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General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born *May 4, 1929) was the head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful and feared men in Chile after a military coup headed by Pinochet and other Chilean militaries overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Santiago ( (litteraly in spanish Saint James) is the Capital of Chile, and the center of its largest Conurbation ( Greater Santiago Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( English: National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean Secret police in the government Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (June 26 1908 – September 11 1973 was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of
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Operation Condor
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From 1973 to 1977, he led the agency on an international hunt to track down and murder the political opponents of the dictatorship, particularly members of the Communist and Socialist Parties and the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). For other uses of Operation Condor please see Operation Condor (disambiguation Operation Condor (Operación Cóndor Operação Condor was a campaign Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Revolutionary Left Movement ( MIR) ( Spanish Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria) is a Chilean Political party founded on October According to the report "CIA activities in Chile" released on September 19, 2000, the US government policy community approved CIA's contact with Contreras from 1974 to 1977 to accomplish the CIA's mission in Chile in spite of his role in human rights abuses. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the By 1975 American intelligence reporting had concluded that Contreras was the principal obstacle to a reasonable human rights policy within the Pinochet's government, but the CIA was directed to continue its relationship with Contreras, even giving Contreras a one-time payment in 1975. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all [1][2] The CIA became concerned with Contrera's role in the assassination of former Salvador Allende cabinet member and ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Karpen Moffit in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (June 26 1908 – September 11 1973 was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar ( April 13, 1932 - September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist Political figure, Ronni Karpen Moffitt (1951 &ndash September 21 1976) was an American political activist of Jewish heritage Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The CIA gathered specific, detailed intelligence reporting concerning Contrera's involvement in ordering the Letelier assassination, but some of the material remains classified and another portion has been withheld at the request of the US Department of Justice (CIA, 2000) CIA contacts with Contreras continued until 1977. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all [3]
After Orlando Letelier's assassination, tensions between Contreras and Pinochet grew over the course of his tenure, and the DINA was closed down in 1977 and replaced with a new apparatus, the National Intelligence Center (CNI). Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar ( April 13, 1932 - September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist Political figure, Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( English: National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean Secret police in the government By 1979, Contreras was out of the army after a short time at the rank of General.
Prison sentences and court investigations
In 1993, a Chilean court sentenced him to seven years in prison for the Letelier assassination. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Contreras first rebelled against the Chilean justice, taking refuge in the South, and then in a military regiment and later in a military hospital [4] After a two-months escape, he was detained again in a military prison, where he completed his sentence in January 2001. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. He was afterwards placed under house arrest and then released.
In May 2002, he was convicted as the mastermind of the 1974 abduction and forced disappearance of Socialist Party leader Victor Olea Alegria. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from Public view either by Murder or by simple Sequestration. Víctor Olea Alegría (born 17 June 1950) was a member ( militante) of Chile’s Partido Socialista. Contreras was also convicted by an Argentinean court in connection with the assassination of former Chilean army chief Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires in 1974. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. General Carlos Prats González ( February 24, 1915 - September 30, 1974) was a Chilean Army officer a Political figure Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern However, an extradition request by Argentina was denied by Chile.
On January 28, 2005 he was put in prison for the disappearance of tailor and MIR member Miguel Ángel Sandoval in 1975. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The sentence time is 12 years.
On May 13, 2005, Contreras submitted to Chile's Supreme Court a 32-page document that claimed to list the whereabouts of about 580 people who disappeared during Pinochet's rule. Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Human rights groups immediately questioned the information and its source, citing Contreras's years of deception and denials of responsibility for human rights abuses. Many of the details he provided were previously known, and some contradicted the findings of commissions that have investigated the disappearances. In the document he wrote that Pinochet personally ordered these repressive measures.
During the same May 2005 hearing to the Supreme Court, he directly involved the CIA and Cuban anti-Castrist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is a Cuban born Venezuelan anti- Castro terrorist [5]
Manuel Contreras has accused Augusto Pinochet of having given the order of the assassination of Orlando Letelier and of Carlos Prats. He also declared to Chilean justice in 2005 that the CNI, successor of DINA, handed out monthly payments between 1978 and 1990 to the persons who had worked with DINA agent Michael Townley in Chile, all members of Patria y Libertad, the far-right movement which had been involved in the Tanquetazo : Mariana Callejas (Townley's wife), Francisco Oyarzún, Gustavo Etchepare and Eugenio Berríos. For the Australian politician see Michael Townley (Australian politician. The Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front ( Spanish Frente Nacionalista Patria y Libertad or simply Patria y Libertad, PyL El Tanquetazo or El Tancazo (Both Spanish for tank putsch) ( June 29, 1973) are the names used to refer to the [6] Assassinated in 1995, Berrios, who worked as a chemist for the DINA in Colonia Dignidad, also worked with drug traffickers and DEA agents. Villa Baviera (Bavaria Village formerly known as Colonia Dignidad (Dignidad Colony is a Chilean hamlet in Parral Commune Linares Province The Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA) is a United States Department of Justice Law enforcement agency tasked with combating drug smuggling and [7]
Judge Víctor Montiglio, who succeeded judge Juan Guzmán, granted amnesty to Manuel Contreras in 2005, after his conviction in operation Colombo. Juan Salvador Guzmán Tapia (b April 22, 1939) is a retired Chilean judge who became famous internationally for being the first judge to prosecute former Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA (the Chilean Secret police) in 1975
References
- ^ [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20000919/01-17.htm "CIA Activities in Chile," CIA declassified documents, Retrieved from National Security Archive on May 24, 2007
- ^ Marquis, Christopher. The National Security Archive is a 501(c(3 non-governmental non-profit research and archival institution located within The George Washington University in "C. I. A. Says Chilean General in '76 Bombing Was Informer," New York Times, 19 September 2000
- ^ Marquis, Christopher. "C. I. A. Says Chilean General in '76 Bombing Was Informer," New York Times, 19 September 2000
- ^ Un general chileno se declara en rebeldía contra un fallo que le condena a 5 años, El País, 14 June 2007 (Spanish)
- ^ LAS PRUEBAS DE LA DINA CONTRA POSADAS CARRILES, Cronica Digital, May 23, 2005 (Spanish)
- ^ Contreras dice que Pinochet dio orden "personal, exclusiva y directa" de asesinar a Prats y Letelier, La Tercera, May 13, 2005, mirrored on CC. El País ( Spanish for "The Country" is the most widely-circulated Daily newspaper in Spain. La Tercera (The Third One formerly known as La Tercera de la Hora, is a daily newspaper published in Santiago Chile and owned by Copesa TT. website (Spanish)
- ^ El coronel que le pena al ejército, La Nación, September 24, 2005 (Spanish)
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