States involvement is not fully known. Some claim the operation began at the behest and aid of the CIA, but there is no clear evidence to back up such a claim. Most of what is known today is that the US was looking for ways to combat communism in South America. When the US came upon Operation Condor and found favor in it, they offered what support they could. The support offered to the operation primarily focused on technical support and propaganda.
The technical support provided by the CIA to Operation Condor focused on creating a way for the intelligence communities of each state to be able to speak and share information with each other. This would allow each state to know how best they could help each other and plan operations in other …show more content…
This would be done by either denying such actions took place or that the actions were actually committed by violent leftist organizations. The purpose of this was to allow members of Operation Condor to act with little to no repercussion from the rest of the world.
Findings
Each of these case studies show CIA involvement and denote violent actions that were taken. As the conflict continued in both Nicaragua and other South American states, the violence began to spill over into civilian populations.
This violence began to be seen in the Contra leadership who believed that if it could be shown that the Sandinista government could not protect noncombatants, it would greatly undermine their ability to govern. With these other more controversial methods, they began to be employed. Humans Right Watch, a nonprofit organization whose mission it is to watch for and report human rights violations, noted that as the conflict escalated the Contras methods became more and more questionable. In their 1986 report they noted human rights violations that included the targeting of civilian health care clinics, kidnapping and torturing of civilians, rape, and the destruction of
The technical support provided by the CIA to Operation Condor focused on creating a way for the intelligence communities of each state to be able to speak and share information with each other. This would allow each state to know how best they could help each other and plan operations in other …show more content…
This would be done by either denying such actions took place or that the actions were actually committed by violent leftist organizations. The purpose of this was to allow members of Operation Condor to act with little to no repercussion from the rest of the world.
Findings
Each of these case studies show CIA involvement and denote violent actions that were taken. As the conflict continued in both Nicaragua and other South American states, the violence began to spill over into civilian populations.
This violence began to be seen in the Contra leadership who believed that if it could be shown that the Sandinista government could not protect noncombatants, it would greatly undermine their ability to govern. With these other more controversial methods, they began to be employed. Humans Right Watch, a nonprofit organization whose mission it is to watch for and report human rights violations, noted that as the conflict escalated the Contras methods became more and more questionable. In their 1986 report they noted human rights violations that included the targeting of civilian health care clinics, kidnapping and torturing of civilians, rape, and the destruction of