AS d ramatica|IY written as a suspense story<br > Hdden Terrors teIlS about how the C IAthe<br > Pentagonand hundreds of USpolice advisors<br > encouraged the overthrow of democracy in<br > B raziI and set UP a pattern for mtary takeovers<br > in UruguayChileand ArgentinaAJLangguth<br > focuses his account on one symbolic figure<br > Dan Mitrionethe USpolice advisor who<br > gained internationaI attention in 1 970when he<br > was kidnapped and Iater murdered by Urugua-<br > yan guerraSMitrione may be remembered by<br > most Americans as the protagonist in the con-<br > troversial f1m State of Siege<br > ThiS book explains how a hometown boy and<br > former poIce chief of Richmond1ndiana<br > someone most Americans would consider de-<br > cent and respectablemcouldin the service of<br > his government abroadbecome involved ln<br > acts that destroyed iust such rights1t lays out<br > the ways in which his iob Ied him inextricably<br > and without resistance into a web of brutaIity<br > and torture<br > Langguth reconstructs MitrioneS Ife and<br > death through the eyes of those who carried out<br > and those who opposed USpolicy in Latin<br > AmericaThe reader moves right UP the US<br > chain of command into the White House itself<br > i nto the conference rooms of embattled Amer<br > ican embassiesinto the hideouts of Urban<br >