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100 1 _aDinges, John,
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245 1 4 _aThe Condor years :
_bhow Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents /
_cJohn Dinges.
260 _aNew York, NY:
_bNew Press,
_c2004.
300 _axv, 332 pages ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-269) and index.
505 0 _a1. 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
520 _a"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
541 _aDonation from Karen Wald
600 1 0 _aPinochet Ugarte, Augusto.
_92523
610 2 0 _aOperación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association)
_92524
610 2 0 _aChile.
_bDirección de Inteligencia Nacional.
_92525
650 0 _aState-sponsored terrorism
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_92526
650 0 _aVictims of state-sponsored terrorism
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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651 0 _aChile
_xPolitics and government
_y1973-1988.
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651 0 _aSouthern Cone of South America
_xPolitics and government.
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651 0 _aChile
_xRelations.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy.
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0708/2003060265.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1505/2003060265-d.html
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1505/2003060265-b.html
856 4 1 _uhttps://archive.org/details/condoryearshowpi00ding
_zClick here to access online
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