The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

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Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as remarkable” and a major contribution to the historical record,” The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret U.S. relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and newly updated to include recent developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling but dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments......Page 9 1. The First War on Terrorism......Page 15 2. Meeting in Santiago......Page 24 3. Tilting at Windmills......Page 36 4. Revolution in the Counterrevolution......Page 53 5. Agents in Argentina......Page 73 6. Mission in Paraguay......Page 90 7. The Condor System......Page 106 8. “The Old Man Doesn’t Want to Die”......Page 131 9. Death in Argentina......Page 139 10. Green Light, Red Light......Page 159 11. A Preventable Assassination......Page 176 12. Kissinger and Argentina’s “Terrorist Problem”......Page 197 13. Ed Koch and Condor’s Endgame......Page 211 14. The Pursuit of Justice and U.S. Accountability......Page 226 Afterword: A Dictator’s Decline......Page 248 Bibliography......Page 257 Notes......Page 261 Index......Page 291