Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt - Two Pro-Democracy Activists murdered right in Washington DC

[ck4829]

By agents of the Pinochet Regime. The question we should be asking ourselves:

Does our nation's Right Wing Elite play any part in it and did they try to cover it up?

"On 18th September, 1976, Orlando Letelier, who served as foreign minister under Salvador Allende, was traveling to work at the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington when a bomb was ignited under his car. Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, a 25 year old woman who was campaigning for democracy in Chile, both died of their injuries."

Here is what happened in the aftermath:

"He (George H.W. Bush) leaked a story to members of Operation Mockingbird that attempted to cover-up the role that the CIA and DINA had played in the killings. Jeremiah O'Leary in the Washington Star (8th October, 1976) wrote: "The right-wing Chilean junta had nothing to gain and everything to lose by the assassination of a peaceful and popular socialist leader." Newsweek added: "The CIA has concluded that the Chilean secret police was not involved." (11th October).

William F. Buckley also took part in this disinformation campaign and on 25th October wrote: "U.S. investigators think it unlikely that Chile would risk with an action of this kind the respect it has won with great difficulty during the past year in many Western countries, which before were hostile to its policies." According to Donald Freed Buckley had been providing disinformation for the General Augusto Pinochet government since October 1974. He also unearthed information that William Buckley's brother, James Buckley, met with Michael Townley and Guillermo Novo in New York City just a week before Orlando Letelier was assassinated."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKtownleyM.htm

I have a question for everybody:

Does the Right Wing Leadership, screaming for some perverted version of Democracy to be exported all around the world, actually have the blood of Pro-Democracy Activists on their hands?

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. Well, that would be a first, wouldn't it?

[Penndems]

2. I remember when this occurred back in 1976

Their car blew about halfway around either Ward or Sheridan Circle in northwest D.C., as I recall. Horrible, horrible tragedy. There is a memorial plaque marking the spot where they were assassinated.

If there was some nefarious right-wing involvement, I wouldn't be shocked. Nothing surprises me anymore.

[jaksavage]

3. Duh

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