What Was Brazil's Role in Operation Condor? It Created and Led the Murderous Plan

[Judi Lynn]

What Was Brazil's Role in Operation Condor? It Created and Led the Murderous Plan
2012 - November 2012
Written by Newsroom
Thursday, 29 November 2012 04:01

The head of Brazil's Justice and Human Rights Movement, Jair Krischke stated before the Truth Committee that it was the Brazilian dictatorship which masterminded the notorious Plan Condor, the South American military dictatorships undercover transborder organization of the sixties and seventies.

Krischke who has researched dictatorships for decades said that "Brazil created the Operation Condor" which for years was unknown given the discreet way in which Brazilians implemented international repressive actions, in contrast with the military regimes of Argentina and Chile that were far more evident.

The administration of President Dilma Rousseff created last May the Truth Committee to look into the country's past between 1954 and 1988. President Rousseff as a student leader spent over two years imprisoned by the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985.

The seven-member Truth Committee includes lawyer Rosa Maria Cardoso who in the seventies defended among others Dilma Rousseff and which the military claimed at the time was an active member of a guerrilla movement. Ms Cardoso is coordinator of the specific research on the Plan Condor and received all the documents referred to the issue compiled by Krischke.

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1. Brazil invented Samba. The CIA and German expats were the genesis of Plan Condor, which was run

with the cooperation of the US Army Southern Command and the Special Forces School of the Americas in Panama. Condor also had another genesis in CIA-backed Bay of Pigs veterans. Condor was later grafted onto part of Kissinger's NSC operation after CIA Track II overthrew Allende. DINA, Pinochet's Secret Police, started assassinating the surviving Chilean exiles they could find across South America and then murdered Orlando Letelier, the former Foreign Minister in a car bombing near Sheridan Square, Washington, DC in '76 during the reign of DCI Bush.

See the Wiki for Condor:

Operation Condor, which took place in the context of the Cold War, had the tacit approval of the United States. In 1968, U.S. General Robert W. Porter stated 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." Condor was one of the fruits of this effort

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For those who are interested, there's a fascinating dialogue on the subject posted here: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11825