*https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2025-11-26/operation-condor-network-transnational-repression-50-years <https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2025-11-26/operation-condor-network-transnational-repression-50-years>*
On 50th Anniversary of Condor Inauguration, National Security Archive > Posts Declassified Documents on History of Condor’s Targeted > Repression > > > > > > > > > <https://default.salsalabs.org/T05718609-e27d-409d-8c3b-16b3ca312a17/12238b38-d371-4bc9-b2b2-ab5a3bdb144f> > On 50th Anniversary of Condor Inauguration, National Security Archive > Posts Declassified Documents on History of Condor’s Targeted Repression > > *Washington, D.C., November 28, 2025* - On General Augusto Pinochet’s > 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, four delegations of Southern Cone secret > police chieftains gathered in Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the > Chilean intelligence service, DINA. Their mission: “to establish something > similar to INTERPOL,” according to the confidential meeting agenda, “but > dedicated to Subversion.” During the three-day meeting, the military > officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay agreed to > form “a system of collaboration” to identify, track, capture and eliminate > leftist opponents of their regimes. As the conference concluded on November > 28, a member of the Uruguayan delegation rose to toast the Chileans for > convening the meeting and proposed naming the new organization after the > host country’s national bird—the condor. > > Chilean records refer to Condor as “Sistema Condor” or the “red > Condor”—the Condor network. CIA intelligence reports called it Operation > Condor. It was, as John Dinges writes in his comprehensive history, *The > Condor Years,* an agency of “cross-border repression.” During Condor’s > active operational period between 1976 and 1980, it targeted hundreds of > victims for kidnapping, torture and disappearance in the Southern Cone. A > subdivision of Condor called “Teseo”—named for Theseus, the heroic warrior > king of Greek mythology—established a special death squad unit, based in > Buenos Aires, to hunt down opponents of their regimes in Europe and > elsewhere. > > On the 50th anniversary of the secret inauguration of Operation Condor, > the National Security Archive is posting a selection of dramatic documents > that record the dark history of Southern Cone transnational repression > under the Condor system. > > “Fifty years after Condor’s inauguration, these documents provide factual > evidence of coordinated human rights atrocities that can never be denied, > whitewashed or justified,” said Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh, > author of *The Pinochet File*. > > The “historic irony,” noted Dinges, “is that the international crimes of > the dictatorships spawned investigations—including one resulting in > Pinochet’s arrest in London—that would eventually bring hundreds of the > military perpetrators to justice.” > READ THE DOCUMENTS > <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tbcb33a1b-ae31-4599-9391-e0e463641486/12238b38-d371-4bc9-b2b2-ab5a3bdb144f> > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39538): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39538 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116528300/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
