"A half century ago, the inauguration of Condor launched a rampage of state-sponsored terrorism across the Western Hemisphere and beyond. "Operation Condor," as the CIA identified it in Top Secret reports, became a multinational agency of "cross-border repression," as investigative journalist John Dinges has written in his comprehensive history, The Condor Years, "[whose] teams went far beyond the frontiers of the member countries to launch assassination missions and other criminal operations in the United States, Mexico and Europe.""
"Their mission: "to establish something similar to INTERPOL," according to the confidential meeting agenda, "but dedicated to Subversion." During their clandestine three-day meeting held at Chile's War College, the military officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay agreed to form "a system of collaboration" to identify, locate, track, capture and "liquidate" leftist opponents of their regimes."
On November 25, 1975, security services from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Santiago under DINA auspices to create a coordinated network against leftist opposition. Delegates agreed to a "system of collaboration" to identify, locate, track, capture and "liquidate" opponents and proposed the name "Condor." The network, known as Operation Condor, operated as a multinational agency of cross-border repression, carrying out assassination missions and criminal operations beyond member states. Between 1976 and 1980 investigators documented at least 654 victims of transnational kidnappings, torture and disappearances, reflecting a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism across the hemisphere.
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