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#Paraguay

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People (3)

  • Conrado Pappalardo Chief of protocol and fixer to Alfredo Stroessner who in July 1976 pressed the American ambassador for visas on Paraguayan passports for two DINA agents, saying they would report to Vernon Walters of the CIA.
  • George Landau American ambassador to Paraguay who in July 1976 copied the photographs in the false passports of two Chilean agents bound for Washington and sent them to the CIA, weeks before the murder of Orlando Letelier.
  • Pastor Coronel Chief of detectives of Stroessner's Paraguay, classed by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Class I narcotics violator, whose interrogations of captured revolutionaries were attended by foreign military attachés.

Places (1)

  • Paraguay Paraguay under dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) was a hub for Operation Condor's cross-border assassination networks, a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele, and a CIA client state whose intelligence services participated in the coordinated Latin American repression documented throughout this vault.