[3] He worked on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, traveling as a reporter to cover the civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
[2] CIINFO was the non-profit fundraising vehicle for ArchivosChile and CIPER, as well as a series of investigative journalism projects, most recently on Operation Condor and military dictatorships in South America.
[5] In April 2015, John Dinges provided extensive testimony as a witness for Prosecutor Pablo Ouviña during the "Plan Condor" trial in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His contributions include authoring two notable books - "Assassination on Embassy Row" and "The Condor Years" - conducting interviews with over a dozen police, military agents, and victims, and gathering crucial data from intelligence archives in the region.
He serves on the advisory boards of Human Rights Watch and the National Security Archive,[12] and is a juror for the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes and the du-Pont Columbia awards.