Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-269) and index.

1. The first war on terrorism -- 2. Meeting in Santiago -- 3. Tilting at windmills -- 4. Revolution in the counterrevolution -- 5. Agents in Argentina -- 6. Mission in Paraguay -- 7. The condor system -- 8. "The old man doesn't want to die" -- 9. Death in Argentina -- 10. Green light, red light -- 11. A preventable assassination -- 12. Kissinger and Argentina's "terrorist problem" -- 13. Ed Koch and condor's endgame -- 14. The pursuit of justice and U.S. accountability -- Afterward: a dictator's decline

"When a Spanish judge pressed charges against Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the case broke an international code of silence on the fates of the tens of thousands of Latin Americans who were tortured and killed during more than a decade of dictatorship in Chile and neighboring countries. The United States agreed to Spain's request for 60,000 pages of secret files on Chile, including CIA operational files. Former NPR news managing editor Dinges (Our Man in Panama ), who lived in Chile and was interrogated in a secret torture camp during the Pinochet dictatorship, pored through those files and has uncovered the chilling story of Operation Condor, a Chilean-led conspiracy among six South American dictatorships to hunt down and eliminate leftist rebels and their sympathizers. Condor was responsible for the 1973 murder in Washington, D.C., of Chilean exile Orlando Letelier, which U.S. diplomats were aware of and failed to stop. Indeed, the picture that emerges of U.S. policy is frightening....." - Publishers Weekly

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