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- Active from 1975-1980
- Named in honor of Chile's national bird - the condor
- Participating intelligence services used a global, pre-Internet, communication network called Telex for inter-service correspondence
- Substantial evidence of Operation Condor actions was discovered by National Security Archive, Martin Almada in Paraguay, and through lawsuits against Pinochet
- Debate continues about potential American involvement in Condor projects
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Led by the dictatorial government of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Operation Condor was a secret alliance of South American intelligence services in the 1970s that also included the military-led governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and later Peru. Originally intended for sharing intelligence on international left-wing revolutionary groups, Operation Condor agents tortured and murdered opponents with impunity.
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Key Dates
- September 3, 1973: Brazil proposes an intelligence-sharing operation during the 10th Conference of American Armies
- November 25, 1975: Intelligence officers from participating nations meet with Manuel Contreras in Santiago, Chile
- 1983: Operation Condor ends with the ousting of the Argentine dictatorship; some individual operations continue
- December 22, 1992: Judge [[José Agustín Fernández]] discovers "Archives of Terror" in Paraguay police station
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Operation Condor on Amazon
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Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America - $34.95
This powerful work makes a compelling case that U.S. forces secretly condoned and assisted the implementation of Operation Condor, a covert Latin American military network created ...Amazon
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Operation Condor / Operation Condor 2: The Armour Of The Gods - $14.99
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2008Amazon
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Operation Condor Major Historical Figures & Organizations
- Argentina
- Human Rights Watch: Argentina: Operation Condor
- The Vanished Gallery
- Wikipedia: Military Junta
- Wikipedia: Secretaría de Inteligencia (SIDE)
- Wikipedia: Intelligence Battalion 601
- Wikipedia: Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Wikipedia: Montoneros
- CNN: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo & the "Dirty War" (1998)
- Bolivia
- Guardian Limited: Hugo Banzer profile (2002)
- Library of Congress: The Banzer Regime
- Wikipedia: Juan Jose Torres
- Wikipedia: Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
- Chile
- COHA: Pinochet’s and the Chilean Military’s Tarnished Legacy (2004)
- Los Angeles Times: Operation Condor and Pinochet (1998)
- Remember Chile: Manuel Contreras & the Birth of DINA
- Wikipedia: Augusto Pinochet
- Wikipedia: Manuel Contreras
- Wikipedia: Raul Iturriaga
- Wikipedia: Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
- FAS.org: "Para-State Adversaries" (left-wing terrorist groups)
- Paraguay
- New York Times: Stroessner, Paraguay’s Enduring Dictator, Dies (2006)
- COHA: Death of General Alfredo Stroessner (2006)
- BBC: Paraguay's Archive of Terror (2002)
- UNESCO: Democracy in the Light of Dictatorship (2000)
- Uruguay
- COHA: Keeping the Military in Check (2006)
- COHA: Uruguay Confronts its Violent Past (2005)
- Human Rights Watch: Ex-President Faces Prosecution for Military-Era Abuses (2005)
- Wikipedia: Tupamaros
- Wikipedia: Hugo Campos Hermida
- United States
- New Internationalist: Henry Kissinger (2002)
- New America Media: C.I.A. Knew About Latin Terror Plan for Paris (2002)
- Official Site: State Department Memo about Operation Condor (1976) (200 Kbs.)
- Official Site: State Department Memo about South American Security Bloc (1977) (828 Kbs.)
- National Security Archive: FBI Memo on Operation Condor (1977)
- Z Magazine: The Condor Case (2007)
- NameBase: Operation Condor: Ask the DEA
- Argentina



