Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin AmericaRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 10. júl. 2012 - 336 síður This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from public view, Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political opponents of Latin American regimes. Its key members were the anticommunist dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil, later joined by Peru and Ecuador, with covert support from the U.S. government. Drawing on a wealth of testimonies, declassified files, and Latin American primary sources, J. Patrice McSherry examines Operation Condor from numerous vantage points: its secret structures, intelligence networks, covert operations against dissidents, political assassinations worldwide, commanders and operatives, links to the Pentagon and the CIA, and extension to Central America in the 1980s. The author convincingly shows how, using extralegal and terrorist methods, Operation Condor hunted down, seized, and executed political opponents across borders. McSherry argues that Condor functioned within, or parallel to, the structures of the larger inter-American military system led by the United States, and that declassified U.S. documents make clear that U.S. security officers saw Condor as a legitimate and useful 'counterterror' organization. Revealing new details of Condor operations and fresh evidence of links to the U.S. security establishment, this controversial work offers an original analysis of the use of secret, parallel armies in Western counterinsurgency strategies. It will be a clarion call to all readers to consider the long-term consequences of clandestine operations in the name of 'democracy.' |
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... Michael Townley , a U.S. expatriate and DINA assassin often linked to the CIA , admitted his operational role in these three terrorist acts ( both DINA and the CIA denied that he was their agent and said he was working for the other ) ...
... Michael Townley , a U.S. expatriate and DINA assassin often linked to the CIA , admitted his operational role in these three terrorist acts ( both DINA and the CIA denied that he was their agent and said he was working for the other ) ...
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... Michael Townley , for example , worked within the fascist paramilitary organization Patria y Libertad in Chile during the leftist Allende administration ( 1970-1973 ) and collaborated in Argentina with both extremist army officers and ...
... Michael Townley , for example , worked within the fascist paramilitary organization Patria y Libertad in Chile during the leftist Allende administration ( 1970-1973 ) and collaborated in Argentina with both extremist army officers and ...
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... Michael Townley admitted that he met ten or fifteen times with delle Chiaie to organize the Leighton attack.44 Testifying in an Italian court in 1995 about the crime , Townley confirmed that it was carried out via “ a global anti ...
... Michael Townley admitted that he met ten or fifteen times with delle Chiaie to organize the Leighton attack.44 Testifying in an Italian court in 1995 about the crime , Townley confirmed that it was carried out via “ a global anti ...
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... Michael Townley in Chile as well as Bolivian , Paraguayan , and Argentine officers . These links among Washington , the European stay - behind networks , and Condor suggested that the covert anticommunist infrastructure was inte- grated ...
... Michael Townley in Chile as well as Bolivian , Paraguayan , and Argentine officers . These links among Washington , the European stay - behind networks , and Condor suggested that the covert anticommunist infrastructure was inte- grated ...
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... Michael Townley , the CIA , and P - 2 in the assassination of Olaf Palme , prime minister of Sweden , and implied that the crime was linked to the first Bush administration in the United States . This account has never been ...
... Michael Townley , the CIA , and P - 2 in the assassination of Olaf Palme , prime minister of Sweden , and implied that the crime was linked to the first Bush administration in the United States . This account has never been ...
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Operation Condors Structures and Functioning The Parallel State in Operation | 69 |
Condors Killing Machine Phase II Transnational Operations | 107 |
Phase III Condors Assassination Capability | 139 |
Commanders and Operatives of Condor | 177 |
The Central American Connection | 207 |
Conclusions | 241 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 271 |
About the Author | 285 |
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