A customer service representative with Automated Health Systems, Ian Chinich is also a political science scholar with a master of arts from Boston University. One of his interests is researching the intricacies of Operation Condor. Ian Chinich is currently working on a documentary film on this subject.
A United States-backed Cold War campaign that lasted from 1968 to 1989, Operation Condor aimed to stop the spread of communism in the southern part of South America. The origins of Operation Condor date back to US Army General Robert Porter's insistence that America must organize “integrated command and control centers” in Latin American to train and guide the activities of individual countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru.
In addition to gathering intelligence on communist threats, Operation Condor promoted questionable activities such as the assassination of political opponents. Decades later, Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Richter Prada, Bolivian military leader Luis Garcia Meza, and other officials faced severe legal repercussions for their involvement in Operation Condor.
