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.
Hailed by Foreign Affairs as ``remarkable`` and ``a major contribution to the historical record,`` The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret U.
relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization.
Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and newly updated to include recent developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling but 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.
New Press The condor years, paperback/john dinges
