• finwe26@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I know this meme is for more recent events, but Operation Condor fucked up the entirety of South America. And americans are being heavily influenced to “akshually nazis went to Argentina to hide after wwII” as if it wasn’t their fault

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      Operation Condor

      sigh

      here we go again

      Operation Condor also had the covert support of the US government. Washington provided Condor with military intelligence and training, financial assistance, advanced computers, sophisticated tracking technology, and access to the continental telecommunications system housed in the Panama Canal Zone.

      in 1977 intelligence agencies from Britain, France and West Germany looked into using the tactics employed in Operation Condor against leftwing “subversives” in their own countries