The Condor Years (56 page)

delegation at first Condor meeting,
117–18

Kennedy Amendment and,
160
,
176

Kissinger cable and,
6–7
,
157
,
182–90
,
196–97
,
200

legacy of Condor Years for,
21
,
236–37

Pinochet’s arrest and,
37

post-coup,
63–64

See also
Allende, Salvador
;
MIR (
Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria);
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
;
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto, coup by

Chilean Foreign Ministry,
32
,
78

Christian Democratic Party (PDC) (Chile),
61
,
160
,
177

Church, Frank,
103
,
176

Ciga Corréa, Juan Martín,
74
,
79

Claudet Fernández, Jean Yves,
115–16
,
141
,
146
,
243

Clinton, Bill,
39
,
248

Clinton administration,
37–38

Communist Party

Argentina’s coup and,
138

DINA operations against,
162–63

JCR and,
52

concentration camps,
45
,
64

Concutelli, Pier Luigi,
131–32

Congress, U.S.

and Kissinger policy toward Pinochet,
158–61
,
162

and Letelier influence,
160
,
162
,
176–77

Senate report on CIA and Condor plots,
181

Contreras Sepúlveda, Manuel

CIA consultations,
63
,
68
,
101–5
,
178
,
250

CIA “covert name trace” on,
70–71

on CIA training of DINA,
68–70

on concept and effectiveness of DINA,
66–67

convictions of,
28
,
228
,
242

and DINA,
12
,
49
,
64–71
(
see also
DINA
)

early plans for Operation Condor,
12–14
,
105–10
,
119
,
120–25
,
162–63
,
220
,
228

and exterior DINA operations,
126–34
,
163

and first Condor meeting,
12–15
,
116
,
117
,
119
,
120–21
,
241

indictments of,
28
,
228
,
244

Kissinger cable and,
186
,
189

Leighton assassination and,
242

Letelier assassination and,
28
,
175
,
178
,
197
,
242

on missions as leader of DINA,
67–68

National Intelligence School and,
70
,
101

personal characteristics of,
65–66

Pinochet and early plans for Condor,
106–8

Prats investigation and,
244

relaying message from Pinochet to Kissinger,
103–5

and second Condor meeting,
164

See also
DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional)
;
DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad

Conyers, John,
29–30

Coordinating Center (Centro Coordinator) for Operation Condor,
13
,
121
,
124

Cornick, Carter,
28

Coronel, Pastor

Almada torture/interrogation and,
237
,
238

Condor endgame and,
224

DICP and,
90
,
94
,
96
,
240

and Fuentes-Santucho case and Carlos the Jackal,
94–95

and Fuentes-Santucho interrogations,
98
,
109
,
240

Scherrer and,
90

and torture in Paraguayan jails,
96–97

trial and imprisonment of,
238

Costa Rica,
113
,
163

“covert name traces” (CIA),
70–71
,
73

Cox, Robert,
138

Cranston, Alan,
158

Crescenzi, Guilio,
131

Cuba

Cuban exiles and DINA network abroad,
128
,
132–33
,
163
,
177
,
190–91

Cubans held prisoner at Orletti in Argentina,
206–10

JCR and,
56–57
,
207–8

and Kissinger address to OAS,
162

Letelier assassination plot and,
177
,
190–91

and MIR refugees in Argentina,
144
,
207–8

Cuban Nationalist Movement (CNM),
190

de Vargas, Francisco,
239

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),
212–13
,
219

Delle Chiaie, Stefano (“Alfa”),
128
,
130–32
,
133
,
163
,
241–42

Diaz, Victor,
163

Dickens, Charles Bertram,
197

DICP (Paraguay’s Department of Investigations of the Police of the Capital),
90
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
240

Dignity Colony,
129

DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional),
64–71

Argentina operations,
110–12
,
115–16
,
141–43

Battalion 601/DINA operations in Argentina,
141–43

CIA and,
68–71
,
101–5

CIA operational jobs within,
70

CIA training of,
68–70
,
107

and Condor’s Phase Three assassination plans in Europe,
129–30
,
219–21

Contreras and DINA Exterior Department abroad,
126–34
,
163
,
177

Contreras on concept and effectiveness of,
66–68
,
101

Contreras’s early plans for Condor and DINA’s expansion,
105–10
,
119

Contreras’s meetings with CIA,
68
,
101–4

coordination with other intelligence agencies,
66
,
70
,
79–80

creation of,
12
,
49
,
64

dissolution of,
228

early joint operations of Operation Condor,
110–13
,
115–16
,
141

Fuentes interrogation and,
108–9

Koch assassination plans and,
16

Leighton assassination plot and,
130–32
,
133

Letelier assassination and,
7
,
69
,
177
,
190–92

Malloco raid against MIR,
112–13
,
114–15
,
119

MIR and,
84
,
100
,
112–13
,
114–15
,
119

killing of MIR’s Miguel Enríquez,
84
,
100–101

Operation Colombo,
235–36

Osvaldo Rawson/DINA operation against JCR,
110–13
,
115–16
,
141

Pinochet and,
64
,
65
,
228

political intelligence and,
66–68

power of,
64–66

Prats assassination and,
20
,
68
,
73–81
,
126
,
130

torture methods,
65
,
99
,
100

Townley and,
75–76
,
78–79
,
126–34
,
219–22

U.S. military intelligence on,
64–65

Villa Grimaldi operational center,
100
,
108–9
,
113–14

indictment and conviction of leaders of,
28
,
228

See also
Contreras Sepúlveda, Manuel
;
DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad

DINA Exterior Department and operations abroad

Contreras and,
105–10
,
119
,
126–34
,
163
,
177

Contreras’s early plans for Condor and,
105–10
,
119

Cuban exiles,
128
,
132–33
,
163
,
177
,
190–91

Europe,
129–30
,
177

Germany,
129

investigation of,
241–42

Italy,
127–28
,
130–32
,
163
,
241–42

Leighton assassination plot and,
130–32
,
133

Letelier assassination plot and,
177

Operation Colombo and,
235–36

Paris,
129–30

Pinochet and,
127–28
,
132–33

Townley and,
128–29
,
130–34

Dionisio Suárez, José,
128

DISIP (Venezuelan intelligence service),
70
,
95
,
105–6
,
163

Droguett, Alvaro,
80

DST (French intelligence service),
93–94
,
130

Duarte, Leon,
211

East German intelligence,
74–75
,
81
,
130

Ecuador,
224

El Combatiente
(PRT/ERP newspaper),
83
,
85

El Salvador,
67

ELN (
Ejército de Liberación Nacional
)

Guevara and,
50
,
150

JCR and,
50–51
,
53
,
54–55
,
59
,
60
,
151

Enríquez, Miguel

JCR and,
51
,
118

killed by DINA,
84
,
100

and MIR military strategies,
43

Enríquez Espinosa, Edgardo

assassination of,
142–43
,
165

capture and death of,
35
,
142–43

and DINA operations against JCR,
115–16

Fuentes and,
88

JCR and,
51
,
87
,
98
,
115–16

MIR leadership and,
35
,
51
,
87
,
115
,
144
,
220

as target of DINA-601 Intelligence Battalion,
141–43

ERP (
Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
)

Argentina’s operations against,
205

Azul offensive,
58–59

Coordinating Junta and,
58–59

early kidnappings by,
57–58
,
60
,
137–38

egregious cruelty of,
137

JCR and,
50–51
,
53
,
54
,
55
,
57–60

and military offensives in Argentina,
58–60
,
82–83
,
111

newspaper,
El Combatiente
,
83
,
84

PFLP and,
95

and radical left in Paraguay,
85

ransom money and,
59–60

Santucho and,
50
,
51
,
54
,
58
,
60
,
82
,
137
,
205

Tucumán Province offensive,
60
,
82–83

Espinoza, Pedro

at Condor meetings,
117–18
,
164

and DINA operations in Paris,
129
,
219

and DINA’s National Intelligence School,
70
,
101