Operation Condor was secretly created in Santiago on November 25–28, 1975, when Southern Cone intelligence chiefs met under DINA’s invitation to form a coordinated system for tracking, capturing, and eliminating political opponents across borders. Over time, Condor evolved from sharing intelligence to carrying out disappearances and international assassinations, with operations reaching the United States, Mexico, and Europe. At the center of its most violent activity was Teseo, a Condor subdivision based in Buenos Aires that organized and dispatched death squads abroad. Declassified CIA records reveal Teseo’s detailed administrative structure, budgets, and procedures for selecting and killing targets, with figures like Manuel Contreras and Pinochet involved in approving operations. The newly posted documents, from DINA’s original meeting statement to CIA cables, Teseo agreements, internal warnings, and the FBI’s “Chilbom” report—trace Condor’s expansion into a multinational system of repression whose crimes later fueled investigations, trials, and efforts to hold the perpetrators accountable.
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