Jorge Videla

Prosecutors in Italy have issued arrest warrants for 140 people over a decades-old plot by South American dictatorships called Operation Condor

Uruguayan former naval intelligence officer Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli - has already been arrested in Salerno, south Italy

six governments worked together from the 1970s to hunt down and kill left-wing opponents

CIA documents show that the CIA had close contact with members of the Chilean secret police, DINA, and its chief Manuel Contreras

the CIA's one-time payment to Contreras is proof that the U.S. approved of Operation Condor and military repression within Chile

the South American intelligence chiefs involved in Condor "[kept] in touch with one another through a U.S. communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone which cover[ed] all of Latin America"

included torture techniques (e.g. near-drowning, and playing recordings of victims who were being tortured to their families