The Condor Years

<b>A compelling and shocking account of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America based on interviews and previously secret documents (<i>The Miami Herald</i>).</b><br> <br> Throughout the 1970s six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings torture and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early war on terror initially encouraged by the CIA-which later backfired on the United States.<br> <br> Hailed by <i>Foreign Affairs</i> as remarkable and a major contribution to the historical record <i>The Condor Years</i> uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet the book is a chilling yet dispassionately told history of one of Latin America's darkest eras. Dinges himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries.<br> <br> Scrupulous well-documented. -<i>The Washington Post</i><br> <br> Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges. -Seymour Hersh