As is the case with the Bush Administration today, Operation Condor, in
which six allied governments in South America engaged in the kidnapping,
murder, and assassination of more than 30,000 people (including dropping
some of them drugged from planes to die in the ocean and giving the children
of murdered mothers to military families to raise), Kissinger publicly
supported democracies, while privately aiding and condoning the terrorist
campaign of Operation Condor.

Pinochet is the most visible symbol of Operation Condor, but it was a
coordinated assault on pro-democracy supporters across most of South
America. This was government terrorism conducted by dictators who claimed
they were fighting terrorism. But Pinochet came to power in a coup against a
democratically-elected government, a coup green lighted by Kissinger, as
were the ultimate murders of Allende supporters and unionists. Americans
were among the victims, including Ronni Moffit, who was blown to bits in a
car as she was traveling in Washington D.C. with a Chilean exile, Orlando
Letelier.

The torture, assassinations, murder and brutality that the dictatorships
involved in Operation Condor engaged in remind us of the gulag or torture
and interrogation sites set up by the Bush Administration, as well as their
ongoing "rendering" of "suspects" to nations that can engage in torture
without any prying eyes. But, moreover, they are a foreshadowing of what
could happen in the U.S. if Bush continues to be given executive branch
police powers that violate the Constitution.

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