Augusto Pinochet

Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973.

Chile: Implications of the Letelier Case

May 1978
TNI

In May of 1978, the CIA’s National Foreign Assessment Center issued this comprehensive analysis of the Pinochet regime’s responses to being identified as responsible for the September 1976 car bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington DC.

Letelier Probe Threatens Pinochet Rule

April 1978
Saul Landau

Pinochet's governmental carpet is stained, but the stench is from human blood.

The Murder Investigation

October 1977
Saul Landau

Almost a year after Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were murdered, the killers remain at large. The Institute on the very day of the assassinations launched its own investigation. The results of that probe follow:

This is how it was done

March 1977
Saul Landau
Ralph Stavins

An account of the murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, published by The Nation on 26 March 1977.

In Memoriam: Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt

December 1976
Michael Moffitt

Address at a funeral mass for Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, held at St. Mark's Cathedral, Washington DC, on 26 September 1976.

Two Deaths in the Morning

December 1976
Saul Landau

Orlando Letelier represented all the qualities government should stand for: he was a lawyer who believed in rules and constitutions, his ethic was equality and justice; his means of persuasion and authority was reason.

 

De Chileense collaboratie van Milton Friedman

October 1976
Orlando Letelier

Orlando Letelier's article "The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll" published in Dutch by the Haagse Post on 23 October 1976.

Agents of FBI Investigate Letelier Killing - Get Tip Chilean Secret Policeman Flew to US Last Week

September 1976
David Binder

The FBI said today it was pursuing 'a lot of leads' in the bomb killing here yesterday of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, and a woman assistant.

Grieving Bomb Survivor Blames Chilean Regime

September 1976
Timothy Hutchens and Robert Pear

'I think the government of Chile should be held responsible for the death of my wife', says Michael Moffitt.

Ex-Chilean Ambassador Killed by Bomb Blast

September 1976
Stephen J. Lynton and Lawrence Meyer

Orlando Letelier, a high official of the late Chile President Salvador Allende, was killed in Washington yesterday when a bomb exploded beneath his car.