Operation Condor was designed to kidnap, torture and murder left wing supporters, activists, union members, and members of armed organizations armed organizations, Who had left their countries and sought refuge elsewhere. It was formed by Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. Until recently the US was thought of not being directly involved. At worst, it had only
facilitated communications among South American intelligence chiefs who were working together to eliminate left-wing opposition groups in their countries as part of a covert program known as Operation Condor.
After the Embassy Row bombing, until then, the worst terrorist attack on US soil, George H.W.Bush’s CIA tried to cover up
Under George Bush, the CIA leaked a false report that not only cleared Chile’s military dictatorship – it pointed the FBI in the wrong direction. The bogus CIA assessment, was spread through Newsweek magazine and other American media outlets, was planted despite CIA’s now admitted awareness at the time that Chile was participating in Operation Condor, a cross-border campaign targeting political dissidents, and the CIA’s own suspicions that the Chilean junta was behind the terrorist bombing in Washington,
Later reports, however, indicate that they knew before hand of the terrorist plot
the discovery of secret-police documents in Paraguay and other recently declassified documents in the United States is pulling back the veil from Operation Condor. The new information paints a picture of up-to-the-minute knowledge of Condor operations by US officials, including detailed intelligence just before Chile sent a team to Washington, DC, where they killed a prominent opposition leader with a car bomb on Embassy Row.
So far there hasn’t been any direct link. However recent investigations of the “Automotores Orletti” which was a clandestine disappearance centre in Argentina reveal a direct involvement of the US with Operation Condor (In Spanish): It seems there was an embassy of terror where torturers would invite colleagues of the American intelligence services to participate. Cuban groups from Miami, who worked for the CIA passed through Orletti and tortured and disappeared two Cuban diplomats : Cresencio Galaguena Hernandez (26) and Jesus Cejas Arias(22)
American Journalist John Dinges in the Miami Herald ( I could not find it) tells about the close relation between the Argentine intelligence forces and the CIA and FBI. A month after the interrogation and torture sessions, the FBI wrote a memo regarding the interrogations.
