COMMENTS BY <SANITIZED>ON OPERATION CONDOR

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00879755
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2019
• Case Number: F-2016-02161
• Publication Date: April 18, 1977

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THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED
REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE CONDOR ORGANIZATION
MET IN BUENOS AIRES 13-16 DECEMBER 1976 TO REVIEW PAST ACTIVITIES
AND DISCUSS FUTURE PLANS. THE PRINCIPAL ITEM ON THE AGENDA WAS THi
DISCUSSION AND PLANNING OF COORDINATED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERA-
TIONS DIRECTED AGAINST LEFTIST AND RADICAL GROUPS IN THE VARIOUS
MEMBER COUNTRIES. OPERATION CONDOR IS A COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT AMONG
SECURITY SERVICES OF CHILE, ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, AND
BRAZIL TO COUNTER TERRORISM AND SUBVERSION.)
2. ON 12 APRIL.1977;
TO OPERATION CONDOR
SAID HE WAS NOT AWARE OF ANY OPERATIONS BEING
RUN IN EITHER THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE BY CONDOR COUNTRIES.
CAUTIONED, HOWEVER. THAT SECURITY OAD BEEN STRENGTHENED AT THE1
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INTELLIGENCE SERVICE WAS AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE AND SOME OBJLCTIVF OP
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OPERATION CONDOR; THUS# E ,cOULD NOT BE SURE ABOUT OPERATIONS ELSEWHERE
ALTHOUGH HE EMPHASIZED THAT DISCUSSION OF OPERATIONS IN EITHEr-THE
U.S. OR EUROPE WAS NOT SURFACED AT THE MEETING :HELD 13-16 DECEmBEI..
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SAID ,THAT REACTION TO THIS PARTICULAR BREACH OF SECURITY WAS
EXTREMELY HARSH IN ARGENTINA WHICH ,RESULTED IN THE F RING OF THE T EN
DIRECTOR OF THE ARGENTINE STATE SECRETARIAT FOR INTELLIGENCE (SIDE AND
REPLACING HIM WITH ,GENERAL CARLOS ENRIQUE LAIDLAW, THE CURRENT
DIRECTOR. HE ADDED THAT THE FOREGOING INCIDENT ,MADE CONDOR REPRESEN-
TATIVES,REALIZE THAT THE 011,1EA INTELLIGENCE SERVICES ARE PROBABLY 4WARE
OF THEIR ORGANIZATION AND, THEREFORE EVERYTHING IS HANDLED ACcoRpiNGL)(b)(1)
I.E., ,WITH A MAXIMUM OF CAUTION. ( COMMENT: GENERAL OTTO(b)3
PALADIN 0 WAS THE FORMER DIRECTOROF SIDE.
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BELIEVED
CONCERNING CURRENT' CONDOR OPERATIONS
THE EXCHANGE OF ,INFORMATION ON SUBVERSIVES AND
BEING CONDUCTED MOSTLY BILATERALLY BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE
MEMBER COUNTRIES. IN THE COVERT. ACTION FIELD #
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MEDIA FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. HE ADDED THAT THE THRUST OF THESE
PROPAGANDA EFFORTS WAS TWOFOLD: TO REFUTE CRITICISM LEVELLED AT THE
RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS BY THE FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA AND INTSRNA-
TIONAL FORA AND TO INSTILL ANEW SENSE OF NATIONAL PRIDE IN THE
POPULATION. THAT CHILE HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED TWO FILMS (b)(1)
(b)(3)
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ON "CHILE AFTER ALLENDE" WHICH IT WAS ASKING CONDOR REPRESENTATIVES
TO SHOW ON TELEVISION IN THEIR COUNTRIES. TO DATE, ONLY URUGUAY AND
ARGENTINA HAVE AGREED TO SHOW THEM. ACCORDING TO
PARAGUAY HAD
ONLY MADE USE OF THE PRESS, THE DAILY NEWSPAPER "PATRIA" IN WHICH
PROPAGANDA WAS PERIODICALLY INSERTED. HE SAID THAT A REQUEST TO PSE
slIELEVISION FOR THIS PURPOSE WAS UNDER CONSIDERATION BY HIS SUPERIORS
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A REQUEST FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY.
THAT THE LATTER WOULD PROBABLY NEVER COME TO PASS BECAUSE
FUNDS SIMPLY WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SUCH AN UNDERTAKING.
4. LASTLY, THAT THE MEETING THAT WAS TO BE HELD
IN ASUNCION IN MARCH 1977 ON "PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE TECHNIQUES AGAINST
TERRORISTS AND LEFTIST EXTREMISTS" WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE
INABILITY OF ARGENTINA AND PARAGUAY TO PARTICIPATE. THAT
BOTH cOUNTRIES� INTELLIGENCE SERVICES HAD BEEN DEEPLY INVOLVED IN
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SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE LATIN-AMERICAN
ANTICOMMUNIST CONFEDERATION HELD 28-30 MARCH, AS WELL AS IN. THE
PREPARATION FOR THE 20 APRIL STATE VISIT OF ARGENTINE PRESIDENT
JORGE VIDELA TO PARAGUAY. A NEW DATE FOR
THE NEXT CONDOR MEETING HAD NOT BEFN SET.
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