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Santiago
11th septembre 1973
Chile
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Martín Almada
Lawyer
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Palace of justice
Asuncion
Paraguay
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Juan Balbuena.
Ex detainee
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Alberto Portillo.
Ex detainee
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Santiago
Chile
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Martín Hernández
Ex detainee
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Cecilia Bottai
Ex detainee
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Patricio Bustos
Ex detainee
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Osvaldo Romo
Ex torturer
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Enrique Gorriarán Merlo
ERP leader - Argentina
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Nancy Guzmán
Writer
Chile
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Manuel Contreras
Head of DINA
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Luzmila Ortíz
Wife of Jorge Fuentes
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Martín Hernández
Ex detainee
Chile
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Alfredo Boccia
Author "Operation Condor"
Paraguay
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Martin Andersen
Author "The Dirty War”
United States
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Peter Kornbluh
National Security Archives
USA
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Manuel Contreras
Head of DINA
Chile
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Eugene Proper
Prosectutor – Letelier case
USA
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René Schneider Jr
Son of General Schneider
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Sofía Prats
Daughter of General Prats
Chile
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Guillermo Garín
Sub Commandant
Chile
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Kissinger’s « congratulations » visit to Pinochet
Santiago, 1976
Chile
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William Bourdon
Lawyer
France
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Roger Le Loir
Judge
France
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Martin Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn Partners
USA
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New York City
11th Septembre 2001
USA
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Discovery of the Archives of Terror
February 1992
Paraguay
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Department of the Interior
Paraguay
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Buenos Aires
Decembre 2001
Argentina
Les commentaires sont en gras et en majuscules.
Les sous-titres sont en italique.
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ARTICLE Z
In association with France 5
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a film by Rodrigo Vazquez
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THE NAME CONDOR WAS GIVEN TO A WEB OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS BACKED BY THE UNITED STATES. THESE REGIMES SHARE INFORMATION, DATA AND REPRESSION METHODS TO CRUSH THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
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Investigating Operation Condor
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The armed forces and the Chilean carabineros
have decided to start a historical mission :
a battle to liberate the nation
from the Marxist yoke
and to re-establish the order
and the institutions.
Launch air and ground attack
against La Moneda Palace.
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SEPTEMBER 11 1973. CHILE. A MILITARY COUP D’ETAT CRUSHES THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF SALVADOR ALLENDE WITH WASHINGTON’S SUPPORT.
10:02:12:00
IT’S THE TIME WHEN AMERICA BACKS THE RIGHT-WING ARMED FORCES, THE SOVIET UNION SUPPORTS THE MARXIST INSURGENCIES, CIVIL WAR RAGES IN LATIN AMERICA.
10:02:24:00
AT THE SAME TIME, A WAVE OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS SWEEPS THE CONTINENT. ONE AFTER THE OTHER, DEMOCRACIES START TO COLLAPSE. PARAGUAY, CHILI, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA…AMERICA IMPOSES ITS ALLIES TO ERRADICATE ITS POTENTIAL ENEMIES. PINOCHET & STROESSNER, STROESSNER & VIDELA, VIDELA & PINOCHET. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED, TORTURED AND DISAPPEARED. MILLIONS WERE DISPLACED OR FORCED TO GO INTO EXILE.
THE PERPETRATORS WERE NEVER BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
10:03:16:00
Martin Almada :
This is the Palace of Justice square
and there stands the Palace of Justice.
10:03:24:00
Rodrigo Vazquez : Palace of injustice?
Martin Almada :
Palace of injustice, excellent.
It's the message from the people,
it is really a centre of injustice.
Look at the monument of Justice.
She is blindfolded.
She holds a scale
that is unbalanced.
This lady doesn't see, doesn't hear
but she has a big nose
to smell where the money is.
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SINCE THE FALL OF THE DICTATORSHIP TEN YEARS AGO, PARAGUAY HAS NOT MANAGED TO BECOME A TRULY DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY, AND SOCIAL TENSION IS RISING. THE ECONOMY IS IN THREATS. THE GOVERNMENTS SENDS TROOPS TO SHUT UP THE OPPOSITION.
MARTIN IS AIMING TO PUT PRESSURE ON TRIBUNALS TO TAKE THE GOVERNMENT TO COURT.
10 :04 :27 :00
Martin Almada
It's a sad thing
to see this young sons of peasants
being armed in these circumstances.
You are not responsible,
the Police is to blame.
It is a shame.
I invite your soldiers
to put their weapons there
and remain unarmed
like these 2 women.
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The commandant tells me
that those with weapons will leave!
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MARTIN TOOK US TO THE SO CALLED “ARCHIVE OF TERROR”, ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE PALACE.
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Martin Almada :
This is my detention file.
Look at my hair.
They tortured me
and then put my head down the toilet
and then they took these photos.
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10 YEARS AGO, MARTIN DISCOVERED THE 400,000 SECRET POLICE FILES STORED IN THIS ROOM IN A POLICE STATION. THEY DOCUMENT THE KIDNAPPING AND TORTURE OF THOUSANDS OF LATIN AMERICANS IN PARAGUAY, BUT DO NOT REVEAL THEIR ULTIMATE FATE.
THESE PICTURES ARE THE LAST IMAGES WE HAVE OF MANY OF THEM.
10 :06:17:00
Martin Almada :
- What is your name?
Juan Balbuena :
- Juan Balbuena.
Martin Almada - How old are you?
Juan Balbuena - I'm 53.
Martin Almada - And you?
Alberto Portillo - Alberto Portillo.
Martin Almada They are my comrades
from the concentration camp.
Were we together
at Tercera Police Station?
Juan Balbuena : No, first at the secret police,
and then at the concentration camp.
Martin Almada :
My two comrades
were also brutally tortured.
10 :06 :47 :00
Juan Balbuena :
And this is where we met
with Fuentes who was Chilean,
and also with many Argentines
as prisoners were exchanged
within the famous Condor Operation.
10 :06 :58 :00
Alberto Portillo :
I was also with Jorge Fuentes,
an idealist from Chile.
He was part of MIR,
the left wing revolutionary movement.
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JORGE FUENTES BELONGED TO THE GENERATION OF THOSE WHO CHOSE TO FIGHT THESE DICTATORIAL REGIMES. INSPIRED BY THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, YOUNG INTELLECTUALS SUCH AS FUENTES CREATE THE MIR, A LEFT-WING REVOLUTIONNARY MOVEMENT, IN CHILE.
THE MIR SUPPORTS ALLENDE’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. THEY SHARE WITH THE LEFT WING GROUPS IN ARGENTINA A SOCIALIST AGENDA.
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GIVING THE LAND TO THE PEASANTS WHO WORK IT AND REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH AMONG THE POOR.
BUT THIS DREAM SOON BECOMES A NIGHTMARE.
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THE DAY OF THE COUP IN CHILE, HUNDREDS OF JORGE’S FRIENDS ARE ROUNDED UP AND HERDED TO THE NATIONAL STADIUM, WHERE THEY ARE TORTURED, SOME EXECUTED ON THE SPOT, OTHERS DISAPPEARED.
JORGE MANAGED TO ESCAPE TO ARGENTINA, WHERE HE LIVED IN CLANDESTINITY.
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OF CHILEAN NATIONALITY, FUENTES IS ARRESTED BY THE PARAGUAYAN POLICE AS HE IS ABOUT TO LEAVE ARGENTINA. THE POLICE IS ACTING ON A TIP GIVEN BY THE CHILEAN AND ARGENTINEAN ARMIES IN PARAGUAY.
JUAN AND ALBERTO WENT THROUGH THE ORDEAL OF CAPTIVITY TOGETHER WITH FUENTES.
THEY TOOK US TO THE CLANDESTINE JAIL WHERE THEY WERE KEPT. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THEY WERE GOING BACK THERE.
10 :08 :32 :00
Alberto Portillo:
It's incredible
You probably won't believe
what I'm telling you,
but it is the absolute truth.
Look at these whip marks.
I have no teeth left in my mouth.
They inserted needles under our nails.
10 :09:01 :00
Juan Balbuena :
On the 13th of May 1975,
we were brought here,
tied with barbwire
and we were dropped here, in this
torture centre of Stroessner's regime.
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THIS FORMER TORTURE CENTRE IS AN OPERATIVE POLICE STATION TODAY. BUT NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE HUNDREDS OF LATIN AMERICANS DISAPPEARED INTO THIS BLACK HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY.
10 :09:36 :00
Juan Balbuena :
In that little cupboard
under the staircase.
I was locked up with Fuentes.
Sitting in this position
or sitting directly on the floor,
it was impossible to stand upright.
Jorge Fuentes was 6 ft tall,
He was very tall.
Like your brother.
10 :10:04 :00
Alberto Portillo :
There was a bathroom there.
The dead and the almost-dead
were thrown here.
There was a toilet there
and two showers there.
There is one left.
Many women died here,
losing their unborn babies.
Women from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil.
We never heard their names.
We only heard
their screams and cries.
and then we would see
their blood on the floor.
10 :10:48 :00
Juan Balbuena :
There is the toilet seat,
That’s the worst form of torture I know.
Your feet are tied
to the toilet bowl with wires
and they get you to sit like that
on the toilet edge.
One man puts his leg here
and another one puts his there.
They grab you by the hair
and put your head in the water.
When you're about to drown,
they get you out of the water
and put you back in.
You lose all your strength.
Your muscles stop responding.
You defecate on yourself.
They grab it and put it in your mouth.
10 :11:35 :00
Alberto Portillo :
Behind this little door,
we were tortured by
a Chilean named Oteiza
and by a Colonel
of the Chilean Air Force.
It's the last time we saw Jorge,
he was crawling like a little kid.
Up in that room,
we were injected Pentotal,
the serum of truth.
And then Jorge was taken
to the torture chamber for the last time.
Santucho and myself witnessed it.
10 :12:12 :00
Juan Balbuena
At that time, there were exchanges
of torture methods.
When the Army took power in Chile,
Paraguay was already an expert.
They organised exchanges.
Uruguayans, Argentines,
Chileans were coming here.
It was something usual then.
For instance,
I've been tortured in front of my mother.
10 :12:36 :00
Rodrigo Vazquez :
And she didn't break down
when seeing what you were enduring?
10 :12:40 :00
Juan Balbuena :
No, on the contrary,
she never broke down, never.
She was a very special woman
but in 3 months she aged 15 years.
When I went to jail,
her hair was all black.
When I got out it had turned all white.
Fuentes was taken back to Chile
in August 1976.
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JORGE WAS CLANDESTINELY TRANSFERRED BY THE CHILEAN AIR FORCE FOR FURTHER INTERROGATION TO THE MOST FEARED CONCENTRATION CAMP IN THE COUNTRY: VILLA GRIMALDI.
10 :13:50 :00
Martin Hernandez
Those people were detained here
and died here
or were taken from here to be killed
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- The only thing left
by the militaries is the floor.
- They destroyed everything else.
- But it is important
that they left the floor
as it is the only thing
you may remember.
You were blindfolded
and you were only able to see the floor.
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LIKE IN THE LAGERS, HERE THE CAPTIVES WERE FORCED TO TORTURE THEIR EX COMRADES FOR WEEKS.
FUENTES WAS KEPT IN THIS SIDE OF THE CAMP.
THE WALLS OF THE TORTURE CHAMBERS CAN STILL BE SEEN UNDERNEATH THE BUSHES.
10 :14 :48 :00
Martin Hernandez
- Here, you could hear the sounds
of the school on the other side.
It wasn't here then.
10 :15 :03 :00
Cecilia Bottai :
Here were the toilets
and there the guards room,
we’d go outside
to get the meals there
and I remember taking my plate
and walking that way
in that direction and there was a path.
Near the back.
This box is taller
than the real ones.
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- "El Trotsko" could not stand up
because the box was smaller.
The only possible position
was this one.
So he would sit like this.
There was a door here
and a hole for breathing.
10 :16 :01 :03
Cecilia Bottai :
I was only supposed
to bring him his meal.
Once I asked if I could feed him.
The guard gave me the key
and I opened the door.
And I managed to give him a message.
I managed to tell him
what Patricio had told me.
But he didn't manage to answer me.
10 :16 :27 :03
Patricio Bustos :
Between September
and early January 1976
which is when Jorge Fuentes is thought
to have been taken in a van.
300 to 400 prisoners
went through this place
and therefore were able
to see Jorge Fuentes.
10 :16 :49 :00
HUNDREDS OF DETAINEES WERE DRUGGED BY THEIR CAPTORS, TAKEN FROM THE CAMP TO A NEARBY AIRFIELD, LOADED ON MILITARY PLANES AND THROWN TO THE SEA.
10 :16 :58 :00
Osvaldo Romo:
In that southern part,
no-one threw corpses
because there are higher grounds.
But in that part water is salted
and there’s no current.
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OSVALDO ROMO STARTED OFF AS A SOCIALIST MILITANT. HE BETRAYED HIS COMRADES AND BECAME FUENTES TORTURER AT THE VILLA GRIMALDI.
10 :17 :24 :03
Osvaldo Romo :
Man can't stop breathing
for longer than 3 minutes.
After 3 minutes, his pulse stops.
He can survive 3 days without drinking
and 33 days without eating
And there, I was taking his life.
The man whose head
was put in a plastic bag.
He was choking and after 3 minutes
his eyes would pop out like a fried eggs
and blood was pissing everywhere.
The wet submarine is
when we put your head in the water.
You drown like a cow.
You know how do cows drown?
Through their asses.
When he starts breathing through the ass
it means you’re drowning.
10 :18 :13 :00
FUENTES WAS ARRESTED WITH A MEMBER OF THE ARGENTINIAN REVOLUTIONNARY ARMY “ERP”, AMILCAR SANTUCHO, WHILE TRYING TO UNIFY THE FIGHT AGAINST DICTATORSHIPS UNDER AN INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONNARY JUNTA – THE JCR.
10 :18 :36:03
Enrique Gorriaran :
Jorge was a member of MIR
and we shared the same ideas.
Hamilcar and Jorge
were taking active part in the JCR.
It was based in Buenos Aires,
and which was organising
exchanges of comrades
in order to prepare
political or military actions.
There was also a financial collaboration.
They were not going to Paraguay,
they were going via Paraguay
to many destinations
Peru, Venezuela and other countries,
to spread their activities
and to spread the ideas of the Junta.
And that's when
they got arrested in Paraguay.
10 :19 :26 :00
MANUEL CONTRERAS, HEAD OF THE CHILEAN SECRET SERVICES, HAD SENT AN INVITATION TO HIS COLLEAGUES FROM LATIN AMERICA TO OFICIALIZE THIS COLLABORATION.
10 :19 :36:00
Nancy Guzman
We’re in Merced Street,
In front of nr 322.
the cradle of Operation Condor,
the place where
the DINA brigade was born
and will organise all the crimes
committed outside our frontiers
and bring back all the prisoners
caught outside the country.
10 :20 :00 :00
NANCY GUZMAN’S INVESTIGATION ON CONDOR STARTED YEARS AGO. HER HUSBAND IS LISTED AMONGST ITS VICTIMS. CONDOR’S BIRTHPLACE IS NOW A HAIRDRESSER’S.
10 :20 :23 :00
Nancy Guzman
- Hello.
Are you the concierge?
May I ask you a few questions?
The concierge
- I don't have much time.
N. G.
- It won't be long.
Did you know
that Operation Condor was based here?
That the coordination department
of DINA had its office here?
The concierge
- Here? No.
Never.
N. G.
- No cars with dark windows?
- No.
- Nothing.
- Thanks.
- GoodBye.
10 :21 :06 :00
Nancy Guzman
The agents would walk down this street
Everyday,
going to the corner shop
to get coffee, sugar, tea, Coca-Cola,
and they'd have a chat
10 :21 :06 :00
Nancy Guzman
- Do you live around here?
- For the past 30 years.
- What do you want?
- Do you know nr 322,
where the hairdresser is?
- No.
- Yes, I do. Now get to the point.
- Do you know
if it was Operation Condor's office?
- No idea.
I mind my own business.
- You didn't see anything?
- No.
- Or you don't want to talk about it?
- No, I don't want to talk about it.
Rodrigo Vazquez
- You didn't see anything?
All those years
and you didn't see anything?
What's the matter?
- Get out!
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THE LETTER URGING THE OFFICIAL CREATION OF CONDOR WAS HAND DELIVERED THROUGHOUT SOUTH AMERICA BY AN AGENT FROM THE DINA. HIS NAME WAS MARIO JAHN, HE WAS MANUEL CONTRERAS RIGHT-HAND MAN.
NANCY MANAGED TO LOCALISE MARIO JAHN, NOW HEAD OF THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM. SHE WOULD LIKE HIM TO TESTIFY IN COURT.
10 :22 :50 :00
Nancy Guzman
We are in front of the office
Of Mario Jahn,
Head of the Civil Aircraft Museum.
Mario Jahn ?
NG, Rodrigo Vazquez,
And Ramiro Vazquez.
We are from Canal 5 in France,
And would like to talk to you.
We have a few questions about…
We are making a film about…
Today’s vision about…
The current war on terrorism in the world.
That could be a first question…
MJ
- Why do you ask me,
Head of this museum ?
NG
- Well, we’ve been told
That you could have…
Taken part in security operations.
MJ
No. Go away
I don’t want to talk about that.
Please get out.
10 :24:14 :00
MARIO JAHN’S FORMER CHIEF, MANUEL CONTRERAS, ACCEPTED TO TALK TO US WITH HIS LAWYERS PERMISSION. UNDER HOUSE ARREST, HIS MEMOIRS HAVE JUST BEEN PUBLISHED.
10 :24:24 :00
Manuel Contreras
In Buenos Aikres, there was
the southern Revolutionary Junta.
It was coordinating the terrorist groups
in Latin America.
All of them.
They were giving para-military training.
Its members were trained
in neighbouring Marxist countries
and then sent back
to act in their home countries.
This southern Revolutionary Junta
left Buenos Aiores in 1976
when General Videla took power
in Argentina.
Nothing could be done before that.
And that is exactly
what the marxists called then.
And they pretended
that the intelligence services
were given permission
to commit crimes in all countries.
10 :25 :29 :00
Luzmila Ortiz
There was a coordination
between dictatorships.
It was something
merciless and monstruous
because no one was tried.
No one was allowed to see their family
At least one last time.
It is something nobody can confront.
It exists, it acts, it’s here.
But there is no one to confront,
No one to denounce knows their name,
Neither they live.
10 :26 :21 :00
FOR YEARS LUZMILA WAS FOLLOWED AND HARASSED BY MILITARY AGENTS, AND WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO REBUILD HER LIFE.
10 :26 :31 :00
Luzmila Ortiz
It’s like being buried alive.
Surviving is worse.
I want to tell you
that for the ones who died,
death is a victory.
Living is an agony
In those conditions.
10 :27 :20 :00
Martin Hernandez
In the case of Jorge
The message was clear.
The power doesn't accept you
to have contacts outside the country,
you must not try to have actions
spreading outside our frontiers.
Power doesn't accept
the internationalisation of proletariat.
Power doesn't accept the collaboration
of the people for their interest.
10 :27 :39 :00
THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE HAS OFFICES IN EVERY WESTERN COUNTRY, THEIR ROLE IS TO TRACK DOWN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS AND GATHER INTELLIGENCE ON THEM. IN THE 70’S THIS PLACE WAS USED TO DETAIN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND VICTIMS OF TORTURE WHO WERE OFFICIALLY DECLARED “DISAPPEARED”. MARTIN ALMADA GOT PERMISSION TO SEE THEIR ARCHIVES.
10 :28 :02 :00
Martin Almada
- I was locked up here
from 1974 to 1977.
Was it mentioned to Interpol?
10 :28 :12 :00
Interpol Agent
- If concerned countries
do ask for information,
we let them know.
I can legally bring
someone here for 6 hours
until I have enough information
to send to Interpol in France.
10 :28 :24:00
Rodrigo Vazquez
- What happens to the original document?
Is it archived or destroyed?
- We communicate your request.
I don't know how it's dealt
with at the general secretary
but here in Paraguay,
we always keep a copy.
Copy that we keep.
Jorge Isaac.
10 :28 :54 :00
WE ASKED FOR THE FILES ON JORGE FUENTES FROM THE TIME OF HIS DISAPPEARANCE IN 1975.
Fuentes Alarcon.
Nationality?
Chilean.
10 :29 :03 :00
THE OFFICER BROUGHT FILES FROM THE 1980’S FILLED IN BY AN AGENT FROM INTERPOL.
Fuentes Alarcon Jorge Isaac.
Number 4.
1981.
« …Information regarding the detention
of Jorge Isaac Fuentes"
« in order to give the tribunal
all the elements
connected to the possible arrest
of Jorge Isaac Fuentes Alarcon,
"at the Asuncion airport
on the 17th May 1975."
R V
- What is in the hands
of the head of Interpol?
- The general secretary
is in France, in Lyon,
and all the requests
go through the general secretary,
in France.
All the requests.
10 :30 :13 :00
WASHINGTON SOON GETS WIND OF THIS.
THE MOST EFFICIENT FBI AGENT AT THE TIME HELD A POST IN BUENOS AIRES; HIS NAME WAS ROBERT SCHERRER.
10:30:25:00
Alfredo Boccia
Robert Scherrer, official agent
Of the FBI bureau in Latin America wich is based in Buenos Aires
Looked into the Fuentes Alarcon case.
During the interrogation,
The Chilean militant confessed that MIR
And ERP of Argentina
Were planning on creating a Revolutionary Junta.
10:30:47:00
Martin Andersen : There was a joke in Argentina that Robert Scherrer alone was much better that an entire station of the CIA in terms of his ability to ferry out information and to be able to report what was really going on through channels to Washington. There are many credible testimonies of personnel from the CIA and other US coordination agencies being in the next room as people were being tortured and having that information then given to our people - the people from the United States - for reporting back to Washington.
10 :31 :26:00
OPERATION CONDOR’S BEGINNING IN CHILE IS WELL DOCUMENTED, AS THIS LETTER FROM CONTRERAS TO THE SOUTH AMERICAN HEADS OF INTELLIGENCE SHOWS. IT STATES THE DATE AND PLACE OF THE FIRST 1975 CONDOR MEETING IN SANTIAGO.
10 :31 :46:00
Peter Kornbluh : From the intelligence that Contreras gained from the interrogation of Fuentes, he became convinced that the leftist insurgents in the Southern Cone were organising together in a number of guerrilla groups to fight the Chilean and the military regimes in the Southern Cone and that gave him the more and more impetus - urgency - to create Operation Condor.
10 :32 :13:00
Peter Kornbluh : Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, later Equator and Peru joined, all of these countries collaborated on tracking down their critics, on logistically seizing them and interrogating them, secretly transporting them back to other countries and killing them.
10 :32 :33:00
Peter Kornbluh : Even though many documents are withheld, over 24000 new documents on US - Chilean relations were declassified and among them were at least a dozen, maybe more documents on Operation Condor. Some of them created by Defence Departments and CIA contacts with Contreras in the mid 1970's on Operation Condor and on the international terrorism campaign that was being committed by Contreras and his secret police service: the DINA. These are historical documents that support many many declassified CIA and Defence Intelligence agency records at this point, and State Department records which prove that Condor did exist, that Chile was in the middle of it, and that Contreras was the Godfather or the Don of this international terrorism campaign.
10 :33 :30:00
Manuel Contreras
The declassification of document is a lie
Invented by an extremist Marxist
who works at the Political Science
Institute in Washington.
This Peter Kornbluh
can say whatever he wants.
He has the right to lie.
Operation Condor never existed.
Every country
does the same nowadays,
when asked by the American president
George W . Bush
to cooperate on a global level
to find and erradicate the terrorists.
10 :34 :03 :00
Peter Kornbluh: These operations reached to Europe. There were planned assassinations in Paris, in Portugal, and of course the most famous Condor Operation right here in the heart of Washington DC the capital city of the United States of America, this is September 21st, 1976 car bombing of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt.
10 :34 :27 :00
Eugene Proper: It was actually a pretty dumb thing to do. I don’t think that anybody was focused on mister Letelier. He had his own activities going and the government wasn’t focusing on him and in fact the US government was on reasonnably good relations with Chile. I think the Pinochet government through Contreras wanted to knock out whoever was an effective opponent of their regime.
10 :34 :53 :00
Peter Kornbluh: This is the Shlaudeman report certificate to Kissinger on august 3rd, informing him of the existence of Operation Condor “which is designed to find and kill terrorists in Latin American countries and in Europe”. Sensitive intelligence sources and methods involved.
Peter Kornbluh: These documents show that Henry Kissinger was finally briefed on Condor in August of 1976.
10 :35 : 22:00
HENRY KISSINGER WAS THE US SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENTS RICHARD NIXON AND GERALD FORD – THE PRIME STRATEGIST IN THE WAR AGAINST COMMUNISM.
10 :35 :32 :00
President Kennedy himself had laid the foundations of this war when he allowed the creation of the military training school in Panama in 1962. This school, funded by the U.S taxpayer, is where thousands of officers from Latin-America learnt counter-insurgency techniques used throughout the continent, mastering torture methods, psychological action and population control methods, all tested in Viet-Nam, causing massive killings and a widespread violation of the human rights.
10:36:07:00
IN CHILE, THIS WAR TRANSLATED INTO A CAMPAIGN TO TERRORISE AND CONTROL THE POPULATION AND ASSASSINATE PUBLIC FIGURES, FINANCED BY THE CIA.
THE FIRST VICTIM WAS THE CHIEF OF THE CHILEAN ARMY, RENE SCHNEIDER, A KNOWN CONSTITUTIONALIST WHO OPPOSED MILITARY COUPS. HENRY KISSINGER ALLEGEDLY ORDERED HIS ASSASSINATION.
10:36:30:00
René Schneider Jr
We have decided to sue
Mister Henry Kissinger
because we consider
that he's accountable
of my father's death.
We have irrefutable proofs
showing that Mr Kissinger
considered my dad
as an obstacle
to stopping Salvador Allende
from taking power.
Nixon therefore decided
to eliminate him by whatever means.
10 :37 :12 :00
SCHNEIDER’S SUCCESSOR, CARLOS PRATS, SERVED UNDER SALVADOR ALLENDE’S SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT, BECOMING THE NEXT TARGET OF THE ASSASSINATION CAMPAIGN.
10 :37 :32 :00
Sofia Prats
My father was thinking
that political figures were supposed
to solve
the political problems of a country.
And that the Army
within the Republican Institutions
was not supposed
to replace the government
in order to solve political matters.
Obviously,
It wasn't Pinochet's point of view.
10 :38 :05 :00
Guillermo Garin
The United States were then
the number one enemy of Communism.
Therefore we were fighting
against Communism,
which was imported
from Russia and the Soviet Union
through Cuba which had its army
almost based on our territory.
Us, the military government and
especially president Pinochet,
were fighting against terrorism,
a fight which is in fashion
since it affects the USA.
And this is why
when the world is attacking us,
saying that we could have
violated human rights.
I always say
that we've always fought for
the human rights of the majority
of the Chilean citizens.
But I admit it had a price.
10 :39 :05 :00
Journaliste
This is the car
of General Carlos Prats and his wife.
The time bomb
was placed under the car,
between the front seats.
We can see personal belongings,
like Miss Sofia's shoes.
A lot of people are watching this car.
- Madam, what do you think?
- I'm horrified.
- Sir, your opinion on terrorism?
- I condemn it and would like
to see the criminals inside this car.
10 :39 :43:00
Sofia Prats
DINA,
whose head was Contreras
obeying to Pinochet,
backed this bombing.
This attack is said to be
the first action of the Condor Plan.
10 :40 :11:00
Protestation
Hurrah for
The Chilean Army commandos!
It was a great government
that brought us
security
and tranquillity.
Thank you Pinochet.
You were a great president.
10:40:57:00
Henry Kissinger: We discussed important subjects : the problem of development, the problem of human rights and other subjects of concern to the Hemisphere.
10 :41 :14 :00
THE NEW CENTURY SEES THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OFFENSIVE TO BRING CONDOR’S KEY PLAYERS TO JUSTICE, QUESTIONING HENRY KISSINGER IN HIS ROLE IN THE TERRORIST NETWORK.
00 :41 :27 :00
William Bourdon
The Condor Plan is a criminal association.
It's the first criminal association
organised by head of states.
It's the first time that,
a bit like the Italian mafia
in Little Italy, New York,
people gather like Dons,
like gangsters,
and are exchange torture methods.
They organise delivery
of political dissidents.
In May 2001, I wrote to the judge,
as I realised that many high members
of the American administration
probably had things to tell us.
A few weeks later,
I'm told that Kissinger will be in Paris
for the Houphouet Boigny
Jury at the Unesco.
So I mentioned it to the judge.
Then I'm told that
he'll be staying at the Ritz Hotel.
So I mentioned it to the judge.
10 :42 :36 :00
Roger Le Loir
I summoned Mr Kissinger
via the French police.
I wanted to know
What were the consequences
of the Condor Plan in France
in relation to the investigation I was conducting.
10 :42 :57 :00
William Bourdon
The head of the Ritz Hotel
told the police
that he would forward
the summon to Kissinger,
who was in a private salon
with businessmen,
with African officials,
or God knows who else.
And all of a sudden, M. Kissinger,
who seemed very irritated,
went back to his suite
saying he would answer later.
10 :43 :18 :00
Roger Le Loir
The American administration then told me
that they would not let me speak to him.
That he was not in France for a trial,
that he came for a trip to UNESCO.
They also said they’d happily answer me
through an official procedure,
so we followed
with an international request.
10 :43 :40 :00
William Bourdon
The action of the French judge
inspired the Chilean judge.
It inspired the Argentinean judge.
It inspired the Spanish judge.
Everybody wants to question Kissinger
on the crimes committed in Chile.
10 :43 :57 :00
Martin Mendelsohn : Look, we are a very prudential country and we don't like other people telling us what to do. And we're not going to allow others to talk to our citizens unless we set the rules. And I think that is one of the realities of political life today.
10 :44 :26 :00
THE FIRST LAW-SUITS AGAINST HENRY KISSINGER WERE FILED ON SEPTEMBER THE 10TH 2001. THE ATTACKS IN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON OVER-SHADOWED THIS VERY SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
10 :44 :38:00
G.W.Bush : Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil despicable acts of terror. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is just and good in our world.
10 :45 :10 :00
Journaliste off: US President George W Bush Wednesday named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger chairman of the National commission to investigate the events of September 11th, 2001. Speaking to family members ...
10 :45 :28 :00
IRONICALLY, THE MAN CHOSEN BY GEORGE W. BUSH TO FIGHT TERRORISM IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER BY JUDGES WORLDWIDE.
10 :45 :35 :00
Henry Kissinger: But everything must be done to avoid that such a tragedy can occur again.
10 :45 :41 :00
A WEEK LATER, SURPRISINGLY, KISSINGER RESIGNS, PUTTING FORWARD A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS.
10 :45 :48 :00
MEANWHILE, MARTIN ALMADA CONTINUES TO PUSH PARAGUAYAN JUSTICE FOR ACCESS TO MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST CONDOR MEMBERS.
10 :46 :05 :00
Martin Almada
Let's talk to the judge.
- I want to talk to the judge.
- He said he would open this case
to reconsider his position,
but he can't meet you right now.
10 :46 :27 :00
MARTIN IS USED TO FORCING HIS WAY THROUGH DOORS BEHIND WHICH THE TRUTH IS HIDING.
HE DISCOVERED THE FIRST-EVER DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF OPERATION CONDOR WHILE INVESTIGATING HIS WIFE’S DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE SECURITY FORCES. THESE FILES WOULD BE USED BY THOUSANDS OF CONDOR VICTIMS IN TRIALS AGAINST THE INDIVIDUALS BEHIND THE TERRORIST NETWORK.
10 :46 :50 :00
Martin Almada
I have found...
tapes,
recorded by the police.
And among these tapes
I sure will find the tape
that the police
played to my wife.
10 :47 :22 :00
IN A REPRESSIVE STATE, THE POLICE CHIEF HAS MORE CLOUT THAN THE JUDGES.
10 :47 :27 :00
MARTIN PUSHES HIS WAY IN TO MEET THE POLICE CHIEF, USING HIS PUBLIC STATURE AND THE PRESENCE OF OUR CAMERA.
10 :47 :51 :00
Martin Almada
- Mr Commandant.
Yesterday, we met judge Jorge BogarÌn,
who is in charge of Human Rights
and of Operation Condor,
and we presented him with a request.
We want that all archives of the past
are given to the Justice Department.
We are mainly interested
by the political documents.
- I'd like to use this opportunity
to give you a present.
It's the symbol of the New Police.
- We'll have a little private talk
and will join you after.
10 :49 :07:00
90 YEARS OF SECRET DOCUMENTS ARE SEIZED BY MARTIN IN THIS SINGLE OPERATION.
10:49:16:00
TONS OF DOCUMENTS THAT PROVE THAT STROESSNER CREATED A SPECIAL FORCE TO HUNT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS.
10:49:24:00
Martin Almada
Is the truck outside?
I can't call this a democracy.
It's a controlled democracy,
It was a completely controlled.
Look at all these people.
Food sent to Hamilcar Santucho
and Barreiros,
which they never got.
The truck is outside.
A student.
10 :50 :16 :00
Martin Almada
These are the documents
that Justice needs to use
to find the truth.
We need to know the truth
and then we'll incriminate.
so that Justice can be given.
This is our main aim.
As a defender of Human Rights,
I put pressure on Justice
Because what happened
Must be punished.
As impunity brings two things:
more repression and more corruption.
10 :50 :51 :00
THESE DOCUMENTS ALSO PROVE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES COLLABORATED IN OPERATION CONDOR.
10 :51 :04 :01
Martin Almada
These documents show the collusion...
the collusion
between Stroessner and Kissinger
and Videla, Pinochet, etc.
within Operation Condor.
10 :51 :20 :00
TODAY, LATIN AMERICA STILL SUFFERS THE EFFECTS OF CONDOR`S KILLING MACHINE. THE DICTATORSHIPS HAVE SUNK THE ECONOMIES. THE INTELLECTUALS HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED. THE OUTSIDE DEBT IS UGE. THE CONTINENT IS TRAPPED IN A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF POVERTY, SOCIAL UNREST AND REPRESSION.
SUCH IS THE LEGACY LEFT BY OPERATION CONDOR AMONGST OTHERS.
10 :52 :03 :00
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© Article Z - 2003
Santiago
11th septembre 1973
Chile
10 :03 :08 :00
Martín Almada
Lawyer
10 :04 :02 :00
Palace of justice
Asuncion
Paraguay
10 :06 :48 :00
Juan Balbuena.
Ex detainee
10 :06 :59 :00
Alberto Portillo.
Ex detainee
10 :13 :31 :00
Santiago
Chile
10 :13 :55 :00
Martín Hernández
Ex detainee
10 :15 :28 :00
Cecilia Bottai
Ex detainee
10 :16 :30 :00
Patricio Bustos
Ex detainee
10 :17 :12 :00
Osvaldo Romo
Ex torturer
10 :18 :38 :00
Enrique Gorriarán Merlo
ERP leader - Argentina
10 :19 :41 :00
Nancy Guzmán
Writer
Chile
10 :24 :24 :00
Manuel Contreras
Head of DINA
10 :25 :25 :00
Luzmila Ortíz
Wife of Jorge Fuentes
10 :27 :23 :00
Martín Hernández
Ex detainee
Chile
10 :30 :32 :00
Alfredo Boccia
Author "Operation Condor"
Paraguay
10 :30 :53 :00
Martin Andersen
Author "The Dirty War”
United States
10 :31 :51 :00
Peter Kornbluh
National Security Archives
USA
10 :33 :31 :00
Manuel Contreras
Head of DINA
Chile
10 :34 :33 :00
Eugene Proper
Prosectutor – Letelier case
USA
10 :36 :33 :00
René Schneider Jr
Son of General Schneider
10 :37 :39 :00
Sofía Prats
Daughter of General Prats
Chile
10 :38 :09 :00
Guillermo Garín
Sub Commandant
Chile
10 :40 :47 :00
Kissinger’s « congratulations » visit to Pinochet
Santiago, 1976
Chile
10 :41 :32 :00
William Bourdon
Lawyer
France
10 :42 :36 :00
Roger Le Loir
Judge
France
10 :43 :57 :00
Martin Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn Partners
USA
10 :44 :22 :00
New York City
11th Septembre 2001
USA
10 :46 :32 :00
Discovery of the Archives of Terror
February 1992
Paraguay
10 :47 :23
Department of the Interior
Paraguay
10 :51 :39 :00
Buenos Aires
Decembre 2001
Argentina
Les commentaires sont en gras et en majuscules.
Les sous-titres sont en italique.
10 :01 :02 :00
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10 :01 :09 :00
a film by Rodrigo Vazquez
10 :01 :12 :00
THE NAME CONDOR WAS GIVEN TO A WEB OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS BACKED BY THE UNITED STATES. THESE REGIMES SHARE INFORMATION, DATA AND REPRESSION METHODS TO CRUSH THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
10 :01 :24 :00
Investigating Operation Condor
10 :01 :29 :00
The armed forces and the Chilean carabineros
have decided to start a historical mission :
a battle to liberate the nation
from the Marxist yoke
and to re-establish the order
and the institutions.
Launch air and ground attack
against La Moneda Palace.
10 :01 : 57:00
SEPTEMBER 11 1973. CHILE. A MILITARY COUP D’ETAT CRUSHES THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF SALVADOR ALLENDE WITH WASHINGTON’S SUPPORT.
10:02:12:00
IT’S THE TIME WHEN AMERICA BACKS THE RIGHT-WING ARMED FORCES, THE SOVIET UNION SUPPORTS THE MARXIST INSURGENCIES, CIVIL WAR RAGES IN LATIN AMERICA.
10:02:24:00
AT THE SAME TIME, A WAVE OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS SWEEPS THE CONTINENT. ONE AFTER THE OTHER, DEMOCRACIES START TO COLLAPSE. PARAGUAY, CHILI, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA…AMERICA IMPOSES ITS ALLIES TO ERRADICATE ITS POTENTIAL ENEMIES. PINOCHET & STROESSNER, STROESSNER & VIDELA, VIDELA & PINOCHET. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED, TORTURED AND DISAPPEARED. MILLIONS WERE DISPLACED OR FORCED TO GO INTO EXILE.
THE PERPETRATORS WERE NEVER BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
10:03:16:00
Martin Almada :
This is the Palace of Justice square
and there stands the Palace of Justice.
10:03:24:00
Rodrigo Vazquez : Palace of injustice?
Martin Almada :
Palace of injustice, excellent.
It's the message from the people,
it is really a centre of injustice.
Look at the monument of Justice.
She is blindfolded.
She holds a scale
that is unbalanced.
This lady doesn't see, doesn't hear
but she has a big nose
to smell where the money is.
10 :04 :03 :00
SINCE THE FALL OF THE DICTATORSHIP TEN YEARS AGO, PARAGUAY HAS NOT MANAGED TO BECOME A TRULY DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY, AND SOCIAL TENSION IS RISING. THE ECONOMY IS IN THREATS. THE GOVERNMENTS SENDS TROOPS TO SHUT UP THE OPPOSITION.
MARTIN IS AIMING TO PUT PRESSURE ON TRIBUNALS TO TAKE THE GOVERNMENT TO COURT.
10 :04 :27 :00
Martin Almada
It's a sad thing
to see this young sons of peasants
being armed in these circumstances.
You are not responsible,
the Police is to blame.
It is a shame.
I invite your soldiers
to put their weapons there
and remain unarmed
like these 2 women.
10 :05 :04 :00
The commandant tells me
that those with weapons will leave!
10 :05 :20 :00
MARTIN TOOK US TO THE SO CALLED “ARCHIVE OF TERROR”, ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE PALACE.
10 :05 :40 :00
Martin Almada :
This is my detention file.
Look at my hair.
They tortured me
and then put my head down the toilet
and then they took these photos.
10 :05 :54 :00
10 YEARS AGO, MARTIN DISCOVERED THE 400,000 SECRET POLICE FILES STORED IN THIS ROOM IN A POLICE STATION. THEY DOCUMENT THE KIDNAPPING AND TORTURE OF THOUSANDS OF LATIN AMERICANS IN PARAGUAY, BUT DO NOT REVEAL THEIR ULTIMATE FATE.
THESE PICTURES ARE THE LAST IMAGES WE HAVE OF MANY OF THEM.
10 :06:17:00
Martin Almada :
- What is your name?
Juan Balbuena :
- Juan Balbuena.
Martin Almada - How old are you?
Juan Balbuena - I'm 53.
Martin Almada - And you?
Alberto Portillo - Alberto Portillo.
Martin Almada They are my comrades
from the concentration camp.
Were we together
at Tercera Police Station?
Juan Balbuena : No, first at the secret police,
and then at the concentration camp.
Martin Almada :
My two comrades
were also brutally tortured.
10 :06 :47 :00
Juan Balbuena :
And this is where we met
with Fuentes who was Chilean,
and also with many Argentines
as prisoners were exchanged
within the famous Condor Operation.
10 :06 :58 :00
Alberto Portillo :
I was also with Jorge Fuentes,
an idealist from Chile.
He was part of MIR,
the left wing revolutionary movement.
10 :07 :09 :00
JORGE FUENTES BELONGED TO THE GENERATION OF THOSE WHO CHOSE TO FIGHT THESE DICTATORIAL REGIMES. INSPIRED BY THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, YOUNG INTELLECTUALS SUCH AS FUENTES CREATE THE MIR, A LEFT-WING REVOLUTIONNARY MOVEMENT, IN CHILE.
THE MIR SUPPORTS ALLENDE’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. THEY SHARE WITH THE LEFT WING GROUPS IN ARGENTINA A SOCIALIST AGENDA.
10 :07 :38 :00
GIVING THE LAND TO THE PEASANTS WHO WORK IT AND REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH AMONG THE POOR.
BUT THIS DREAM SOON BECOMES A NIGHTMARE.
10 :07 :51 :00
THE DAY OF THE COUP IN CHILE, HUNDREDS OF JORGE’S FRIENDS ARE ROUNDED UP AND HERDED TO THE NATIONAL STADIUM, WHERE THEY ARE TORTURED, SOME EXECUTED ON THE SPOT, OTHERS DISAPPEARED.
JORGE MANAGED TO ESCAPE TO ARGENTINA, WHERE HE LIVED IN CLANDESTINITY.
10 :08 :08 :00
OF CHILEAN NATIONALITY, FUENTES IS ARRESTED BY THE PARAGUAYAN POLICE AS HE IS ABOUT TO LEAVE ARGENTINA. THE POLICE IS ACTING ON A TIP GIVEN BY THE CHILEAN AND ARGENTINEAN ARMIES IN PARAGUAY.
JUAN AND ALBERTO WENT THROUGH THE ORDEAL OF CAPTIVITY TOGETHER WITH FUENTES.
THEY TOOK US TO THE CLANDESTINE JAIL WHERE THEY WERE KEPT. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THEY WERE GOING BACK THERE.
10 :08 :32 :00
Alberto Portillo:
It's incredible
You probably won't believe
what I'm telling you,
but it is the absolute truth.
Look at these whip marks.
I have no teeth left in my mouth.
They inserted needles under our nails.
10 :09:01 :00
Juan Balbuena :
On the 13th of May 1975,
we were brought here,
tied with barbwire
and we were dropped here, in this
torture centre of Stroessner's regime.
10 :09:19 :00
THIS FORMER TORTURE CENTRE IS AN OPERATIVE POLICE STATION TODAY. BUT NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE HUNDREDS OF LATIN AMERICANS DISAPPEARED INTO THIS BLACK HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY.
10 :09:36 :00
Juan Balbuena :
In that little cupboard
under the staircase.
I was locked up with Fuentes.
Sitting in this position
or sitting directly on the floor,
it was impossible to stand upright.
Jorge Fuentes was 6 ft tall,
He was very tall.
Like your brother.
10 :10:04 :00
Alberto Portillo :
There was a bathroom there.
The dead and the almost-dead
were thrown here.
There was a toilet there
and two showers there.
There is one left.
Many women died here,
losing their unborn babies.
Women from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil.
We never heard their names.
We only heard
their screams and cries.
and then we would see
their blood on the floor.
10 :10:48 :00
Juan Balbuena :
There is the toilet seat,
That’s the worst form of torture I know.
Your feet are tied
to the toilet bowl with wires
and they get you to sit like that
on the toilet edge.
One man puts his leg here
and another one puts his there.
They grab you by the hair
and put your head in the water.
When you're about to drown,
they get you out of the water
and put you back in.
You lose all your strength.
Your muscles stop responding.
You defecate on yourself.
They grab it and put it in your mouth.
10 :11:35 :00
Alberto Portillo :
Behind this little door,
we were tortured by
a Chilean named Oteiza
and by a Colonel
of the Chilean Air Force.
It's the last time we saw Jorge,
he was crawling like a little kid.
Up in that room,
we were injected Pentotal,
the serum of truth.
And then Jorge was taken
to the torture chamber for the last time.
Santucho and myself witnessed it.
10 :12:12 :00
Juan Balbuena
At that time, there were exchanges
of torture methods.
When the Army took power in Chile,
Paraguay was already an expert.
They organised exchanges.
Uruguayans, Argentines,
Chileans were coming here.
It was something usual then.
For instance,
I've been tortured in front of my mother.
10 :12:36 :00
Rodrigo Vazquez :
And she didn't break down
when seeing what you were enduring?
10 :12:40 :00
Juan Balbuena :
No, on the contrary,
she never broke down, never.
She was a very special woman
but in 3 months she aged 15 years.
When I went to jail,
her hair was all black.
When I got out it had turned all white.
Fuentes was taken back to Chile
in August 1976.
10:13:33:00
JORGE WAS CLANDESTINELY TRANSFERRED BY THE CHILEAN AIR FORCE FOR FURTHER INTERROGATION TO THE MOST FEARED CONCENTRATION CAMP IN THE COUNTRY: VILLA GRIMALDI.
10 :13:50 :00
Martin Hernandez
Those people were detained here
and died here
or were taken from here to be killed
10 :14:06 :00
- The only thing left
by the militaries is the floor.
- They destroyed everything else.
- But it is important
that they left the floor
as it is the only thing
you may remember.
You were blindfolded
and you were only able to see the floor.
10 :14 :32 :00
LIKE IN THE LAGERS, HERE THE CAPTIVES WERE FORCED TO TORTURE THEIR EX COMRADES FOR WEEKS.
FUENTES WAS KEPT IN THIS SIDE OF THE CAMP.
THE WALLS OF THE TORTURE CHAMBERS CAN STILL BE SEEN UNDERNEATH THE BUSHES.
10 :14 :48 :00
Martin Hernandez
- Here, you could hear the sounds
of the school on the other side.
It wasn't here then.
10 :15 :03 :00
Cecilia Bottai :
Here were the toilets
and there the guards room,
we’d go outside
to get the meals there
and I remember taking my plate
and walking that way
in that direction and there was a path.
Near the back.
This box is taller
than the real ones.
10 :15 :43 :03
- "El Trotsko" could not stand up
because the box was smaller.
The only possible position
was this one.
So he would sit like this.
There was a door here
and a hole for breathing.
10 :16 :01 :03
Cecilia Bottai :
I was only supposed
to bring him his meal.
Once I asked if I could feed him.
The guard gave me the key
and I opened the door.
And I managed to give him a message.
I managed to tell him
what Patricio had told me.
But he didn't manage to answer me.
10 :16 :27 :03
Patricio Bustos :
Between September
and early January 1976
which is when Jorge Fuentes is thought
to have been taken in a van.
300 to 400 prisoners
went through this place
and therefore were able
to see Jorge Fuentes.
10 :16 :49 :00
HUNDREDS OF DETAINEES WERE DRUGGED BY THEIR CAPTORS, TAKEN FROM THE CAMP TO A NEARBY AIRFIELD, LOADED ON MILITARY PLANES AND THROWN TO THE SEA.
10 :16 :58 :00
Osvaldo Romo:
In that southern part,
no-one threw corpses
because there are higher grounds.
But in that part water is salted
and there’s no current.
10:17:13:00
OSVALDO ROMO STARTED OFF AS A SOCIALIST MILITANT. HE BETRAYED HIS COMRADES AND BECAME FUENTES TORTURER AT THE VILLA GRIMALDI.
10 :17 :24 :03
Osvaldo Romo :
Man can't stop breathing
for longer than 3 minutes.
After 3 minutes, his pulse stops.
He can survive 3 days without drinking
and 33 days without eating
And there, I was taking his life.
The man whose head
was put in a plastic bag.
He was choking and after 3 minutes
his eyes would pop out like a fried eggs
and blood was pissing everywhere.
The wet submarine is
when we put your head in the water.
You drown like a cow.
You know how do cows drown?
Through their asses.
When he starts breathing through the ass
it means you’re drowning.
10 :18 :13 :00
FUENTES WAS ARRESTED WITH A MEMBER OF THE ARGENTINIAN REVOLUTIONNARY ARMY “ERP”, AMILCAR SANTUCHO, WHILE TRYING TO UNIFY THE FIGHT AGAINST DICTATORSHIPS UNDER AN INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONNARY JUNTA – THE JCR.
10 :18 :36:03
Enrique Gorriaran :
Jorge was a member of MIR
and we shared the same ideas.
Hamilcar and Jorge
were taking active part in the JCR.
It was based in Buenos Aires,
and which was organising
exchanges of comrades
in order to prepare
political or military actions.
There was also a financial collaboration.
They were not going to Paraguay,
they were going via Paraguay
to many destinations
Peru, Venezuela and other countries,
to spread their activities
and to spread the ideas of the Junta.
And that's when
they got arrested in Paraguay.
10 :19 :26 :00
MANUEL CONTRERAS, HEAD OF THE CHILEAN SECRET SERVICES, HAD SENT AN INVITATION TO HIS COLLEAGUES FROM LATIN AMERICA TO OFICIALIZE THIS COLLABORATION.
10 :19 :36:00
Nancy Guzman
We’re in Merced Street,
In front of nr 322.
the cradle of Operation Condor,
the place where
the DINA brigade was born
and will organise all the crimes
committed outside our frontiers
and bring back all the prisoners
caught outside the country.
10 :20 :00 :00
NANCY GUZMAN’S INVESTIGATION ON CONDOR STARTED YEARS AGO. HER HUSBAND IS LISTED AMONGST ITS VICTIMS. CONDOR’S BIRTHPLACE IS NOW A HAIRDRESSER’S.
10 :20 :23 :00
Nancy Guzman
- Hello.
Are you the concierge?
May I ask you a few questions?
The concierge
- I don't have much time.
N. G.
- It won't be long.
Did you know
that Operation Condor was based here?
That the coordination department
of DINA had its office here?
The concierge
- Here? No.
Never.
N. G.
- No cars with dark windows?
- No.
- Nothing.
- Thanks.
- GoodBye.
10 :21 :06 :00
Nancy Guzman
The agents would walk down this street
Everyday,
going to the corner shop
to get coffee, sugar, tea, Coca-Cola,
and they'd have a chat
10 :21 :06 :00
Nancy Guzman
- Do you live around here?
- For the past 30 years.
- What do you want?
- Do you know nr 322,
where the hairdresser is?
- No.
- Yes, I do. Now get to the point.
- Do you know
if it was Operation Condor's office?
- No idea.
I mind my own business.
- You didn't see anything?
- No.
- Or you don't want to talk about it?
- No, I don't want to talk about it.
Rodrigo Vazquez
- You didn't see anything?
All those years
and you didn't see anything?
What's the matter?
- Get out!
10 :22 :29 :00
THE LETTER URGING THE OFFICIAL CREATION OF CONDOR WAS HAND DELIVERED THROUGHOUT SOUTH AMERICA BY AN AGENT FROM THE DINA. HIS NAME WAS MARIO JAHN, HE WAS MANUEL CONTRERAS RIGHT-HAND MAN.
NANCY MANAGED TO LOCALISE MARIO JAHN, NOW HEAD OF THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM. SHE WOULD LIKE HIM TO TESTIFY IN COURT.
10 :22 :50 :00
Nancy Guzman
We are in front of the office
Of Mario Jahn,
Head of the Civil Aircraft Museum.
Mario Jahn ?
NG, Rodrigo Vazquez,
And Ramiro Vazquez.
We are from Canal 5 in France,
And would like to talk to you.
We have a few questions about…
We are making a film about…
Today’s vision about…
The current war on terrorism in the world.
That could be a first question…
MJ
- Why do you ask me,
Head of this museum ?
NG
- Well, we’ve been told
That you could have…
Taken part in security operations.
MJ
No. Go away
I don’t want to talk about that.
Please get out.
10 :24:14 :00
MARIO JAHN’S FORMER CHIEF, MANUEL CONTRERAS, ACCEPTED TO TALK TO US WITH HIS LAWYERS PERMISSION. UNDER HOUSE ARREST, HIS MEMOIRS HAVE JUST BEEN PUBLISHED.
10 :24:24 :00
Manuel Contreras
In Buenos Aikres, there was
the southern Revolutionary Junta.
It was coordinating the terrorist groups
in Latin America.
All of them.
They were giving para-military training.
Its members were trained
in neighbouring Marxist countries
and then sent back
to act in their home countries.
This southern Revolutionary Junta
left Buenos Aiores in 1976
when General Videla took power
in Argentina.
Nothing could be done before that.
And that is exactly
what the marxists called then.
And they pretended
that the intelligence services
were given permission
to commit crimes in all countries.
10 :25 :29 :00
Luzmila Ortiz
There was a coordination
between dictatorships.
It was something
merciless and monstruous
because no one was tried.
No one was allowed to see their family
At least one last time.
It is something nobody can confront.
It exists, it acts, it’s here.
But there is no one to confront,
No one to denounce knows their name,
Neither they live.
10 :26 :21 :00
FOR YEARS LUZMILA WAS FOLLOWED AND HARASSED BY MILITARY AGENTS, AND WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO REBUILD HER LIFE.
10 :26 :31 :00
Luzmila Ortiz
It’s like being buried alive.
Surviving is worse.
I want to tell you
that for the ones who died,
death is a victory.
Living is an agony
In those conditions.
10 :27 :20 :00
Martin Hernandez
In the case of Jorge
The message was clear.
The power doesn't accept you
to have contacts outside the country,
you must not try to have actions
spreading outside our frontiers.
Power doesn't accept
the internationalisation of proletariat.
Power doesn't accept the collaboration
of the people for their interest.
10 :27 :39 :00
THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE HAS OFFICES IN EVERY WESTERN COUNTRY, THEIR ROLE IS TO TRACK DOWN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS AND GATHER INTELLIGENCE ON THEM. IN THE 70’S THIS PLACE WAS USED TO DETAIN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND VICTIMS OF TORTURE WHO WERE OFFICIALLY DECLARED “DISAPPEARED”. MARTIN ALMADA GOT PERMISSION TO SEE THEIR ARCHIVES.
10 :28 :02 :00
Martin Almada
- I was locked up here
from 1974 to 1977.
Was it mentioned to Interpol?
10 :28 :12 :00
Interpol Agent
- If concerned countries
do ask for information,
we let them know.
I can legally bring
someone here for 6 hours
until I have enough information
to send to Interpol in France.
10 :28 :24:00
Rodrigo Vazquez
- What happens to the original document?
Is it archived or destroyed?
- We communicate your request.
I don't know how it's dealt
with at the general secretary
but here in Paraguay,
we always keep a copy.
Copy that we keep.
Jorge Isaac.
10 :28 :54 :00
WE ASKED FOR THE FILES ON JORGE FUENTES FROM THE TIME OF HIS DISAPPEARANCE IN 1975.
Fuentes Alarcon.
Nationality?
Chilean.
10 :29 :03 :00
THE OFFICER BROUGHT FILES FROM THE 1980’S FILLED IN BY AN AGENT FROM INTERPOL.
Fuentes Alarcon Jorge Isaac.
Number 4.
1981.
« …Information regarding the detention
of Jorge Isaac Fuentes"
« in order to give the tribunal
all the elements
connected to the possible arrest
of Jorge Isaac Fuentes Alarcon,
"at the Asuncion airport
on the 17th May 1975."
R V
- What is in the hands
of the head of Interpol?
- The general secretary
is in France, in Lyon,
and all the requests
go through the general secretary,
in France.
All the requests.
10 :30 :13 :00
WASHINGTON SOON GETS WIND OF THIS.
THE MOST EFFICIENT FBI AGENT AT THE TIME HELD A POST IN BUENOS AIRES; HIS NAME WAS ROBERT SCHERRER.
10:30:25:00
Alfredo Boccia
Robert Scherrer, official agent
Of the FBI bureau in Latin America wich is based in Buenos Aires
Looked into the Fuentes Alarcon case.
During the interrogation,
The Chilean militant confessed that MIR
And ERP of Argentina
Were planning on creating a Revolutionary Junta.
10:30:47:00
Martin Andersen : There was a joke in Argentina that Robert Scherrer alone was much better that an entire station of the CIA in terms of his ability to ferry out information and to be able to report what was really going on through channels to Washington. There are many credible testimonies of personnel from the CIA and other US coordination agencies being in the next room as people were being tortured and having that information then given to our people - the people from the United States - for reporting back to Washington.
10 :31 :26:00
OPERATION CONDOR’S BEGINNING IN CHILE IS WELL DOCUMENTED, AS THIS LETTER FROM CONTRERAS TO THE SOUTH AMERICAN HEADS OF INTELLIGENCE SHOWS. IT STATES THE DATE AND PLACE OF THE FIRST 1975 CONDOR MEETING IN SANTIAGO.
10 :31 :46:00
Peter Kornbluh : From the intelligence that Contreras gained from the interrogation of Fuentes, he became convinced that the leftist insurgents in the Southern Cone were organising together in a number of guerrilla groups to fight the Chilean and the military regimes in the Southern Cone and that gave him the more and more impetus - urgency - to create Operation Condor.
10 :32 :13:00
Peter Kornbluh : Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, later Equator and Peru joined, all of these countries collaborated on tracking down their critics, on logistically seizing them and interrogating them, secretly transporting them back to other countries and killing them.
10 :32 :33:00
Peter Kornbluh : Even though many documents are withheld, over 24000 new documents on US - Chilean relations were declassified and among them were at least a dozen, maybe more documents on Operation Condor. Some of them created by Defence Departments and CIA contacts with Contreras in the mid 1970's on Operation Condor and on the international terrorism campaign that was being committed by Contreras and his secret police service: the DINA. These are historical documents that support many many declassified CIA and Defence Intelligence agency records at this point, and State Department records which prove that Condor did exist, that Chile was in the middle of it, and that Contreras was the Godfather or the Don of this international terrorism campaign.
10 :33 :30:00
Manuel Contreras
The declassification of document is a lie
Invented by an extremist Marxist
who works at the Political Science
Institute in Washington.
This Peter Kornbluh
can say whatever he wants.
He has the right to lie.
Operation Condor never existed.
Every country
does the same nowadays,
when asked by the American president
George W . Bush
to cooperate on a global level
to find and erradicate the terrorists.
10 :34 :03 :00
Peter Kornbluh: These operations reached to Europe. There were planned assassinations in Paris, in Portugal, and of course the most famous Condor Operation right here in the heart of Washington DC the capital city of the United States of America, this is September 21st, 1976 car bombing of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt.
10 :34 :27 :00
Eugene Proper: It was actually a pretty dumb thing to do. I don’t think that anybody was focused on mister Letelier. He had his own activities going and the government wasn’t focusing on him and in fact the US government was on reasonnably good relations with Chile. I think the Pinochet government through Contreras wanted to knock out whoever was an effective opponent of their regime.
10 :34 :53 :00
Peter Kornbluh: This is the Shlaudeman report certificate to Kissinger on august 3rd, informing him of the existence of Operation Condor “which is designed to find and kill terrorists in Latin American countries and in Europe”. Sensitive intelligence sources and methods involved.
Peter Kornbluh: These documents show that Henry Kissinger was finally briefed on Condor in August of 1976.
10 :35 : 22:00
HENRY KISSINGER WAS THE US SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENTS RICHARD NIXON AND GERALD FORD – THE PRIME STRATEGIST IN THE WAR AGAINST COMMUNISM.
10 :35 :32 :00
President Kennedy himself had laid the foundations of this war when he allowed the creation of the military training school in Panama in 1962. This school, funded by the U.S taxpayer, is where thousands of officers from Latin-America learnt counter-insurgency techniques used throughout the continent, mastering torture methods, psychological action and population control methods, all tested in Viet-Nam, causing massive killings and a widespread violation of the human rights.
10:36:07:00
IN CHILE, THIS WAR TRANSLATED INTO A CAMPAIGN TO TERRORISE AND CONTROL THE POPULATION AND ASSASSINATE PUBLIC FIGURES, FINANCED BY THE CIA.
THE FIRST VICTIM WAS THE CHIEF OF THE CHILEAN ARMY, RENE SCHNEIDER, A KNOWN CONSTITUTIONALIST WHO OPPOSED MILITARY COUPS. HENRY KISSINGER ALLEGEDLY ORDERED HIS ASSASSINATION.
10:36:30:00
René Schneider Jr
We have decided to sue
Mister Henry Kissinger
because we consider
that he's accountable
of my father's death.
We have irrefutable proofs
showing that Mr Kissinger
considered my dad
as an obstacle
to stopping Salvador Allende
from taking power.
Nixon therefore decided
to eliminate him by whatever means.
10 :37 :12 :00
SCHNEIDER’S SUCCESSOR, CARLOS PRATS, SERVED UNDER SALVADOR ALLENDE’S SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT, BECOMING THE NEXT TARGET OF THE ASSASSINATION CAMPAIGN.
10 :37 :32 :00
Sofia Prats
My father was thinking
that political figures were supposed
to solve
the political problems of a country.
And that the Army
within the Republican Institutions
was not supposed
to replace the government
in order to solve political matters.
Obviously,
It wasn't Pinochet's point of view.
10 :38 :05 :00
Guillermo Garin
The United States were then
the number one enemy of Communism.
Therefore we were fighting
against Communism,
which was imported
from Russia and the Soviet Union
through Cuba which had its army
almost based on our territory.
Us, the military government and
especially president Pinochet,
were fighting against terrorism,
a fight which is in fashion
since it affects the USA.
And this is why
when the world is attacking us,
saying that we could have
violated human rights.
I always say
that we've always fought for
the human rights of the majority
of the Chilean citizens.
But I admit it had a price.
10 :39 :05 :00
Journaliste
This is the car
of General Carlos Prats and his wife.
The time bomb
was placed under the car,
between the front seats.
We can see personal belongings,
like Miss Sofia's shoes.
A lot of people are watching this car.
- Madam, what do you think?
- I'm horrified.
- Sir, your opinion on terrorism?
- I condemn it and would like
to see the criminals inside this car.
10 :39 :43:00
Sofia Prats
DINA,
whose head was Contreras
obeying to Pinochet,
backed this bombing.
This attack is said to be
the first action of the Condor Plan.
10 :40 :11:00
Protestation
Hurrah for
The Chilean Army commandos!
It was a great government
that brought us
security
and tranquillity.
Thank you Pinochet.
You were a great president.
10:40:57:00
Henry Kissinger: We discussed important subjects : the problem of development, the problem of human rights and other subjects of concern to the Hemisphere.
10 :41 :14 :00
THE NEW CENTURY SEES THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OFFENSIVE TO BRING CONDOR’S KEY PLAYERS TO JUSTICE, QUESTIONING HENRY KISSINGER IN HIS ROLE IN THE TERRORIST NETWORK.
00 :41 :27 :00
William Bourdon
The Condor Plan is a criminal association.
It's the first criminal association
organised by head of states.
It's the first time that,
a bit like the Italian mafia
in Little Italy, New York,
people gather like Dons,
like gangsters,
and are exchange torture methods.
They organise delivery
of political dissidents.
In May 2001, I wrote to the judge,
as I realised that many high members
of the American administration
probably had things to tell us.
A few weeks later,
I'm told that Kissinger will be in Paris
for the Houphouet Boigny
Jury at the Unesco.
So I mentioned it to the judge.
Then I'm told that
he'll be staying at the Ritz Hotel.
So I mentioned it to the judge.
10 :42 :36 :00
Roger Le Loir
I summoned Mr Kissinger
via the French police.
I wanted to know
What were the consequences
of the Condor Plan in France
in relation to the investigation I was conducting.
10 :42 :57 :00
William Bourdon
The head of the Ritz Hotel
told the police
that he would forward
the summon to Kissinger,
who was in a private salon
with businessmen,
with African officials,
or God knows who else.
And all of a sudden, M. Kissinger,
who seemed very irritated,
went back to his suite
saying he would answer later.
10 :43 :18 :00
Roger Le Loir
The American administration then told me
that they would not let me speak to him.
That he was not in France for a trial,
that he came for a trip to UNESCO.
They also said they’d happily answer me
through an official procedure,
so we followed
with an international request.
10 :43 :40 :00
William Bourdon
The action of the French judge
inspired the Chilean judge.
It inspired the Argentinean judge.
It inspired the Spanish judge.
Everybody wants to question Kissinger
on the crimes committed in Chile.
10 :43 :57 :00
Martin Mendelsohn : Look, we are a very prudential country and we don't like other people telling us what to do. And we're not going to allow others to talk to our citizens unless we set the rules. And I think that is one of the realities of political life today.
10 :44 :26 :00
THE FIRST LAW-SUITS AGAINST HENRY KISSINGER WERE FILED ON SEPTEMBER THE 10TH 2001. THE ATTACKS IN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON OVER-SHADOWED THIS VERY SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
10 :44 :38:00
G.W.Bush : Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil despicable acts of terror. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is just and good in our world.
10 :45 :10 :00
Journaliste off: US President George W Bush Wednesday named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger chairman of the National commission to investigate the events of September 11th, 2001. Speaking to family members ...
10 :45 :28 :00
IRONICALLY, THE MAN CHOSEN BY GEORGE W. BUSH TO FIGHT TERRORISM IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER BY JUDGES WORLDWIDE.
10 :45 :35 :00
Henry Kissinger: But everything must be done to avoid that such a tragedy can occur again.
10 :45 :41 :00
A WEEK LATER, SURPRISINGLY, KISSINGER RESIGNS, PUTTING FORWARD A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS.
10 :45 :48 :00
MEANWHILE, MARTIN ALMADA CONTINUES TO PUSH PARAGUAYAN JUSTICE FOR ACCESS TO MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST CONDOR MEMBERS.
10 :46 :05 :00
Martin Almada
Let's talk to the judge.
- I want to talk to the judge.
- He said he would open this case
to reconsider his position,
but he can't meet you right now.
10 :46 :27 :00
MARTIN IS USED TO FORCING HIS WAY THROUGH DOORS BEHIND WHICH THE TRUTH IS HIDING.
HE DISCOVERED THE FIRST-EVER DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF OPERATION CONDOR WHILE INVESTIGATING HIS WIFE’S DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE SECURITY FORCES. THESE FILES WOULD BE USED BY THOUSANDS OF CONDOR VICTIMS IN TRIALS AGAINST THE INDIVIDUALS BEHIND THE TERRORIST NETWORK.
10 :46 :50 :00
Martin Almada
I have found...
tapes,
recorded by the police.
And among these tapes
I sure will find the tape
that the police
played to my wife.
10 :47 :22 :00
IN A REPRESSIVE STATE, THE POLICE CHIEF HAS MORE CLOUT THAN THE JUDGES.
10 :47 :27 :00
MARTIN PUSHES HIS WAY IN TO MEET THE POLICE CHIEF, USING HIS PUBLIC STATURE AND THE PRESENCE OF OUR CAMERA.
10 :47 :51 :00
Martin Almada
- Mr Commandant.
Yesterday, we met judge Jorge BogarÌn,
who is in charge of Human Rights
and of Operation Condor,
and we presented him with a request.
We want that all archives of the past
are given to the Justice Department.
We are mainly interested
by the political documents.
- I'd like to use this opportunity
to give you a present.
It's the symbol of the New Police.
- We'll have a little private talk
and will join you after.
10 :49 :07:00
90 YEARS OF SECRET DOCUMENTS ARE SEIZED BY MARTIN IN THIS SINGLE OPERATION.
10:49:16:00
TONS OF DOCUMENTS THAT PROVE THAT STROESSNER CREATED A SPECIAL FORCE TO HUNT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS.
10:49:24:00
Martin Almada
Is the truck outside?
I can't call this a democracy.
It's a controlled democracy,
It was a completely controlled.
Look at all these people.
Food sent to Hamilcar Santucho
and Barreiros,
which they never got.
The truck is outside.
A student.
10 :50 :16 :00
Martin Almada
These are the documents
that Justice needs to use
to find the truth.
We need to know the truth
and then we'll incriminate.
so that Justice can be given.
This is our main aim.
As a defender of Human Rights,
I put pressure on Justice
Because what happened
Must be punished.
As impunity brings two things:
more repression and more corruption.
10 :50 :51 :00
THESE DOCUMENTS ALSO PROVE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES COLLABORATED IN OPERATION CONDOR.
10 :51 :04 :01
Martin Almada
These documents show the collusion...
the collusion
between Stroessner and Kissinger
and Videla, Pinochet, etc.
within Operation Condor.
10 :51 :20 :00
TODAY, LATIN AMERICA STILL SUFFERS THE EFFECTS OF CONDOR`S KILLING MACHINE. THE DICTATORSHIPS HAVE SUNK THE ECONOMIES. THE INTELLECTUALS HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED. THE OUTSIDE DEBT IS UGE. THE CONTINENT IS TRAPPED IN A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF POVERTY, SOCIAL UNREST AND REPRESSION.
SUCH IS THE LEGACY LEFT BY OPERATION CONDOR AMONGST OTHERS.
10 :52 :03 :00
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Filmed and directed by
Rodrigo Vázquez
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