Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Later tracked down by a journalist and asked whether he sold torture equipment to Idi Amin, Terpil responded rhetorically, “Well, what is torture equipment? I could take a pair of pliers and make it very unpleasant for anybody.”64 He did concede that he could hear screams from his office. Terpil stayed on the run.