Archive of Terror

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Title: Archive of Terror
Abstract: 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: 12018
Date: December 16, 1976
Title: 00143F0468
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Agregado de las Fuerzas Armadas a la Embajada del Paraguay. Pretoria. República de Sudafrica

Identifier: 11976
Date: November 15, 1977
Title: 00143F0326
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Armada Nacional

Identifier: 55744
Date: December 9, 1974
Title: 00143F0275
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Delación, Informe
From: Armada Nacional

Identifier: 55667
Date: October 13, 1977
Title: 00143F0106-0107
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Armada Nacional

Identifier: 55730
Date: March 3, 1975
Title: 00143F0235-0238
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Colegio Militar "Mcal. Francisco Solano López"

Identifier: 55739
Date: November 27, 1974
Title: 00143F0259
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Comando General del Ejército Uruguayo

Identifier: 12016
Date: February 14, 1977
Title: 00143F0465
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Declaración Indagatoria
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación

Identifier: 12015
Date: February 14, 1977
Title: 00143F0464/0466
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Declaración Indagatoria
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación

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: 12008
Date: December 6, 1976
Title: 00143F0444-0455
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: 12004
Date: March 8, 1977
Title: 00143F0437
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General

Identifier: 11983
Date: August 30, 1977
Title: 00143F0333
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General

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: 11999
Date: April 2, 1977
Title: 00143F0428
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Informe
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General

Identifier: 11985
Date: August 2, 1977
Title: 00143F0360
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Pedido de Búsqueda
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General

Identifier: 11992
Date: May 2, 1977
Title: 00143F0371
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: 12017
Date: February 9, 1977
Title: 00143F0467
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Escritos Varios / Correspondencia
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11980
Date: September 23, 1977
Title: 00143F0330
Agency/Affiliation: DEPARTAMENTO DE INVESTIGACIONES (DI)
Document type: Pedido de Búsqueda
From: Comando en Jefe de las FF.AA. de la Nación Estado Mayor General

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