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|image_caption=Former Chilean dictator General [[Augusto Pinochet]] reviews troops
 
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|description=US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in [[South America]].
 
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Sometimes employed as part of a [[strategy of tension]].
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'''Operation Condor''' was a [[US]]-backed campaign of [[assassination]] and [[terrorisation]] carried out in [[South America]].
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The [[US Deep state]] government provided planning, coordinating, training on [[torture]]<ref>Patrice McSherry - [https://books.google.com/books/about/Predatory_states.html?id=2eFHAAAAYAAJ Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America], page 78 - 2005, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 978-0742536876</ref>, technical support and supplied military aid to the Juntas during the [[Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]], [[Presidency of Richard Nixon|Nixon]], [[Presidency of Gerald Ford|Ford]], [[Presidency of Jimmy Carter|Carter]], and the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administrations.<ref>[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo11643711.html The Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in the Cold War] - Greg Grandin, 2011</ref> Such support was frequently routed through the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA).
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==Projection==
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The operation is described in a now declassified 1978 CIA document as a "cooperative effort by the intelligence/security services of several South American countries to combat [[terrorism]] and [[subversion]]."<ref>https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/docs/780822cia.pdf saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20170824225040/http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/docs/780822cia.pdf Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.today/2019.07.31-073032/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/docs/780822cia.pdf Archive.is]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 14:54, 25 April 2021

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Operation Condor.jpg
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet reviews troops
Date1968 - 1989
LocationSouth America
DescriptionUS-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.

Operation Condor was a US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.

The US Deep state government provided planning, coordinating, training on torture[1], technical support and supplied military aid to the Juntas during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and the Reagan administrations.[2] Such support was frequently routed through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Projection

The operation is described in a now declassified 1978 CIA document as a "cooperative effort by the intelligence/security services of several South American countries to combat terrorism and subversion."[3]


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