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Driving slowly through the drizzle on Washington's Sheridan Circle one morning last week, former Chilean Ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier, 44, passed by the stately stone mansion that had been his official residence for nearly two years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down...
...second possible explanation would be that the junta itself was responsible for Letelier's murder. While considerably more likely than the first, this explanation is undercut by the fact that the junta had deprived Letelier of his Chilean citizenship a scant two weeks before his death. This must also be tied to the fact that the bomb which killed him went off within eye and earshot of the Chilean embassy in Washington. For the junta to have killed Letelier in Washington so close upon having denationalized him would indicate not only a ruthless cold-bloodedness (which the junta certainly possesses...
...most likely explanation for the murder is that that killing represents a serious clash between DINA, the dread Chilean secret police, and the military for control over the witchhunt of Allende sympathizers. Several months back, reports of just such a conflict circulated in the Western press, indicating that the DINA had become something of a Chilean "rogue elephant," out of even the junta's control. In this context, the murder of Letelier would have two important effects: first, to still the growing voices of the Chilean resistance all over the world, not simply in Chile; and second, it would give...
THESE TRAGIC EVENTS UNAVOIDABLY raise the question of American responsibility, not only for the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende government in 1973 at the hands of the Chilean armed forces, but also for the consolidation and expansion of DINA, whose operations now appear to extend far beyond the borders of Chile. In view of the bloody murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, it is imperative and legitimate that the U.S. government totally sever all diplomatic and political relations with the Chilean junta; stop all U.S., World Bank and all other international forms...
...this end, it can be hoped that the tragic and violent deaths of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt will mark the beginning of the end of the Chilean junta and the diminishing of the American imperialism which created it three years ago and continues to nourish it to this...