Operation Condor was a US-backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents intended to eradicate communist/Soviet influence and to suppress active or potential opposition movements against the neoliberal economic policies.

In 1975, the CIA, together with Pinochet's intelligence agency DINA and the military intelligence services of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, organized Operation Condor. Among the victims were Carlos Prats, Bernardo Leighton and his wife, Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez and Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt.

In the late 1970s, the Condor offenders extended their alliance to Central America, where Argentine instructors taught Salvadoran and Guatemalan death squads in the rudiments of the dirty war. The result: In just two years, El Salvador's death squads slaughtered over 20,000 people; In Guatemala, they once again sought to fulfill the promise of the Spanish conquerors to rip off the soul of the Indians and murdered tens of thousands of Mayan descendants.

When a Paraguayan judge found an archive of terror - four tons of documents - under the police records of Asunción, the close cooperation of the CIA with the five countries was proven.

The United States government provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations. Such support was frequently routed through the CIA.

Between 50,000 and 80,000 killed, 400,000 tortured.