Operation Condor was not a single dictatorship or a single campaign of terror. It was a coordinated, cross-border system designed to hunt, abduct, and erase political opponents across South America.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, military regimes in the Southern Cone secretly cooperated to track exiles, share intelligence, and carry out kidnappings, torture, and disappearances beyond their own national borders. Safe haven ceased to exist. Exile became another stage of the hunt.

In Operation Condor, Miles Dunsford uncovers how this transnational machine functioned, from target lists and surveillance networks to renditions, black sites, and the deliberate use of disappearance as a tool of control. Drawing on documented evidence and survivor testimony, the book reveals how fear was weaponised and silence enforced, while families were left searching for answers that never came.

This is also a story of aftermath. Of survivors who lived to testify. Of families who refused to stop asking questions. Of archives, trials, and the long struggle to reclaim truth from denial and destruction.

Clear, unflinching, and deeply human, Operation Condor is an essential account of one of the Cold War’s darkest operations and a stark reminder of what happens when terror is allowed to operate across borders unchecked.