John Dinges
Reporter, author, correspondent for many years in Latin America, John Dinges is the author of three books on Latin America Continue Reading
Assassination on Embassy Row
Assassination on Embassy Row, by John Dinges and Saul Landau Forbidden Bookshelf 2014 (Updated with Afterword and new introduction) Hardback available used (Pantheon 1980). “A devastating political document that probes all aspects of the Letelier-Moffitt assassinations, interweaving the investigations of… Continue Reading
Books by John Dinges
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents The New Press 2004, 2005. Full description and reviews. Assassination on Embassy Row, by John Dinges and Saul Landau Forbidden Bookshelf 2014… Continue Reading
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press 2004, 2005)
Traducción en Español: Operación Cóndor: Una década de terrorismo internacional en el cono sur *The Most Important Revelations in The Condor Years *Documents from John Dinges “Condor” Archive Foreign Affairs suppressed debate about Kissinger and Condor *News about Condor-related court cases in Spain,… Continue Reading
DINA chief’s letter asks Pinochet for money to “neutralize” exile leaders. Letter is a false document, but request actually was made.
6. KGB Fabrication. A Document purporting to be letter from Contreras to Pinochet asking for $600,000 for the “neutralization” of exiled opposition leaders. The document, dated September 16, 1975, has an authentic looking signature of DINA chief Manuel Contreras, but was… Continue Reading
Argentine Security Force to DINA: We killed 22,000 1975-1978
Argentina’s Army Intelligence Service (SIE: Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejercito, also known as Batallón de Inteligencia 601) provided Chile’s secret police, DINA, with its own calculation of the number of people its agents had killed between 1975 and 1978. This… Continue Reading
DINA officer testimony on Gen. Pinochet’s participation at Condor meeting
Account of Col. Mario Jahn raises possibility that Pinochet presided over November 1975 founding meeting of Condor. Documents obtained in Chile Air Force Col. Mario Jahn was deputy director of DINA, in charge of the “Exterior Directorate.” He was given… Continue Reading
Acta Final: The Creation of the “Condor System”
The agreement signed by representatives of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay, by which the “Sistema Cóndor” is created (November 28, 1975) . Document source: Ministry of Foreign Relations, Chile
Secret Documents/ Los documentos secretos del archivo “Cóndor” de John Dinges
1. Founding documents of Operation Condor. La “Acta de Clausura” de la reunion fundadora del “Sistema Cóndor”. 2. Account of participant in founding meeting of Condor. Air Force Col. Mario Jahn, in two declarations to an investigative judge, raises possibility that Pinochet presided over the meeting,… Continue Reading