Operation Condor: the Buenos Aires verdict
Verified: Documented in primary records or confirmed by reputable inquiry/reporting.
On 27 May 2016 an Argentine federal court in Buenos Aires announced guilty verdicts against military officers for taking part in Operation Condor, the coordinated cross-border repression of South American military regimes. The National Security Archive provided declassified evidence to prosecutors, including a declassified FBI document.
Documented
The Archive says Condor was founded at a November 1975 meeting hosted by Pinochet’s secret police, DINA, in Santiago, and describes a 900-document database with FOIA records from the CIA, DIA and State Department. The Archive says it provided evidence; the court record itself was not opened.
Claimed, disputed or not established
The Archive’s page is a secondary account of the trial by an organisation that supplied evidence to prosecutors. US officials’ knowledge of Condor is argued in its documents and is not summarised here.
Sources (opened in a new tab)
- National Security Archive: Operation Condor verdict (27 May 2016) ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2016-05-27/operation-condor-verdict-guilty
- National Security Archive: Operation Condor trial documents (EBB 514) ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB514/
Connected
- Section: Latin America
- Agencies: DINA
- Case board · Timeline (2016) · Document vault