Letters to the Editor
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Not the Soviet Union, exactly
Perhaps I tend toward this source of analogies too often, but this absurdly staged tour of Gitmo immediately reminded me of this:
On June 23, 1944, the Nazis permitted the visit by the Red Cross in order to dispel rumors about the extermination camps. The commission included E. Juel-Henningsen, the head physician at the Danish Ministry of Health, and Franz Hvass, the top civil servant at the Danish Foreign Ministry. Dr. Paul Eppstein was instructed by the SS to appear in the role of the mayor of Theresienstadt.
To minimize the appearance of overcrowding in Theresienstadt, the Nazis deported many Jews to Auschwitz. Also deported in these actions were most of the Czechoslovakian workers assigned to 'Operation Embellishment.' They also erected fake shops and cafés to imply that the Jews lived in relative comfort. The Danes whom the Red Cross visited lived in freshly painted rooms, not more than three in a room. The guests enjoyed the performance of a children's opera, Brundibar, which was written by inmate Hans Krása.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp
On the other hand, the analogy is less than perfect. The 1944 Red Cross could perhaps be seen as innocent of the crimes their reporting failed to uncover.