Chile Halts Inquiry on American Who Disappeared 31 Years Ago

[Judi Lynn]

2. Older report: COLONIA DIGNIDAD: CASE OF U.S. CITIZEN MISSING IN CHILE HAS STALLED

COLONIA DIGNIDAD: CASE OF U.S. CITIZEN MISSING IN CHILE HAS STALLED

By / February 4th, 2008

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The government of former dictator Augusto Pinochet maintained that Weisfeiler had simply drowned while hiking near Region VIII’s Ñuble River. Still, Olga refused to believe these claims.

Then, in 1987, a Chilean military informant known only as “Daniel” appeared and told U.S. embassy officials that he was a member of a patrol that arrested a foreign hiker two years earlier and concluded he was a Russian spy. According to the informant, Boris was alive and being held in Colonia Dignidad, a secretive colony founded by a known pedophile and former member of Nazi Germany’s air force Paul Schaefer.

Besides ruling his followers with an iron fist, Schafer turned the colony into a torture center used by Pinochet’s secret police force during the 17-year dictatorship. It was not until Chile’s return to democracy in the 1990s that the charitable tax status of his organization was revoked and Schaefer prosecuted for crimes committed in Chile.

Meanwhile, between 1987 and 1997, “Daniel” met with Chilean and American officials on at least eight occasions, all of which have been documented by articles declassified by the U.S. government in 2000. Four of the meetings occurred in the office of Santiago lawyer Máximo Pacheco, during which time “Daniel” said that his life had been threatened.

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