Research Catalog

Title

The Condor years : how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents / John Dinges.

Author

Dinges, John, 1941-

Publication

New York : New Press, 2004.

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Description

xiii, 322 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

• Draws on hundreds of interviews, recently opened police files, and the author's own experiences to identify a link between Operation Condor and the U.S. government, describing the alliance among six intelligence agencies that led to the torture and murder of thousands of people.
• "The Condor Years is the underground history of the international Dirty Wars by U.S. allies in South America. For much of a decade, six allied governments engaged in secret warfare intended to wipe out their enemies, kidnapping and murdering up to 30,000 people. At the initiative of Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet, and with encouragement from the CIA, they set up a multinational terrorist organization, Operation Condor, to pursue those who escaped to other Latin American countries, Europe, and the United States. John Dinges, using newly-available U.S. documents and the dictatorships' own files, tells this gripping story from the point of view of those who have tried to keep it secret. He dispassionately lays bare the true extent of U.S. complicity in the crimes of the dictators who called the United States "the leader." Revolutionaries, intelligence operatives, and U.S. officials - many speaking for the first time - recount the brutal struggle between Condor and its enemies."--Jacket.

Subject

• Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
• Chile. Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional
• Operación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association)
• State-sponsored terrorism > History > 20th century
• Victims of state-sponsored terrorism > History > 20th century
• Chile > Politics and government > 1973-1988
• Southern Cone of South America > Politics and government
• Chile > Relations > Foreign countries
• United States > Military policy
• Chile > Relations

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The first war on terrorism -- Meeting in Santiago -- Tilting at windmills -- Revolution in the counterrevolution -- Agents in Argentina -- Mission in Paraguay -- The condor system -- "The old man doesn't want to die" -- Death in Argentina -- Green light, red light -- A preventable assassination -- Kissinger and Argentina's "Terrorist problem" -- Ed Koch and Condor's endgame -- The pursuit of justice and U.S. Accountability.

ISBN

1565847644

LCCN

^^2003060265

OCLC

52846073

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library