Title: The Condor years
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Victims of state-sponsored terrorism, State-sponsored terrorism, Operación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association), Military policy, Relations, Chile. Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, Chile, History, Pinochet uguarte, augusto, 1915-2006, Chile, politics and government, Human rights, chile, Political persecution, Operaciâon Câondor (South American countersubversion association), Chile. Direcciâon de Inteligencia Nacional, Operacion Condor (South American countersubversion association), Chile. Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional
Places: Chile, Foreign countries, Southern Cone of South America, United States
People: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
Time periods: 1973-1988, 20th century