The Condor Years
How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Published on 19. July 2019
146 pages
978-1-59558-902-6 (ISBN)
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A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (
The Miami Herald).
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 Affairsas "remarkable" and "a major contribution to the historical record," The Condor Yearsuncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet 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.
"Scrupulous, well-documented." - The Washington Post
"Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges." -Seymour Hersh
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 Affairsas "remarkable" and "a major contribution to the historical record," The Condor Yearsuncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet 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.
"Scrupulous, well-documented." - The Washington Post
"Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges." -Seymour Hersh
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John Dinges is the author of several books on dictatorships, human rights, and covert activities in Latin America. After a decades-long year career as a journalist and correspondent at the
Washington Post,
Time, the
Miami Herald, National Public Radio, and other media organizations, he was named the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism, now Emeritus, at Columbia University. Among other awards, Dinges was decorated with the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins by Chile in recognition of his investigation of the crimes of the Pinochet military dictatorship.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments
- 1. The First War on Terrorism
- 2. Meeting in Santiago
- 3. Tilting at Windmills
- 4. Revolution in the Counterrevolution
- 5. Agents in Argentina
- 6. Mission in Paraguay
- 7. The Condor System
- 8. "The Old Man Doesn't Want to Die"
- 9. Death in Argentina
- 10. Green Light, Red Light
- 11. A Preventable Assassination
- 12. Kissinger and Argentina's "Terrorist Problem"
- 13. Ed Koch and Condor's Endgame
- 14. The Pursuit of Justice and U.S. Accountability
- Afterword: A Dictator's Decline
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
