Dinges,J. Landau,S. Assassination on Embassy Row. 1981
Dinges, John and Landau, Saul. Assassination on Embassy Row. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1981. 411 pages.
On September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington.
He had been Minister of Defense in Chile in 1973, when President Salvador
Allende, elected three years earlier by the Chilean people, was murdered
during a CIA-supported coup. After a year in a concentration camp, Letelier
was released and moved to the U.S., where he began organizing against the
Chilean junta out of offices at the Institute for Policy Studies. Agents
of Chile's intelligence service DINA placed a bomb in Letelier's car,
which killed him and IPS co-worker Ronni Moffitt.
Some of the assassins were convicted, and some are still wanted.
As of 1991, the U.S. was still seeking to extradite three suspects from
Chile, including former DINA head Gen. Manuel Contreras and his chief aide
Col. Pedro Espinoza. The most notorious plotter is Michael Townley, an
American expatriate who was extradited from Chile in 1978 to take the heat
off of junta leader Augusto Pinochet. Townley served five years of his
sentence before being released into the U.S. witness protection program.
Some of us coup watchers had already heard about Townley. Two years before
the assassination, NACLA described him as a Peace Corp volunteer turned
right-wing terrorist and CIA advisor in pre-coup Chile. Microcomputers
were invented to keep track of people like him.
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