The CIA concluded that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the 1976 murder of a top dissident in Washington, according to newly released government documents.
The latest revelations about the Cold War-era case came on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of the Pinochet regime and onetime Chilean foreign minister, and his think-tank colleague, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb on Washington's Embassy Row.
The CIA assessment released Friday is part of a series of documents presented to President Ronald Reagan in 1987 by his national security adviser, Frank Carlucci, regarding U.S. government policy on Chile.
In the document, the CIA states that "a review of our files on the Letelier assassination has provided what we regard as convincing evidence that President Pinochet personally ordered his intelligence chief to carry out the murder."
A Section on 09/25/2016