This document contains three messages from the CIA. The first contains intelligence regarding the crossborder travel of agents from Condor member countries to support countersubversive operations in Argentina. The second and third documents examine the activities and reorganisation of the Montoneros guerrilla movement in Argentina.
Cooperation between the intelligence and security forces of Argentina; leftist subversive actions during the period 25th June to 2nd July 1976; the reorganization of the Montoneros.
In this document, the CIA reports on the pressure from the Argentine military regime for Paraguay to join "Teseo", an action unit established by member countries of Operation Condor to conduct physical attacks against political opponents of the Southern Cone's military regimes. Teseo is based at the 601 Intelligence Battalion in Buenos Aires.
This 'Weekly Report on International Terrorism' by the US government focuses on Ecuador's recent accession to Operation Condor in January 1978.
The CIA reports that a special team has been formed to assassinate Argentine guerrilla leaders exiled in Europe. Following a failed initial attempt to assassinate the Head of the Montoneros, Mario Firmenich, in Spain, plans are now being formulated to kill Rodolfo Galimberti, a Montonero leader who is believed to be in Mexico.
This memorandum records a State Department meeting to discuss Operation Condor. Concerned by Condor's assassination plans, the State Department will send separate instructions to the US ambassadors in South American countries.
Visit of representatives of West German, French and British Intelligence Services to Argentina to discuss methods for establishment of an anti-subversive organisation similar to “Condor”.
Between 1974 and 1976, the Russell Tribunal (created in 1966 to investigate the US intervention in Vietnam) met to probe the crimes committed by the dictatorial regimes across Latin America. The work of this second tribunal, called ‘Repression in Latin America’, counted on the participation of internationally renowned intellectuals, such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and James Petras, and brought together hundreds of testimonies and pieces of documentation.
In the context of the early repressive coordination between Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, Jefferson Cardim was captured in Buenos Aires on 11th December 1970, alongside his son, Jefferson Lopetegui and his nephew, Eduardo Lopetegui.
The coup d’état in Brazil was carried out by military forces between 31st March and 1st April 1964. It led to the overthrow of João Goulart (from the Brazilian Labour Party, or “Partido Laborista”) and marked the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted until 15th March 1985. On 2nd April, a military regime was formed, which called itself the “Comando Supremo da Revolução” (Supreme Command of the Revolution). Goulart went into exile in Uruguay.
