The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
by John Dinges
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Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" initially encouraged by the CIA which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as "remarkable" and "a major contribution to the historical record," The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret U.S. relationship with show more the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and newly updated to include recent developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling but dispassionately told history of one of Latin America's darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Augusto Pinochet
- Important places
- Chile; Latin America; South America; Uruguay; Argentina
- Important events
- Chilean Coup (1973); Cold War; Assassination of Orlando Letelier; Operation Condor
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 327.1283 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science International Relations: Spies Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversion South America Chile
- LCC
- F3100 .D565 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Chile
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
