The Condor Years (56 page)
Authors: John Dinges
delegation at first Condor meeting,
117–18
Kissinger cable and,
6–7
,
157
,
182–90
,
196–97
,
200
legacy of Condor Years for,
21
,
236–37
Pinochet’s arrest and,
37
post-coup,
63–64
See also
Allende, Salvador
;
MIR (
Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria);
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
;
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto, coup by
Chilean Foreign Ministry,
32
,
78
Christian Democratic Party (PDC) (Chile),
61
,
160
,
177
Ciga Corréa, Juan Martín,
74
,
79
Claudet Fernández, Jean Yves,
115–16
,
141
,
146
,
243
Clinton administration,
37–38
Communist Party
Argentina’s coup and,
138
DINA operations against,
162–63
JCR and,
52
Concutelli, Pier Luigi,
131–32
Congress, U.S.
and Kissinger policy toward Pinochet,
158–61
,
162
and Letelier influence,
160
,
162
,
176–77
Senate report on CIA and Condor plots,
181
Contreras Sepúlveda, Manuel
CIA consultations,
63
,
68
,
101–5
,
178
,
250
CIA “covert name trace” on,
70–71
on CIA training of DINA,
68–70
on concept and effectiveness of DINA,
66–67
and DINA,
12
,
49
,
64–71
(
see also
DINA
)
early plans for Operation Condor,
12–14
,
105–10
,
119
,
120–25
,
162–63
,
220
,
228
and exterior DINA operations,
126–34
,
163
and first Condor meeting,
12–15
,
116
,
117
,
119
,
120–21
,
241
Leighton assassination and,
242
Letelier assassination and,
28
,
175
,
178
,
197
,
242
on missions as leader of DINA,
67–68
National Intelligence School and,
70
,
101
personal characteristics of,
65–66
Pinochet and early plans for Condor,
106–8
Prats investigation and,
244
relaying message from Pinochet to Kissinger,
103–5
and second Condor meeting,
164
See also
DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional)
;
DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad
Conyers, John,
29–30
Coordinating Center (Centro Coordinator) for Operation Condor,
13
,
121
,
124
Cornick, Carter,
28
Coronel, Pastor
Almada torture/interrogation and,
237
,
238
Condor endgame and,
224
and Fuentes-Santucho case and Carlos the Jackal,
94–95
and Fuentes-Santucho interrogations,
98
,
109
,
240
Scherrer and,
90
and torture in Paraguayan jails,
96–97
trial and imprisonment of,
238
“covert name traces” (CIA),
70–71
,
73
Cox, Robert,
138
Cranston, Alan,
158
Crescenzi, Guilio,
131
Cuba
Cuban exiles and DINA network abroad,
128
,
132–33
,
163
,
177
,
190–91
Cubans held prisoner at Orletti in Argentina,
206–10
and Kissinger address to OAS,
162
Letelier assassination plot and,
177
,
190–91
and MIR refugees in Argentina,
144
,
207–8
Cuban Nationalist Movement (CNM),
190
de Vargas, Francisco,
239
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),
212–13
,
219
Delle Chiaie, Stefano (“Alfa”),
128
,
130–32
,
133
,
163
,
241–42
Diaz, Victor,
163
Dickens, Charles Bertram,
197
DICP (Paraguay’s Department of Investigations of the Police of the Capital),
90
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
240
Dignity Colony,
129
DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional),
64–71
Argentina operations,
110–12
,
115–16
,
141–43
Battalion 601/DINA operations in Argentina,
141–43
CIA operational jobs within,
70
and Condor’s Phase Three assassination plans in Europe,
129–30
,
219–21
Contreras and DINA Exterior Department abroad,
126–34
,
163
,
177
Contreras on concept and effectiveness of,
66–68
,
101
Contreras’s early plans for Condor and DINA’s expansion,
105–10
,
119
Contreras’s meetings with CIA,
68
,
101–4
coordination with other intelligence agencies,
66
,
70
,
79–80
dissolution of,
228
early joint operations of Operation Condor,
110–13
,
115–16
,
141
Fuentes interrogation and,
108–9
Koch assassination plans and,
16
Leighton assassination plot and,
130–32
,
133
Letelier assassination and,
7
,
69
,
177
,
190–92
Malloco raid against MIR,
112–13
,
114–15
,
119
MIR and,
84
,
100
,
112–13
,
114–15
,
119
killing of MIR’s Miguel Enríquez,
84
,
100–101
Operation Colombo,
235–36
Osvaldo Rawson/DINA operation against JCR,
110–13
,
115–16
,
141
political intelligence and,
66–68
power of,
64–66
Prats assassination and,
20
,
68
,
73–81
,
126
,
130
Townley and,
75–76
,
78–79
,
126–34
,
219–22
U.S. military intelligence on,
64–65
Villa Grimaldi operational center,
100
,
108–9
,
113–14
indictment and conviction of leaders of,
28
,
228
See also
Contreras Sepúlveda, Manuel
;
DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad
DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad
Contreras and,
105–10
,
119
,
126–34
,
163
,
177
Contreras’s early plans for Condor and,
105–10
,
119
Cuban exiles,
128
,
132–33
,
163
,
177
,
190–91
Germany,
129
investigation of,
241–42
Italy,
127–28
,
130–32
,
163
,
241–42
Leighton assassination plot and,
130–32
,
133
Letelier assassination plot and,
177
Operation Colombo and,
235–36
Paris,
129–30
Dionisio Suárez, José,
128
DISIP (Venezuelan intelligence service),
70
,
95
,
105–6
,
163
Droguett, Alvaro,
80
DST (French intelligence service),
93–94
,
130
Duarte, Leon,
211
East German intelligence,
74–75
,
81
,
130
Ecuador,
224
El Combatiente
(PRT/ERP newspaper),
83
,
85
El Salvador,
67
ELN (
Ejército de Liberación Nacional
)
JCR and,
50–51
,
53
,
54–55
,
59
,
60
,
151
Enríquez, Miguel
and MIR military strategies,
43
Enríquez Espinosa, Edgardo
capture and death of,
35
,
142–43
and DINA operations against JCR,
115–16
Fuentes and,
88
MIR leadership and,
35
,
51
,
87
,
115
,
144
,
220
as target of DINA-601 Intelligence Battalion,
141–43
ERP (
Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
)
Argentina’s operations against,
205
Azul offensive,
58–59
Coordinating Junta and,
58–59
early kidnappings by,
57–58
,
60
,
137–38
egregious cruelty of,
137
and military offensives in Argentina,
58–60
,
82–83
,
111
newspaper,
El Combatiente
,
83
,
84
PFLP and,
95
and radical left in Paraguay,
85
ransom money and,
59–60
Santucho and,
50
,
51
,
54
,
58
,
60
,
82
,
137
,
205
Tucumán Province offensive,
60
,
82–83
Espinoza, Pedro