The Condor years
Subtitle: how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents / John Dinges.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Operación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association); Chile. Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional; 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
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) and index.