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...been a trusted Cabinet member under Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. After Allende was overthrown by a right-wing military coup in 1973, Letelier was jailed for 14 months, then allowed to go into exile in Washington. His fellow exiles immediately blamed his murder on the Chilean secret police, but for nearly two years federal investigations were able to produce neither suspects nor direct links to Chile...
...first break in the case came two months ago, when U.S. officials became suspicious of two men, supposedly Chileans named Williams and Romeral, who had visited Washington shortly before the murder. The Chilean government claimed to know nothing about them, but the Washington Star unearthed and published photos of the two. One of them, "Williams," was recognized by a former Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Santiago, who had known him as Michael Vernon Townley...
According to the FBI, however, Townley was deeply involved in Chilean politics. During the Allende years he worked for the right-wing Patria y Libertad group, and after the 1973 coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, joined the new regime's military police. Shortly before Letelier's death, Townley and a Chilean army officer, Armando Fernandez, obtained visas under the names of Williams and Romeral and made three trips...
...stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico, diamonds in the Congo. By the outbreak of World War I, they controlled 75% to 80% of all the silver, copper and lead in the world...
...Santiago during the 1970 presidential elections in Chile. Yet because so little hard evidence turned up during those hearings, the subcommittee had to limit its harshest pronouncement, charging that "the highest officials of ITT sought to engage the CIA in a plan covertly to manipulate the outcome of the Chilean presidential election." Since the Senate subcommittee issued its report on ITT in June 1973, a steadily accumulating mass of evidence has reduced most of the ITT officials' testimony to a well-orchestrated collection of half-truths, dissembling statements and outright lies. At the very least,it is now definitively established...