Chile's Lagos says he made Pinochet's list

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said Friday that he was put on a list of dissidents marked for assassination two decades ago by Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret police after an unsuccessful assassination attempt against the then dictator.

Lagos commented after the newspaper Diario Siete and the Web news site El Mostrador reported that two former agents of the feared secret police had confessed to killing journalist Jose Carrasco as part of reprisals for the attack that killed five Pinochet bodyguards Sept. 4, 1986.

Ex-agents Ivan Quiroz and Jorge Vargas reportedly told a judge they were ordered to avenge the attack by killing dissidents, including Carrasco.

Four people in all were eventually slain, but the target list also had included Lagos - at the time a leading Pinochet opponent, they reportedly said.

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