Operativo Cóndor is the 1966 hijacking of an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight to the Malvinas by eighteen militants, a real event of Argentine history kept unchanged. Their forced landing is also a threshold to what lies beneath the islands.
| Type | Event |
| Date | 28 September 1966 (midnight) |
| Leaders | María Cristina Verrier, Dardo Cabo |
| Spanish entry | Operativo Cóndor |
History
At midnight on 28 September 1966, eighteen militants calling themselves los cóndores (“the Condors”) landed the hijacked plane on a field that was not a runway and planted seven flags in the peat. The action was brought forward to coincide with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, who played polo with Onganía.
Participants
- María Cristina Verrier, the main organizer: 27, playwright and journalist, married, with a son; author of the successful play Naranjas amargas para mamá (“Bitter Oranges for Mom”); daughter of a Supreme Court judge.
- Dardo Cabo, her boyfriend, son of Armando Cabo, a UOM union leader in Tres Arroyos; tied to the Peronist resistance.
- Sixteen others, among them Alejandro Giovenco and Juan Carlos Rodríguez.
Aftermath
The Condors were imprisoned in Ushuaia. On 26 June 1967 Dardo Cabo, Giovenco and Rodríguez got three years for prior records; Verrier and the rest, nine months.
The descent
The islanders’ hospitality (seamless suits, a son who returns to the water, a blue stone passed hand to hand) signaled one thing waiting below; the brotherhood that received the newcomers was studying them. There are two Earths, and the other has always been under the water. The operation is the antechamber of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and of the yellow kingdom of Carcosa.