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The manual was written in English, and then translated into Spanish by Edgar Chamorro. [11] [7] [6] It was printed in ninety pages under the pseudonym Tayacán in late 1983.[9] [better source needed] Chamorro objected to two portions in the document, namely the sections on hiring professional criminals for special jobs and killing colleagues to create martyrs for the cause.
The US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program that details the use of torture. The first manual, "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation", dated July 1963, is the source of much of the material in the second manual. KUBARK was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym for the CIA itself. [10]
Urban guerrilla warfare handbooks and manuals (5 P) Pages in category "Guerrilla warfare handbooks and manuals" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Guerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a military handbook written by Marxist–Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. Published in 1961 following the Cuban Revolution , it became a reference for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. [ 1 ]
Front cover of the manual. The Freedom Fighter's Manual is a fifteen-page propaganda booklet that was manufactured by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and airdropped over Nicaragua in 1983, with the stated goal of providing a "Practical guide to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state".
The book is 282 pages in length, [3] and contains more than 500 separate entries on topics such as the roles played by key contributors to the agency, notable historical events, major intelligence operations, and depictions of the organization in fictional media. [10] [11] The work cites approximately 300 reference sources. [10]
Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897 – September 2, 1965) [2] [3] [4] was a Canadian soldier, socialist, and military instructor who was the author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million published.
According to declassified CIA documents, covert activities in Nicaragua were a combination of political action, paramilitary action, propaganda, and civic action. The 1984 fiscal year CIA budget for these operations was budgeted at $19 million, with $14 million as additional funding available if the agency deemed it necessary. [20]