31 CHILBOM/CONDOR Classified and extended by (illegible signatures) Date of review for declassification: 28/09/1996 (The original contains several annotations, stamps and erased lines) P281030 SKP 76 From Buenos Aires To Director Foreign political matters – Argentina Foreign political matters – Chile […] “Operation Condor” is the code name for the collection, exchange and storage of intelligence data concerning so-called “leftists,” communists and Marxists, which was recently established between cooperating intelligence services in South America in order to eliminate Marxist terrorist activities in the area. In addition, “Operation Condor” provides for joint operations against terrorist targets in member countries of “Operation Condor.” Chile is the center for “Operation Condor” and in addition to Chile its members include Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Brazil also has tentatively agreed to supply intelligence input for “Operation Condor.” Members of “Operation Condor” showing the most enthusiasm to date have been Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. The latter three countries have engaged in joint operations, primarily in Argentina, against the terrorist target. […] A third and most secret phase of “Operation Condor” involves the formation of special teams from member countries who are to travel anywhere in the world to non-member countries to carry out sanctions up to assassination against terrorists or supporters of terrorist organizations from “Operation Condor” member countries. For example, should a terrorist or a supporter of a terrorist organization from a member country of “Operation Condor” be located in a European country, a special team from “Operation Condor” would be dispatched to locate and surveil the target. When the location and surveillance operation has terminated, a second team from “Operation Condor” would be dispatched to carry out the actual sanction against the target. Special teams would be issued false documentation from member countries of “Operation Condor” and may be composed exclusively of individuals from one member nation of “Operation Condor” or may be composed [of a] mixed group from various “Operation Condor” member nations.24 Concerning the activities of “Operation Condor” in Paraguay25 61(9) In the case of Paraguay, the Department of Military Intelligence was responsible for the operational coordination of “Operation Condor,” and the person in charge at the time was Colonel Benito Guanes Serrano. The police intelligence services followed up on the directives received from the said Department, and the operational functions were the responsibility of the Head of Police Investigations, Pastor Milciades Coronel. The Investigations Department was the “nerve center of political intelligence.” Information was collected by police agents who infiltrated political, social and trade union organizations, student centers, and all types of public or private entities. 24 Cf. the book En los sótanos de los generales, supra note 12, p. 173, and sworn statement made by the expert witness Alfredo Boccia Paz, supra note 12, folio 6316. The expert witness referred to this report as an unclassified document of the U.S. Department of State. 25 Paragraphs 61(9) to 61(14) “concerning the activities of ‘Operation Condor’ in Paraguay” correspond to facts that are found to have been proved based on the following documents: the book Es mi informe. Los archivos secretos de la Policía de Stroessner, supra note 11; the book Testimonio contra el Olvido; Reseña de la Infamia y el Terror, supra note 11; sworn statement made by the expert witness Antonio Valenzuela Candia on May 25, 2006 (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public), and 1987 Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Paraguay, supra note 11, Chapter II, C and Introduction, B.