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logical impossibility of what the US is actually doing and has often done
in the past.
26. Millett, Guardians, 24, 31; Langley, Banana Wars, 157, 160, 217.
27. Russell, El Salvador, 38, citing NYT, May 3, 1978; LaFeber, Inevitable
Revolutions, 13.
28. Anderson, Matanza, 159; Kirkpatrick, cited by Bonner, Weakness and
Deceit, 237.
29. Richard Millett, in Black, Latin American; Embassy Cables of May 1961
quoted by McClintock, American Connection, I, 149, 199; Edward
Herman and Frank Brodhead, Demonstration Elections (South End,
1984), 98.
30. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 173f.; McClintock, American
Connection, I, 64f.
31. Sam Dillon, New Republic, June 17, 1985; Shirley Christian, NYT, June
16, 1985; Chris Norton, CSM, July 1, 1985.
32. Julia Preston, BG, Feb. 7, 1984.
33. Booth, End and Beginning, 75-6.
34. Nairn, “Behind the Death Squads”; see chapter 2, note 29.
35. McClintock, American Connection, I, 23, 44, 319, 35; II, 74, 64.
36. McClintock, American Connection, I, 17, 33.
37. Taylor address to Inter-American Police Academy, Dec. 1965, cited in
Jan Black, United States Penetration of Brazil (University of
Pennsylvania, 1977), 143; Bernard Fall, New Society, April 22, 1965.
Also Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a War (Pantheon, 1985), 89.
38. Nathan Twining, Neither Liberty Nor Safety (Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1966), 244-5; emphasis in original.
39. Bonner, Weakness and Deceit, 34.
40. Brown, With Friends Like These, 117.
41. Letter to President Carter, Feb. 17, 1980; reprinted in Pearce, Under the
Eagle, and Revolution in Central America (Boulder: Westview, 1983),
edited by Stanford Central America Action Network.
42. Quoted in Report on Human Rights in El Salvador, 183, from State
Department congressional testimony.