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  1. Feb 3, 2020 · Episode six of Secret Army. A series, set in world war two about Belgian members of an escape line for British airmen named 'Lifeline'. The show ran for three series between 1977 and 1979.

    • February 03, 2020
    • Chippa
    • 52 min
    • 168
    • Japanese Internment Camps
    • Alcatraz
    • USP Marion
    • Lexington Hsu
    • Communication Management Units
    • Black Sites
    • Homan Square

    Perhaps the most notorious use of this parallel legal system was the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. All Japanese adults were required to complete a questionnaire to evaluate their “Americanness,”and the final two questions directly assessed their loyalty to the United States. Leading up to the internment, the governme...

    Around this time, Alcatraz was becoming a household word. The former military garrison was described as the “end of the line” and the nation’s most repressive prison. It housed the so-called “worst of the worst,” including gangsters like Al Capone. But Alcatraz was more than that. It was a new spectacle of retribution and secrecy. It was an island ...

    In 1963, USP Marion was created as a high-tech replacement for Alcatraz, and 500 of its prisoners — including Miranda — were transferred there. In 1968, prison officials began a behavior modification program at Marion called the Control and Rehabilitation Effort, with the Orwellian acronym of CARE. Prisoners characterized CARE as psychological atta...

    In the 1980s, a similar unit was created for women. The High Security Unit in the federal women’s prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was created to house political prisoners belonging to any organization that, according to the Bureau of Prisons, “attempts to disrupt or overthrow the government of the U.S.” The unit housed Susan Rosenberg, a radical act...

    And yet the closure of the HSU was hardly the end of the story. Today, Communications Management Units, or CMUs, are the modern extension of the Bureau of Prisons’ history of operating pilot programs outside the confines of the Constitution. In April 2006, the Justice Department proposed new rules for “Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates.” ...

    Secret prisons aren’t only housed within the United States. Abroad, the CIA has operated “black sites” — facilities that were used to interrogate and torture people outside the scope of the American judicial system. The Guantánamo Bay detention camp, which has become synonymous with indefinite detentions and human rights abuses since it was opened ...

    This notion of a parallel legal system has crept into local law enforcement as well. In Chicago, the police department is operating an interrogation compound called Homan Square. It is off the books, which means that Americans locked inside are not listed in police databases and cannot be found by friends and family. As Spencer Ackerman reported fo...

  2. Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948; Polish: [ˈvitɔlt piˈlɛt͡skʲi] ⓘ; codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold[ 1 ]) was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader. As a youth, Pilecki joined Polish underground scouting; in the aftermath of World War I, he joined the ...

  3. October 24, 1978 4:00 PM — 50m. 123 165 715 1. Natalie’s new boyfriend, Francois, is keen to become involved in Lifeline, but Albert has doubts. Paul Vercors, the fanatical leader of a Communist cell in Brussels, wants to take over Lifeline, and tries to enlist the assistance of a colleague – Max.

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    • September 7, 1977
  4. On 21 May 1874, the original bill was amended to establish the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where it has been in operation since 21 May 1875. On 5 April 1994, the Secretary of the Army made the decision to build a new USDB, with a capacity for 515 inmates. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 12 June 1998, with a contract ...

  5. Secret Army is a British television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister.It tells the story of a fictional Belgian resistance movement in German-occupied Belgium during the Second World War, an escape line dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually shot down by the Luftwaffe, to Great Britain.

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  7. Jun 12, 2022 · 1. The photographer said a crew member on the flight placed a U.S. flag in the hand of the blindfolded detainee between takeoff in Turkey and arrival at Guantánamo, and snapped a souvenir ...

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