Welcome to Cold Logic. Tonight, host Silas Gray unearths Operation Condor, a chilling, verified program of transnational terror that swept across South America from the 1970s through the 1980s. This episode delves into the clandestine alliance of military dictatorships from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, formed to systematically hunt, abduct, and eliminate "subversive" elements like Marxists, students, and human rights defenders. Discover the dark mechanisms of Condor: cross-border intelligence sharing, secret prisons, notorious "death flights," and precise kill lists that resulted in tens of thousands of forced disappearances. We meticulously examine declassified U.S. government documents, revealing the undeniable extent of American awareness and involvement, including Henry Kissinger's warnings and CIA intelligence on Condor's assassination plans. The narrative confronts the infamous 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt on U.S. soil, a brutal act of international terrorism directly linked to Condor. Learn about the staggering human toll across the continent and the pivotal discovery of Paraguay's "Archives of Terror," which provided irrefutable evidence of this coordinated network of state-sponsored violence. While some justice has been served, many architects of Condor escaped accountability, leaving behind a legacy of broken families and buried truths. We also explore enduring conspiracy theories regarding deeper CIA complicity, hidden codewords, and the unsettling possibility of Condor's methodologies evolving and continuing to operate in the shadows today. If you are compelled by Cold War history, human rights abuses, secret government operations, Latin American geopolitics, political disappearances, and the enduring questions of accountability, this Cold Logic investigation is an essential listen. Subscribe for profound storytelling that interrogates shadows and brings unsettling truths into the light.
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