US Foreign Policy

US Foreign Policy

Clinton Urged to Criticize Pinochet

April 1998
Kevin Galvin

Supporters of Orlando Letelier, who was killed by a car bomb planted by Chilean secret police in 1976, want Clinton to speak out against the state-sponsored terrorism practiced by the government of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet Still Stirring up Chile

March 1998
Anthony Faiola

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, one of the last representatives of South America's age of military domination, will retire Tuesday as Chile's army commander after 24 years.

L'Affaire Letelier

July 1995

Le 21 septembre 1976, une bombe tuait à Washington Orlando Letelier - dernier ministre de la défense du président constitutionnel chilien Salvador Allende -, et son assistant Roni Moffit.

Chile has not cleaned up its act

March 1984
Isabel Letelier

The Pinochet regime remains a repressive dictatorship with no intention of moving toward a return to democracy in Chile.

The Chilean Connection

November 1981
John Dinges

In the early summer of 1976, Col. Manuel Contreras, head of DINA, Chile's secret police, launched an operation to assassinate exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier.

Review: Assassination on Embassy Row

May 1981
Jan Joost Teunissen

A review of the book Assassination on Embassy Road, published by NRC Handelsblad on 16 May 1981.

Review: Assassination on Embassy Row

July 1980
Herbert Mitgang

A review of the book Assassination on Embassy Row, published by The New York Times on 18 July 1980.

Review: Assassination on Embassy Row

July 1980
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

A review of the book Assassination on Embassty Row, published by The New York Times on 10 July 1980.

Feigning Toughness on Terrorism

August 1979
Michael Moffitt

Ultimately, Pinochet's decision on how to dispose of the troublesome Letelier-Moffitt case will be a political, not a legal, judgment.