Operation Condor: Dirty War, Death Squads and The Disappeared

[Ptarmigan]

This is from 2009. DUmmies really obsess about Latin American death squads. The ones that liquidated Communism and brought peace and stability to Latin America.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11081947

Orwellian_Ghost  (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Mon May-25-09 10:12 PM
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Operation Condor: Dirty War, Death Squads and The Disappeared
   Operation Condor: Dirty War, Death Squads and The Disappeared


"These military regimes hunted down dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, intellectuals, students and teachers and other people not just guerrillas (who, under international law are also entitled to due legal process). These illegal military regimes defied international law and traditions of political sanctuary to carry out their ferocious state terror and destroy democratic opposition forces."

“Operation Condor…involved the intelligence agencies…in a joint effort to eliminate perceived enemies of those regimes throughout the world.”

-- Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research, USA.


Operation Condor was the name given to a secret union of intelligence services of six US-supported, South American military governments- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, which operated during the 1970s into the early 1980s.

Under Operation Condor the intelligence agencies were to use their joint resources to round up thousands of people who were suspected of involvement with leftist groups and imprison them in camps or secret detention centres. Many were tortured, interrogated, then executed and secretly buried, becoming known as the disappeared. Those that escaped their own dictatorship’s security services were often captured and tortured in other Condor countries and eventually returned from where they fled to be executed. Condor agents also located and killed dissidents in operations outside Latin America, in several European nations and the USA.

The most active period of this multinational secret police and army cooperation against leftwing and other opposition was between 1975 to 1978. The overall result of this massive political repression and terrorist dirty war, was that an estimated 35,000 people were murdered, many disappearing without a trace. Hundreds of thousands of others were imprisoned and tortured.

That is nothing compared to how much Communism, Nazism, and Islamism has killed.

maryf  (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Tue May-26-09 05:48 AM
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6. even monsters have scruples...
   wish some American one's did...

Orwellian_Ghost  (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Tue May-26-09 08:40 AM
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10. The Role Of The United States
   The Role Of The United States

“Operation Condor” is the code name for the collection, exchange and storage of intelligence data concerning socalled “leftists,” communists and Marxists, which was recently established between cooperating intelligence services in South America in order to eliminate Marxist terrorist activities in the area. In addition, “Operation Condor” provides for joint operations against terrorist targets in member countries…A third and most secret phase of Operation Condor involves the formation of special teams from member countries who travel anywhere in the world to non-member countries to carry out sanctions up to assassination against terrorists or supporters of terrorist organizations.” This September 28, 1976 cable marked “secret foreign political matters” and with lines deleted is from the FBI’s legal attache` in Buenos Aires, Robert Scherrer. For a long time it was the only released document that mentions Condor, the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency recently declassified a more complete version of the above information. Also other material has come to light about the US role.

The declassification of long-secret files is confirming US government agencies more actively cooperated with the Condor regimes repressive activities than had previously been acknowledged. These files confirm the US not only knew about Condor but aided and facilitated Condor operations as a matter of secret and routine policy. In 2001, Prof. J. P. Mc Sherry of Long Island University who has written articles on Condor discovered a document that she described as “another piece of increasingly weighty evidence suggesting that US military and intelligence officials supported and collaborated with Condor as a secret partner or sponsor.”

The State Department cable dated October 13, 1978 is from US Ambassador to Paraguay Robert White, to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. “ On October 11, I called on chief of staff General Alejandro Fretes Davalos… he read me the …minutes resulting from the visit of General Orozco, chief of Chilean intelligence to Asuncion…The document is basically an agreement to coordinate all intelligence resources in order to control and eliminate subversion…They keep in touch with one another through a US communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone Which covers all Latin America. This US communications facility is used by student officers to call home…but it is also employed to coordinate intelligence information among the southern cone countries. They maintain the confidentiality of their communication through the US facility in Panama by using bilateral codes… obviously this is the Condor network which all of us have heard about over the last few years.”

In a final comment White makes a recommendation, “The two FBI agents here tell me there is likelihood Condor will surface during Letelier trial in the US. If General Fretes Davalos is accurate in describing the communications it uses as an encrypted system within the US communications net… it would seem advisable to review this arrangement to insure that its continuation is in the US interest.”

With Latin American officers using American facilities to transmit intelligence, this would have clearly provided US officials with the opportunity to closely monitor Condor activities and know exactly what operations were undertaken. Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive, said the cable implied “foreknowledge, cooperation and total access to the plans and operations of Condor. The degree to which the USA knew about and supported these operations has remained secret until now, the layers of the onion are peeling away here,” he said.

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http://freethoughtmanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/02/operat...

Let's see. Communism was crushed in Latin America like a bunch of cockroaches.

leftstreet  (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Tue May-26-09 12:44 AM
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2. Memorial Day is a fitting time to remember the death of The Left n/t
   K&R

Memorial Day is for soldiers who died. The left were stirring up trouble. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Judi Lynn  (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Tue May-26-09 05:47 AM
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5. In South America they are still there, but driven into silence by relentless terrorism against them.
   So many people dropped from airplanes into the ocean, lakes, rivers, even mountain tops.

Chilean torturer, Osvaldo Romo said during a taped interview with a Miami reporter that they made use of Chile's volcanoes for dropping some of their political prisoners.

Have heard that this throwing of victims from helicopters was common in Viet Nam, as well.

What a desperate shame. Learned not too long ago about some nuns from France who were tortured and dropped into the ocean when an officer from the Argentinian Navy infiltrated a group they attended to support mothers whose daughters had been tortured, had been forced to give birth since they were pregnant when arrested, then their children stripped from them, given to favored military officers, etc. and the mothers taken immediately to airplanes and dropped chained to each other into the ocean. The two French nuns' bodies were found long after they had been murdered, and finally the "Angel of Death" who got them killed was tried.

The truth about US connectedness to ALL the right-wing military coups, juntas, dictatorships in Latin America MUST become more publicly known if there is ever to be any justice at all in this world. It's so wrong for it to have been simply swept under the rug while the government maintained its pious, but wholly false face to the rest of the world. What has happened in Latin America has been absolutely evil.

Thanks for this thread, and thanks to the poster for the comments on the Portuguese under-officer and his experiences.

Are they still in power may I ask? No, they are not.

[Big Dog]

Operation Condor- conducted with the full knowledge and approval of Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Augusto Pinochet 2016

[GOBUCKS]

The  South American "death squads" did great work.

It's hard to imagine the chaos and suffering normal people in those countries would be living with today had there not been strong effective action against communist subversion.

One hopes that descendants of those patriotic "squads" are still at work behind the scenes.

Some kinds of "undocumented aliens" could be put to great use here.

[Duke Nukum]

Okay, so these stupid, leftist DUmmies are mourning dead leftists but do they even consider this:  When leftists get into power, what do they do? Kill anyone who doesn't agree with them or hold protests all the time because they are deluded into thinking they are transgendered cockroaches trapped in male centipede bodies.

Quite frankly, dead leftists are better off. And then their body parts can be sold off to Planned Parenthood for their human rending plants.

Everybody ends up happier.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Revisionist history by DUmmies.  Yet again.

[Ptarmigan]

The  South American "death squads" did great work.

It's hard to imagine the chaos and suffering normal people in those countries would be living with today had there not been strong effective action against communist subversion.

One hopes that descendants of those patriotic "squads" are still at work behind the scenes.

Some kinds of "undocumented aliens" could be put to great use here.

Argentina defaulted in 1982 and 2001, which would of made it ripe for a coup and even revolution. That never happened despite the fact Argentina has a history of it. That could be said of Latin America as well.

Indonesia along with East Asia had a financial crisis in 1997. Communism was liquidated in Indonesia, Philippines, and South Korea. They were no massive revolts there.