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By Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, and Mark Matthews

Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras; Agency denials refuted.
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School of the Americas CIA Torture Manual

Manuals used by the U.S. Army's School of the Americas between 1982 and 1991 appeared to condone executions, beatings and other human rights abuses, the Pentagon said in a disclosure that prompted renewed calls for the school's closure.

http://mediafilter.org/guest/Pages/September.21.1996.23.26.32



Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

By Noah Shachtman

It makes the Pentagon's secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside, "roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan," Sweetman adds. All in all, about seven and a half percent of the Defense Department's total spending is now classified.

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