Rage Of The Leviathan
Italian authorities have arrested Jorge Nestor Fernandez Troccoli, a retired officer of the Uruguayan Navy. Troccoli was wanted in Uruguay, because of his role in Operation Condor, the plan for the extermination of political opponents of military dictatorships in South America in the 1970s. Troccoli’s book, entitled The Rage of the Leviathan, brags of his role in these events.
Operation Condor was born in the office of the Chilean secret police DINA in 1975, under Augusto Pinochet. Lasting until 1977, at least 13,000 people were killed. Several hundred thousand more were imprisoned in concentration camps.
Italian prosecutors have issued further arrest warrants for 146 citizens of Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia (four of whom are dead), including former Argentinian leaders Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera, former Montevideo dictator Jorge Maria Bordaberry, and former DINA chief Manuel Contreras.
Many of the victims of Operation Condor were of Italian origin. As a result of lawsuits brought in Italy by relatives, prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo launched a nine year investigation, culminating in these warrants.
According to UPI, “the prosecutor said the United States was aware of Operation Condor but did not participate in it.”
Perhaps, although the CIA’s admission of participation in the pre-Condor plot to get Pinochet into power in the first place was covered in an Associated Press article entitled “CIA acknowledges involvement in Allende’s overthrow, Pinochet’s rise.”