Going all the way back to the 70s and maybe earlier Plan Condor was brewing in South America. There have been documents found under FOIAs tying the USA and our CIA while run by Bush 1. The storys being told include Kissinger in many of the dealings of Op Condor. Pinochet himself is named in the 146 warrants but since he and 5 others named are dead, the active number is 140 warrants. At least one person has been arrested already, hopefully proving this isn't just for show.
Prosecutors in Italy have issued arrest warrants for 140 people over a decades-old plot by South American dictatorships called Operation Condor.
One man - 60-year-old Uruguayan former naval intelligence officer Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli - has already been arrested in Salerno, south Italy. Italy seeks Condor plot suspects
Many of you may not be up on Operation Condor, while it was fairly big news for a few days long ago, the details barely made middle America. Few know the whole truth to this day, and of course, they aren't talking. Maybe with the new acceptance of Torture we might be finding out more. I digress.
In 2004 the National Security Archive released this article along with 14 or 15 documents pertaining to Operation Condor. It should be part of everyones education in the history classes of today, but I doubt it is.
The censored debate in Foreign Affairs centers on Operation Condor and what actions U.S. officials took in response to CIA intelligence that the Pinochet regime, along with other military governments in the region, had "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians, and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad," according to agency sources. The progression of documentation shows that the CIA withheld information from the State Department on Condor plotting for weeks in the summer of 1976. In late August Henry Kissinger's office belatedly sent out a diplomatic warning to the Southern Cone military governments that was not, in the end, actually delivered. A September 20th cable from Kissinger's top deputy on Latin America, discovered by Archive analyst Carlos Osorio, instructed U.S. ambassadors in the region to "take no further action" on deterring Condor plots because "there have been no reports in some weeks indicating an intention to activate the Condor scheme."
The next day, a bomb planted by agents of the Chilean secret police exploded under the car of Pinochet's leading critic in the United States, Orlando Letelier, killing him and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt. Until the attacks on 9/11, the Letelier-Moffitt assassination was considered the most egregious act of international terrorism ever committed in Washington D.C. LIFTING OF PINOCHET'S IMMUNITY RENEWS FOCUS ON OPERATION CONDOR
When you follow the above link plan some to set aside some time to read the documents, you won't regret it. Only more research and maybe a few well placed confessions could possibly stir up much here in the States. With our constant bombardment of Bush scandals almost daily, tho they have slowed, this won't make a blip on most people radar.
In the LTE from Kornbulh and Dinges you will find this gem to maybe peak your interest more.
The focus of the Rogers letter is on the September 21, 1976, car-bombing on Massachusetts Avenue, carried out by agents of Gen. Pinochet's DINA, that took the lives of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Rogers dismisses Maxwell's assertion that "this was a tragedy that might have been prevented" and scoffs: "by whom, one might ask?"
The answer is that it could have been prevented by Secretary of State Kissinger's office and by the CIA, both of which had advance intelligence on Operation Condor assassination plots. The declassified CIA and State Department records are absolutely clear on this point.
Scrolling down to the 5th document and you read these lines, which to me sound all too familar to things we have heard and seen lately. Scarey stuff, but like they say, there are no more original thoughts.
they "have established Operation Condor to find and kill terrorists ... in their own countries and in Europe." Their definition of terrorist, however, is so broad as to include "nearly anyone who opposes government policy."