During Operation Condor, Rockefeller traveled throughout South America, telling the newly installed dictators how to run their governments.24 The effects of his visits south of the border were crystallized in Chile, where in 1976 the military regime under General Augusto Pinochet ignored international condemnation and the congressional cut-off of American aid (due to its terrorist activities), thanks to $927 million in loans from Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Morgan Guaranty Trust, and other US banks.
