The Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("Anticommunist American Alliance" aka "Triple A") was a state terrorism and paramilitary far-right group mainly operating in Colombia during 1978 and 1979. It has frequently be considered as being one of the main arms of Operation Condor. Part of the History of baseball series. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ... Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, radical right, or hard right are terms used to discuss the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

General Harold Bedoya, Army Commander and professor at the School of the Americas (SOA), was AAA's founder, according to the confessions of three former agents from the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad. The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly School of the Americas (SOA), is a US Army facility at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, USA. It is a training facility operated in the Spanish language, especially for Latin American military personnel. ... Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) is the Security Service of Colombia. ...

The Triple A engaged in many bomb attacks, forced disappearances and assassinations of political opponents, and is considered as the ideological ancestor of the actual paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from public view, either by murder or by simple sequestration. ... Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) or AUC is a terrorist umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to consolidate most local and regional Colombia, each with the mission to protect economic interests and combat insurgents locally. ...