THE CIAs PHOENIX PROGRAM was designed to identify and neutralize (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the NLF or Viet Cong. Many of these people were then taken to interrogation centers where many were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area. ( I know of a man who claimed to have been in the South Vietnamese special forces and carried out the torture of other human beings) Methods of torture alleged to have been used at the interrogation centers include: Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock (the Bell Telephone Hour) rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the water treatment; the airplane in which the prisoners arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners.[17] Military intelligence officer K. Milton Osborne witnessed the following use of torture: The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainees ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages ... The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to ... both the womens vaginas and mens testicles [to] shock them into submission.[18] The torture was usually carried out by South Vietnamese with the CIA and special forces playing a supervisory role.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 05:44:20 +0000
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