COMMENTS <SANITIZED> ON OPERATION CONDOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06728333
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2018-00095
• Publication Date: April 18, 1977

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TATE/DIR NSC/S SD NIO SWS (COCHRAN ONLY)
JCS/MC (DIA) NSA WH SITRM D/CRG
Category 5B (11, Impossible to Determin c Derlassific
Classified by Rico did Reporting Officer. Schedule of E,O, 11652 Exemption
FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND L1j HIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO
CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT.
(b)(3)
THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
E ET THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED
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REPORT CLASSSECRE7--WARNING NOTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES
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SUBJECT COMMENTS
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COMMENT:
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE CONDOR ORGANIZATW(1)
(b)(3)
MET IN BUENOS AIRES 13-16 DECEMBER 1976 TO REVIEW PAST ACTIVITIES
AND DISCUSS FUTURE PLANS. THE PRINCIPAL ITEM ON THE AGENDA WAS THF
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, A"
(b)(1)
BRAZIL TO COUNTER TERRORISM AND SUBVERSION.) (b)(3)
2,
TO OPERATION CONDOR
SAID HE WAS NOT AWARE OF ANY OPERATIONS BEING
RUN IN EITHER THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE BY CONDOR COUNTRIES.
(b)(1)
CAUTIONED, HOWEVER, THAT SECURITY HAD BEEN STRENGTHENED AT THE
(b)(3)
OPERATIONS CENTER IN BUENOS AIRES AND COMPARTMENTATION INCREASED AFTER
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FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF TH S INFORMATION SUBJECT TO
CONTROLS. STATED ,AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT.
(b)(3)
THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE WAS AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE AND SOME OBJECTIVES OF
OPERATION CONDOR; THUS, HE 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 DECEmBEr.
REACTION TO THIS PARTICULAR BREACH OF SECURITY WAS (W(1)
(b)(3)
EXTREMELY HARSH IN ARGENTINA WHICH RESULTED IN THE FIRING OF THE THFA
DIRECTOR OF THE ARGENTINE STATE SECRET AT FOR INTELLIGENCE SIDE AND
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REPLACING HIM WITH GENERAL CARLOS ENRIOUEA I DL ACURRENT
DIRECTOR. HE ADDED THAT THE FOREGOING INCIDE DE CONDOR REPRESEN-
TATIVES REALIZE THAT THE OTHER INTELLIGENCE SERVICES ARE PROBABLY AWARE
OF THEIR ORGANIZATION AND, THEREFORE, EVERYTHING IS HANDLED ACCORDINTv
(b)(1)
I.E. WITH A MAXIMUM OF CAUTION. COMMENT: GENERAL OTTOX3)
ALADINO WAS THE FORMER DIRECTOR 'OF SIDE. NO-TREVIOUS
RENTING INDICATES THAT HIS REPLACEMENT WAS A DISCIPLINARY MEASURE.)
3. CONCERNING CURRENT CONDOR OPERATIONS,
-BELIEVED THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON SUBVERSIVES AND TERRORISTS WAS
BEING CONDUCTED MOSTLY BILATERALLY BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF
MEMBER COUNTRIES. IN THE COVERT ACTION FIELD,
BOTH
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ARGENTINA AND CHILE WERE MAKING EXTENSIVE USE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS
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THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED
MEDIA FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. HE ADDED THAT THE THRUST OF THESE
PROPAGANDA EFFORTS WAS TWOFOLD: TO REFUTE CRITICISM LEVELLED AT TFE
RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS BY THE FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA AND INTERNA-
TIONAL FORA AND TO INSTILL A NEW SENSE OF NATIONAL PRIDE IN THE
POPULATION. CHILE HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED TWO FILMS (b)(1)
(b)(3)
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
ONLY MADE USE OF THE PRESS, THE DAILY NEWSPAPER "PATRIA'
PARAGUAY HADODX1)
(b)(3)
IN WHICH
PROPAGANDA WAS PERIODICALLY INSERTED'. HE SAID THAT A REQUEST TO 7SE
TELEVISION FOR THIS PURPOSE WAS UNDER CONSIDERATION BY HIS SUPERIORS
AS WAS
A REQUEST FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY.
(b)(1)
THE LATTER WOULD PROBABLY NEVER COME TO PASS BEG(b)(3)
FUNDS SIMPLY WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SUCH AN UNDERTAKING.
4. LASTLY,
THE MEETING THAT WAS TO BE HELD(W)
(b)(3)
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.
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SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THELATIN-AMERICAN
ANTI-COMMUNIST CONFEDERATION HELD 28-30 MARCH, AS WELL AS IN THE (b)(1)
(b)(3)
PR ARATION FOR THE 20 APRIL STATE VISIT OF ARGENTINE PRESIDENT
JORGE VIDELA TO PARAGUAY.
THE NEXT INDOR MEETING HAD NOT BEEN SET.
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Classified by Recorded Reporting Officer. Exempt from General Declassification 5cheduist of E.O. 11652 EAcmption
Category 51510, (2), Impossible to Determine Dote of Automatic Declassification.
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COUNTRY:
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SOURCE:
BOLIVIA/LATIN AMERICA
THE I N FF
TIVENESS OF THE CONDOR ORGANIZATION
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
IN LATE
ARCH 1977
COMMENTED THAT THE CONDOR -614i�AN HAT
SUFFERING FROM A LACK OF COORDINAT ION AMONG MEMBERS WHICH HAS RE-
SULTED IN A LACK OF RESULTS AND ACTIVITY ON THE pART OF CONDORS
CITED THE FOLLOWING POINTS ,jUsTIFyI NG HIS CRI�TIcISm:
A. CONDOR HAS HELD SEVERAL MEETINGS BUT HAS ACCOMPLISHED
NOTHING AS MEMBERS HAVE GENERALLY NOT FOLLOWED THRO.UGH ON THE
PROPOSALS AGR ED TO DURING THE MEETINGS. THE MEETINGS SERVE
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MERELY AS SOCIAL OCCASIONS;
B MEETINGS OF CONDOR ARE CONSTANTLY BEING SCHEDULED AND SUB--
SE QUENTL Y CANCELLED OR POSTPONED;
C B AS ED 0 N A PR OP OS AL A GR EE D TO BY AL L ME MB ER S DU RI NG A
CONDOR MEETING, THE GOVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA ASKED ALL MEMBERS TO
PR OV IDE TRACES ON CE RT AI N LEFTISTS, H OW EV ER NOT ONE CONDOR MEM-
BER RESPONDED TO THE REQUEST. THE GOB ALSO REQUESTED INFORMATION
FR OM ALL MEMBERS CONCERNING THE FIFTH CONFERENCE OF NON-ALIGNED
� NATIONS AND ARGENTINA WAS THE ONLY MEMBER TO RESPOND;
D. THE PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY OF CONDOR APPEARS TO BE ONLY THE
BI-LATERALEXCH.NGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN CHILE AND ARGENTINA;
E. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE DEPARTMENT OF CONDOR IS THE
MOST ACT IV E WITHIN THE ORGAN IZ AT ION, HOWEVER THAT ,ACT IV IT Y IS
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