Chile judge orders hunt for poet's alleged killer

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Neruda's death was attributed at the time to prostate cancer but the case's plaintiff lawyer, Eduardo Contreras, says there is new evidence showing he was likely murdered by agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Contreras said Dr. Sergio Draper, who originally testified that he was with Neruda at the time of his death on Sept. 23, 1973, is now saying there was another doctor named "Price" with the poet.

But Price did not appear in any of the hospital's records as a treating doctor and Draper said he never saw him again after the day he left him with Neruda. Moreover Price's description of a blond, blue eyed, tall man, matches Michael Townley, the CIA double agent who worked with Chilean secret police under Pinochet.

Townley was taken into the U.S. witness protection program after acknowledging having killed prominent Pinochet critics in Washington and Buenos Aires.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Chile-judge-orders-hunt-for-poet-s-alleged-killer-4569181.php#ixzz2V4RPEVBX

I have loved Neruda's poetry since college and it hurts my heart to think his life was cut short by these awful people, killers of hope. Sickening ahuman ghouls.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. This is obvious if you look at the timeline

Kinda like when you look at the timeline for the Iran hostage release, which happened on the same day as Reagan's inaugural. Then a few years later, we had Iran-Contra. Obvious quid pro quo. Meets every textbook definition of actual treason, as the occupation of the US Embassy was, for purposes of international law, equivalent to an invasion of US territory. The Iranian gov't, through its complicity, was engaged in an actual act of war against the US. Neither country has recognized the other's gov't since that time.
Reagan arms them. No one puts 2+2 together to link this with the release of the original hostages on the day of his inaugural. I still can't believe that happened.
Anyway, this one is just as obvious when you look at the timeline. Not that it would have made much difference; Pinochet's murderers would have killed him afterwards anyway. Another Garcia-Lorca.

[Catherina]

2. "Sickening ahuman ghouls"

[Judi Lynn]

3. Was Pablo Neruda killed by Pinochet?

Was Pablo Neruda killed by Pinochet?

When the great poet died 40 years ago in Chile, it was said to be from cancer. Now, lawyers say it was murder

Nick Clark Author Biography
Sunday 02 June 2013

The hunt is on for the suspected killer of one of South America’s most celebrated poets four decades after his death, which had originally been attributed to cancer.

Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, described as the “greatest poet of the 20th century” and known for his romantic works, died on 23 September, 1973, after battling prostate cancer. Now prosecutors claim he was murdered on the orders of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet. Neruda was a member of the Communist Party and was a politician and diplomat under President Salvador Allende. His death at the age of 69 came 12 days after Pinochet seized power in a military coup.

The dictator’s 17-year rule would see more than 3,000 people disappear in a regime that had been accused of using death squads against its opponents.

This April, the sensational news emerged that the poet’s body was to be exhumed from its resting place in the grounds of his beachside home on Chile’s Pacific coast over growing suspicions he had been poisoned. The allegations suggest he was murdered in a clinic while undergoing treatment for cancer.

Yesterday, a judge issued an order for police to track down the man prosecutors allege may have poisoned Neruda. Lawyer Eduardo Contreras said new evidence has emerged, in addition to claims by his driver who said the poet had been “silenced” by the regime. Contreras said the doctor who testified he was with Neruda at the time of his death has changed his story.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/was-pablo-neruda-killed-by-pinochet-8641352.html

[Catherina]

5. It all adds up

Townley, was married to Chilean writer Mariana Callejas,was a militant for 1973 in the ultra-right movement Patria y Libertad (Fatherland and Freedom), which opposed the government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and was an adherent to the cause of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990).

http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2013/06/03/ingestigacion-senala-a-ex-agente-de-la-cia-como-supuesto-asesino-de-neruda-9360.html

[Catherina]

4. Research points to former CIA as a murderer course Neruda

Research points to former CIA as a murderer course Neruda

Pablo Neruda's driver identified the U.S. agent Michael Townley as a suspect in the murder of Chilean poet. In the coming weeks we'll know the names of two other doctors associated with the death of Neruda.


The Chilean poet was murdered by lethal injection (Photo Archive)

The investigation conducted to determine the real causes of the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) suggests that the mysterious doctor who would have inoculated a poison is Michael Townley, former agent of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States ( CIA), already indicted for the deaths of General Carlos Prats and the former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier.

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In that same Santa Maria clinic died former President Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-1970), whose death was attributed to health reasons, until it was discovered in 2006 that he was killed with mustard gas and thallium.

Townley is on trial for the deaths of General Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires (1974) and Letelier, in Washington (1976), as well as the attack on Rome of the former vice president Bernardo Leighton.

For the last decade he's been living in freedom and under the anonymity and a false name given by the American justice system in exchange for his alleged "collaboration".

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http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2013/06/03/ingestigacion-senala-a-ex-agente-de-la-cia-como-supuesto-asesino-de-neruda-9360.html

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But Price did not appear in any of the hospital’s records as a treating doctor and Draper said he never saw him again after the day he left him with Neruda. Moreover Price’s description of a blond, blue eyed, tall man, matches Michael Townley, the CIA double agent who worked with Chilean secret police under Pinochet.

Townley was taken into the U.S. witness protection program after acknowledging having killed prominent Pinochet critics in Washington and Buenos Aires.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/chilean-judge-issues-order-to-investigate-poet-nerudas-alleged-killer/2013/06/01/bd8bf8b6-cb34-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

[Starry Messenger]

6. It's easy to declare victory over socialism when you just murder socialists.

I'm still pretty shocked to think we were complicit in murdering Neruda. I know the US has been up to the neck in horrendous shit in LatAM for decades, but this really crystalizes the absolute contempt and sociopathic single-mindedness.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It would be far easier for people unaware of Operation Condor and organized assassinations

if they had learned about what happened to Chilean former President Eduardo Frei, when HE was in the hospital. Ugly, ugly, underhanded behavior from these slseazy clowns.

Here's a photo of the memorial for General Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, created after they were blown to kingdom come in their car. It's particularly poignant:

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If you want a more vivid illustration of what happens to loyalists to elected leftist Presidents, please take a moment to look at google images for General Carlos Prats. If I posted the images in the forum they would be deleted.

As Octafish has noted in his posts, "Your tax dollars at work."