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   Boris must have caught the flash of cynicism in my eyes. To bring his point home, he grabbed me and stood me up. A tango swelled on the jukebox. He swept me around the room. “This new concept was a purging of every person who would challenge the elite, every person who would think about challenging the status quo, every person related to that person, every person who knew that person. A genocide raged throughout the continent that locked us behind an Iron Curtain the Soviets would have been proud of, but even that was not enough for the elite. As political refugees flooded out of country after country, the School of the Americas graduates and their CIA masters came up with a plan to follow them. It was called Operation Condor. They assassinated people all over the world no matter what country they fled to. Allende appointed Orlando Letelier as ambassador to the United States in 1971. In 1973, he was serving in Chile as Minister of Foreign Affairs when Allende was assassinated. He was tortured for a year before international pressure resulted in his release. He moved his family to Washington DC and became the leading opposition in exile to the Pinochet regime. Many of the murderers who carried out assassinations for Operation Condor were on the payroll of the CIA. Some were caught and convicted but pardoned by United States presidents. The Doctor was well aware of Operation Condor but refused to stop Pinochet from assassinating Letelier and his assistant with a car bomb in 1976. The man who planted that bomb worked for the CIA before carrying out the killing for Pinochet’s assassination squad. It was all one big, ugly family, Oliver and the family has gotten bigger and uglier and much, much more efficient.”