His Own Man (2014)
“Since no one holds on to a friendship poisoned by doubt, I decided to shake off my lethargy — which, at this stage, was bordering on complicity. I began to give greater credence to the rumors circulating about Max and recalled some of the ambiguous comments he had made during our past discussions.
Over the years, I investigated various sources in piecing together the puzzle that was Max. And in 1993, I came across what I later realized was the most damning one, an article in Foreign Diplomatic ...Review titled “Operation Condor.” The report had been written based on the dreaded secret organization’s archives unearthed in Paraguay by one of the operation’s victims. “Prisoners thrown from airplanes into the sea,” blared the headlines. “Thrown alive … Bound or stuffed into burlap sacks. Still conscious, hurled from five to eight thousand meters up …” And this was merely one aspect of the famed operation, whose name derived from a bird that fed off dead flesh. It was all there: the monthly frequency of the missions, the number of prisoners loaded onto each flight, the drugs administered to the victims before departure “to sedate them without their losing awareness of what was happening.”MoreLess
Over the years, I investigated various sources in piecing together the puzzle that was Max. And in 1993, I came across what I later realized was the most damning one, an article in Foreign Diplomatic ...Review titled “Operation Condor.” The report had been written based on the dreaded secret organization’s archives unearthed in Paraguay by one of the operation’s victims. “Prisoners thrown from airplanes into the sea,” blared the headlines. “Thrown alive … Bound or stuffed into burlap sacks. Still conscious, hurled from five to eight thousand meters up …” And this was merely one aspect of the famed operation, whose name derived from a bird that fed off dead flesh. It was all there: the monthly frequency of the missions, the number of prisoners loaded onto each flight, the drugs administered to the victims before departure “to sedate them without their losing awareness of what was happening.”MoreLess
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