Condor

Author : John Dinges
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589026

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The Condor Years by John Dinges Pdf

A “compelling and shocking account” of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald). Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA—which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as “remarkable” and “a major contribution to the historical record,” The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. “Scrupulous, well-documented.” —The Washington Post “Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges.” —Seymour Hersh

Author : Rafaello Fernandez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499089332

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CONDOR’S PASSAGE by Rafaello Fernandez Pdf

A young man fulfills his long yearned desire to go to sea and earns his way through the ranks of the Spanish king’s admiralty in the 17th century to find friendship and love, endure loss and hardship, experience adventure and intrigue.

Author : David S. Wilcove
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780385498814

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The Condor's Shadow by David S. Wilcove Pdf

With gripping narrative power, The Condor's Shadow traces the ways in which human greed and ignorance have wreaked havoc on our ecological landscape. The heir apparent to Peter Matthiessen's 1959 classic Wildlife in America, The Condor's Shadow is a brilliant and compulsively readable study of the state of North American wildlife and what is being done to reverse the damage humans have caused. With equal respect for the smallest feather-mite and the fiercest grizzly, the frailest flower and the stateliest redwood, David S. Wilcove illustrates--in jargon-free, often witty prose--nature's delicate system of checks and balances, examining the factors that determine a species' vulnerability and the consequences of losing even the tiniest part of any ecosystem. An examination of both the heart-wrenching failures and stunning successes of our conservation efforts, The Condor's Shadow chronicles the destruction and resilience of our American wilderness and offers an insightful, eloquent overview that will appeal to avid conservationists and recreational nature-lovers alike.

Author : Graham Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593543986

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Clive Cussler Condor's Fury by Graham Brown Pdf

Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken—the men say—by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they’re confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine—culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies.

Author : Henry Augustus COWPER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Salvage
ISBN : BL:A0018937426

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Statement of the Case of the “Condor's” Gold Dust, addressed to Her Majesty's consuls, and to all British merchants residing in foreign ports by Henry Augustus COWPER Pdf

Author : Ginny Tschanz
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781684708543

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Under the Condor's Wing: A Memoir of South America by Ginny Tschanz Pdf

Author : Jared Verner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : California condor
ISBN : MINN:31951D02986751X

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California Condors by Jared Verner Pdf

Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Gay men
ISBN : 0981737285

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Condor One by John Simpson Pdf

Condor One: Book One The Democratic Party's 2012 nominee for President, David J. Windsor, and America are equally shocked when he is outted by his opponent just six weeks before the Fall election. Following his heart, David chooses honesty over media spin and overcomes the obstacle to win the election. Despite that success, dark forces around the world begin to plot against him, and President Windsor's security is a must. Inside and outside the White House, Secret Service Agent Shane Thompson becomes the President's shadow, always present and silent, ever vigilant. As the two men grow closer, Shane does far more than just his duty - he becomes as vital to David's happiness as he is to the President's health. Together they realize they must find a way to balance the President and the Agent against David and Shane before stress and responsibility tear them apart.

Author : James Grady
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466861251

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Last Days of the Condor by James Grady Pdf

Now on television: Condor, an AT&T Audience Network original series inspired by James Grady's first Condor novel. Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away. So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor. Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter-she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy. Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher : Comparing Animal Traits
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467795128

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California Condors by Laura Hamilton Waxman Pdf

"Readers will compare key traits of California condors?their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle?to traits of other birds." --Amazon.com.

Author : James Grady
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049986421

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Six Days of the Condor by James Grady Pdf

The novel that inspired the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor Sandwiches save Ronald Malcolm’s life. On the day that gunmen pay a visit to the American Literary Historical Society, he’s out at lunch. The Society is actually a backwater of the Central Intelligence Agency, where Malcolm and a few other bookworms comb mystery novels for clues that might unlock real life diplomatic questions. One of his colleagues has learned something he wasn’t meant to know. A sinister conspiracy has penetrated the CIA, and the gunmen are its representatives. They massacre the office, and only learn later of Malcolm—a loose end that needs to be dealt with. Malcolm—codename Condor—calls his handlers at the Agency, hoping for a safe haven, instead drawing another attempt on his life. With no one left to trust he goes on the run. But like it or not, Malcolm is the only person who can root out the corruption at the highest levels of the CIA.

Author : J. Patrice McSherry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742568709

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Predatory States by J. Patrice McSherry Pdf

This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from public view, Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political opponents of Latin American regimes. Its key members were the anticommunist dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil, later joined by Peru and Ecuador, with covert support from the U.S. government. Drawing on a wealth of testimonies, declassified files, and Latin American primary sources, J. Patrice McSherry examines Operation Condor from numerous vantage points: its secret structures, intelligence networks, covert operations against dissidents, political assassinations worldwide, commanders and operatives, links to the Pentagon and the CIA, and extension to Central America in the 1980s. The author convincingly shows how, using extralegal and terrorist methods, Operation Condor hunted down, seized, and executed political opponents across borders. McSherry argues that Condor functioned within, or parallel to, the structures of the larger inter-American military system led by the United States, and that declassified U.S. documents make clear that U.S. security officers saw Condor as a legitimate and useful 'counterterror' organization. Revealing new details of Condor operations and fresh evidence of links to the U.S. security establishment, this controversial work offers an original analysis of the use of secret, parallel armies in Western counterinsurgency strategies. It will be a clarion call to all readers to consider the long-term consequences of clandestine operations in the name of 'democracy.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCR:31210006672743

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The Condor by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Moir
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493078752

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Return of the Condor by John Moir Pdf

Return of the Condor is far and away the best book on the subject. John Moir covered the condor recovery effort for magazines and newspapers for years and his extensive and award-winning journalism, including an investigative piece for Birding magazine, became this fine book. Moir presents a unique insider's view of the remarkable tale of saving a species from the brink of extinction. Down to a population of only twenty-two in the 1980s, the condor owes its survival and recovery to a team of scientists who flouted conventional wisdom and pursued the most controversial means to save it. John Moir's account shows the depth of their passion and courage and details the bitter controversy that led to a national debate over how to save America's largest bird. This new paperback edition includes an Afterword bringing the reader up to date on all that has happened in the efforts to save this magnificent bird in recent years since original publication of the book.

Author : James Grady
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504056496

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Condor: The Short Takes by James Grady Pdf

The legendary CIA spy is back—in a “superb” collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor (Publishers Weekly, starred review). James Grady, “king of the modern espionage thriller” (George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire), first introduced his clandestine CIA operative—codename: Condor—in a debut novel that became Three Days of the Condor, one of the key films of the paranoid era of the 1970s, and is now the basis for the hit AT&T original series, Condor, starring Max Irons and William Hurt. In this explosive collection featuring a new introduction on the writing and publication history of Condor, a never-before-published original novella, and short fiction collected for the first time, Grady brings his covert agent into the twenty-first century. From the chaos of 9/11 to the unprecedented Russian cyber threats, Condor is back. In condor.net, the intelligence analyst chases an unfathomable conspiracy that begins in Afghanistan and leads to the secrets of his own superiors. In Caged Daze of the Condor, Jasmine Daze of the Condor, and Next Day of the Condor, the paranoia of National Security’s sworn soldier reaches a screaming pitch when he’s locked behind the walls of the CIA’s private insane asylum. Classified documents in the basement of the Library of Congress draw Condor into a murderous subterranean world where no one can be trusted in Condor in the Stacks. And in Russian Roulette of the Condor, the striking new novella shot through with the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War, the underground patriot faces a dictator determined to turn American politics into an insidious spy game. Brace yourself for six shots of the iconic Condor from James Grady, who has been called a “master of intrigue” by John Grisham, and whose prose was compared to George Orwell and Bob Dylan by the Washington Post.