Dan Mitrion and the Office of Public Safety

Dan mitrion had been a 28 year old youth police officer with the richmond, indiana police force in 19 forty eight. He lived on the north side italian neighborhood that was directly adjacent to the black section of town. The o p s was established in brazil in august 19 61, just two months before jim jones arrived to bellahorizante. In 19 55, dan mitrion was made chief of the richmond police force. And in 19 60, he took a job with the federal government, officially with the o p s under us Aid. Ad, but generally accepted to day, to have been teaching advance interrogation techniques and counter insurgency tactics