Testimony of an Operation Condor and Pinochet-era Chilean secret service agent about the "Germans" of Colonia Dignidad:
Quote:SAMUEL DEVIA TESTIMONY
Samuel Enrique Fuenzalida Devia, former DINA agent, aged 25, testifies for the Amnesty International vs. Colonia Dignidad trial in Bonn on October 30, 1979.
In Villa Grimaldi I had access to the filing cabinet which contained records about people who were wanted or who had been detained. I always needed to search through this cabinet in order to do my work. That’s how I knew that Loro Matías’ file had "Puerto Montt" written on it. This was a code. It meant that the detainee could not be allowed to survive. At the same time, it meant that the prisoner would be killed "on land." I don't know how this was done since I never killed anybody. There was another code: "Moneda." This meant the prisoner had to be killed by air or sea: for example, by flinging his body from an airplane or throwing the body, inside bags with rocks, into the sea...
During the time I was a DINA agent I went to Colonia Dignidad twice, in 1974.
My first visit to Colonia Dignidad ... was in the winter of 1974... I had to accompany an officer to the south, we were going to "the Germans."... We had orders to first go and pick up a prisoner from Cuatro Alamos in Santiago... it was Loro Matías... This prisoner was totally broken, he had been tortured. Too many things had happened for him to have been released....
(The witness, the officer and the prisoner travel south to Parral)
"We stopped at some gates. The prisoner was forced to get in a Mercedes. Two Germans were inside the car. The captain spoke German with them. I could tell by their language they were Germans.... the Captain, I had been told, also spoke German... almost all the DINA officers speak German.. the Captain at one point called one of the Germans "Professor." . (Once inside the compound, the prisoner was taken away by the "Professor" and the Captain, and the witness was led into a house.) "There was a table set for everyone. Once we were seated... the "Professor" came in. He was carrying a black German shepherd... On entering, the "Professor" made a gesture using both arms, which according to my way of thinking meant the prisoner was dead....
The DINA didn’t use the official name "Colonia Dignidad." In the colony, when one mentioned the place, we could only speak of "the Germans." I suppose this was so the prisoners would have no idea of where they were. If the prisoners heard the DINA agents talking about "the Germans" they could not know what they were talking about, because in Chile there are many Germans all over the place... Because of my activities in the DINA I know that President Pinochet made a visit to Colonia Dignidad in August 1974 on his return from a tour to the south of Chile."
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"My body was full of cuts and bruises. I was rotting everywhere. I had pus in my eyes, my nose. My mouth was completely numb. I could feel nothing in my penis and I couldn't feel my limbs. My body was full of cigarette burns..."
In February, 1975, a young medical student named Luis Peebles spent nine days in Colonia Dignidad. ... His testimony, along with that of other survivors and a former agent of the Chilean secret police, formed the basis of reports by Amnesty International, the United Nations and other human rights organizations that accused Colonia Dignidad of functioning as a prison camp and centre for training and experimentation with torture techniques, after the 1973 military coup.
"They tied me to a metal cot, but this time they put a helmet on my head. It had movable earflaps which allowed them to apply electrical current to my ears and rubber bands for around the jaw. This was so that when they kicked or punched me, my jaw wouldn't get thrust out of joint. They taped little wires to my wrists, thighs, glands, chest, neck and applied current in different parts.
"There was also an agent who used a little rubber object which gave off shocks when he hit me with it. They had something they used on my eyes, mouth, teeth, under my tongue and sometimes, when I was shouting, they'd put it right at the back of the palate. I had another one in my anus, at the base of the urethra and another under my nails... This went on for hours and hours. ...The pain was so great that I twisted and several times lifted up the bed. I even bent the cot which was of iron and broke the straps with the strength of desperation.
"The brutality of the treatment made me think I was the subject of an experiment to find out how much I could resist both physically and mentally. I was the guinea pig and they were there to learn."
Adriana Bórquez of Talca was taken from her home on April 23, 1975, thrown onto a bus "full of people" and taken across the Maule River and past Linares, whose lights she saw shortly before the bus turned off the highway onto a gravel road.
"They took me into interrogation, the shouting grew louder and there was music, I remember having heard "Capricho italiano" by Tchaikovsky. A man they called the prosecutor (fiscal) or "Doctor" did the questioning. They applied current; when they finished I could still hear the cries of others being tortured. It gave me diarrhea. ... I had electrodes everywhere and something gave me shocks that passed right through my body. I felt torn apart; just as I felt I was being emptied by mouth and anus, I lost consciousness."
Men speaking with both Chilean and foreign accents shut six-foot-tall Sergio González into a small box measuring no more than a meter, applying electrical current through holes. They also wrapped his head in a plastic bag and then applied current, until oxygen was used up; almost drowned him repeatedly in special tubs, which were at times electrified; and tied him to a sort of electric grill where they applied current generally and to specific parts of his body.
"Right after the coup, torture by the intelligence services and ordinary police wasn't very sophisticated and a lot of people died," Gonzalez said. "But in the Colony they produced the maximum of pain, without necessarily killing. They even put me in their hospital for a while, because of the torture."
From the book "After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile Time Mind",
by Lake Sagaris, Somerville House, Toronto, 1996
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
14-10-2010, 06:43 PM (This post was last modified: 14-10-2010, 06:46 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Testimony of a survivor:
Quote:DIGNIDAD TESTIMONY
"My body was full of cuts and bruises. I was rotting everywhere. I had pus in my eyes, my nose. My mouth was completely numb. I could feel nothing in my penis and I couldn't feel my limbs. My body was full of cigarette burns..."
In February, 1975, a young medical student named Luis Peebles spent nine days in Colonia Dignidad. ... His testimony, along with that of other survivors and a former agent of the Chilean secret police, formed the basis of reports by Amnesty International, the United Nations and other human rights organizations that accused Colonia Dignidad of functioning as a prison camp and centre for training and experimentation with torture techniques, after the 1973 military coup.
"They tied me to a metal cot, but this time they put a helmet on my head. It had movable earflaps which allowed them to apply electrical current to my ears and rubber bands for around the jaw. This was so that when they kicked or punched me, my jaw wouldn't get thrust out of joint. They taped little wires to my wrists, thighs, glands, chest, neck and applied current in different parts.
"There was also an agent who used a little rubber object which gave off shocks when he hit me with it. They had something they used on my eyes, mouth, teeth, under my tongue and sometimes, when I was shouting, they'd put it right at the back of the palate. I had another one in my anus, at the base of the urethra and another under my nails... This went on for hours and hours. ...The pain was so great that I twisted and several times lifted up the bed. I even bent the cot which was of iron and broke the straps with the strength of desperation.
"The brutality of the treatment made me think I was the subject of an experiment to find out how much I could resist both physically and mentally. I was the guinea pig and they were there to learn."
Adriana Bórquez of Talca was taken from her home on April 23, 1975, thrown onto a bus "full of people" and taken across the Maule River and past Linares, whose lights she saw shortly before the bus turned off the highway onto a gravel road.
"They took me into interrogation, the shouting grew louder and there was music, I remember having heard "Capricho italiano" by Tchaikovsky. A man they called the prosecutor (fiscal) or "Doctor" did the questioning. They applied current; when they finished I could still hear the cries of others being tortured. It gave me diarrhea. ... I had electrodes everywhere and something gave me shocks that passed right through my body. I felt torn apart; just as I felt I was being emptied by mouth and anus, I lost consciousness."
Men speaking with both Chilean and foreign accents shut six-foot-tall Sergio González into a small box measuring no more than a meter, applying electrical current through holes. They also wrapped his head in a plastic bag and then applied current, until oxygen was used up; almost drowned him repeatedly in special tubs, which were at times electrified; and tied him to a sort of electric grill where they applied current generally and to specific parts of his body.
"Right after the coup, torture by the intelligence services and ordinary police wasn't very sophisticated and a lot of people died," Gonzalez said. "But in the Colony they produced the maximum of pain, without necessarily killing. They even put me in their hospital for a while, because of the torture."
From the book "After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile Time Mind",
by Lake Sagaris, Somerville House, Toronto, 1996
Typical of the kind of regime we have so often installed, trained and supported....and now we have become just like them.... The US Intel Agencies and Sec of State Kissinger knew all about what was going on in DINA prisons and C.D.!!! They loved it. They killed the peaceful, democratic and civil societies all over the world in the name of Corporate and Bank Profits, Empire and just plain evil. Chile stands out as one of the blackest and clearest of examples!!! :bandit: There have been so many others. There still ARE so many others NOW!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
Awful, horrible and heart-rending stuff Jan. All in the name of science too.
I noted from your post that Presidente Pinochet visited CD. What a nice old gentleman he was eh. And what a good friend he had in our former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatchler, who struggled and strained to ensure his release when he was arrested in the UK in 1998 under a Spanish arrest warrant for 4000 plus "political" murders.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
I found a copy on line and have also down loaded it in case this one disappears for any reason.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Thanks for this important information and history Jan. I have an interesting documentary about Colonia Dignidad which includes Fuentes segment when Schaefer was captured in Argentina. Once I have worked out what format it is in I will upload it. It was not just a torture centre but was a part of Operation Condor. It had a very sophistucated telecommunications system extensive tunnels and many large armaments caches.
Three years hardly seems right for the many crimes he has committed and permitted and lives ruined. Still it is some small justice.
It seems they are presently trying to make Colonia Dignidad into some sort of weird theme park. Quite bizarre.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
Magda - what a fine investigative documentary film, efficiently shot actuality style.
What an important historical document.
And so, Colonia Dignidad is transformed into the Villa Baveria amusement park.
Disneyland in Lederhosen.
When in reality, it was part Lebensborn kindergarten, part Ahnenerbe research laboratory, part Odessa ratline refuge, part CIA rendition site, part Condor communications hub, part Cabazon CBW laboratory and testing ground, part Kincora Blackmail Studio...
Part of all that.
All HORROR.
Horror facilitated by Gehlen Network and Generalissimo Pinochet.
Margaret Thatcher's perfect cup of tea.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
07-07-2012, 06:20 AM (This post was last modified: 07-07-2012, 08:10 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Charles Drago Wrote:
Magda Hassan Wrote:It seems they are presently trying to make Colonia Dignidad into some sort of weird theme park. Quite bizarre.
Six Flags Over Auschwitz.
A theme park? Well, Disney Co. would be appropriate! Reality IS stranger than fiction! Springtime For Hitler....:loo: Great documentary, by the way! I remember reading about C.D. in Covert Information Bullletin decades ago and spoke out about it, but almost everyone though I was making it all up. How many others like that still exist?....how lovely it was part of the CIA's nebelkampen.
...always interesting to me the nexus of fascism, sadism and pedophilia.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
