Dan Mitrione
Dan Mitrione | |
|---|---|
| Office of Public Safety Chief Public Safety Adviser in Montevideo, Uruguay | |
| In office 1969 – August 10, 1970 | |
| Chief of Richmond Police in Indiana | |
| In office 1956 – 1960 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Daniel Anthony Mitrione August 4, 1920 |
| Died | August 10, 1970 (aged 50) |
| Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
| Spouse | Henrietta Lind |
| Children | 9 |
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Daniel Anthony Mitrione (August 4, 1920 – August 10, 1970) was a U.S. government official in Latin America, where he taught torture techniques to local authoritarian regimes. He was kidnapped and executed by the Tupamaros, a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group fighting against the Uruguayan government, in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1970.
A Cuban who claimed to have infiltrated the CIA said Mitrione would use homeless people as guinea pigs for torture methods, and had personally tortured four homeless people to death during a training session that he witnessed.