Reply #115: Operation Condor and what actions U.S. officials took in response to CIA intelligence

[L. Coyote]

LIFTING OF PINOCHET'S IMMUNITY RENEWS FOCUS ON OPERATION CONDOR
OPERATION CONDOR DOCUMENTS INDICATE 1976 TERRORIST ATTACK IN WASHINGTON MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FILL IN CENSORED DEBATE IN LEADING JOURNAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS
CONTROVERSY AT COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS LEADS TO RESIGNATION
Washington D.C. June 10, 2004 : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index.htm


Despite denials by the office of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the argument advanced by Council on Foreign Relations Latin American specialist Kenneth Maxwell that the September 1976 car-bombing in Washington D.C. might have been prevented is bolstered by declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The declassified State Department records chart U.S. foreknowledge of Operation Condor, a network of Southern Cone secret police agencies that coordinated terrorist attacks against political opponents of their regimes around the world in the mid and late 1970s.

Operation Condor has received renewed international attention over the last several weeks. On May 28 a Chilean court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution for Condor-related crimes.

The documents are among the evidence that Maxwell, the director of the Council's Latin American program and senior reviewer for its journal, Foreign Affairs, used in a rebuttal to a letter from Henry Kissinger's former assistant secretary of State, William D. Rogers, which appeared in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. As reported in the New York Times on June 5 ("Kissinger Assailed In Debate on Chile"), and in The Nation magazine ("The Maxwell Affair") the prestigious journal has refused to publish Maxwell's response and he has resigned in protest.

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," .......

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040301faletter83269/william-d-rogers/crisis-prevention.html
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040621&s=sherman
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/condor06.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/condor09.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index.htm#letter