Operation Condor

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Operation Condor was a U.S.-backed campaign of political repression and state terror coordinated among South American military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s to eliminate leftist opponents across national borders.

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instanceOf campaign of political repression
covert intelligence operation
state terror program
transnational repression network
aimedAt guerrilla movements
human rights activists
journalists
leftist political opponents
students
trade unionists
alsoKnownAs Plan Cóndor
linked to: Operation Condor
cooperationMechanism joint interrogation centers
shared intelligence databases
coordinatedBy South American military dictatorships
countryOfOperation Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
documentedIn declassified U.S. government documents
endTime late 1980s
estimatedVictims tens of thousands of people
followedBy post-dictatorship human rights trials in South America
hasPart assassination operations abroad
cross-border abductions
extrajudicial killings
forced disappearances
intelligence sharing
torture
headquartersLocation Santiago, Chile
linked to: Santiago
ideology anti-communism
legalAssessment crime against humanity
notableEvent assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.
operationalScope transnational
partOf Cold War
perpetratedBy Argentine security forces
Bolivian security forces
Brazilian security forces
Chilean secret police DINA
Paraguayan security forces
Uruguayan security forces
startTime 1975
supportedBy Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Department of State
United States
targetedRegion Southern Cone of South America
linked to: Southern Cone

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Augusto Pinochet participatedIn Operation Condor
Dirty War coordinatedWith Operation Condor
Carlos Prats killedIn Operation Condor
Carlos Prats victimOf Operation Condor targeted killings
linked to: Operation Condor
Operation Condor alsoKnownAs Plan Cóndor
linked to: Operation Condor