Operation Condor (disambiguation)

Operation Condor has been the codename of a number of military operations:

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• Operation Condor (Spanish:Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering, dubbed counter-terrorism, conducted jointly by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s.
• Operation Condor was also the name of a French attempt to breakthrough to the besieged French Union forces at Dien Bien Phu. Launched in much-reduced form on 13 April 1954 the relief columns were delayed by the rugged terrain and was cut up by the surrounding Viet Minh.

Operation Condor was also the name of two separate British operations:

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• Operation Condor (Afghanistan): A major British-led operation in southeastern Afghanistan, the operation began on 17 May 2002.
• Operation Condor: One of a number of proposals in 1943 by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten to take back the Channel Islands from German occupation in WWII. It was never mounted.