Operation Tucan was a joint operation of the KGB / DGI of misinformation and distortion of public opinion directed against the Chilean military regime led by Augusto Pinochet. According to a former KGB official Vasili Mitrokhin, the idea for the operation was conceived by Yuri Andropov.
The operation had two objectives: the organization of human rights organizations to put pressure on the UN and to provide negative coverage of the Pinochet regime in the press. In 1976, at the beginning of the operation, the New York Times had published 66 articles on human rights in Chile and 4 on the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and only three articles on human rights in Cuba.
During the operation, the KGB also falsified a letter in which the CIA has been accused in connection with a campaign of political repression by the National Intelligence Directorate of Chile. Many journalists, including Jack Anderson of the New York Times, used the letter as proof of the agency's involvement in the most infamous parts of Operation Condor. The recently declassified documents prove that the US they facilitated communications for the Hispanic-American nations involved in it.
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