Chilean ex-dictator Pinochet loses another friend

[chaplainM]

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006

[Phredicles]

1. What, a house landed on her?

[rfranklin]

2. Now, if Bush Senior would join him and her in eternal damnation...

Together they killed a fine young woman named Ronni Moffit. Bush was the head of the CIA then and complicit in the crime.

Ronni Moffit was an American citizen, married and working as a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. She also worked with Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United States. He had also been Minister of Exterior Relationships, Minister of Interior Relationships and Minister of Defense under Salvador Allende when Allende was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973. From 1975 to 1976 Orlando Letelier lived in the United States and worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. Moffit and Letelier were both killed on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, when a bomb placed under Letelier’s car exploded. Pinochet had ordered the execution. The attack was carried out by a Cuban anti-Castro terrorist group hired by the Pinochet government. The Dutch government intended to give millions to Pinochet’s government until Letelier had intervened convincing the Dutch that the money was going to a dictatorship that was abusing human rights. Pinochet ordered the assassination of Letelier and Ronni Moffit was caught in the crossfire. The CIA and State Department knew immediately that the assassination had been organized by the Chilean dictatorship. From the first, the US government sought to cover up the role of its ally, Pinochet.

George H.W. Bush, the current president's father, was then director of the CIA. Although the agency had overwhelming evidence that the killings were the work of the DINA, it fed a cover story to the media that they had been carried out by "left-wing extremists" in an attempt to discredit the Pinochet regime.

Thus, Newsweek wrote that "the Chilean secret police were not involved" in the assassination. It said the CIA had come to this conclusion because "the bomb was too crude to be the work of experts and because the murder, coming while Chile's rulers were wooing US support, could only damage the Santiago regime" (Newsweek, October 11, 1976).

Justice Department investigators and federal prosecutors received no cooperation from the CIA in pursuing an investigation into the killings. Yet voluminous evidence led them to two DINA agents--Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez Larios.

These are the two individuals that the Chilean judge prosecuting Pinochet is now coming to question. Townley was extradited to the US in 1978 and served only five years in prison. Fernandez came in 1987 and was sentenced to just five months. Both of them were placed in the US witness protection program, provided with new identities, financial support and security by the US government.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Thanks for that little walk down (repressed) memory lane. n/t

[Ilsa]

6. I wonder if Poppy had heard Kirkpatrick was ill along with

Pinochet and was thinking about what might be waiting for him in "The Great Beyond" ...

[saigon68]

4. She is a Disgusting POS

A Pox on her

[MisterP]

5. "totalitarians" bad, "authoritarians" good

anyone else remember that little nugget of genius?