Uruguay To Ask Argentina for Operation Condor Documents

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1. I doubt there's much to hand over, though

The last dictator, Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, had most documents related to the Dirty War burned in 1983.

This is also why no one knows with any degree of certainly how many 'disappeared' there were exactly.

The closest we have to a credible, official figure is a July 1978 cable to Chilean intelligence in which the Videla regime admitted to 22,000 such murders in Argentina alone.

The date is significant, as there's consensus among historians that the Dirty War had largely wrapped by then (thanks in no small part to pressure from the Carter administration).

Nor has the recent round of declassified CIA and U.S. Embassy document handovers answered many of the big questions related to that era.

Some questions will no doubt never be answered - not with any exactitude (beyond what is already common knowledge).

Thanks as always for keeping up with these news, Judi.