![The CIAs Secret Global War Against the Left The CIAs Secret Global War Against the Left](https://realnews.today/media/20140110013935Reunión_Pinochet_-_Kissinger-310x168.jpg)
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program — it helped to engineer it.