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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Archive, at George Washington University, uncovered numerous documents showing that South American countries used Crypto machines.A paper in their collection from the Defense Intelligence Agency, for example, describes the efforts of nations involved in Condor — including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay — to find ways to share intelligence about targets they wanted arrested or killed.The security services of those countries established a communications network together using crude Crypto encryption machines known as CX-52s. In 1977, the group upgraded to newer electronic models, according to the DIA report, which notes that “Argentina provided Hagelin Crypto H-4605 equipment to Condortel,” the name for the countries’ secret communications network.Marc Simons, co-founder of cryptomuseum.com, explains how secret messages were created using the Hagelin CX-52. (Video: Stanislav Dobak/The Washington Post, Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)The countries’ initial target was a multinational rebel group operating in the southern part of the continent. But over time the operation morphed into a sprawling campaign involving mass killings in South America and assassinations of alleged rebel leaders and political exiles in Europe and the United States.The documents indicate that CIA officials were alarmed about human rights abuses by the military juntas of Latin America. A 1976 memo to the deputy director of the CIA refers to instructions that went out to U.S. ambassadors in the region to “express the serious concern of the U.S. government to the alleged assassination plans envisioned within ‘Operation Condor.’ ”But the same memo indicates that U.S. officials were more concerned about killings beyond the Condor countries’ borders than the casualty count in South America. The CIA also was largely focused on shielding itself from “possible adverse political ramifications for the Agency should ‘Condor’ engage in assassinations and other flagrant violations of human rights.”Carlos Osorio, a researcher at the National Security Archive,
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