Operation Condor Operation Condor Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (born November 3, 1912) is a former politician and General from Paraguay who served as President and dictator of that country from 1954 to 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfredo Stroessner"
The Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("Anticommunist American Alliance" aka " Triple A") was a state terrorism and paramilitary far-right group mainly operating in Colombia during 1978 and 1979. It has frequently be considered as being one of the main arms of Operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alianza Americana Anticomunista"
The Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (in Spanish, Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, usually known as Triple A and written AAA) was a far-right death squad active in Argentina during the mid- 1970s, linked to the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla. This period was characterized by frequent terrorist attacks by radical left-wing subversive groups, and harsh repression of dissidence on the part of the military, paramilitary and police forces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alianza Anticomunista Argentina"
General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (born November 25, 1915) was ruler of Chile from 1973 to 1990. He assumed dictatorial power by not relenquishing martial law after, as Commander in Chief of Chile's armed forces, he successfully ousted from power Salvador Allende (a Marxist physician who had become the first Socialist to be elected President of Chile) in a deposement authorized by the Chilean Chamber of Deputies for, its Resolution asserted, Allende's repeated violations of the Chilean Constitution. (These two related-but-disparate events, the legislatively-authorized military removal of Allende, and the assumption of dictatorial power by Pinochet, are to this day still often confused and/or conflated as a lingering legacy of cold war propaganda in the Latin American theater.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Augusto Pinochet"
The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion) was a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army active in the Dirty War and Operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Batallón de Inteligencia 601"
Bernardo Leighton Guzmán (born on August 16 1909 - died on January 26 1995) was a Chilean Christian Democrat who has been targeted by Operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernardo Leighton"
The Caravan of Death was an Army squad that roamed Chile in October 1973, following Augusto Pinochet's coup, murdering the regime's opponents. Members of Chile's Socialist Party in particular were targeted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caravan of Death"
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General Carlos Prats González ( 1915 - 1974), was a Chilean political figure, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlos Prats"
Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony", now known as Villa Baviera, " Bavaria Village"), is a settlement located in an isolated area in the Maule Region of southern Chile, near the village of Parral. It was founded by a group of German immigrants led by Paul Schäfer in 1961. The full name of the colony was La Sociedad Benefactora y Educacional Dignidad, like its precursor which the immigrants started in the mid- 1950s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colonia Dignidad"
Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) has been described by the FBI as "an anti- Castro terrorist umbrella organization". It has taken part in operation Condor, organizing Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's assassination in Washington, D.C. in 1976. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations"
Cyrus Roberts Vance ( March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. He approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April of 1980, Vance resigned in protest of a secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyrus Vance"
Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (Spanish for National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean secret police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. ...more on Wikipedia about "DINA"
DISIP (Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención, or Department of Intelligence and Prevention Services, aka Directorate of Services of Intelligence and Prevention), is the Venezuelan state and political security police. It was established in January, 1958 by the then-president of Venezuela, Marcos Perez Jimenez. DISIP is an internal security force subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. As of May 2005, the Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuelan Government is the Chávez-appointed Jessy Chacon. ...more on Wikipedia about "DISIP"
Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924; pronounced kotch) was a U.S. Congressman and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ed Koch" Please tell your friends about http://www.shortopedia.com
Eduardo Frei Montalva ( 1911– 1982) was the president of Chile from 1964 to 1970. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eduardo Frei Montalva"
A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from public view, either by murder or by simple sequestration. The victim is first kidnapped, then illegally detained in camps, often tortured, and finally assassinated and its corpse hidden. In Spanish, "disappeared people" are called "desaparecidos", a term which specifically refers to the (mostly) South American victims of state terrorism during the 1970s and the 1980s, in particular concerning operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forced disappearance"
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923 in Fürth, Germany, as Heinz Alfred Kissinger) is a Jewish-American diplomat and statesman. He served as National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon administration, continuing in the latter position after Gerald Ford became President in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Kissinger"
John Dinges’s latest book is The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents, The New Press 2003, about Operation Condor. His other books include: Assassination on Embassy Row (Pantheon 1980), with Saul Landau, on Orlando Letelier's murder ; Our Man in Panama (Random House 1990); Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Radio Reporting and Production (editor), and Independence and Integrity (editor). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Dinges"
Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo (born August 2, 1925 in Mercedes) was the de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. After the return to democracy, he was placed under house arrest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jorge Rafael Videla"
José López Rega (born in Buenos Aires, 17 October 1916 – 9 June 1989) was Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare during the Peronist government started in 1973 by Juan Perón and continued after Perón's death in 1974 by his third wife and vice-president, Isabel Martínez de Perón, until the coup d'etat of 1976 that initiated the National Reorganization Process. Founder of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance ("Triple A"), he was also a a member of P2 masonry lodge, as discovered by Italian police in 1981. López Rega was also known by the nickname El Brujo ("The Witch"). ...more on Wikipedia about "José López Rega"
Juan Salvador Guzmán Tapia was born on April 22, 1939 in Salvador, in a Chilean diplomat family, which acclaimed Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973. He would later become the first Chilean judge to inculpate dictator Augusto Pinochet after his return from London (Great-Britain), where judge Baltasar Garzón had ordered is arrest in October 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Juan Guzmán Tapia"
Kenneth R. Maxwell (born 1941) is an English historian resident in the United States who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program. His May 13, 2004 resignation from the council involved a major controversy over whether there had been a breach of the so-called "church-state separation" between the council itself and its magazine Foreign Affairs. As of December 2004, Maxwell is a Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the university's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenneth Maxwell"
Luis Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is an anti- Castro Cuban émigré and former CIA-backed terrorist who is alleged to have been involved in numerous violent terrorist plots, including hotel bombings and the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Flight 455 in which seventy-three people were killed. He has also been involved in Operation Condor, namely in Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C., a few weeks before Cubana de Aviación's explosion. Posada has lived in Venezuela, where he became a naturalized citizen and served in its political police; and the United States, where he served in the army and developed a relationship with the CIA. In April 2005, Posada sought political asylum in the United States. Venezuela has formally requested Posada's extradition, as has Cuba , however a DHS judge ruled that he cannot be deported because of threat of torture in Venezuela. ** . With Guillermo Novo Sampoll, Orlando Bosch and Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, he founded the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Luis Posada Carriles"
Michael Townley, a U.S. expatriate, first worked for the CIA before working for the DINA, Chilean secret police under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, where he participated in operation Condor. He planned General Carlos Prats's murder in Buenos Aires in 1974, beneath order of head of DINA Manuel Contreras, as well as Orlando Letelier's car bombing in Washington, D.C. in 1976. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Townley"
(Montoneros) The Movimiento Peronista Montonero was an Argentinian radical leftist guerrilla group, active during the 1970s responsible for a number of assassinations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Montoneros"
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