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Archive of Terror
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The "Archives of Terror" (Archivos del Terror) were found on December 22, 1992, by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada, and judge José Agustín Fernández, in a police station in a suburb of Asunción (Lambaré), capital of Paraguay.[1] Fernández was looking for files on a former prisoner. Instead, he found archives describing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay with cooperation of the CIA. This was known as Operation Condor. The "terror archives" listed 50,000 people murdered, 30,000 people disappeared and 400,000 people imprisoned.[2][3] They also revealed that other countries such as Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela cooperated, to various degrees, by providing intelligence information that had been requested by the security services of the Southern Cone countries. Some of these countries have used portions of the archives, now in Asunción's Palace of Justice, to prosecute former military officers. Much of the case built against General Pinochet by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón was made using those archives. Dr. Almada, himself a victim of Condor, was twice interviewed by Baltasar Garzón. "[The documents] are a mountain of ignominy, of lies, which Stroessner [Paraguay's dictator until 1989] used for 40 years to blackmail the Paraguayan people," states Dr. Almada.[1] He wants the UNESCO to list the "terror archives" as an international cultural site, as this would greatly facilitate access to funding to preserve and protect the documents. In May 2000, a UNESCO mission visited Asunción following a request from the Paraguayan authorities for help in putting these files on the Memory of the World Register, one element of a program aimed at safeguarding and promoting the documentary heritage of humanity to ensure that records are preserved and available for consultation.
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Identifier
11953
Title
00143F0011-0022
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Escritos Varios / Correspondencia
From
República de Chile. Justicia Militar de Gobierno
Identifier
11954
Date
November 6, 1975
Title
00143F0023
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
Identifier
11955
Date
December 20, 1977
Title
00143F0024
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
,
Delación
Identifier
11956
Title
00143F0289
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11957
Date
April 27, 1976
Title
00143F0290
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11958
Date
April 27, 1976
Title
00143F0291-0292
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11959
Date
August 6, 1976
Title
00143F0293
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11960
Date
August 29, 1975
Title
00143F0294-0295
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
Identifier
11961
Date
January 23, 1978
Title
00143F0296
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11962
Date
November 15, 1980
Title
00143F0297
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11963
Date
September 15, 1980
Title
00143F0298
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11964
Date
December 1, 1980
Title
00143F0299-0300
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11965
Date
July 4, 1981
Title
00143F0301-0310
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11966
Date
July 30, 1981
Title
00143F0311
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11967
Date
December 15, 1981
Title
00143F0312
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11968
Date
January 19, 1982
Title
00143F0313
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11969
Title
00143F0314
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
Identifier
11970
Date
July 4, 1979
Title
00143F0315-0317
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11971
Date
June 22, 1979
Title
00143F0318
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación. Comando de Transmisiones
Identifier
11972
Date
November 30, 1977
Title
00143F0319
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11973
Date
January 26, 1977
Title
00143F0320-0323
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
Identifier
11974
Date
November 21, 1977
Title
00143F0324
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación. G.C.G. y Regimiento Escolta Presidencial
Identifier
11975
Date
November 18, 1977
Title
00143F0325
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General
Identifier
11976
Date
November 15, 1977
Title
00143F0326
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Armada Nacional
Identifier
11977
Date
October 18, 1977
Title
00143F0327
Agency/Affiliation
DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type
Informe
From
Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación. C.I.I. y R.I. 14
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