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...force reluctantly and only when necessary. But his private statements give a different impression--for example, "I wanted to bomb the daylights out of Hanoi, but Congress wouldn't let me." (The New York Times, 12/26/73). Or his justification of CIA efforts to instigate the military coup in Chile: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." (The New York Times, 9/11/74...
...Hate List. The grisly murder ended the life of a man high on the hate list of Chile's right-wing military government. Letelier had been one of Chile's most prominent citizens-in-exile. An economist, a lawyer and a committed Socialist, he was sent to Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed...
...Chilean government quickly denied any connection with Letelier's murder. "The evil attack," said Santiago's pro-junta daily El Mercuric, would be "used to revive the campaign of hate and lies against Chile" at the United Nations General Assembly, which convened last week. But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated...
...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 DINA the upper hand in the internal struggle with the military for ultimate power in a battered and plundered Chile. If indeed this is the case, then the assassination of Letelier is not only a tragedy in itself, but a harbinger of further outrage...
...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 of aid to the junta; and conduct...