Operation Condor

[Jan Klimkowski]

There is reason to believe that the Condor network is alive and operating. The secretary of Colonel Manual Contreras, head of DINA, the Chilean secret police highly involved in torture and currently serving 200+ years in a Chilean prison, has escaped from house arrest and is living in Australia. She was smuggled into Argentina by an Australian woman. Presumably using a false passport, supplied by who we don't know yet to travel to Australia as there would be international warrants for her if she used her own Chilean passport anywhere. It has been recently been discovered that some Australian SIS was in Chile helping the US in the 73 coup by paying the truck drivers US currency to go on strike and block the roads. I would be interested to know if there is any official involvement in the importation or protection of participants in the Pinochet dictatorship. Others are investigating this. We will post here and other places as developments become available.

Condor reborn?

Resurrected?

Or never really killed?

Operación Silencio

Operación Silencio (Operation Silence) was a Chilean operation to impede investigations by Chilean judges by removing witnesses from the country. It started about a year before the "terror archives" were found in Paraguay.

In April 1991 Arturo Sanhueza Ross, linked to the murder of MIR leader Jecar Neghme in 1989, left the country. According to the Rettig Report, Jecar Neghme's death had been carried out by Chilean intelligence agents.[45] In September 1991, Carlos Herrera Jiménez, who killed trade-unionist Tucapel Jiménez, left by plane.[46] In October 1991, Eugenio Berríos, a chemist who had worked with DINA agent Michael Townley, was escorted from Chile to Uruguay by Operation Condor agents in order to avoid testifying in the Letelier case. He used Argentinian, Uruguayan, Paraguayan and Brazilian passports, raising concerns that Operation Condor was not dead. Berríos was found dead in El Pinar, near Montevideo (Uruguay), in 1995. His body had been so mutilated to make identification by appearance impossible.

In January 2005, Michael Townley, who now lives in the U.S. under the witness protection program, acknowledged links between Chile, DINA, and the detention and torture center Colonia Dignidad.[47] The center was established in 1961 by Paul Schäfer, who was arrested in March 2005 in Buenos Aires and convicted on charges of child rape. Townley informed Interpol about Colonia Dignidad and the Army's Bacteriological Warfare Laboratory. This last laboratory would have replaced the old DINA laboratory on Via Naranja de lo Curro street, where Townley worked with the chemical assassin Eugenio Berríos. The toxin that allegedly killed Christian-Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva may have been made in this new lab in Colonia Dignidad, according to the judge investigating the case.[47]