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Release Date: 2021-09-04Label: Beta Bodega
"Inspired by the lack of reporting concerning the Colombian intelligence unit known as "B2" support of paramilitary death squads in the 80's and 90's. Not only promoted, encouraged, and protected paramilitary groups, but have used them to provide intelligence and assassinate and massacre Colombians suspected of being guerrilla allies. Many victims, community and peasant leaders, trade unionists, and human rights monitors among them, have no ties to guerrillas, but have been trapped in a conflict where few wear uniforms or admit their rank. U.S. Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency team worked with Colombian military officers on the 1991 intelligence reorganization that resulted in the creation of killer networks that identified and killed civilians suspected of supporting guerrillas"