The Letelier archive
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TNI and the Pinochet precedent
On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies. It has taken more than 30 years of struggle to bring some of those responsible to justice.
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Terrorism at Sheridan Circle: 30 years ago
When FBI agents interviewed me hours later and asked me who might have done the dirty deed, I replied “DINA.” The agent asked: “Do you know her last name?”
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Dossier Orlando Letelier
TNI dossier on Orlando Letelier, first director of TNI.
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Justice for Letelier timeline
Timeline of events seeking justice for the assassination of Orlando Letelier (last updated in October 2005).
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Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum
Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on September 10, 1976. The same day that he was deprived of his Chilean nationality by decree.
Articles
The Chilean 'model'
'The coup in Chile would somehow be extraordinarily important in my life' wrote Michael Moffit days after the assassination of his wife Ronni and his friend Orlando.
TNI mourns loss of filmmaker activist Saul Landau
TNI and Institute for Policy Studies staff and friends are mourning the loss of Saul Landau, an award-winning filmmaker, author, poet, and fearless human rights activist. Saul was an IPS Fellow and TNI Senior Fellow for many years.
Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum
Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on September 10, 1976. The same day that he was deprived of his Chilean nationality by decree.
TNI remembers Orlando Letelier 36 years on
In 2012, as the global economic crisis deepens and Occupy Wall Street marks one year, we remember the visionary work of Orlando Letelier in setting up a programme at TNI for a New International Economic Order.
TNI marks 35th anniversary of assassination of Orlando Letelier
35 years ago, on 21 September 1976 Orlando Letelier, former TNI Director, was killed by a car bomb in Washington DC. TNI remembers his life.
Assassination on Embassy Row: 34 years later
Remembering Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt 34 years after their assassination by Chile's secret police.
A Tale Of Two Extraditions
The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the...
Letelier Case Timeline
Letelier Case Timeline: from September 1970 until March 2001.
Tribute to Families of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt
This year's program will mark the 32nd anniversary of the September 21, 1976 car bombing that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Until 9/11, it was the most infamous act of international terrorism ever to...
Publications
TNI and the Pinochet precedent
On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni...
The Pinochet Affair
This book tells the epic story of the events that surrounded the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998.
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
This is the underground history of the international Dirty Wars by US allies in South America.
Light Among Shadows
Light Among Shadows documents a journey from the darkness of tyranny to the dawning of a new era for champions of human rights the world over.
