| 14/12/04 | The Case Against Pinochet: Ex-Dictator Indicted for Condor Crimes |
| National Security Archive Update, December 14, 2004 | |
National Security Archive Update, December 14, 2004 For more information contact: Washington, D.C., December 14: With the decision by Chilean judge Juan Guzman to indict Augusto Pinochet for ten crimes relating to Operation Condor, the National Security Archive reposted a series of declassified U.S. documents relating to Condor’s acts of international terrorism—including the September 1976 carbombing assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington D.C. The documents record the progression of U.S. intelligence gathering on Condor and U.S. foreign policy actions. According to Peter Kornbluh, who directs to Archive’s Chile Documentation Project and is the author of the book The Pinochet File, the judicial decision in Chile represents a strong statement on international terrorism. “With the new indictment of Pinochet, Chile has sent a message to the world that there is no statute of limitations on terrorist crimes.” Operation Condor is the subject of a book by Archive board member John Dinges, The Condor Years. Dinges commented to The New York Times, “If there were ever a case that shows that a head of state had to be involved in these atrocities, it is Condor. I have evidence that Pinochet was actually at the meeting when Condor was formed, and it is impossible to believe that subordinates would create something as elaborate as Condor without the explicit approval of the head of state.” www.nsarchive.org |
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