Peter Kornbluh*: Pinochet and the Letelier Case: the Verdict
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It has been 50 years since former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his young colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt were killed in a car bomb attack in the capital of the United States. The attack, ordered by General Augusto Pinochet and executed by his secret police, the DINA, killed two extraordinary people on September 21, 1976. As Secretary of State George Shultz later reported to then President Ronald Reagan, this violent act constituted “pe…
An intelligence report prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1987 concluded that the dictator, Augusto Pinochet, personally ordered his intelligence chief, Manuel Contreras, to execute the assassination of former chancellor Orlando Letelier in Washington. The document, entitled “Pinochet’s role in the murder of Letelier and later [...] The CIA’s entry Report concluded that Pinochet personally ordered the murder of Or…
La entrada The Letelier-Moffitt case is 50 years old: the story's verdict on Pinochet's role was first published on CIPER Chile.
Half a century after the attack, an exclusive document revealed by CHV Noticias confirms that the CIA concluded that dictator Augusto Pinochet ordered the crime that claimed the life of the ex-canciller in Washington, D.C.
AV This 21st of September marks the 50th anniversary of the attack that cost the life of Chilean ex-canciller Orlando Letelier del Solar and the young American Ronni Karpen Moffitt, in the middle of the diplomatic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The attack, executed with a bomb installed under the car in which they were traveling, became one of the [...]
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