Operation Condor
| Operation Condor | |
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| Part of Cold War | |
Green: main active members (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay). Light green: sporadic members (Colombia, Peru, Venezuela). Blue: collaborator (USA).
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| Type | Covert operation |
| Location | South America |
| Planned by |
 Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Paraguay United States Uruguay
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| Commanded by |
Jorge Rafael Videla Hugo Banzer Ernesto Geisel João Figueiredo Augusto Pinochet Alfredo Stroessner Henry Kissinger Aparicio Méndez
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| Target | Opponents to the military juntas and right-wing governments in South America |
| Date | 1968–1989 |
| Executed by | Intelligence agencies |
| Outcome | Concluded after the fall of the Berlin Wall |
| Casualties |
60,000–80,000 suspected leftist sympathizers killed |
60,000–80,000 suspected leftist sympathizers killed
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor, Portuguese: Operação Condor) was a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, which started in 1968 and was officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The program was nominally intended to eradicate communist or Soviet influence and ideas, and to suppress active or potential opposition movements against the participating governments' neoliberal economic policies, which sought to reverse the economic reforms of the previous era.
Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. Some estimates are that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor, and possibly more. Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas.
Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. 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 Central Intelligence Agency. Ecuador and Peru later joined the operation in more peripheral roles. These efforts, such as Operation Charly, supported the local juntas in their anti-communist repression.
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