Rendition: OPERATION CONDOR DOCUMENTS REVEALED FROM PARAGUAYAN ‘ARCHIVE OF TERROR’

[L. Coyote]

RENDITION IN THE SOUTHERN CONE:
OPERATION CONDOR DOCUMENTS REVEALED FROM PARAGUAYAN ‘ARCHIVE OF TERROR’
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/index.htm

Paraguayan Archive continues to yield Evidence of Coordinated Repression among Military Regimes of the Southern Cone
Documents being used by courts from Paraguay, Chile and Argentina, to Europe and the United States
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 239— Part II
Edited by Carlos Osorio and Marianna Enamoneta - Washington D.C., December 21, 2007 – http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/index.htm


On the fifteenth anniversary of the discovery of the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, the National Security Archive posted Spanish-language documents that reveal new details of how the Southern Cone military regimes collaborated in hunting down, interrogating, and disappearing hundreds of Latin Americans during the 1970s and 1980s.

The collaboration, which became officially known as “Operation Condor,” drew on cross-border kidnapping, secret detention centers, torture, and disappearance of prisoners—rendition, interrogation and detention techniques that some human rights advocates are comparing to those used today in the Bush administration’s counterterrorism campaign.

The selection of documents posted today included uncensored records relating to the pivotal case of Chilean Jorge Isaac Fuentes Alarcón and Argentine Amílcar Santucho, who were detained in Paraguay in May 1975, and whose interrogation under torture led to the decision by Chilean secret police chief Manual Contreras to formalize coordination against the left among the Southern Cone military states. One document posted today for the first time is the list of questions created by Argentine intelligence agent José Osvaldo Ribeiro to be used in the interrogation of Santucho and Fuentes Alarcón in Paraguay. Chilean agents subsequently rendered Fuentes Alarcón to a secret detention camp in Santiago from where he was disappeared.

The Archive also posted a “thank you” note to the Paraguayan secret police .....

[Hydra]

1. Practicing for today

:shakes head:

"it can't happen here!"

[snappyturtle]

2. K&R....thanks for posting.

:kick:

[peacetalksforall]

3. Their favorite disappearing trick ? -- dropping them in the ocean.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Paraguay, little empire of the maggot Stroessner, patron of the Nazi butcher Josef Mengele, home of

right-wing _Bush family friend, Sun Myung Moon, over the largest fresh-water aquifer in the world, and future home, apparently, to the _Bush family itself, if it needs to get the hell outta here, and withdraw to its property there.

So glad to be able to study this new (to us) information. Thank you so much, am keeping your links.

[proud patriot]

17. I second that thanks

:hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Excellent post. Keeping your links. K&R with thanks.

[leveymg]

6. Let's not forget the assassination of Orlando Letelier in DC in '76, under DCI Bush

That was just part of the US contribution to the program.



www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB112/

[L. Coyote]

7. George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists

Plan Condor: Crimes Without Borders in Latin America
Marie Trigona - 12 Dec 2007 - http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1042/1 /


Former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and 16 other military leaders in Argentina will be prosecuted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and kill political activists in a scheme known as Plan Condor, developed by Henry Kissinger and George Bush Sr., head of the CIA at the time. Dictators in Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina killed opponents .......

MORE: George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
Dec-12-07 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

[leveymg]

8. Kissinger couldn't travel to some EU countries. Haven't seen anything specific for Bush.

Skimmed the thread and article linked. Didn't see the reference to Bush being under threat of indictment. Linky, please?

Thanks!

[L. Coyote]

9. The forthcoming trials in Italy may bring forth evidence, widening indictments.

Kissinger will most certainly be named if Bush is.

[L. Coyote]

10. Italy: Judge issues 140 arrest warrants in "Plan Condor" case. Bush NOT YET indicted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2528536

[RuleOfNah]

12. Maybe Bush is rolling on Bush?

Or Bush is rolling on Bush? Or maybe Neil is rolling on both of them? Oh, wait, law enforcement, never mind.

[L. Coyote]

13. Maybe first Bush crimes led to this Bush's crimes. Covering up for Dad!

[Hydra]

11. Kissenger has his fingers in so many dirty pies

Gotta wonder why he's still walking around in a "democratic" country like ours.

[L. Coyote]

14. Because it's not so democratic after all?

[Judi Lynn]

18. It was never actually noted in any of our corporate media, that Ed Koch was death threatened!

Imagine his surprise...

From the link you posted:

In an interview for the book, Koch said that the then Director of Central Intelligence, George Herbert Walker Bush, informed him in October 1976 that his sponsorship of legislation to cut off U.S. military assistance to Uruguay on human rights grounds had provoked secret police officials to "put a contract out for you."
(snip)

Funny how this passed by everyone, with not one word in any article, anywhere, from what I know printed in any source, nor spoken on any tv news show concerning this death threat on Koch's life.

Doesn't it really remind you of the fact Paul Wellstone was an outspoken critic of "Plan Colombia," and during one of his trips to Colombia, he arrived at a location only moments after they had removed a bomb planted where his car was supposed to park? Also, that when he got out to watch an aerial spraying with that crap Monsanto brews up to kill coca plants, the plane just wandered off course and soaked him and his party?

Not to mention the fact that the elder _Bush publicly let it be known he hated Wellstone's guts well before Wellstone's plane went down.

It just goes on and on.

Glad they didn't get Ed Koch. I am glad to have learned he was this conscientious and active in Congress.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

15. K&R n/t

[seemslikeadream]

16. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse.

IMPEACH CHENEY




They Thought They Were Free - Read by Dave Emory

The Germans, 1933-45

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955

By Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

....

"Yes," I said.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’



Michael Parenti - Terrorism, Globalism & Conspiracy

"Coincidence Theory: By shear chance things just happen repeatedly and coincidentally to benefit their interests without any conscious connivance by them, which is most uncanny. There is also: Stupidity Theory, Innocence Theory, Momentary Aberration Theory, Incompetence Theory, Unintended Consequences Theory and Innocent Cultural Proclivities Theory."

- Michael Parenti