Operation Condor: New Facts and Analysis about the Alliance that Internationalized Military Repression

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This roundtable brings together academics, journalists, analysts, and practitioners who have been working on Operation Condor for the past few years or decades in some cases. The objective of the roundtable is to provide fresh analysis and interpretation of the scope and impact of the transnational terror network that joined six dictatorships in the Southern Cone. In particular it will tackle some of the still unresolved issues, namely: Who were its main targets? How many victims did Operation Condor encompass in the context of overall mass repression? What was the extent of U.S. government knowledge and complicity? When did Operation Condor and related deadly cooperation start and end?
The roundtable also will address some of the recent developments relating to Operation Condor, including judicial proceedings in Argentina, Chile and Italy, new revelations in recently declassified archival documents, and an assessment of the continuities as well as changes that Operation Condor implied vis-a-vis prior forms of repressive coordination in South America.

Sub Track

• Human Rights and Memory

Session Organizer

• Francesca Lessa, University of Oxford

Chair

• Kate Doyle, National Security Archive

Discussant

• Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University

Presenters

• John Dinges, Columbia University

• Peter R Kornbluh, National Security Archive

• Francesca Lessa, University of Oxford

• Carlos Osorio, The National Security Archive

• Melisa S Slatman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ministerio Público Fiscal