American Tortured In Chile

Columnist Jack Anderson reports that a 31 year-old American woman was "brutally tortured last month by Chilean Air Force officers in an insect ridden prison" - yet the U.S. State Department has failed to even protest the incident.

According to Anderson, art teacher Amy Conger was arrested on October 11th by Chilean Military Police. He states she was "threatened with death, forced to ride with breasts bared through the street and thrown on a bed and menaced with rape."

Anderson adds that the woman was catapulted down a stairs while blindfolded, deprived of water, denied sleep and forced to stand until she almost collapsed.

All of this, Anderson said, was instigated in art effort to have her sign a false confession. The columnist writes that after 13 days of this treatment, when she still refused to sign the confession, Air Force officers told her she was being taken to an infamous torture center where prisoners were known to have been given electric shocks on the most sensitive parts of their bodies, stretched on racks and immersed in human excrement.

Amy Conger then signed the confession, and was finally released to the U.S. State Department, Anderson says. Even though Chile is currently seeking $85 million in additional U.S. aid, the State Department has not requested so much as an apology over the incident.