Released 'Operation Condor' Files Show CIA Torture in Argentina
Released 'Operation Condor' Files Show CIA Torture in Argentina
Published 12 December 2016 (2 hours 24 minutes ago)
According to the National Security Archive more files will be released as they are declassified even after Obama leaves office.
The administration of Barack Obama released Monday a CIA report on Operation Condor, the 1970s covert efforts to rid U.S.-backed dictatorships of progressive opponents or to topple progressive governments outright in South America.
According to a press release announcing the documents, the National Security Archive an independent non-governmental research institute and library in Washington, D.C. said the CIA disclosures are among 500 pages on repression in Argentina during the military dictatorship in that country beginning in 1976.
According to the archive, Another proposal under study included the collection of material on the membership, location, and political activities of human rights groups in order to identify and expose their socialist and Marxist connections. Similar data reportedly are to be collected on church and third-world groups, the documents state. Amnesty International was one of the groups named in the documents.
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