The Condor Years

by Dinges, John

• ISBN13: 9781565847644
• ISBN10: 1565847644
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

"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.

Author Biography

John Dinges is managing editor of NPR News and teaches at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments	ix
The First War on Terrorism	1	(9)
Meeting in Santiago	10	(13)
Tilting at Windmills	23	(18)
Revolution in the Counterrevolution	41	(22)
Agents in Argentina	63	(19)
Mission in Paraguay	82	(17)
The Condor System	99	(27)
``The Old Man Doesn't Want to Die''	126	(9)
Death in Argentina	135	(21)
Green Light, Red Light	156	(19)
A Preventable Assassination	175	(24)
Kissinger and Argentina's ``Terrorist Problem''	199	(15)
Ed Koch and Condor's Endgame	214	(16)
The Pursuit of Justice and U.S. Accountability	230	(25)
Bibliography	255	(6)
Notes	261	(44)
Index	305