Argentina Wanted US to Fight Africa's Anti-Colonial Revolutions
Argentina Wanted US to Fight Africa's Anti-Colonial Revolutions
Che with a Congolese fighter | Photo: Archive
Published 16 December 2016
Newly-declassified documents on the U.S.'s Operation Condor cite the Argentine dictatorship complaining of "Western weakness" in Africa.
Documents declassified by the United States earlier this week on its CIA-led Operation Condor revealed that Argentina was pushing the U.S. to lead an operation in Africa against Marxist forces.
Plan Condor was the term for a 1970s covert operation to rid U.S.-backed dictatorships of progressive opponents or to topple progressive governments outright in South America.
One of the released documents, a CIA intelligence memo titled, "Southern Cone Perceptions of U.S. Policies," said that Argentina blamed “Western weakness” on the lack of intervention in Africa to counter Cuba and the Soviet interference.
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