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Is it true: Operation Condor (1975-83)?

Confirmed5% confidence

Yes — this is confirmed.

Operation Condor is confirmed by the 1992 discovery of Paraguay's Archives of Terror (~700,000 documents), declassified US State Department cables, FBI documentation of the 1976 Letelier-Moffitt car bomb assassination in Washington DC, criminal conviction of DINA chief Manuel Contreras (1995), and the 1998 arrest of Pinochet in London. Six South American military regimes coordinated cross-border assassinations and intelligence operations. Estimated 60,000 killed. US facilitation through CIA infrastructure is documented.

The claim

Operation Condor was a coordinated programme of political repression and cross-border assassination carried out by the intelligence services of six South American military regimes — Argentina, Bolivia

Key evidence

Archives of Terror (1992): ~700,000 documents confirming Condor network

Some participating states initially denied Condor existed

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