New documents link Kissinger, Bush senior to (Former Chilean Foreign Minister)Letelier assassination

[kpete]

CIA, State Department role in Operation Condor
New documents link Kissinger, Bush senior to Letelier assassination
By Patrick Martin
20 April 2010

Documents released last week by the National Security Archive, which has played a valuable role in uncovering evidence of the crimes of American imperialism in Latin America, provide new details on the role of top US officials in facilitating the assassination of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier.

These documents add to the overwhelming case for the prosecution of then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger, then-CIA director George H. W. Bush and other top officials for their role in these and other murders perpetrated by military juntas allied with and backed by the US government.

The September 21, 1976 murder of Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffitt, was the most spectacular act of international terrorism on US soil up to that time. The two were killed, and Moffitt’s husband Michael wounded, when a bomb detonated underneath their car as they rounded Sheridan Circle in northwest Washington D.C., barely a mile from the White House.

Letelier, who had served as foreign minister and then defense minister in the reformist government of Salvador Allende, was arrested and tortured in the September 11, 1973 military coup lead by General Augusto Pinochet. He was eventually sent into exile, but became a thorn in the side of the Chilean junta because of his political activities abroad, exposing the savagery of the junta’s repression and campaigning for an international boycott.

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[LakeSamish706]

1. Well that ties in nicely with Russ Bakers's book, Family of Secrets! n/t

[truedelphi]

2. Here are some gruesome photos - one of

The Kissinger Meister's mug, and one of the bombed out car:

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003247.html

[glinda]

3. ...and who will be arrested? Nobody. I am fed up.

[GreenStormCloud]

4. Nothing will come of it. N/T