U.S. DECLASSIFIES MISSING DOCUMENTS IN THE LETELIER-MOFFITT CASE

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Washington D.C., October 8, 2015 – Chile’s intelligence service assassinated exiled critic Orlando Letelier with a car bomb in 1976 on “direct orders” from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, according to newly declassified documents personally delivered this week by Secretary of State John Kerry to Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.

The 282 documents posted online today by the State Department, total over 1,000 pages; they include a 1987 cable drafted by the State Department’s intelligence bureau summarizing a series of informants’ reports from years earlier in 1978, including the assertion by the head of Chile’s intelligence agency, Manuel Contreras, that “he authorized the assassination of Letelier on orders from Pinochet,” on “direct orders from Pinochet.” Among the dozens of records released today were multiple witness interview transcripts by FBI agents working with Chilean detectives during a unique investigation undertaken in 1999/2000 by the Clinton Justice Department into General Pinochet’s personal role in ordering and covering up an act of international terrorism in Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976.