European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’ | World news | The Guardian

European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’ | World news | The Guardian

 

 

European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’

CIA files show intelligence services wanted to learn from South America’s 1970s campaign of terror against leftwing subversion

 

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 Pictures of some of the thousands killed in Chile during Operation
Condor, a top-secret program among South American dictatorships.
Photograph: Victor Rojas/AFP/Getty Images