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US-backed campaign of political repression in South America

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Macroaggressions
#536: 1973

Macroaggressions

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 63:17


There was so much happening in 1973 that impacts our current world that it deserves a deeper examination. As the Vietnam War was pretending to come to an end so that Kissinger could collect his laughable Nobel Peace Prize, the Trilateral Commission was just coming into existence to facilitate open borders and world government for the next half century. Nixon was fighting off a coup with the Watergate situation while the oil companies were plotting to screw the entire world with a scheduled war in the Middle East in order to artificially drive up prices by 300%. South America was slated for regime change through the CIA's Operation Condor, while China was opened up so that Rockefeller and Bush could build thousands of factories to change the world while putting trillions of Petrodollars in their pockets. The Octopus of Global Control Audiobook: https://amzn.to/3xu0rMm Hypocrazy Audiobook: https://amzn.to/4aogwms Website: www.Macroaggressions.io Activist Post: www.activistpost.com Sponsors: Chemical Free Body: https://www.chemicalfreebody.com Promo Code: MACRO C60 Purple Power: https://c60purplepower.com/ Promo Code: MACRO Wise Wolf Gold & Silver: www.Macroaggressions.gold LegalShield: www.DontGetPushedAround.com EMP Shield: www.EMPShield.com Promo Code: MACRO ECI Development: https://info.ecidevelopment.com/-get-to-know-us/macro-aggressions Christian Yordanov's Health Transformation Program: www.LiveLongerFormula.com Privacy Academy: https://privacyacademy.com/step/privacy-action-plan-checkout-2/?ref=5620 Brain Supreme: www.BrainSupreme.co Promo Code: MACRO Above Phone: abovephone.com/macro Promo Code: MACRO Van Man: https://vanman.shop/?ref=MACRO Promo Code: MACRO My Patriot Supply: www.PrepareWithMacroaggressions.com Activist Post: www.ActivistPost.com Natural Blaze: www.NaturalBlaze.com Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/macroaggressionspodcast

Badlands Media
Breaking History Ep. 93: The Pope Is Dead, Schwab Steps Down, and the Vatican's Woke Infiltration Exposed

Badlands Media

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 110:50 Transcription Available


In this fiery episode of Breaking History, Matt Ehret and Ghost deliver a blistering exposé on the globalist power structure behind Pope Francis, the World Economic Forum, and the coordinated collapse of the old world order. With the simultaneous death of Pope Francis and the abrupt resignation of Klaus Schwab, the hosts unpack what they see as a symbolic changing of the guard, and a deeper spiritual and geopolitical shake-up. Matt dives deep into the Vatican's alignment with the WEF through the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, exposing Pope Francis's ties to literal fascist regimes, the Jesuit agenda, and the Great Reset's spiritual veneer. He traces the Pope's ideological roots in liberation theology, Operation Condor, and the CIA-backed Argentine junta, raising urgent questions about Francis's legacy and the Vatican's role in weaponizing social justice as a tool of global control. The duo also unpacks the rise of Gaia worship, anti-human eco-theology, and the rebranding of Christianity into a soft-power vehicle for Agenda 2030. Ghost joins in to explore the overlapping collapse of narrative control, the ritualistic timing of world events, and the maneuvering of Trump and Putin amid intensifying Middle East diplomacy and collapsing U.S. embassies abroad. This episode is an unfiltered reckoning with history, symbolism, and the spiritual battle unfolding in real time.

The Ted Broer Show - MP3 Edition

Episode 2533 - No beef for you! Statin drugs discussed. Why is Hegseth being targeted? Gold up again. Alito says no! Pope passes away. Operation Condor. Klaus resigns. Plus much more.

Freaky Geeks' Podcast
Episode 165: Coup d'État or Nah? The CIA’s Greatest Hits

Freaky Geeks' Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 53:54


The CIA was officially created to protect American democracy, but its true purpose was shaping global events through covert operations and political manipulation. From overthrowing elected leaders to botched assassinations involving exploding cigars, the agency's history is filled with deception, brutality, and unchecked power. This episode dives into the CIA's greatest hits, from Operation Ajax to the blood-soaked horrors of Operation Condor. With a legacy built on coups, cover-ups, and cold-blooded assassinations, the agency has operated as America's most dangerous weapon since day one.

Baby Blue Viper
Operation Condor: Shadows of Power and the Fight for Justice

Baby Blue Viper

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 10:51


This is a subsection of the newsletter Hints and Guesses by Federico Blanco Sánchez-Llanos. Video available.Collaborations, Meetings, Sessions — babyblueviperbusiness@gmail.com .X and BlueSky — @Chil0008YouTube -- Baby Blue Viperwww.fed965.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fed965.com/subscribe

Shaun Newman Podcast
#755 - Matt Ehret & Cynthia Chung

Shaun Newman Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 174:36


Cynthia Chung serves as the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. She is also the author of "The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set: The Birth of International Fascism and Anglo-American Foreign Policy." Matt Ehret is a journalist and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at the Canadian Patriot Review and has contributed significantly to historical literature with his book series "The Untold History of Canada" and the four-volume set "Clash of the Two Americas." We discuss Operation Condor, Green Berets in world affairs and whether China is our enemy. Cornerstone Forum ‘25 https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/ Clothing Link: ⁠⁠⁠https://snp-8.creator-spring.com/listing/the-mashup-collection⁠⁠ Text Shaun 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast E-transfer here: shaunnewmanpodcast@gmail.com Silver Gold Bull Links: Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/ Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.com Text Grahame: (587) 441-9100

Out of the Shadows Project Podcast
Episode 9 - Francesca Lessa

Out of the Shadows Project Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 55:39


In today's episode we welcome Dr Francesca Lessa. Dr Lessa is associate professor in International Relations of the Americas at University College London. Previously, she was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Oxford, where, among other achievements, she secured a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. Her research focuses on transnational repression, human rights and transitional justice. Her latest book, The Condor Trials, is at the centre of our episode. The book won two major boook awards. The Juan Méndez Human Rights Award in Latin America in 2023 and the Ibero-American Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association in 2024. The episode covers the orgins and historical precedents of Operation CONDOR. We discuss its various components including transnational repression and international assassination squads. We assess the role of the United States and we cover some of the trials that have followed the end of CONDOR and of the military dictatorships in latin America. Listeners of our podcast can secure a special discount price of £35. To secure the discounted price, follow this direct link: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300254099/the-condor-trials/ Use code: Y2443 at the online check-out. Dr Lessa's Book recommendations: - Fernando Butazzoni, Las Cenizas del Condor (in Spanish) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712211/las-cenizas-del-condor--the-ashes-of-the-condor-by-fernando-butazzoni/ - John Dinges, The Condor Years (particularly recommended here is the new edition of the book including archival material from 2019), https://amzn.eu/d/7LsNkng - Dana Moss and Saipira Furstenberg (Eds.), Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transnational-repression-in-the-age-of-globalisation.html

And Another Thing with Dave
Dark History: Operation Condor

And Another Thing with Dave

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 12:39


And Another Thing With Dave, by Dave Smith

Real Dictators
Pinochet Part 3: Searching for the Disappeared

Real Dictators

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 52:53


Pinochet consolidates control, creating a terrifying new secret police force. The dictator's war on communism extends abroad, as Chile joins Operation Condor. But how long can Pinochet's global allies allow him to go unchecked? And will the families of the murdered and the disappeared ever find justice? A Noiser production, written by Sean Coleman. Many thanks to John Bartlett, Mark Ensalaco, Peter Kornbluh. This is Part 3 of 3. Get every episode of Real Dictators a week early with Noiser+. You'll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you're on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions To get an exclusive NordVPN deal, head to https://nordvpn.com/realdictators to get an extra 4 months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Retro Rocket Entertainment
Hit Rewind- Copland, The Game, Conspiracy Theory, Operation Condor & Alien: Resurrection

Retro Rocket Entertainment

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 39:02 Transcription Available


Welcome to another episode of Hit Rewind! Today, we're diving into the films of 1997, a year often overlooked despite its cinematic gems. With John joining in place of Jacob, we explore the diverse range of movies that made 1997 unique. While blockbuster hits like "Men in Black" and "Face/Off" dominate the nostalgic conversation, we also shine a light on lesser-known yet thoroughly enjoyable films. In this episode, we discuss "Copland," a film that, despite its stellar cast and critical acclaim, seems to have lost some of its initial impact over time. We delve into the performances, particularly Sylvester Stallone's standout role, and the intricate character dynamics that make this movie a must-watch. Next, we analyze David Fincher's "The Game," a tightly wound thriller that keeps you in a constant state of paranoia. We reflect on Michael Douglas's compelling performance and the film's intricate plot twists that keep you guessing until the very end. We also examine "Conspiracy Theory," a film that blends intense psychological thriller elements with moments of levity. Mel Gibson's portrayal of a paranoid conspiracy theorist is both captivating and unsettling, reflecting the actor's unique ability to balance charm with vulnerability. Our journey continues with "Operation Condor," a Jackie Chan classic filled with breathtaking stunts and comedic action sequences. We discuss the film's place within Chan's filmography and its enduring appeal. Finally, we revisit "Alien Resurrection," the much-maligned entry in the Alien franchise. We explore the film's strengths and weaknesses, from its unique visual style to its controversial narrative choices. Join us as we celebrate the highs and lows of 1997's cinematic offerings and look forward to our next exploration of 1998's films.

Work Stoppage
OT Ep 8 (Unlocked): The Repressive State Apparatus – A Brief History – Pt 1

Work Stoppage

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 82:54


This week we are going deep into the vault of the many Overtime series we have done to bring ALL of the listeners something that feels applicable to the times we face right now. Some of our views on these important topics have been slightly reexamined since 2021 when this episode came out, but overall it still covers this history well. To get all 4 episodes in this series, become a patron. We appreciate the support. Join us down the rabbit hole on this first part of a series of patrons-only Overtime episodes where we discuss an overview of the history of the US repressive state apparatus, and how it has been used to crush working class movements.  In this episode we discuss the history of violent state suppression of strikes, and how the federal government worked hand in hand with private armed forces like the Pinkerton's to infiltrate and crush early labor unions.  We talk about how repression of the movement changed with the legalization of collective bargaining and the ejection of communists from the major unions during the Red Scare.  We also get into some of the early covert programs developed to fight left-wing movements and Black liberation groups, COINTELPRO and Operation Mockingbird.  Future episodes will go over programs like Operation Gladio, Operation Condor, the CIA's involvement in the drug trade, Operation Cyclone, and more in the long sordid history of US covert warfare.  All with the ultimate goal of understanding the violent tactics used by the US against working class movements around the world, so we can understand how that affects our movement today.

The Chris & Kriss Show
EP 223 - Armour Of God/Operation Condor

The Chris & Kriss Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024


We celebrate Jackie's 70th with a look back at the adventures of Asian Hawk. Enjoy! - Follow us on Instagram @championcinemapod

The Audio Long Read
From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

The Audio Long Read

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 43:39


We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice. By Giles Tremlett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

The Mel K Show
Mel K & Cynthia Chung | The Enemy Within: Operation Condor, Panama, & Counterinsurgency | 3-8-24

The Mel K Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 68:08


Learn more about Cynthia Chung: https://risingtidefoundation.net https://cynthiachung.substack.com   We The People must stand strong, stay united, resolute, calm and focus on the mission - God Wins!   We at www.themelkshow.com want to thank all our amazing patriots pals for joining us on this journey, for your support of our work and for your faith in this biblical transition to greatness. We love what we do and are working hard to keep on top of everything to help this transition  along peacefully and with love. Please help us amplify our message: Like, Comment & Share!   The Show's Partners Page: https://themelkshow.com/partners/ Consider Making A Donation: https://themelkshow.com/donate/   Another way to get involved and find ways to become active in the community is to come meet Mel and many amazing truth warriors at our upcoming live in person speaking events. Together we are unstoppable. We look forward to seeing you. God Wins! https://themelkshow.com/events/   Liberty Defenders Speaker Series Stuart, Florida March 12   ReAwaken America Tour Detroit, MI June 7th & 8th  Remember to mention Mel K for great discounts on all these fun and informative events. See you there! Our Website www.TheMelKShow.com   Rumble (Video) - The Mel K Show: https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelKShow Twitter (Original): https://twitter.com/originalmelk TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@themelkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themelkshow/ CloutHub: https://app.clouthub.com/#/users/u/TheMelKShow Mel K Show Video Platform (Subscription): https://www.themelkshow.tv Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Iw2kiviwZpwx/ Podbean: https://themelkshow.podbean.com/ Gab: https://gab.com/MelKShow GETTR: https://www.gettr.com/user/themelkshow Locals.com: https://melk.locals.com/ Banned Video: https://banned.video/channel/the-mel-k-show Brighteon: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/themelkshow Odysee: https://odysee.com/@themelkshow:5   If you are interested to explore investing in precious metals please contact below and mention MelK for special offers:   Beverly Hills Precious Metals Exchange Buy Gold & Silver https://themelkshow.com/gold/ Speak with Gold Expert Andrew Sorchini…Tell Him Mel K Sent You!   Support Patriots With MyPillow Go to https://www.mypillow.com/melk Use offer code “MelK” to support both MyPillow and The Mel K Show   Mel K Superfoods Supercharge your wellness with Mel K Superfoods Use Code: MELKWELLNESS and Save Over $100 off retail today! www.MelKSuperfoods.com   Healthy Hydration: https://healthyhydration.com/products/mel-k-special-deluxe   Patriot Mobile Support your values, your freedom and the Mel K Show. Switch to Patriot Mobile for Free. Use free activation code MELK https://www.patriotmobile.com/melk/   HempWorx The #1 selling CBD brand. Offering cutting edge products that run the gamut from CBD oils and other hemp products to essential oils in our Mantra Brand, MDC Daily Sprays which are Vitamin and Herb combination sprays/ https://themelkshow.com/my-daily-choice/   Dr. Zelenko Immunity Protocols https://zstacklife.com/MelK   The Wellness Company - Emergency Medical Kits: www.twc.health/pages/melk-prepkit   Dr. Jason Dean and BraveTV bring you the most innovative and cutting edge science in Nutrition with Nano-Particle Detoxification, The Full Moon Parasite Protocol and Clot Shot Defense. https://bravetv.store/?sca_ref=3278505.GWvLbyryzv   Dr. Stella Immanuel, MD. Consult with a renowned healthcare provider! Offering Telehealth Services & Supplements. Use offer code ‘MelK' for 5% Off https://bit.ly/MelKDrStellaMD

Fringe Radio Network
Operation Condor: It was a Conspiracy Until it Wasn't! - NWCZ Radio's Down The Rabbit Hole

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 59:26


For at least 10 years and most likely up to 20 years, the U.S. government along with several European allies participated in Operation Condor. It was a highly secretive mission to reshape South America. It "disappeared", tortured, killed and gave babies away by the thousands. Never heard of it? Until the late 90's it was considered a "conspiracy theory" and anyone who got two close would most likely be killed. Let's look into Operation Condor.email us at: downtherh@protonmail.com

NWCZradio's Down The Rabbit Hole
Operation Condor: It Was A Conspiracy Until It Wasn't!

NWCZradio's Down The Rabbit Hole

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 59:25


For at least 10 years and most likely up to 20 years, the U.S. government along with several European allies participated in Operation Condor. It was a highly secretive mission to reshape South American. It "disappeared", tortured, killed and gave babies away by the thousands. Never heard of it? Until the late 90's it was considered a "conspiracy theory" and anyone who got two close would most likely be killed. Let's look into Operation Condor. email us at: downtherh@protonmail.com

Fu for Thought
Operation Condor

Fu for Thought

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 114:36


After an illness induced hiatus, we're BACK! This week, we discuss Jackie Chan's globe trotting classic, Operation Condor. Devan wants proof that Jackie's a treasure hunter, I gush over the film's comedic sensibilities and reminisce about the time I believed Chan did all of his own stunts. But the big question is, "Has Devan finally found a Jackie film she likes?" Later, we answer listener questions and do our best to recall Fu for Thought's "greatest hits." Enjoy!

Macroaggressions
#396: The Dirty War Of Operation Condor

Macroaggressions

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 62:36


If you understand the Operation Gladio program that NATO ran in Western Europe from the 1950s through the late 1970s, then you have a headstart in understanding Operation Condor in South America which happened during a 15-year period beginning in 1968. America's interests in South America created the justification in the eyes of Washington DC to exert its massive financial and military influence over the region in order to stop the potential spread of Communism, which never actually materialized. What did materialize was authoritarian anti-Communist dictators that America installed and controlled through its many tentacles, but this subversion program took on a new look when the Church was added to the decision-making process. Anarchapulco: www.Anarchapulco.com Promo Code: MACRO Sponsors: Emergency Preparedness Food: www.preparewithmacroaggressions.com Chemical Free Body: https://www.chemicalfreebody.com Promo Code: MACRO C60 Purple Power: https://c60purplepower.com/ Promo Code: MACRO Wise Wolf Gold & Silver: www.Macroaggressions.gold True Hemp Science: https://truehempscience.com/ Haelan: https://haelan951.com/pages/macro Solar Power Lifestyle: https://solarpowerlifestyle.com/ Promo Code: MACRO LegalShield: www.DontGetPushedAround.com EMP Shield: www.EMPShield.com Promo Code: MACRO Christian Yordanov's Detoxification Program: https://members.christianyordanov.com/detox-workshop?coupon=MACRO Coin Bit App: https://coinbitsapp.com/?ref=0SPP0gjuI68PjGU89wUv Macroaggressions Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/macroaggressions?ref_id=22530 LinkTree: linktr.ee/macroaggressions Books: HYPOCRAZY: https://amzn.to/3VsPDp8 Controlled Demolition on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ufZdzx The Octopus Of Global Control: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3VDWQ5c Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/39vdKeQ Online Connection: Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/Macroaggressions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macroaggressions_podcast/ Discord Link:  https://discord.gg/4mGzmcFexg Website: www.theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/theoctopusofglobalcontrol Twitter: www.twitter.com/macroaggressio3 Twitter Handle: @macroaggressio3 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-4728012 The Union Of The Unwanted LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/uotuw RSS FEED: https://uotuw.podbean.com/ Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/union-of-the-unwanted?ref_id=22643&utm_campaign=22643&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source

popular Wiki of the Day
Henry Kissinger

popular Wiki of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 3:08


pWotD Episode 2403: Henry Kissinger Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a popular Wikipedia page every day.With 2,670,835 views on Thursday, 30 November 2023 our article of the day is Henry Kissinger.Henry Alfred Kissinger ( KISS-ən-jər; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American politician, diplomat, political scientist, and geopolitical consultant. He served as United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and played a prominent role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. He has also been associated with controversial policies, such as the U. S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, Operation Condor, U. S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a "green light" to Argentina's military junta for their Dirty War, and U. S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan. Kissinger was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938. In the United States, he excelled academically and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950, where he studied political science under William Yandell Elliott. He earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in 1951 and 1954, respectively. He then had a prominent academic career at Harvard before moving onto government.After leaving government, he formed Kissinger Associates, an international geopolitical consulting firm. Kissinger wrote over a dozen books on diplomatic history and international relations. Kissinger's legacy is a polarizing subject in American politics. He has been widely considered by scholars to be an effective secretary of state but is condemned for turning a blind eye to war crimes committed by American allies due to his support of a pragmatic approach to politics called Realpolitik. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in the Vietnam War, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:03 UTC on Friday, 1 December 2023.For the full current version of the article, see Henry Kissinger on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Ivy Neural.

The Ted Broer Show - MP3 Edition

Episode 2158 - Deserted office buildings to be converted to high density housing. Dentists to give vaccines. Who's the real bogey man? What is the real story of the Irish riots? Clash of cultures or false flags? Operation Condor and Gladio? Can Israel do anything wrong? Covid and the shot are real bio weapons! Hayden insanely says Patriot Christians are the same as Hamas terrorists. Plus much more. Politically incorrect show today. High energy show!

ParaPower Mapping
Qs & Clues #1—Invisible Hand of (the Fútbol) God & Match Fixing in the Global Game: Operation Condor, Fog of Falklands War, Maradona's Revenge, & Sec. of Sports Fixing Kissinger

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 171:55


Subscribe now to the PPM Patreon to not only access the full catalog of #1 ParaPower Mapping Hits (like ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS Pt. V or Speculative Swiss-mania I & II), but also receive the privilege of submitting prompts for these Qs & Clues EPs... patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Speaking of, #1 coming in hot w/ a far-reaching investigation into sports fixing allegations historical & current, with a particular focus on the global game & its intimate relationship w/ international relations, Western imperialism, & military regimes. We begin w/ the Independent Cork Board Researchers Union Soccer Precepts, which bring us to a discussion of Maradona's "symbolic revenge" over the Brits w/ his infamous "Hand of God" handball goal in World Cup '86, which takes us 4 years further back to the possible Thatcherite-&-Argentine-military-junta false flag known as the Falklands War... To clear the field & set the stage, we unpack some basic history of Operation Condor & the American-backed intel agency collabs b/w military dictatorships in S. America in the '70s & '80s, which led to the extrajudicial death flights & disappearances of likely 100ks of Marxists, leftists, & union members in countries like Argentina (see: Dirty War)... We show how the US State Dep't & See-Aye-Eh were arms-deep in Argentine political life in the years immediately preceding Falklands. We survey a ton of the weirdness re: the Falklands War, including Julian Barnes' assertion it was the "worst reported" war of the televised era, which supports a false flag or preordained war of mutual benefit hypothesis... Marge Thatcher's press embargoes, conferences, & censorship. The strangely civil "Red Cross box"/ neutral zone in the sea off the Falkland Islands where UK & Argentina kept medical ships stationed simultaneously throughout the 70ish or so days. We talk Prince Andrew doing heli flights & the weirdness of the conflict being bookended w/ "flags", which, is a little on the nose... Talking to you, Universe. From there, we break down Bo BrozZzy's incisive Mafiaball & "sports as mass ritual" prompt and the Henry Hill, Burke, Perla Bros. & Rick Kuhn references therein, as well as super timely professional club soccer scandal examples that are reminiscent of Kuhn's point shaving scheme (see the illegal betting breach allegations that have recently broken re: Sandro Tonali, Nicolo Fagioli—who was threatened w/ having his legs broken evidently, and Lucas Paqueta)... We discuss Declan Hill's The Fix & Gabriel Kuhn's Soccer vs. the State. We walk through the history of gambling, sports & otherwise, in England, from Queen Lizzie's Loco Lotto to the National Lotto's 2nd biggest donor, the Freemasonic United Lodge of England. This turns our attention to Voltaire & Casanova's Freemasonic Lotto Syndicates in France in the 18th century. And we conclude w/ a discussion of the distinct possibility that Sec. of State & national security tulpa Henry Kissinger—one of the architects of the bloody anticommunist conspiracy to bind together the intel services of Southern Cone countries & "disappear" leftists... anyways, we end w/ an examination of a couple articles & US Embassy & State Dep't memos that indicate that Sec. of Sports Fixing Kissinger may have been directly-or-indirectly involved in fixing the 1978 World Cup held in Argentina, when Gen. Videla & his Peruvian counterpart pressured the Peruvian nat'l team to deliberately lose to Argentina & the accompanying Satanic numerology of the game's scoreline—as well as a bevy of further 6s in accompanying stats. Oh, and we fit in a few references to Zion*st involvement in Operation Condor, the

American Indian Airwaves
Bolivia's Indigenous Peoples Survivance: Operation Condor 2.0 (2019 U.S.-Backed Coup), Lithium, More

American Indian Airwaves

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 58:23


On June 10th, 2022, a Bolivian court sentenced former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, to 10 years in prison. Áñez assumed power during a violent and illegal coup in November 2019 that ousted the country's popular Indigenous president, Evo Morales, sending him into exile, and killing over 37 people. During Anez's short term as the illegal president, her government killed dozens of civilians, persecuted members of the Movimiento al Socialismo – Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos or the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MP-ISP) and confronted the Covid-19 pandemic with incompetence and corruption leading to mass starvation in the country's poorer regions. Today on American Indian Airwaves, we speak with the director of the Andean Information Network, a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes. Katheryn Ledebur joins us to discuss the violent and illegal coup that forcefully ousted the first democratically elected Indigenous president in Bolivia, the United States government's complicity in directly and indirectly supporting, along with American-based PR firms, the November 2019 coup (Operation Condor 2.0), the role of extractive industries such as the natural gas and lithium industries destabilizing the plurinational nation of Bolivia, plus more, and what it means for the plurinational state of Bolivia and the 24 Indigenous nations and communities within. Guest: Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network (http://ain-bolivia.org/), a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.

Terribly Vexed
Operation Condor - State Sponsored Terror

Terribly Vexed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2023 98:20


We kick off this episode of the Terribly Vexed Podcast by delving into the latest updates from the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) hearings, where government officials and experts discuss the intriguing world of unidentified flying objects. Moving on, we shift our focus to an equally intriguing topic: the ASCH Conformity Tests and the implications they hold for society. We analyze the psychology behind conformity and how it shapes human behavior, shedding light on the mechanisms that drive us to conform to social norms and expectations. Additionally, we discuss the concerning increase in incidents involving airline passengers, exploring the factors contributing to these unsettling events and their potential consequences for the travel industry and passenger safety. However, the heart of this episode lies in our comprehensive exploration of Operation Condor, a dark and secretive collaboration among several South American countries during the 1970s and 1980s. Join us as we unravel the intricate web of political intrigue, espionage, and human rights abuses that characterized this covert operation. We delve into the countries involved, including Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia, and examine the key figures who orchestrated this operation, such as Augusto Pinochet, Jorge Rafael Videla, and Alfredo Stroessner. Through a careful examination of historical events and dates, we shed light on the ruthless tactics employed to suppress political dissidents and maintain control, leaving a lasting impact on the region's history. As we wrap up, we tease an unexpected perspective that ties the Operation Condor narrative to the world of UFOs and the unexplored mysteries of the cosmos. Join us for an eye-opening journey that will leave you questioning the boundaries of history, politics, and the unknown. If you like the podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe on Spotify and iTunes, tell a friend, and let us know! To get in touch, you can send us an email at terriblyvexedpodcast@gmail.com, hit us up on Instagram @terriblyvexedpodcast, subscribe and comment on our YouTube page, or visit us at terriblyvexed.com to send us a message! LINKS: Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror The Maxwell Family Business The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents by John Dinges The Pinochet Files: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh Hidden Terrors by A.J. Langguth Operation Condor: The History of the Notorious Intelligence Operations Supported by the United States to Combat Communists Across South America by Charles River Editors Barry & 'The Boys': The CIA, the Mob, and America''s Secret History by Daniel Hopsicker One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 by Whitney Alyse Webb Investigating Operation Condor Full Documentary The Asch Conformity Test

KPFA - Letters and Politics
Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America

KPFA - Letters and Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2023 59:57


Guest: Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development University of Oxford. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay (2013) and The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (2022). She is the honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay).   Foto credit: Entrevista Kissinger-Pinochet. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, 1976 on Wikimedia. The post Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America appeared first on KPFA.

Car Fu: A Jackie Chan Podcast
Operation Condor

Car Fu: A Jackie Chan Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2023 32:17


Asian Hawk is back to steal some buried Nazi Gold in Jackie Chan's Operation Condor.

Government Secrets  Podcast
Assassination of Orlando Letelier Operation Condor - Gov Secs Ep 125

Government Secrets Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2023 68:37


Graham talks about Operation Condor and Lee shows how great the FBI is. 

Secrets For An Inspirational Life With Mimi Novic
Where Angels Tread With Actor, Filmmaker & Humanitarian Vincent Lyn

Secrets For An Inspirational Life With Mimi Novic

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2023 64:59


In today's episode I talk to Vincent Lyn. Vincent is a Composer, Author, Actor, Filmmaker, Humanitarian and World Martial Arts Expert. He has appeared in many well known films, amongst them Tiger Cage and Operation Condor as well as working with high profile film directors, one of them being Yuen Woo Ping. Yuen has been involved in movies such as The Matrix and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Jackie Chan has been quoted as saying that Vincent was one of the best fighters he had ever worked with. As well as being an actor Vincent is an acclaimed musician who has performed in prestigious establishments with Grammy award winning artists and his most recent concert was in Carnegie Hall. In 2019 his humanitarian work, led him to be voted in the 'Top 100 Human Rights Defenders' by the International Human Rights Commission. He has completed many dangerous missions and of them while he was a bodyguard for a VIP in Ghana, Vincent visited a shelter where 20 children had just been rescued from slavery. He risks his life to save children around the world. Whether these children are orphans, refugees, or poverty-stricken, the goal is to protect and provide aid to help them survive. Vincent's work is making a life-saving difference by helping save children from slavery, trafficking and starvation. He has founded a nonprofit organisation called We Can Save Children whose mission is to rescue and recover children in Africa and the Middle East. A humbling conversation that sheds light on some of the extreme journeys that Vincent has taken and the life threats he has encountered by trying to help those less fortunate. Heroic yet highly dangerous work that enables others to lead their lives in safety and without fear. An inspirational encounter with someone who has dedicated their life for the higher good of others. For more information on Vincent Lyn visit https://www.wecansavechildren.org

1991 Movie Rewind
Episode 113 - Operation Condor (Amour of God II)

1991 Movie Rewind

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 87:21


0:00 - Intro & Summary2:00 - Movie Discussion1:05:03- Cast & Crew/Awards1:08:19 - Pop Culture 1:21:02 -  Rankings & Ratings To see a full list of movies we will be watching and shows notes, please follow our website: https://www.1991movierewind.com/Follow us!https://linktr.ee/1991movierewind Theme: "sunrise-cardio," Jeremy Dinegan (via Storyblocks)Don't forget to rate/review/subscribe/tell your friends to listen to us!

Kino+
#24 | Abseits der Kino-Starts - 3 Film-Freunde über ALL die Themen, die sie grade bewegen

Kino+

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 86:08


Frei Schnauze! Oldschool! Let it flow! Derartig lässt sich dieses Spezial in etwa umschreiben. Denn Andi, Eddie und Schröck labern in dieser Folge einfach mal drauf los. Und das hat unter anderem einen wilden Mix aus Filmen oder Serien zur Folge, der irgendwie mit THE LAST OF US und THE PARALLAX VIEW startet, mit CONTAGION, SICK, ZERPLATZT, PANDEMIE und THE LAZARUS PROJECT im Seuchen-Horror landet und über POLICE STORY, YES MADAM oder OPERATION CONDOR bei JACK ASS 3 landet. Begleitet von diversen, weit abdriftenden Gesprächen zu zum Beispiel Etiennes verborgenen Talenten, zu erschreckend realen Katastrophen in Filmen und Serien, den „viel besseren Abenteuerfilmen von früher”, alternativen Enden in China oder dem besucherstärksten Film aller Zeiten in den deutschen Kinos. Darüber hinaus - der größte Hinweis darauf, dass diese Folge voraufgezeichnet ist - wird noch ein bisschen gespielt. Die Drei testen ein wenig STATTOGORIES weiter aus, was zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch recht neu für uns war. Außerdem hat Andi ein Buch dabei, das Filme anhand von sehr simplen Grafiken in 5 Sekunden zusammenfasst. So gilt es ein paar schöne Streifen zu enträtseln, bevor die Jungs noch über ein paar Titel schwadronieren, auf die sie sich entweder freuen und mit denen sie sich zum Zeitpunkt der Folge beschäftigt haben. Also so was wie TAR, BABYLON, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7, COPENHAGEN COWBOY oder auch INDIANA JONES… 4? Na ja, und irgendwann und irgendwie landet alles wieder bei STAR WARS. Genauer gesagt bei EPISODE 9, zu der die Drei ja dann endlich auch mal einen Audioflick gemacht haben. Wir hoffen, das reicht als Ersatz für eine doch recht schwache Neustart-Woche, die wir hiermit vielleicht ja ein wenig ausgleichen können. Und natürlich könnt Ihr Euch auch gerne noch eine der älteren Folgen anschauen, um dort vielleicht noch den einen oder anderen Tipp einzuholen. Aber vorher solltet Ihr erstmal dieses kleine Experiment genießen. Es hat uns nämlich echt viel Spaß gemacht. In diesem Sinne: Öfter mal was Ungezwungenes. Aloha.

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis w/ Jared Yates Sexton

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 71:35


On this edition of Parallax Views, Jared Yates Sexton, host of The Muckrake Podcast and author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People, joins us to discuss his latest book The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. In The Midnight Kingdom Jared delves into the lies, paranoia, mythologies, and pursuit of power the undergirds the far-right movements that have become a worldwide concern in recent years due incident to the Jan 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C. and the similar uprisings/riots that happened in Brazil after Lula de Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro to once again become that country's President. Among the topics discussed in this conversation: - Conspiracies, real and imagined; the far-right wing, conspiracy theories, and the conspiratorial view of history - What does the title The Midnight Kingdom refer to and how does it relate to the apocalyptic vision of the world presented by controversial Russian thinker Aleksander Dugin? - The crisis of institutional power in America today that elements of both the right and left are recognizing; neoliberalism, the neoliberal consensus, hyper-capitalism, and inequality - Jared's examination of cycles of history in The Midnight Kingdom and how it differs from, for example, right-wing operative Steve Bannon's preferred cycles of history theory known as "The Fourth Turning" - How power protects itself in a society - Paranoia as the basis for modern American society and conspiracy theories in modern American history - Real conspiracies, journalist Sarah Kendzior's They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, and the World Economic Forum in Davos - The destabilization of the middle class, the need for explanations for that destabilization, and how the right-wing offers that explanation through Grand Conspiracy Narratives - The targeting of vulnerable communities by the right-wing's brand of conspiratorial thinking - How ancient Rome ties into Jared's analysis in The Midnight Kingdom; imperial cults, social mythologies, and the fall of civilizations - How the history of Christianity, apocalypticism, and narratives of power figures into Jared's analysis; how bastardized religion is utilized to promote war, imperialism, patriarchy, racism, wealth inequality and more; Christian nationalism and white nationalism; Jared's evangelical Christian upbringing - People's desperation for meaning; the rise of evangelical Christianity as a political force in American life; atomization in neoliberal society and the rise of the far-right - The Republican Party is not a homogenous movement; the emergence of an anti-neoliberal, reactionary right-wing; the left and the right have different criticisms of the neoliberal society and prescriptions for dealing with the problems of neoliberal society - Operation Gladio and Operation Condor and the lack of a strong left in the U.S. - The idea of homo economicus, the hollow existence neoliberalism provides, the dog-eat-dog world mentality of neoliberal society, and the reality TV series Survivor - Christian nationalism, feudalistic ideas, hierarchical power, and theocratic control - The individual, the atomized society, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as the PR front for neoliberalism in the 1980s, the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and the destruction of labor unions and class solidarity - Academia, specialized knowledge, and the working class's lack of access to that knowledge - Marjorie Taylor Greene's rhetoric about "woke" corporations; the lack of understanding about what communism is, what Karl Marx wrote, and what neoliberalism is; the right's ideas about the natural right and natural order; feudalism and the concept of the "Great Chain of Being"; eugenics and social Darwinism - Argument about "wokeism" and the problem of woke-washing by major corporations - Tucker Carlson and illiberalism, neoliberalism and authoritarianism, Friedrich Hayek and neoliberalism; and how the right-wing protects the powerful - The New Cold War between U.S. and China, American protectionism, the unraveling of globalization, and the end of "The End of History" - Tackling the criticism that Jared's book is anti-religion; why he disagrees with that assessment; the weaponization and bastardization of religion by systems of power for purposes of control ;Catholic converts and the TradCath phenomena; the value of spirituality; Traditionalism and right-wing mythologies; Ancient Aliens, Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, and racialism - Explaining the rise of QAnon - A discussion of the Brazilian uprisings and the Jan 6th riots after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden; the funding of these uprisings/riots by right-wing billionaires; the Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers, and right-wing paramilitary groups; the QAnon shaman, MAGA, and the belief of the rioters that they were saving the government from a "deep state" coup; how people are primed into QAnon, MAGA, and similar movements; how people are animated by mythologies that make them the heroes of their own story - Discussing the concept and idea of the deep state; technocracy and the administrative state; why Trump resonated with a portion of the American populace; authoritarianism and the desire to be part of something bigger than oneself - The problem with blaming "hillbillies" for the rise of the far-right - Pro wrestling, kayfabe, how WWE's "Montreal Screwjob" helps us understand the modern political moment, Hulk Hogan and the power of mythological storytelling, the pro wrestling-ification of television news and political media like Tucker Carlson, and political grifting - The culture war over M&M's and the illusion of ideology and rebellion in consumerism - Briefly discussing the movie Judas and the Black Messiah about Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers and its relevance - The concept of freedom on the left and the right; the left's pro-freedom, liberatory narrative - And more!

Terribly Vexed
Twitter Cancer

Terribly Vexed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2022 126:04


It's the 20th episode of The Terribly Vexed Podcast and we're marking the occasion with a celebratory free-for-all of conversation! We have some general topics, frustrations, current events, and future podcast plans on our mind, and we get them off our chests in this episode. Just to give you an idea of what to look forward to, here's a list of some of the subject matter we discuss: Cancer treatment, fuck yous from the universe, Operation Condor, how much Justin thinks San Francisco sucks, Elon Musk and his shenanigans, the Theranos controversy, the genius of Art Bell and his open lines, natural resources, Colonel Fletcher Prouty and abiogenic oil, coup d'états, how stupid throwing soup on paintings is, Dr. Brooks Agnew and the North Pole Inner Earth Expedition, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Las Vegas Shooting, Gary Webb, Tucker Carlson, the newly released JFK documents, Danny Casolaro, a possible inside scoop on the Chris Redd attack in NYC, COINTELPRO, MK Ultra, LP Coin, the Mossad, The Lavon Affair, Graham Hancock, Atlantis, Fox Mulder Syndrome, aliens, and pyramids. Just to name a few. We hope you enjoy the show and stay tuned for more episodes coming soon! If you like the podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes, tell a friend, and let us know! To get in touch, you can send us an email at terriblyvexedpodcast@gmail.com, hit us up on Instagram @terriblyvexedpodcast, subscribe and comment on our YouTube page, or send us a message at terriblyvexed.com! LINKS: Operation Condor JFK Assassination Records - 2022 Additional Documents Release Colonel Fletcher Prouty Abiogenic Petroleum Dr. Brooks Agnew The North Pole Inner Earth Expedition Indiegogo. Come on, guys. Please donate. Peter Caine Dog Training Bigfoot Videos Whitney Webb Unlimited Hangout Programmed To Chill Podcast Graham Hancock Ancient Apocalypse Trailer

Conspiracy Clearinghouse
The Starfighter & the Condor (WIW 7)

Conspiracy Clearinghouse

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2022 41:12


EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7) The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.  Because the world is weird. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but... 03:32 - Bug, fixes & features 07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany 08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama 14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out 17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane 21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election 23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions 25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA 29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever 32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig 37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor 38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts Music by Fanette Ronjat MORE INFO Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker" "Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine The Rise and Spread of Japan's Black Dragon Secret Society The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star's kamikaze attack in Tokyo Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master's Degree The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime 200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America 30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking European spies sought lessons from dictators' brutal ‘Operation Condor' The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO Martín Almada on Right Livelihood How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections The Search for the Manchurian Candidate Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
54. It's a Bird, It's a Plane, it's…Operation Condor!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 66:21


This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about CIA-backed military coups, what Chase and Pepsi have in common, and the horrifying history of Operation Condor! PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america http://www.cels.org.ar/especiales/plancondor/en/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index.htm https://theconversation.com/operation-condor-why-victims-of-the-oppression-that-swept-1970s-south-america-are-still-fighting-for-justice-186789 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/events/operation-condor-1968-1989 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-cia-documents.html https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/00452069 https://unredacted.com/tag/operation-condor/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/operation-condor-european-spies-dictators-cia-documents https://jacobin.com/2020/11/operation-condor-cia-latin-america-repression-torture --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pickmeupimscared/message

DEMOLER: The Prelude
The Rise of Marijuana Trafficking Part II

DEMOLER: The Prelude

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 32:10


In this episode, we cover Operation Condor: how it started, its intended goals, and how the operation quickly began targeting minority groups. We also veer into how the operation helped to reorganize the space in which trafficking groups continued operating. Sources for this episode are:Underground Empire by James MillsCIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection by Jonathan MarshallNuestra Historia Narcótica. Pasajes Para (Re)legalizar Las Drogas en México by Froylán EncisoNARCOLAND by Anabel HernandezOperation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era by Richard Craig.Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and J. MarshallOperation Condor, The War on Drugs and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977–1983) by Adela CedilloThe Dope by Benjamin T. SmithThis episode was written by DEMOLER;Post Production by Sharp Spoon Media You can find early released episodes, bonus content, episode photos, maps and infographics and more on our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/DEMOLER

Aspects of History
Timothy Ashby on Elizabethan Secret Agents, Fédon's Rebellion and Operation Condor

Aspects of History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2022 53:37


My chat this week is with Timothy Ashby, historian, novelist and author of Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby. Ashby was a spy working for Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I. Stationed in Edinburgh, he ran a number of operations to further the Queen's cause against the Spanish.We also chat about the subject of his novel, Ranger, Fédon's Rebellion in 1795, a slave rebellion on the island of Grenada against the British.Finally we talk about Operation Condor and the American efforts against regimes and democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean.Timothy Ashby LinksElizabethan Secret AgentRangerFédon's rebellionSir John MooreOperation CondorSalvador - Oliver Stone MovieMissing - Jack Lemmon Movie set in ChileThe US invasion of GrenadaHeartbreak Ridge - Clint Eastwood MovieAspects of History LinksSummer Holiday Reading Recommendations@olliewcq

Bittersweet Infamy
#48 - A World Behind A Wall

Bittersweet Infamy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2022 74:20


KPFA - Letters and Politics
Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America

KPFA - Letters and Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 59:58


The Farm Podcast Mach II
The Secret History of International Fascism Part VI w/ Danny Weil & Recluse

The Farm Podcast Mach II

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 136:35


Fascism, Latin America, Nicaragua, Sandinistas, Contras, Danny's experiences in Nicaragua during the 1980s, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, corruption in Latin American governments, corruption as part of neo-liberal playbook, "lawfare" how lawfare is replacing paramilitaries in Latin America, how lawfare is used to topple governments, IMF, World Bank, Bank of International Settlements, debt, debt used to control the developing world, drug cartels, the role of drug cartels in Latin American nations, El Salvador, Central America, Ecuador, MS-13, Mara 18, Crips, Bloods, African American gangs vs MS-13 in LA, Brazil, Columbia, Plan Columbia, private military contractors, DynCorp, Keenie Meenie, Jair Bolsonaro, Steve Bannon, international fascist movement centered in Brazil, Orben, Operation Condor, the push back against fascism/neo-liberalism in Latin America, the People Republic of China, how the PRC is changing the power dynamics in Latin AmericaNote: It was not Columbia, but Ecuador, where farmers brought lawsuits against DynCorp over herbicides the company employed as part of Plan Columbia. These herbicides were sprayed on coca plants in Columbia, but drifted into Ecuador, allegedly causing harm to livestock and humans alike. For more on this subject, see my book Strange Tales of the Parapolitical.Note II: Oman was the Gulf State Keenie Meenie and affiliates effectively ran the military in for decades. The longtime head of this operation was SAS veteran Tim Landon, the so-called "White Sultan." Landon was later connected to Sir Mark Thatcher and his efforts in Southern Africa. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ghost Stories For The End Of The World
43 - CASINO 3: It's a Small World After All **TEASER**

Ghost Stories For The End Of The World

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2022 2:14


**TEASER**   To unlock the episode, subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd   Our CASINO miniseries continues. We chase the money and Cuban exiles across 30 years of intrigue and corruption, looking at Castle Bank & Trust, World Finance Corporation, Disney, money laundering, Operation Condor, the mafia, and the CIA. 1976 and the rise of George Bush to the summit of the American deep state looms; the world will never be the same after this.

Unmasking Imperialism
Operation Condor | Unmasking Imperialism Ep. 75

Unmasking Imperialism

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 74:00


Exposing Operation Condor and its legacy of anti-communism. During today's episode, we discuss the U.S.-orchestrated campaign of violence and repression in South America. We shed light on Washington's support for right-wing military dictatorships in the region, especially in Chile. We also talk about how the ideological remnants of Operation Condor are alive and well today. Today's guests are Chris Durán and Bruno Fuentes. Chris is a student and community organizer working with Free 'em All New Jersey. He also works with several other campaigns to free U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war. Chris is a first year graduate student at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Bruno is a writer for Revista de Frente, an independent revolutionary media outlet based in Santiago, Chile. Unmasking Imperialism exposes imperialist propaganda in mainstream media. Hosted by Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez.

The Grimerica Show
#540 - Ben van Kerkwyk

The Grimerica Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 117:35


Interview starts at 35:30   Ben van Kerkwyk from UnchartedX joins us for a great chat about ancient Egypt, evidence of advanced technologies from the past, his favourite sites in Egypt and around the world, theories on ante diluvian civilizations, and re writing history.   We also chat about scientism, or the institutionalization of dogma and if that is inherent in humanity or the nature of establishment. We get into the details of many sites in Egypt and some in South America as well; subterranean cities and passages, non destructive surveillance and genetic evidence of ancient mariners and explorers.    http://www.unchartedx.com/   In the intro we chat about our event in Utah, and some other trips, sobriety milestones, quote of the week and project operation Minerva…   Links to stuff we chatted about during the show and the intro:   https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/   https://www.afterskool.net/    http://www.robertbauval.co.uk/   https://grahamhancock.com/    https://randallcarlson.com/    https://ciaday.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/the-cias-minerva-secret/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor   Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   Get your Magic Mushrooms delivered from: Mushroom Spores, Spore Syringes, Best Spore Syringes,Grow Mushrooms   Spores Lab   Get Psychedelics online    DMT CANADA   Support the show directly: http://www.grimerica.ca/support https://www.patreon.com/grimerica  http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support   Other shows: https://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca https://www.13questionspodcast.com/  - 13 Questions ran by Adam and Bill.    Darren's Book and Audio Book page: www.adultbrain.ca www.acanadianshame.ca   Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimerican's: www.grimerica.ca/chats and/or  www.grimerica.ca/social IRL meetups https://highersidemeetups.com/   1-403-702-6083 Call and leave a voice mail or send us a text   Grimerica on the radio https://fringe.fm/shows/grimerica/   Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin    www.contactatthecabin.com   Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show    Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news   Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/   Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/   SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/    Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica   Connect through other platforms: https://www.reddit.com/r/grimerica/  https://gab.ai/Grimerica    Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag   Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/   http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/ link to Napolean Duheme's site  Felix's Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com     MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key If - Broke for Free Shangri La - Sir Felix Ortega II

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The Ted Broer Show - MP3 Edition

Episode 1716 - Todays show is an expose on : The Flying Tigers, Chiang Kai-shek, Operation Condor and Gladio, Lucky Luciano, SS Normandie, Tubal Harari, Biden, Putin, and the side effects of the Pfizer shot. Should the president call for overthrow of another President? Why did Will Smith slap Cris Rock? Plus much much more! This is a must listen green show.

Midnight Train Podcast
What Are the Archives of Terror?

Midnight Train Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 93:53


Support the show and receive bonus episodes by becoming a Patreon producer over at: www.themidnighttrainpodcast.com  Archives of terror Archivos del Terror were found on december 22, 1992 by a lawyer and human rights activist, strange how those two titles are in the same sentence, Dr. Martín Almada, and Judge José Agustín Fernández. Found in a police station in the suburbs of Paraguay known as Asunción.   Fernandez was looking for files on a former prisoner. Instead, stumbled across an archive describing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay with the help of our friendly neighborhood CIA. Known as Operation Condor.   “Operation Condor was a U.S. backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents.”   Let's go back a ways toward the beginning. One day, a young guy, wanted to fuck up the world and created the CIA. JK… but not really.   So we go back to 1968 where General Robert W. Porter said that "in order to facilitate the coordinated employment of internal security forces within and among Latin American countries, we are ... endeavoring to foster inter-service and regional cooperation by assisting in the organization of integrated command and control centers; the establishment of common operating procedures; and the conduct of joint and combined training exercises."   According to former secret CIA documents from 1976, plans were developed among international security officials at the US Army School of the Americas and the Conference of American Armies in the 1960s and early 1970s to deal with perceived threats in South America from political dissidents, according to American historian J. Patrice McSherry. "In early 1974, security officials from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia convened in Buenos Aires to prepare synchronized attacks against subversive targets," according to a declassified CIA memo dated June 23, 1976.   Following a series of military-led coups d'états, particularly in the 1970s, the program was established: General Alfredo Stroessner took control of Paraguay in 1954 General Francisco Morales-Bermúdez takes control of Peru after a successful coup in 1975 The Brazilian military overthrew the president João Goulart in 1964 General Hugo Banzer took power in Bolivia in 1971 through a series of coups A military dictatorship seized power in Uruguay on 27 June 1973 Chilean armed forces commanded by General Augusto Pinochet bombed the presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973, overthrowing democratically elected president Salvador Allende A military dictatorship headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in Argentina on 24 March 1976   According to American journalist A. J. Langguth, the CIA organized the first meetings between Argentinian and Uruguayan security officials regarding the surveillance (and subsequent disappearance or assassination) of political refugees in these countries, as well as its role as an intermediary in the meetings between Argentinian, Uruguayan, and Brazilian death squads.   According to the National Security Archive's documentary evidence from US, Paraguayan, Argentine, and Chilean files, "Founded by the Pinochet regime in November 1975, Operation Condor was the codename for a formal Southern Cone collaboration that included transnational secret intelligence activities, kidnapping, torture, disappearance, and assassination." Several persons were slain as part of this codename mission. "Notable Condor victims include two former Uruguayan legislators and a former Bolivian president, Juan José Torres, murdered in Buenos Aires, a former Chilean Minister of the Interior, Bernardo Leighton, and former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his 26-year-old American colleague, Ronni Moffitt, assassinated by a car bomb in downtown Washington D.C.," according to the report.   Prior to the formation of Operation Condor, there had been cooperation among various security services with the goal of "eliminating Marxist subversion." On September 3, 1973, at the Conference of American Armies in Caracas, Brazilian General Breno Borges Fortes, the chief of the Brazilian army, urged that various services "expand the interchange of information" in order to "fight against subversion."   Representatives from Chile, Uruguay, and Bolivia's police forces met with Alberto Villar, deputy chief of the Argentine Federal Police and co-founder of the Triple A killing squad, in March 1974 to discuss collaboration standards. Their purpose was to eliminate the "subversive" threat posed by Argentina's tens of thousands of political exiles. Bolivian immigrants' bodies were discovered at rubbish dumps in Buenos Aires in August 1974. Based on recently revealed CIA records dated June 1976, McSherry corroborated the kidnapping and torture of Chilean and Uruguayan exiles living in Buenos Aires during this time.   On General Augusto Pinochet's 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, in Santiago de Chile, heads of the military intelligence services of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay met with Manuel Contreras, commander of the Chilean secret police, to officially establish the Plan Condor. General Rivero, an intelligence officer in the Argentine Armed Forces and a former student of the French, devised the concept of Operation Condor, according to French writer Marie-Monique Robin, author of Escadrons de la death, l'école française (2004, Death Squads, The French School).   Officially, the targets were armed groups (such as the MIR, the Montoneros or the ERP, the Tupamaros, etc.) based on the governments' perceptions of threats, but the governments expanded their attacks to include all types of political opponents, including their families and others, as reported by the Valech Commission, which is known as The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report. The Argentine "Dirty War," for example, kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated many trade unionists, relatives of activists, social activists such as the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, nuns, university professors, and others, according to most estimates.   The Chilean DINA and its Argentine counterpart, SIDE, were the operation's front-line troops from 1976 forward. The infamous "death flights," which were postulated in Argentina by Luis Mara Menda and deployed by French forces during the Algerian War (1954–62), were widely used. Government forces flew or helicoptered victims out to sea, where they were dumped to die in premeditated disappearances. According to reports, the OPR-33 facility in Argentina was destroyed as a result of the military bombardment. Members of Plan Condor met in Santiago, Chile, in May 1976, to discuss "long-range collaboration... [that] went well beyond intelligence exchange" and to assign code names to the participating countries. The CIA acquired information in July that Plan Condor participants planned to strike "against leaders of indigenous terrorist groups residing overseas."   Several corpses washed up on beaches south of Buenos Aires in late 1977 as a result of extraordinary storms, providing evidence of some of the government's victims. Hundreds of newborns and children were removed from women in prison who had been kidnapped and later disappeared; the children were then given to families and associates of the dictatorship in clandestine adoptions. According to the CIA, Operation Condor countries reacted positively to the concept of cooperating and built their own communications network as well as joint training programs in areas like psychological warfare.    The military governments in South America were coming together to join forces for security concerns, according to a memo prepared by Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Harry W. Shlaudeman to Kissinger on August 3, 1976. They were anxious about the growth of Marxism and the consequences it would have on their dominance. This new force worked in secret in the countries of other members. Their mission: to track out and murder "Revolutionary Coordinating Committee" terrorists in their own nations and throughout Europe.Shlaudeman voiced fear that the members of Operation Condor's "siege mindset" could lead to a wider divide between military and civilian institutions in the region. He was also concerned that this would further isolate these countries from developed Western countries. He argued that some of these anxieties were justified, but that by reacting too harshly, these countries risked inciting a violent counter-reaction comparable to the PLO's in Israel.   Chile and Argentina were both active in using communications medium for the purpose of transmitting propaganda, according to papers from the United States dated April 17, 1977. The propaganda's goal was to accomplish two things. The first goal was to defuse/counter international media criticism of the governments involved, and the second goal was to instill national pride in the local population. "Chile after Allende," a propaganda piece developed by Chile, was sent to the states functioning under Condor. The paper, however, solely mentions Uruguay and Argentina as the only two countries that have signed the deal. The government of Paraguay was solely identified as using the local press, "Patria," as its primary source of propaganda. Due to the reorganisation of both Argentina's and Paraguay's intelligence organizations, a meeting scheduled for March 1977 to discuss "psychological warfare measures against terrorists and leftist extremists" was canceled.   One "component of the campaign including Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina envisages unlawful operations beyond Latin America against expatriate terrorists, primarily in Europe," according to a 2016 declassified CIA study titled "Counterterrorism in the Southern Cone." "All military-controlled regimes in the Southern Cone consider themselves targets of international Marxism," the memo stated. Condor's fundamental characteristic was highlighted in the document, which came to fruition in early 1974 when "security officials from all of the member countries, except Brazil, agreed to establish liaison channels and to facilitate the movement of security officers on government business from one country to the other," as part of a long-tested "regional approach" to pacifying "subversion." Condor's "initial aims" included the "exchange of information on the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta (RCJ), an organization...of terrorist groups from Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay" with "representatives" in Europe "believed to have been involved in the assassinations in Paris of the Bolivian ambassador to France last May and a Uruguayan military attache in 1974." Condor's primary purpose, according to the CIA assessment, was to eliminate "top-level terrorist leaders" as well as non-terrorist targets such as "Uruguayan opposition figure Wilson Ferreira, if he should travel to Europe, and some leaders of Amnesty International." Condor was also suspected by the CIA of being "involved in nonviolent actions, including as psychological warfare and a propaganda campaign" that used the media's power to "publicize terrorist crimes and atrocities." Condor also urged citizens in its member countries to "report anything out of the norm in their surroundings" in an appeal to "national pride and national conscience." Another meeting took place in 1980, and Montensero was apprehended. The RSO allegedly promised not to kill them if they agreed to collaborate and provide information on upcoming meetings in Rio.   So, after all of this mumbo jumbo, let's recap.    50,000 people were killed, 30,000 disappeared, and 400,000 were imprisoned, according to the "terror archives."  A letter signed by Manuel Contreras, the chief of Chile's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) at the time, inviting Paraguayan intelligence personnel to Santiago for a clandestine "First Working Meeting on National Intelligence" on November 25, 1975, was also uncovered. The presence of intelligence chiefs from Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay at the meetings was also confirmed by this letter, indicating that those countries were also involved in the formulation of Operation Condor. Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela are among the countries named in the archives as having collaborated to varying degrees by giving intelligence information that had been sought by the security agencies of the Southern Cone countries. Parts of the archives, which are presently housed in Asunción's Palace of Justice, have been used to prosecute former military officers in some of these countries. Those records were used extensively in Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón's prosecution against Chilean General Augusto Pinochet. Baltasar Garzón interviewed Almada twice after he was a Condor victim.   "[The records] represent a mound of shame and lies that Stroessner [Paraguay's ruler until 1989] used to blackmail the Paraguayan people for 40 years," Almada said. He wants the "terror archives" to be listed as an international cultural site by UNESCO, as this would make it much easier to get funds to maintain and protect the records.   In May 2000, a UNESCO mission visited Asunción in response to a request from the Paraguayan government for assistance in registering these files on the Memory of the World Register, which is part of a program aimed at preserving and promoting humanity's documentary heritage by ensuring that records are preserved and accessible.   Now that we are all caught up, let's talk about a few noteworthy events. First we go to Argentina.   Argentina was ruled by military juntas from 1976 until 1983 under Operation Condor, which was a civic-military dictatorship. In countless incidents of desaparecidos, the Argentine SIDE collaborated with the Chilean DINA. In Buenos Aires, they assassinated Chilean General Carlos Prats, former Uruguayan MPs Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, and former Bolivian President Juan José Torres. With the support of Italian Gladio operator Stefano Delle Chiaie and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the SIDE aided Bolivian commander Luis Garca Meza Tejada's Cocaine Coup (see also Operation Charly). Since the release of secret records, it has been revealed that at ESMA, there were operational units made up of Italians who were utilized to suppress organizations of Italian Montoneros. Gaetano Saya, the Officer of the Italian stay behind next - Operation Gladio, led this outfit known as "Shadow Group." The Madres de la Square de Mayo, a group of mothers whose children had vanished, began protesting every Thursday in front of the Casa Rosada on the plaza in April 1977. They wanted to know where their children were and what happened to them. The abduction of two French nuns and other founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in December 1977 drew worldwide notice. Their corpses were later recognized among the deceased washed up on beaches south of Buenos Aires in December 1977, victims of death planes.   In 1983, when Argentina's democracy was restored, the government established the National Commission for Forced Disappearances (CONADEP), which was chaired by writer Ernesto Sabato. It gathered testimony from hundreds of witnesses about regime victims and known atrocities, as well as documenting hundreds of secret jails and detention sites and identifying torture and execution squad leaders. The Juicio a las Juntas (Juntas Trial) two years later was mostly successful in proving the crimes of the top commanders of the numerous juntas that had composed the self-styled National Reorganization Process. Most of the top officers on trial, including Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Armando Lambruschini, Ral Agosti, Rubén Graffigna, Leopoldo Galtieri, Jorge Anaya, and Basilio Lami Dozo, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.   Following these trials, Ral Alfonsn's administration implemented two amnesty laws, the 1986 Ley de Punto Final (law of closure) and the 1987 Ley de Obediencia Debida (law of due obedience), which ended prosecution of crimes committed during the Dirty War. In an attempt at healing and reconciliation, President Carlos Menem pardoned the junta's leaders who were serving prison sentences in 1989–1990.   Due to attacks on American citizens in Argentina and revelations about CIA funding of the Argentine military in the late 1990s, and despite an explicit 1990 Congressional prohibition, US President Bill Clinton ordered the declassification of thousands of State Department documents relating to US-Argentine relations dating back to 1954. These documents exposed American involvement in the Dirty War and Operation Condor.   Following years of protests by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and other human rights organizations, the Argentine Congress overturned the amnesty legislation in 2003, with the full support of President Nestor Kirchner and the ruling majority in both chambers. In June 2005, the Argentine Supreme Court deemed them unlawful after a separate assessment. The government was able to resume prosecution of crimes committed during the Dirty War as a result of the court's decision.    Enrique Arancibia Clavel, a DINA civil agent who was charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina in 2004, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the death of General Prats. Stefano Delle Chiaie, a suspected Italian terrorist, is also said to have been involved in the murder. In Rome in December 1995, he and fellow extreme Vincenzo Vinciguerra testified before federal judge Mara Servini de Cubra that DINA operatives Clavel and Michael Townley were intimately involved in the assassination. Judge Servini de Cubra demanded that Mariana Callejas (Michael Townley's wife) and Cristoph Willikie, a retired Chilean army colonel, be extradited in 2003 because they were also accused of being complicit in the murder. Nibaldo Segura, a Chilean appeals court judge, declined extradition in July 2005, claiming that they had already been prosecuted in Chile.   Twenty-five former high-ranking military commanders from Argentina and Uruguay were charged on March 5, 2013, in Buenos Aires with conspiring to "kidnap, disappear, torture, and kill" 171 political opponents throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Former Argentine "presidents" Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone, both from the El Proceso era, are among the defendants. Prosecutors are relying on declassified US records collected by the National Security Archive, a non-governmental entity established at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the 1990s and later.   On May 27, 2016, fifteen former military personnel were found guilty. Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Fourteen of the remaining 16 defendants were sentenced to eight to twenty-five years in prison. Two of the defendants were found not guilty.  A lawyer for the victims' relatives, Luz Palmás Zalda, claims that "This decision is significant since it is the first time Operation Condor's existence has been proven in court. It's also the first time former Condor members have been imprisoned for their roles in the criminal organization."    Anyone wanna go to Brazil?   In the year 2000, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso ordered the publication of some military documents related to Operation Condor. There are documents proving that in that year, attorney general Giancarlo Capaldo, an Italian magistrate, investigated the "disappearances" of Italian citizens in Latin America, which were most likely caused by the actions of Argentine, Paraguayan, Chilean, and Brazilian military personnel who tortured and murdered Italian citizens during Latin American military dictatorships. There was a list containing the names of eleven Brazilians accused of murder, kidnapping, and torture, as well as several high-ranking military personnel from other countries involved in the operation.   "(...) I can neither affirm nor deny because Argentine, Brazilian, Paraguayan, and Chilean soldiers [military men] will be subject to criminal trial until December," the Magistrate said on October 26, 2000.   According to the Italian government's official statement, it was unclear whether the government would prosecute the accused military officers or not. As of November 2021, no one in Brazil had been convicted of human rights violations for actions committed during the 21-year military dictatorship because the Amnesty Law had protected both government officials and leftist guerrillas.   In November 1978, the Condor Operation expanded its covert persecution from Uruguay to Brazil, in an incident dubbed "o Sequestro dos Uruguaios," or "the Kidnapping of the Uruguayans." Senior officials of the Uruguayan army crossed the border into Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, with the permission of the Brazilian military administration. They kidnapped Universindo Rodriguez and Lilian Celiberti, a political activist couple from Uruguay, as well as her two children, Camilo and Francesca, who are five and three years old.   The unlawful operation failed because an anonymous phone call notified two Brazilian journalists, Veja magazine reporter Luiz Cláudio Cunha and photographer Joo Baptista Scalco, that the Uruguayan couple had been "disappeared." The two journalists traveled to the specified address, a Porto Alegre apartment, to double-check the facts. The armed men who had arrested Celiberti mistook the journalists for other political opposition members when they came, and they were arrested as well. Universindo Rodriguez and the children had already been brought to Uruguay under the table.   The journalists' presence had exposed the secret operation when their identities were revealed. It was put on hold. As news of the political kidnapping of Uruguayan nationals in Brazil made headlines in the Brazilian press, it is thought that the operation's disclosure avoided the death of the couple and their two young children. It became a worldwide embarrassment. Both Brazil's and Uruguay's military governments were humiliated. Officials arranged for the Celibertis' children to be transported to their maternal grandparents in Montevideo a few days later. After being imprisoned and tortured in Brazil, Rodriguez and Celiberti were transferred to Uruguayan military cells and held there for the next five years. The couple were released after Uruguay's democracy was restored in 1984. They confirmed every element of their kidnapping that had previously been reported.   In 1980, two DOPS (Department of Political and Social Order, an official police unit in charge of political repression during the military administration) inspectors were found guilty of arresting the journalists in Lilian's apartment in Porto Alegre by Brazilian courts. Joo Augusto da Rosa and Orandir Portassi Lucas were their names. They had been identified as participants in the kidnapping by the media and Uruguayans. This occurrence confirmed the Brazilian government's active involvement in the Condor Operation. Governor Pedro Simon arranged for the state of Rio Grande do Sul to legally recognize the Uruguayans' kidnapping and compensate them financially in 1991. A year later, President Luis Alberto Lacalle's democratic government in Uruguay was encouraged to do the same.   The Uruguayan couple identified Pedro Seelig, the head of the DOPS at the time of the kidnapping, as the guy in charge of the operation in Porto Alegre. Universindo and Llian remained in prison in Uruguay and were unable to testify when Seelig was on trial in Brazil. Due to a lack of proof, the Brazilian cop was acquitted. Later testimony from Lilian and Universindo revealed that four officers from Uruguay's secret Counter-Information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation with the permission of Brazilian authorities. In the DOPS headquarters in Porto Alegre, Captain Glauco Yanonne was personally responsible for torturing Universindo Rodriquez. Universindo and Lilian were able to identify the Uruguayan military men who had arrested and tortured them, but none of them were prosecuted in Montevideo. Uruguayan individuals who committed acts of political repression and human rights violations under the dictatorship were granted pardon under the Law of Immunity, which was approved in 1986. Cunha and Scalco were given the 1979 Esso Prize, considered the most significant prize in Brazilian journalism, for their investigative journalism on the case.  Hugo Cores, a former political prisoner from Uruguay, was the one who had warned Cunha. He told the Brazilian press in 1993: All the Uruguayans kidnapped abroad, around 180 people, are missing to this day. The only ones who managed to survive are Lilian, her children, and Universindo.   Joo "Jango" Goulart was the first Brazilian president to die in exile after being deposed. On December 6, 1976, he died in his sleep in Mercedes, Argentina, of a suspected heart attack. The true cause of his death was never determined because an autopsy was never performed. On April 26, 2000, Leonel Brizola, Jango's brother-in-law and former governor of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, claimed that ex-presidents Joo Goulart and Juscelino Kubitschek (who died in a vehicle accident) were assassinated as part of Operation Condor. He demanded that an investigation into their deaths be launched. On January 27, 2008, the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published a report featuring a declaration from Mario Neira Barreiro, a former member of Uruguay's dictatorship's intelligence service. Barreiro confirmed Brizola's claims that Goulart had been poisoned. Sérgio Paranhos Fleury, the head of the Departamento de Ordem Poltica e Social (Department of Political and Social Order), gave the order to assassinate Goulart, according to Barreiro, and president Ernesto Geisel gave the permission to execute him. A special panel of the Rio Grande do Sul Legislative Assembly concluded in July 2008 that "the evidence that Jango was wilfully slain, with knowledge of the Geisel regime, is strong."   The magazine CartaCapital published previously unreleased National Information Service records generated by an undercover agent who was present at Jango's Uruguayan homes in March 2009. This new information backs up the idea that the former president was poisoned. The Goulart family has yet to figure out who the "B Agent," as he's referred to in the documents, might be. The agent was a close friend of Jango's, and he detailed a disagreement between the former president and his son during the former president's 56th birthday party, which was sparked by a brawl between two employees. As a result of the story, the Chamber of Deputies' Human Rights Commission agreed to look into Jango's death.   Later, Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart, Jango's widow, was interviewed by CartaCapital, who revealed records from the Uruguayan government confirming her accusations that her family had been tracked. Jango's travel, business, and political activities were all being watched by the Uruguayan government. These data date from 1965, a year after Brazil's coup, and they indicate that he may have been targeted. The President Joo Goulart Institute and the Movement for Justice and Human Rights have requested a document from the Uruguayan Interior Ministry stating that "serious and credible Brazilian sources'' discussed an "alleged plan against the former Brazilian president."   If you thought it wasn't enough, let's talk about Chile. No not the warm stew lie concoction you make to scorn your buddy's stomach, but the country.   Additional information about Condor was released when Augusto Pinochet was detained in London in 1998 in response to Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón's request for his extradition to Spain. According to one of the lawyers requesting his extradition, Carlos Altamirano, the leader of the Chilean Socialist Party, was the target of an assassination attempt. He said that after Franco's funeral in Madrid in 1975, Pinochet contacted Italian neofascist terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie and arranged for Altamirano's murder. The strategy didn't work out. Since the bodies of victims kidnapped and presumably murdered could not be found, Chilean judge Juan Guzmán Tapia established a precedent concerning the crime of "permanent kidnapping": he determined that the kidnapping was thought to be ongoing, rather than having occurred so long ago that the perpetrators were protected by an amnesty decreed in 1978 or the Chilean statute of limitations. The Chilean government admitted in November 2015 that Pablo Neruda may have been murdered by members of Pinochet's administration.   Assassinations   On September 30, 1974, a car bomb killed General Carlos Prats and his wife, Sofa Cuthbert, in Buenos Aires, where they were living in exile. The Chilean DINA has been charged with the crime. In January 2005, Chilean Judge Alejandro Sols ended Pinochet's case when the Chilean Supreme Court denied his request to strip Pinochet's immunity from prosecution (as chief of state). In Chile, the assassination of DINA commanders Manuel Contreras, ex-chief of operations and retired general Ral Itturiaga Neuman, his brother Roger Itturiaga, and ex-brigadiers Pedro Espinoza Bravo and José Zara was accused. In Argentina, DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel was found guilty of the murder.   After moving in exile in Italy, Bernardo Leighton and his wife were severely injured in a botched assassination attempt on October 6, 1975. Bernardo Leighton was critically injured in the gun attack, and his wife, Anita Fresno, was permanently crippled. Stefano Delle Chiaie met with Michael Townley and Virgilio Paz Romero in Madrid in 1975 to plan the murder of Bernardo Leighton with the help of Franco's secret police, according to declassified documents in the National Security Archive and Italian attorney general Giovanni Salvi, who led the prosecution of former DINA head Manuel Contreras. Glyn T. Davies, the secretary of the National Security Council (NSC), said in 1999 that declassified records indicated Pinochet's government's responsibility for the failed assassination attempt on Bernardo Leighton, Orlando Letelier, and General Carlos Prats on October 6, 1975.   In a December 2004 OpEd piece in the Los Angeles Times, Francisco Letelier, Orlando Letelier's son, claimed that his father's killing was part of Operation Condor, which he described as "an intelligence-sharing network employed by six South American tyrants of the time to eliminate dissidents."   Letelier's death, according to Michael Townley, was caused by Pinochet. Townley admitted to hiring five anti-Castro Cuban exiles to set up a booby-trap in Letelier's automobile. Following consultations with the terrorist organization CORU's leadership, including Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, Cuban-Americans José Dionisio Suárez, Virgilio Paz Romero, Alvin Ross Daz, and brothers Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll were chosen to carry out the murder, according to Jean-Guy Allard. The Miami Herald reports that Luis Posada Carriles was there at the conference that decided on Letelier's death as well as the bombing of Cubana Flight 455.   During a public protest against Pinochet in July 1986, photographer Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri was burned alive and Carmen Gloria Quintana received significant burns. The case of the two became known as Caso Quemados ("The Burned Case"), and it drew attention in the United States because Rojas had fled to the United States following the 1973 coup. [96] According to a document from the US State Department, the Chilean army set fire to both Rojas and Quintana on purpose. Rojas and Quintana, on the other hand, were accused by Pinochet of being terrorists who lit themselves on fire with their own Molotov cocktails. Pinochet's reaction to the attack and killing of Rojas, according to National Security Archive analyst Peter Kornbluh, was "contributed to Reagan's decision to withdraw support for the regime and press for a return to civilian rule."   Operación Silencio   Operación Silencio (Operation Silence) was a Chilean operation that removed witnesses from the country in order to obstruct investigations by Chilean judges. It began about a year before the "terror archives" in Paraguay were discovered. Arturo Sanhueza Ross, the man accused of assassinating MIR leader Jecar Neghme in 1989, departed the country in April 1991.    According to the Rettig Report, Chilean intelligence officers were responsible for Jecar Neghme's killing. Carlos Herrera Jiménez, the man who assassinated trade unionist Tucapel Jiménez, flew out in September 1991. Eugenio Berros, a chemist who had cooperated with DINA agent Michael Townley, was led by Operation Condor agents from Chile to Uruguay in October 1991 in order to avoid testifying in the Letelier case. He used passports from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil, prompting suspicions that Operation Condor was still active. In 1995, Berros was discovered dead in El Pinar, Uruguay, near Montevideo. His corpse had been mangled to the point where it was hard to identify him by sight.   Michael Townley, who is now under witness protection in the United States, recognized linkages between Chile, DINA, and the incarceration and torture camp Colonia Dignidad in January 2005. The facility was founded in 1961 by Paul Schäfer, who was arrested and convicted of child rape in Buenos Aires in March 2005. Interpol was notified about Colonia Dignidad and the Army's Bacteriological Warfare Laboratory by Townley. This lab would have taken the place of the previous DINA lab on Via Naranja de lo Curro, where Townley collaborated with chemical assassin Eugenio Berros. According to the court reviewing the case, the toxin that allegedly murdered Christian-Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva could have been created at this new lab in Colonia Dignidad. Dossiê Jango, a Brazilian-Uruguayan-Argentine collaboration film released in 2013, accused the same lab in the alleged poisoning of Brazil's deposed president, Joo Goulart.   Congressman Koch   The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents was released in February 2004 by reporter John Dinges. He reported that in mid-1976, Uruguayan military officers threatened to assassinate United States Congressman Edward Koch (later Mayor of New York City). The CIA station commander in Montevideo had received information about it in late July 1976. He advised the Agency to take no action after finding that the men were inebriated at the time. Colonel José Fons, who was present at the November 1975 covert meeting in Santiago, Chile, and Major José Nino Gavazzo, who led a team of intelligence agents working in Argentina in 1976 and was responsible for the deaths of over 100 Uruguayans, were among the Uruguayan officers.   Koch told Dinges in the early twenty-first century that CIA Director George H. W. Bush informed him in October 1976 that "his sponsorship of legislation to cut off US military assistance to Uruguay on human rights concerns had prompted secret police officers to 'put a contract out for you'." Koch wrote to the Justice Department in mid-October 1976, requesting FBI protection, but he received none. It had been more than two months after the meeting and the assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington. Colonel Fons and Major Gavazzo were sent to important diplomatic postings in Washington, D.C. in late 1976. The State Department ordered the Uruguayan government to rescind their appointments, citing the possibility of "unpleasant publicity" for "Fons and Gavazzo."  Only in 2001 did Koch learn of the links between the threats and the position appointments.   Paraguay The US supported Alfredo Stroessner's anti-communist military dictatorship and played a "vital supporting role" in Stroessner's Paraguay's domestic affairs. As part of Operation Condor, for example, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Thierry of the United States Army was deployed to assist local workers in the construction of "La Technica," a detention and interrogation center. La Technica was also renowned as a torture facility. Pastor Coronel, Stroessner's secret police, washed their victims in human vomit and excrement tubs and shocked them in the rectum with electric cattle prods. They decapitated Miguel Angel Soler [es], the Communist party secretary, with a chainsaw while Stroessner listened on the phone. Stroessner asked that tapes of inmates wailing in agony be presented to their relatives.   Harry Shlaudeman defined Paraguay's militarized state as a "nineteenth-century military administration that looks nice on the cartoon page" in a report to Kissinger. Shlaudeman's assessments were paternalistic, but he was correct in observing that Paraguay's "backwardness" was causing it to follow in the footsteps of its neighbors. Many decolonized countries regarded national security concerns in terms of neighboring countries and long-standing ethnic or regional feuds, but the United States viewed conflict from a global and ideological viewpoint. During the Chaco War, Shlaudeman mentions Paraguay's amazing fortitude in the face of greater military force from its neighbors. The government of Paraguay believes that the country's victory over its neighbors over several decades justifies the country's lack of progress. The paper goes on to say that Paraguay's political traditions were far from democratic. Because of this reality, as well as a fear of leftist protest in neighboring countries, the government has prioritized the containment of political opposition over the growth of its economic and political institutions. They were driven to defend their sovereignty due to an ideological fear of their neighbors. As a result, many officials were inspired to act in the interest of security by the fight against radical, communist movements both within and beyond the country. The book Opération Condor, written by French writer Pablo Daniel Magee and prefaced by Costa Gavras, was published in 2020. The story chronicles the life of Martin Almada, a Paraguayan who was a victim of the Condor Operation.   The Peruvian Case   After being kidnapped in 1978, Peruvian legislator Javier Diez Canseco announced that he and twelve other compatriots (Justiniano Apaza Ordóñez, Hugo Blanco, Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, Valentín Pacho, Ricardo Letts, César Lévano, Ricardo Napurí, José Luis Alvarado Bravo, Alfonso Baella Tuesta, Guillermo Faura Gaig, José Arce Larco and Humberto Damonte). All opponents of Francisco Morales Bermudez's dictatorship were exiled and handed over to the Argentine armed forces in Jujuy in 1978 after being kidnapped in Peru. He also claimed that declassified CIA documents and WikiLeaks cable information account for the Morales Bermudez government's ties to Operation Condor.   Uruguay   Juan Mara Bordaberry declared himself dictator and banned the rest of the political parties, as was customary in the Southern Cone dictatorships of the 1970s. In the alleged defense against subversion, a large number of people were murdered, tortured, unjustly detained and imprisoned, kidnapped, and forced into disappearance during the de facto administration, which lasted from 1973 until 1985. Prior to the coup d'état in 1973, the CIA served as a consultant to the country's law enforcement institutions. Dan Mitrione, perhaps the most well-known example of such cooperation, had taught civilian police in counterinsurgency at the School of the Americas in Panama, afterwards renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.   Maybe now we can talk about the U.S involvement? The U.S never gets involved in anything so this might be new to some of you.   According to US paperwork, the US supplied critical organizational, financial, and technological help to the operation far into the 1980s. The long-term hazards of a right-wing bloc, as well as its early policy recommendations, were discussed in a US Department of State briefing for Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, dated 3 August 1976, prepared by Harry Shlaudeman and titled "Third World War and South America." The briefing was an overview of security forces in the Southern Cone. The operation was described as a joint effort by six Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay) to win the "Third World War" by eliminating "subversion" through transnational secret intelligence operations, kidnapping, torture, disappearance, and assassination. The research begins by examining the sense of unity shared by the six countries of the Southern Cone. Kissinger is warned by Shlaudeman that the "Third World War" will trap those six countries in an ambiguous position in the long run, because they are trapped on one side by "international Marxism and its terrorist exponents," and on the other by "the hostility of uncomprehending industrial democracies misled by Marxist propaganda." According to the report, US policy toward Operation Condor should “emphasize the differences between the five countries at all times, depoliticize human rights, oppose rhetorical exaggerations of the ‘Third-World-War' type, and bring potential bloc members back into our cognitive universe through systematic exchanges.” According to CIA papers from 1976, strategies to deal with political dissidents in South America were planned among international security officials at the US Army School of the Americas and the Conference of American Armies from 1960 to the early 1970s. "In early 1974, security officials from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia convened in Buenos Aires to arrange synchronized attacks against subversive targets," according to a declassified CIA memo dated June 23, 1976. Officials in the United States were aware of the situation.   Furthermore, the Defense Intelligence Agency revealed in September 1976 that US intelligence services were well aware of Operation Condor's architecture and intentions. They discovered that "Operation Condor" was the covert name for gathering intelligence on "leftists," Communists, Peronists, or Marxists in the Southern Cone Area. The intelligence services were aware that the operation was being coordinated by the intelligence agencies of numerous South American nations (including Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia), with Chile serving as the hub. Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, according to the DIA, were already aggressively pursuing operations against communist targets, primarily in Argentina.   The report's third point reveals the US comprehension of Operation Condor's most malevolent actions. "The development of special teams from member countries to execute out operations, including killings against terrorists or sympathizers of terrorist groups," according to the paper. Although these special teams were intelligence agency operatives rather than military troops, they did work in structures similar to those used by US special forces teams, according to the study. Operation Condor's preparations to undertake probable operations in France and Portugal were revealed in Kissinger's State Department briefing - an issue that would later prove to be immensely contentious in Condor's history.   Condor's core was formed by the US government's sponsorship and collaboration with DINA (Directorate of National Intelligence) and other intelligence agencies. According to CIA papers, the agency maintained intimate ties with officers of Chile's secret police, DINA, and its leader Manuel Contreras.  Even after his role in the Letelier-Moffit killing was discovered, Contreras was kept as a paid CIA contact until 1977. Official requests to trace suspects to and from the US Embassy, the CIA, and the FBI may be found in the Paraguayan Archives. The military states received suspect lists and other intelligence material from the CIA. In 1975, the FBI conducted a nationwide hunt in the United States for persons sought by DINA.   In a February 1976 telegram from the Buenos Aires embassy to the State Department, intelligence said that the US was aware of the impending Argentinian coup. According to the ambassador, the Chief of the Foreign Ministry's North American desk revealed that the "Military Planning Group" had asked him to prepare a report and recommendations on how the "future military government can avoid or minimize the sort of problems the Chilean and Uruguayan governments are having with the US over human rights issues." The Chief also indicated that "they" (whether he is talking to the CIA or Argentina's future military dictatorship, or both) will confront opposition if they start assassinating and killing people. Assuming this is so, the envoy notes that the military coup will "intend to carry forward an all-out war on the terrorists and that some executions would therefore probably be necessary." Despite already being engaged in the region's politics, this indicates that the US was aware of the planning of human rights breaches before they occurred and did not intervene to prevent them. "It is encouraging to note that the Argentine military are aware of the problem and are already focusing on ways to avoid letting human rights issues become an irritant in US-Argentine Relations." This is confirmation.   Professor Ruth Blakeley says that Kissinger "explicitly expressed his support for the repression of political opponents" in regards to the Argentine junta's continuous human rights violations.  When Henry Kissinger met with Argentina's Foreign Minister on October 5, 1976, he said, ” Look, our basic attitude is that we would like you to succeed. I have an old-fashioned view that friends ought to be supported. What is not understood in the United States is that you have a civil war. We read about human rights problems but not the context. The quicker you succeed the better ... The human rights problem is a growing one. Your Ambassador can apprise you. We want a stable situation. We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better. Whatever freedoms you could restore would help.”   The démarche was never provided in the end. According to Kornbluh and Dinges, the decision not to deliver Kissinger's directive was based on Assistant Secretary Harry Shlaudeman's letter to his deputy in Washington, D.C., which stated: "you can simply instruct the Ambassadors to take no further action, noting that there have been no reports in some weeks indicating an intention to activate the Condor scheme."   President Bill Clinton ordered the State Department to release hundreds of declassified papers in June 1999, indicating for the first time that the CIA, State, and Defense Departments were all aware of Condor. According to a 1 October 1976 DOD intelligence assessment, Latin American military commanders gloat about it to their American colleagues. Condor's "joint counterinsurgency operations" sought to "eliminate Marxist terrorist activities," according to the same study; Argentina developed a special Condor force "structured much like a US Special Forces Team," it said. According to a summary of documents disclosed in 2004, The declassified record shows that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was briefed on Condor and its "murder operations" on August 5, 1976, in a 14-page report from [Harry] Shlaudeman [Assistant Secretary of State]. "Internationally, the Latin generals look like our guys," Shlaudeman cautioned. "We are especially identified with Chile. It cannot do us any good." Shlaudeman and his two deputies, William Luers and Hewson Ryan, recommended action. Over the course of three weeks, they drafted a cautiously worded demarche, approved by Kissinger, in which he instructed the U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone countries to meet with the respective heads of state about Condor. He instructed them to express "our deep concern" about "rumors" of "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad."   Kornbluh and Dinges come to the conclusion that "The paper trail is clear: the State Department and the CIA had enough intelligence to take concrete steps to thwart the Condor assassination planning. Those steps were initiated but never implemented." Hewson Ryan, Shlaudeman's deputy, subsequently admitted in an oral history interview that the State Department's treatment of the issue was "remiss." "We knew fairly early on that the governments of the Southern Cone countries were planning, or at least talking about, some assassinations abroad in the summer of 1976. ... Whether if we had gone in, we might have prevented this, I don't know", In relation to the Letelier-Moffitt bombing, he remarked, "But we didn't."   Condor was defined as a "counter-terrorism organization" in a CIA document, which also mentioned that the Condor countries had a specific telecommunications system known as "CONDORTEL."  The New York Times released a communication from US Ambassador to Paraguay Robert White to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on March 6, 2001. The paper was declassified and disseminated by the Clinton administration in November 2000 as part of the Chile Declassification Project. General Alejandro Fretes Davalos, the chief of staff of Paraguay's armed forces, told White that the South American intelligence chiefs engaged in Condor "kept in touch with one another through a United States communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone that covered all of Latin America."   According to reports, Davalos stated that the station was "employed to coordinate intelligence information among the southern cone countries". The US was concerned that the Condor link would be made public at a time when the killing of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier and his American aide Ronni Moffitt in the United States was being probed."it would seem advisable to review this arrangement to insure that its continuation is in US interest." White wrote to Vance. "Another piece of increasingly weighty evidence suggesting that U.S. military and intelligence officials supported and collaborated with Condor as a secret partner or sponsor." McSherry rebutted the cables. Furthermore, an Argentine military source told a U.S. Embassy contact that the CIA was aware of Condor and had played a vital role in establishing computerized linkages among the six Condor governments' intelligence and operations sections.   After all this it doesn't stop here. We even see France having a connection. The original document confirming that a 1959 agreement between Paris and Buenos Aires set up a "permanent French military mission" of officers to Argentina who had participated in the Algerian War was discovered in the archives of the Quai d'Orsay, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was kept at the offices of the Argentine Army's chief of staff. It lasted until 1981, when François Mitterrand was elected President of France. She revealed how the administration of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing secretly coordinated with Videla's junta in Argentina and Augusto Pinochet's tyranny in Chile.   Even Britain and West Germany looked into using the tactics in their own countries. Going so far as to send their open personnel to Buenos Aires to discuss how to establish a similar network.  MOVIES   https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=military-coup&sort=num_votes,desc&mode=detail&page=1&title_type=movie&ref_=kw_ref_typ https://islandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/terror%3Aroot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20774985 https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/index.htm

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Work Stoppage
Shop Floor Discussion 2 PREVIEW – Colombian State Violence

Work Stoppage

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 6:21


If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We've talked about the violence facing labor organizers, human rights defenders, and Indigenous leaders in Colombia on the show before, in the context of last year's working class uprising.  But we hadn't really had a chance to give the topic the amount of time it deserves.  Colombia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a labor organizer, with hundreds killed in the last few years.  The US neocolonial control of Colombia's government and economy is largely to blame, as major US corporations like Nestle and Coca-Cola have taken advantage of the Colombian state's complicity with paramilitary death squads to quash organizing drives at their facilities.  On this Shop Floor Discussion, we get into the history of state/para-state violence in Colombia, the difficulties that presents for labor organizing, and some of the connections to Operation Condor. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee.

Learn Spanish with Stories
Operation Condor, An Imperialist Massacre (Operación Cóndor, Una Masacre Imperialista)

Learn Spanish with Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 22:50


Throughout Latin America's turbulent history, the region has been witness to terrible and unforgettable events, often orchestrated by heartless men and women who care more about their political gain than the lives of their people. One such event – and among the worst – was the right-wing, government-sponsored massacre which occurred in the Southern Cone of the South America, and in which even the CIA and U.S. Government were involved.Resulting in the kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of hundreds, in this episode of Learn Spanish with Stories we cover the tale behind “Operation Condor”.Transcript of this episode is available at: https://podcast.lingomastery.com/listen/897

Historaholics Podcast
The Other 9/11 Part Seven: Operation Condor

Historaholics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 91:39


Join C.J. and Zak as they round out their seven part series on Salvador Allende and the 1973 coup d'etat that placed Augusto Pinochet in power. This week they talk about Operation Condor and how the intelligence agencies of many South American nations worked together to kill and disappear dissenters, many of whom were left wing.

Hardly Unbiased show
Operation condor

Hardly Unbiased show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2022 49:14


No filter in this conversation about race and wealth. Borders are needless? Tune in to find out why they don't think about us and we don't care for them. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @prblywrong Intro song - No puedo by Ariel and the culture

The Surfing Historian
S1: E14: Guerrilla Movements and Counterinsurgencies with Rob Koch

The Surfing Historian

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2021 45:09


Rob Koch, PhD, is a historian of Latin America and combat veteran whose research focuses on the geopolitics of Argentine Peronism and the notion of forming a 'Third Position' or 'Third Way' to bring about a post-imperial world order. His work also looks at the global proliferation of counterinsurgency during the Cold War, including the international spread of dirty war methods. In this episode, Cold War and Latin American historian, Dr. Rob Koch, talks about guerrilla movements and counterinsurgencies in Latin America, starting with the 1959 Cuban Revolution. More articles by Dr. Rob Kochhttps://usf.academia.edu/RobertDKoch***Artwork by Nacer Ahmadi: IG @x.filezzzAudio by TwistedLogix

Left Unread
15. Alberto Fujimori: A Cold War Retrospective

Left Unread

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 62:34


In this episode, the Left Unread United People's Revolutionary Socialist Labor Alliance take the fight to the remnants of the United States' Cold War operations in Latin America in the first of an ongoing series on the Cold War - or, really, the United States' anticommunist crusade and mass murder campaign that followed it throughout the global south. For this episode, we look at the current Presidential Election in Peru, pitting socialist Pedro Castillo against far-right neoliberal Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, whose career we then walk through as one of the last vestiges of Operation Condor after the fall of the Soviet Union. You can follow the armed struggle on Twitter: @leftunreadpod @poorfidalgo @gluten_yung All music by Interesting Times Gang. Check them out at: itgang.bandcamp.com.