XFSF POMZ TMJHIUMZ MFTT NBSLFE JO UIF TVQQSFTTJPO PG UIF JOTVSSFDUJPOJO:PTV XIJDIMFęUIBUQPSUUPXOJOBTIFT"ęFSUIFEFDMBSBUJPO PGNBSUJBMMBXPO0DUPCFSŵŵ ŴżŷŻ DPOTUBCVMBSZVOJUTVOEFS$BQUBJO+BNFT )BVTNBOSPVOEFEVQTVTQFDUFESFCFMT TUSJQQFEUIFNUPUIFJSVOEFSXFBSJO TDIPPMZBSET BOE CFBU UIFN XJUI CBST JSPO DIBJOT BOE SJĘF CVUUT $VSTPSZ screenings were undertaken, and several thousand were executed in plain sight of their wives and children in revenge for attacks on police stations. The corpses PGNBOZPGUIFEFBEXFSFQMBDFEJODJUZTUSFFUTXJUIBSFEIBNNFSBOETJDLMF insignia covering the chest for propaganda purposes. Order was restored only BęFSQVSHFTXFSFFOBDUFEJODPOTUBCVMBSZSFHJNFOUTUIBUIBENVUJOJFEJOTVQQPSUPGUIFSFCFMDBVTF BOEUIFQFSQFUSBUPSTFYFDVUFECZĕSJOHTRVBE50 ćF:PTVBOE$IFKVEPNBTTBDSFTDPOUSJCVUFEUPUIFEFDJNBUJPOPGUIFMFęJTU NPWFNFOUT XIJDIEFQSJWFE,JN*M4VOHTBSNJFTPGUIFTVQQPSUUIFZFYQFDUFE after crossing into South Korea on June 25, 1950, precipitating the Korean War. 8IFOĕHIUJOHCSPLFPVU UIF,/1 FYQBOEFEUPTFWFOUZUIPVTBOENFO KPJOFE JO DPNCBU PQFSBUJPOT MBUFS SFDFJWJOH EFDPSBUJPOT GPS iSVUIMFTT DBNQBJHOT BHBJOTUHVFSSJMMBGPSDFTw.BOZPďDFSTXFSFSFDSVJUFEGPSTFDSFUNJTTJPOTJOUP North Korea by the CIA’s Seoul station chief, Albert Haney, a key architect of UIFŴŵżųEQSPHSBN BOE)BOT5PęF BIFSPPGUIF%BOJTIVOEFSHSPVOEXIP MBUFSTFSWFEVOEFS014DPWFSJO$PMPNCJB"MBSHFOVNCFSXFSFLJMMFE PXJOH UPUIFJOĕMUSBUJPOPGUIFTFDSFUUFBNTCZEPVCMFBHFOUT UIPVHI)BOFZEPDUPSFE the intelligence reports to cover up their fate.51 *OUIFTVNNFSPGŴżŸų UPLFFQ4PVUIFSOMFęJTUTGSPNSFJOGPSDJOHUIF/PSUIFSOFST ,/1BOE30,"VOJUTFNQUJFEUIFQSJTPOTBOETIPUBTNBOZBTŴųų ųųų EFUBJOFFT EVNQJOH UIF CPEJFT JOUP IBTUJMZ EVH USFODIFT BCBOEPOFE NJOFT PSUIFTFB"DDPSEJOHUPBSDIJWBMSFWFMBUJPOTBOEUIFĕOEJOHTPGB5SVUIBOE 3FDPODJMJBUJPO$PNNJTTJPO XPNFOBOEDIJMESFOXFSFBNPOHUIPTFLJMMFE52 ćF#SJUJTIKPVSOBMJTU+BNFT$BNFSPOFODPVOUFSFEQSJTPOFSTPOUIFJSXBZUP FYFDVUJPOPOMZZBSETGSPN64"SNZIFBERVBSUFSTBOEĕWFNJOVUFTGSPNUIF 6/$PNNJTTJPOCVJMEJOHJO1VTBOićFZXFSFTLFMFUPOTBOEUIFZDSJOHFEMJLF EPHT wIFXSPUFićFZXFSFNBOBDMFEXJUIDIBJOTBOEڀڀDPNQFMMFEUPDSPVDI JOUIFDMBTTJDBM0SJFOUBMBUUJUVEFPGTVCKFDUJPO4PNFUJNFTUIFZNPWFEFOPVHI UPTDPPQBIBOEGVMPGXBUFSGSPNUIFCMBDLQVEEMFTBSPVOEUIFN"ڀڀOZEFWJBUJPOGSPNCSPVHIUBHVOUPUIFJSIFBETw53 90
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ćFNPTUDPODFOUSBUFELJMMJOHPDDVSSFEJOUIFDJUZPG5BFKPO XIFSFUIF,/1 TMBVHIUFSFEUIPVTBOETPGMFęJTUTVOEFS"NFSJDBOPWFSTJHIU0ďDJBMIJTUPSJFT MPOHUSJFEUPQJOUIFBUSPDJUZPOUIFDPNNVOJTUTćFDPOEVDUPGUIF,/1XBT not an aberration, however, but the result of ideological conditioning, training JOWJPMFOUDPVOUFSJOTVSHFODZNFUIPETCZUIF"NFSJDBOTBOE+BQBOFTF BOEUIF CSFBLEPXOPGTPDJBMNPSFTJOUIFXBS"DDPSEJOHUPUIFIJTUPSJBO,JN%POH $IPPO UIFQPMJDFLJMMJOHTSFQSFTFOUFEBNPOHUIFiNPTUUSBHJDBOECSVUBMDIBQUFSTwPGBDPOĘJDUUIBUDMBJNFEUIFMJWFTPGŶNJMMJPOQFPQMFBOEMFęNJMMJPOT NPSFBTSFGVHFFT54 Managing the Counterrevolution: Police Training and “Nation-Building” in South Korea in the War’s Aftermath
ćF,PSFBO8BSFOEFEJOTUBMFNBUFJOŴżŸŶ4ZOHNBO3IFFSFNBJOFEMFBEFS of the ROK until his death in 1960, when, after a brief power struggle, he was SFQMBDFECZ(FOFSBM1BSL$IVOH)FFćSPVHIPVUUIFŴżŸųTBOEŴżŹųT "NFSJDBOQPMJDZFMJUFTDPODFJWFEPG4PVUI,PSFBBTBMBCPSBUPSZGPSUIFQSPNPUJPOPG GSFFNBSLFUDBQJUBMJTNBOENPEFSOJ[JOHSFGPSNT4USBUFHJDQMBOOFSTIPQFEUIBU South Korea could surpass its Northern rival in achieving political stability and FDPOPNJDUBLFPČBOECFOFĕU+BQBOTFDPOPNZCZTFSWJOHBTJUTUSBEJOHQBSUOFS BOETPVSDFPGSBXNBUFSJBMT UIVTIFMQJOHUPLFFQJUJOUIF8FTUFSODBNQćF success of South Korea and Japan could then be used for propaganda purposes UP VOEFSDVU UIF BQQFBM PG UIF OPOBMJHOFE NPWFNFOU BOE PG TPDJBMJTU FYQFSJNFOUTJOUIFEFWFMPQJOHXPSMEXIJDI8BTIJOHUPOXBTXPSLJOHUPTVCWFSU55 0QFSBUJOHPOBCVEHFUPGžżųų ųųųQFSZFBS QPMJDFQSPHSBNTXFSFEFTJHOFE UPXJQFPVUUIFMBTUWFTUJHFTPGHVFSSJMMBSFTJTUBODFBOEQSPNPUFUIFTUBCJMJUZPO XIJDI FDPOPNJD EFWFMPQNFOU DPVME UBLF SPPU $PODFSOFE BCPVU QPMJDF DPSSVQUJPO BOE PVUEBUFE UFDIOJDBM FRVJQNFOU UIF $*" OPUFE UIBU 4PVUI ,PSFB IBE FNFSHFE GSPN UIF XBS XJUI B iSJHJE BOUJDPNNVOJTU OBUJPOBM BUUJUVEF BOEWJHJMBOUڀڀSFQSFTTJWFJOUFSOBMTFDVSJUZTZTUFNڀڀXIJDIIBTSFTVMUFEJO UIFWJSUVBMFMJNJOBUJPOPGBMMCVUUIFNPTUDPWFSUBOEDMBOEFTUJOFDPNNVOJTU operators.”567BSJPVTSFWFOHFSFHJNFOUTXFSFJOFYJTUFODF XIPTFNJTTJPOXBT UPIVOUEPXO/PSUIFSODPMMBCPSBUPST"NFSJDBOUSBJOJOHGPDVTFEPOCVJMEJOH up espionage and “counter-subversive” capabilities, creating a central records TZTUFN BOEMFDUVSJOHPOUIFTFWFSJUZPGUIFiDPNNVOJTUUISFBUw 64 NJMJUBSZ BEWJTFST PWFSTBX QPMJDF VOJUT DBSSZJOH PVU iNPQVQw EFBUI TRVBE PQFSBUJPOT BHBJOTU iCBOEJUTw BOE TQJFT JO XIJDI DJWJMJBO EFBUIT XFSF XJEFMZSFQPSUFE*OBQSFDVSTPSUPUIF7JFUOBN1IPFOJYQSPHSBN FďDJFODZXBT NFBTVSFECZUIFOVNCFSPGXFBQPOTTFJ[FEBOEHVFSSJMMBTDBQUVSFEBOEiBOOJIJMBUFE wVTVBMMZBUMFBTUGPVSUJNFTNPSFUIBOUIFOVNCFSPGQPMJDFXPVOEFE or killed.57 Typical was a report in February 1954 in which adviser Edward J. $MBTTPOMBVEFEUIFEJTDPWFSZBOEEFTUSVDUJPOPGBOFOFNZIJEFPVUJO4POBN JO XIJDI UIJSUZPOF iCBOEJUTw XFSF LJMMFE BOE ĕęZGPVS DBQUVSFE58 Another “Nation-Building” and Political Repression in Postcolonial South Korea
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EFIVNBOJ[JOH NFUIPET TFU UIF DPVSTF GPS IJT DBSFFS ,OPXO BT UIF i1BFLUV Mountain Tiger,” he decapitated suspected guerrilla collaborators during the TVQQSFTTJPO PG UIF :PTV SFCFMMJPO XJUI B +BQBOFTFTUZMF TXPSE BOE NBDIJOF HVOOFEUIJSUZPOFEFUBJOFFTJOUIF:POHEPLQPMJDFTUBUJPOXIPXFSFTVTQFDUFE PGCFJOHiDPOUBNJOBUFEFMFNFOUTw*O:POHIBFNZPO ,JNTNFOBSSFTUFEDJWJMJBOTBęFSĕOEJOHQSPQBHBOEBMFBĘFUTBUBOFBSCZTDIPPMBOETIPUUIFNJOGSPOU PGWJMMBHFST PQFOJOHĕSFPOXPNFOBOEDIJMESFOXIPSBOGSPNUIFTDFOF0WFS ĕWFIVOESFEXFSFLJMMFEJOUIFNBTTBDSF GPSXIJDI,JNXBTTFOUFODFEUPUISFF ZFBSTJOQSJTPO UIPVHIIFXBTBNOFTUJFECZ3IFF65 %SJWFOCZBOPCTFTTJWFBOUJDPNNVOJTNBOEUIFSBQBDJPVTQVSTVJUPGQPXFS i5JHFSw,JNQSFTJEFEPWFSGVSUIFSBUSPDJUJFTBTWJDFDPNNBOEFSPGUIFNJMJUBSZ QPMJDFJO1VTBOEVSJOHUIF,PSFBO8BS)JTBQQPJOUNFOUBTIFBEPGUIFQVCMJD TFDVSJUZCVSFBVXBTBSFXBSEGPSIJTMPZBMUZUP3IFFBOESFĘFDUFEUIF,/1T DPOUJOVFE FNQIBTJT PO DPVOUFSJOTVSHFODZ BOE VUUFS EJTSFHBSE GPS IVNBO SJHIUT"NCBTTBEPS+PIO.VDDJP XIPMBUFSPWFSTBXBOPUIFSEJSUZXBSJO(VBUFNBMB DIBSBDUFSJ[FE,JNTNFUIPETBTiSVUIMFTTZFUFČFDUJWF wUZQJGZJOH64 TVQQPSUGPSCSVUBMUBDUJDT BTMPOHBTUIFZXFSFEJSFDUFEBHBJOTUiDPNNVOJTUTw66 7JFXJOHUIFQPMJDFQSPHSBNTBTBHSFBUTVDDFTT UIF4UBUF%FQBSUNFOUTPVHIU UP SFQMJDBUF UIFN JO 7JFUOBN XIFSF UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT BOE UIF 'SFODI GBDFE B TJNJMBS QSPCMFN PG DPNNVOJTU JOĕMUSBUJPO BOE BO iJOBCJMJUZ UP EJTUJOHVJTI GSJFOEGSPNGPFw$PMPOFM"MCFSU)BOFZ JOIJTJOUFSOBMPVUMJOFPGUIFŴŵżųE QSPHSBN CPBTUFE UIBU i64 FČPSUT CFIJOE UIF 30, JO TVCEVJOH DPNNVOJTU guerrillas in South Korea, while not generally known, were exceptionally effecUJWF BU B UJNF XIFO UIF 'SFODI XFSF TQFDUBDVMBSMZ JOFČFDUJWF JO *OEPDIJOBw 0O.BZŵź ŴżŸŷ -JFVUFOBOU$PMPOFM1IJMJQQF.JMPOPGUIF'SFODIBSNZXBT CSJFGFECZ"NFSJDBOPďDJBMTPO,/1UFDIOJRVFTPGTVSWFJMMBODFBOEQPQVMBUJPODPOUSPM.JMPOXBTJNQSFTTFECZUIFFČFDUJWFOFTTPGQPMJDFJOBOUJHVFSSJMMB DBNQBJHOT XIJDIIFTPVHIUUPJODPSQPSBUFBTBNPEFM67 *O ŴżŸŸ BęFS USBOTGFSSJOH QPMJDF USBJOJOH UP UIF 4UBUF %FQBSUNFOU VOEFS ŴŵżųE UIF&JTFOIPXFSBENJOJTUSBUJPOQSPWJEFEPWFSžŴNJMMJPOJODPNNPEJUJFTUPUIF,/1 JODMVEJOHSBEJPUSBOTNJUUFST TUFFMĕMJOHDBCJOFUT BžŸųų ųųų TXJUDICPBSE BOEĕSFUSVDLT-BVSFOi+BDLw(PJO BOBJSGPSDFPďDFSXJUI#" BOE.4EFHSFFTJODSJNJOPMPHZGSPNUIF6OJWFSTJUZPG$BMJGPSOJBBU#FSLFMFZ BOEEJSFDUPSPGUIF"MMFHIFOZ$SJNF-BCJO1JUUTCVSHI TFUVQBTDJFOUJĕDDSJNF MBCFRVJQQFEXJUIĕOHFSQSJOUJOHQPXEFSTBOEUIFMBUFTUGPSFOTJDUFDIOPMPHZ )FMBUFSEJEUIFTBNFJO7JFUOBN *OEPOFTJB %PNJOJDBO3FQVCMJD BOE#SBzil.)68 "EWJTFST GSPN .JDIJHBO 4UBUF 6OJWFSTJUZT 7JFUOBN QSPKFDU JODMVEJOH Jack Ryan, Ralph Turner, and Howard Hoyt (whose backgrounds are discussed JODIBQUFSź
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UFMFUZQF TZTUFN BOE B TFDVSF NFTTBHF DFOUFS BOE DPEF SPPN BU UIF /BUJPOBM 1PMJDF IFBERVBSUFST UP PSHBOJ[F UIF ĘPX PG JOGPSNBUJPO PO UIF 1,* 3PCFSU Janus, a Coast Guard adviser with experience in Japan, furnished advice to the TFBQPMJDFBOENBJOUBJOFETNBMMQBUSPMDSBęPOMPBOGSPNUIF64/BWZ18 ŴŵżųEQMBOOFSTDPNQMBJOFEUIBUXIJMFUIF/BUJPOBM1PMJDFIBEEFWFMPQFE FYUFOTJWFLOPXMFEHFPGDPNNVOJTUBDUJWJUJFT UIBOLTJOMBSHFQBSUUP64USBJOJOH UIF iMBX BCJEJOH BOE VOJUFE GSPOU UBDUJDT PG UIF DPNNVOJTUT DPNCJOFE XJUI UIF BUUJUVEF PG UIF HPWFSONFOU QSFDMVEFE SFQSFTTJWF NFBTVSFTw19 These DPNNFOUTUZQJGZUIFOBUJPOBMTFDVSJUZFTUBCMJTINFOUTQSFGFSFODFGPSSFQSFTTJPO PWFSMFHBMDPNQSPNJTF1PMJDFTVSWFJMMBODFFYUFOEFEUP4VLBSOPIJNTFMG XIPTF XPNBOJ[JOH UFOEFODJFT UIF $*" USJFE UP FYQMPJU CZ NBOVGBDUVSJOH B QPSOPHSBQIJDĕMNTUBSSJOHBOJNQFSTPOBUPSXFBSJOHB4VLBSOPGBDFNBTL20 ICA staffers inspecting Indonesia’s prisons, including the Tjilatjap “devil’s JTMBOE wCVJMUBNJETUTIBSLJOGFTUFEXBUFST XFSFJSPOJDBMMZJNQSFTTFEXJUIUIF FNQIBTJTPOSFIBCJMJUBUJPOBOEUIFiMBDLPGQPMJUJDBMQSJTPOFST PSEFSMZQIZTJDBM appearance, success of agricultural and industrial endeavors, and the profesTJPOBMSFTQPOTJCJMJUZPGQSJTPOTFSWJDFTUBČw4VLBSOPTIVNBOSJHIUTSFDPSEXBT JOEFFEGBSCFUUFSUIBOUIBUPGNBOZ"NFSJDBOCBDLFESFHJNFTNBSSFECZCSVUBM QFOBMTZTUFNT21 "LFZDPNQPOFOUPGUIFŴŵżųEQSPHSBNXBTUPCVJMEVQUIFNPCJMFCSJHBEF BTBDPVOUFSXFJHIUUPUIFNJMJUBSZ XIJDIXBTDPOTJEFSFEUPCFiJOĕMUSBUFEXJUI pinks and reds.”22 Major Melville “Buck” Fruit of the U.S. Air Force reported UIBUIBWJOHXPSLFEXJUIBOVNCFSPG"TJBOQPMJDFGPSDFT IFXBTiJNQSFTTFE CFZPOE IJT FYQFDUBUJPO CZ UIF MFWFM PG USBJOJOH NPSBMF FČFDUJWFOFTT wXIJDIiIBEJUTPXOJOUFMMJHFODFPSHBOJ[BUJPOGPSUIFNBJOQVSQPTFPG JEFOUJGZJOHDPNNVOJTUTwBOEiDPVMEEFBMFČFDUJWFMZXJUIBOBUUFNQUFEVQSJTJOH or coup d’état.” Fruit, who served with the Air Police during the Korean War BOE USBJOFE UIF QBSBNJMJUBSZ DJWJM HVBSE JO 7JFUOBN XBT IJHI PO 4PFLBOUP who, according to Fruit, had “threaded his way through various controversies UPNBJOUBJOBTUBCMFQPTJUJPOQPMJUJDBMMZwćFTDIPPMGPSQBSBNJMJUBSZUSBJOJOHBU 4VSBCBZB JOIJTFTUJNBUJPO NFUUIFiIJHIFTUTUBOEBSETPGFďDJFODZBOEQSPEVDFEUIFNPTUEFNPDSBUJDBUUJUVEFBNPOHQPMJDFZFUTFFOJOUIF0SJFOUw23 ćSPVHI UIF QPMJDF QSPHSBNT UIF %VMMFT CSPUIFST "MMFO XBT UIFO $*" EJSFDUPSBOE+PIO'PTUFSTFDSFUBSZPGTUBUF GVOOFMFEXFBQPOTUP*TMBNJDGVOEBNFOUBMJTUT BOE EJTTJEFOU HFOFSBMT MFBEJOH TFQBSBUJTU SFWPMUT JO UIF PJM BOE SVCCFSSJDISFHJPOTPG4VNBUSBBOE4VMBXFTJ XIFSF$BMUFYBOEPUIFS64ĕSNT IBEMBSHFJOWFTUNFOUT4PFLBOUPBSPVTFE4VLBSOPTTVTQJDJPOTXIFOIFSFGVTFE UPMFOETFBWFTTFMTUPUIF*OEPOFTJBOBSNZ XIJDIIBECFFONPCJMJ[FEVOEFS General A. H. Nasution to suppress the rebellion.24 The CIA cover was blown when Allen Pope, a Civil Air Transport pilot on contract with the agency, was shot down and taken prisoner after shelling an Indonesian village and allegedly CPNCJOHBDIVSDI DBVTJOHUIFEFBUITPGEP[FOTPGDJWJMJBOT25 The Clandestine Cold War in Southeast Asia I
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