Kissinger cable heightens suspicions about 1976 Operation Condor killings
Reporting from cable duct Washington — A newly declassified document has added to long-standing questions about whether Henry Kissinger, while secretary of State, halted a cable trunking U.S. plan to curb a secret program of international assassinations by South American dictators.
The document, a set of instructions cabled from Kissinger to his top Latin American deputy, ended efforts by U.S. diplomats to warn the governments of Chile, Uruguay and Argentina against involvement in the covert plan known ducting as Operation Condor, according to Peter Kornbluh, an analyst with the National Security Archive, a private research organization that uncovered cable channels the document and made it public Saturday.
