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	Manuel Contreras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born May 4, 1929) was the head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful and feared men in Chile after a military coup headed by Pinochet and other Chilean militaries overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
		The CIA became concerned with Contrera's role in the assassination of former Salvador Allende cabinet member and ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Karpen Moffit in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976.
		Contreras was also convicted by an Argentinean court in connection with the assassination of former Chilean army chief Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires in 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_Contreras (587 words)

	Classical Guitar, Manuel Contreras Guitars. Made in Spain.
		Manuel Contreras, born in Madrid in 1928, entered the guitar making profession from the exalted position of being a much sought after cabinet maker.
		Although Contreras should not be considered as being a luthier opposed to tradition, as his primary model, the 1st Special guitar, is firmly based on the development of the traditionally accepted ideas of construction, his inquisitive character led him to work, from the early 70s, on a number of unusual instruments.
		In the mid 1980s, Contreras thought up the "Sounding Back Support", a design that he developed, already working side by side with his son Manuel Contreras JR, during some years, up to the moment when they definitively incorporated this item to their top line guitars.
	www.staffordguitar.com /shop/contreras.asp (447 words)

	Remember Chile - Pinochet for beginners: Manuel Contreras and the DINA
		MANUEL CONTRERAS AND THE BIRTH OF THE DINA
		Contreras decided to begin his systematic assault with an attack on the far left, the movement with the weakest roots but the largest reputation for courage, conviction, and determination.
		Contreras also had a special interest in the plans being implemented by the government's team of economists, many of whom had received graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and were devotees of Dr. Milton Friedman.
	www.remember-chile.org.uk /beginners/contdina.htm (6473 words)

	Historic Guitar Makers of the Madrid School
		Manuel Narciso González was born in Madrid in 1781.
		Manuel and Juan later moved to Madrid, and they were active at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century in Madrid.
		Manuel Ramirez was born in Alhama de Aragón in the province of Zaragosa in 1864.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/commerce/zavaletas/greene/zmadrid.htm (4107 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Contreras' lawyer said the claims were unfounded, blaming them on Pinochet's old age or his wish to "put the blame on someone who is already down and cannot respond".
		Contreras who has since claimed that Pinochet abandoned all those who did the “dirty work” repressing the regime's opponents, in 1997 presented documents showing that the former dictator was the real DINA chief.
		Contreras arrived at Friday’s meeting in a prison vehicle, since he currently is serving a 12-year sentence for the 1975 disappearance of leftist activist Miguel Angel Sandoval.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6789 (969 words)

	CIA outrages in Chile
		Contreras ran the torture centers in Chile; he ordered the murder and disappearances of hundreds of Chileans.
		Having covered up its relationship to Contreras and the DINA for all these years, including initially keeping it secret from the federal prosecutors investigating the Letelier-Moffitt murders, the CIA now admits that it knew in 1974 that the DINA was involved in "bilateral cooperation.
		Only after the Letelier-Moffitt assassination, the report concedes, did the CIA approach Contreras to discuss Operation Condor-the network of Southern Cone intelligence services he led, which, the CIA already knew, was engaged in acts of murder abroad.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /CIA/CIA_outrages_Chile.html (671 words)

	ABC News: Judge Orders Pinochet to Meet Contreras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The confrontation between Pinochet and retired Gen. Manuel Contreras now serving a 12-year sentence for the 1975 assassination of a dissident was ordered by Judge Victor Montiglio after Pinochet testified last week that Contreras did not inform him of what the secret police were doing.
		Contreras, 75, was the head of Pinochet's secret police, which has been accused of the worst human rights abuses under Pinochet's 1973-90 rule.
		Contreras, who was also sentenced Monday to three years in prison for the 1976 killing of a dissident schoolteacher, faces other criminal charges as well.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1326871 (456 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Central: Questions and Answers about Guitars, Technique, Music, and Players
		Manuel Gonzalez Contreras initially trained as a cabinetmaker before José Ramírez III invited him in 1959 to join his workshop, where he quickly learned the craft of the guitarrero.
		Contreras himself signed the labels of the older 1a or primera Contreras models, indicating that they had met his standards as top-of-the-line guitars.
		Contreras 1a's from the '60s and well into the '80s are usually large-bodied, long-scale instruments with Brazilian rosewood backs and sides and either spruce or red cedar soundboards.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag125/QandA125.html (832 words)

	Los Angeles Times: Chile's Ex-Spy Chief Details 580 Political Killings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Contreras confirmed what many Chileans had long suspected: that the bodies of hundreds of leftist activists, union leaders and officials of the deposed government of Salvador Allende were surreptitiously tossed into the Pacific Ocean.
		Contreras said he began compiling data in 1991 after reading the report of the Rettig Commission, an investigative panel that established that 2,940 people had disappeared or been killed during Pinochet's 1973-90 rule.
		Contreras, who has served more time in prison than any other official from the Pinochet era, gave the document to the judicial authorities investigating his alleged role in the Prats killing and other cases.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news3/latimes76.html (633 words)

	Pinochet Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Contreras has been indicted in Chile for his role in the 1974 disappearance of David Silberman as well as the 1976 kidnapping of the officers of the Communist party; his role in a number of other human rights crimes is currently under investigation in Chile.
		Contreras is also a defendant in the Argentine case of the 1974 car-bomb assassination of Gen. Carlos Prats and his wife Sofia Cuthbert that took place in Buenos Aires.
		The attorney explains, '[Manuel] Contreras is a danger to society and is a paradigmatic figure, a symbol of the horrors of the military dictatorship.
	www.tni.org /pin-watch/watch33.htm (2292 words)

	CIA Had Covert Tie To Letelier Plotter
		The CIA maintained relations with and made a one-time cash payment in the mid-1970s to a top Chilean intelligence official, Manuel Contreras, even though he was considered one of the country's major human rights violators, according to a new CIA report on covert agency operations in Chile.
		CIA documents indicate they paid former Chilean secret police chief Manuel Contreras to be an informant, even though he has a record of human rights violations in Chile.
		Contreras, the head of Pinochet's Directorate of National Intelligence, or DINA, was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in 1978 for masterminding the 1976 car bombing that killed a Chilean diplomat who served in Allende's cabinet, Orlando Letelier, and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt, on Washington's Embassy Row.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/092000-02.htm (840 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Pinochet’s aides long silent loyalty cracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Last November 18 Contreras met face-to-face with Pinochet on orders of Judge Victor Montiglio who is investigating the extent of Operation Colombo, a 1975 cover up operation for the “disappearance” of 119 alleged opponents of the 1973-1990 dictatorship.
		Contreras revealed that another member of the military junta, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh, asked Pinochet to have Bachelet and her mother arrested.
		Contreras is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for the disappearance of Miguel Angel Sandoval and was further convicted twice more for other crimes.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2288/1/13 (491 words)

	Pinochet Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Contreras was indicted by a US Federal Grand Jury in August 1978 for his role in the Letelier-Moffitt murders and was eventually sentenced to a seven-year prison term in Chile for the crime.
		However, Contreras’ assistance in the first quarter of 1975 in gaining the release of some PDC members who had been arrested and mistreated by another Chilean security service offered small hope that he would use his influence to end abuses.
		By April 1975, intelligence reporting showed that Contreras was the principle obstacle to a reasonable human rights policy within the Junta, but an interagency committee directed the CIA to continue its relationship with Contreras.
	www.tni.org /pin-watch/watch26.htm (1775 words)

	ARGENTINA
		In the case of Chile, they include Manuel Contreras and General Pinochet himself, who is wanted for his role in coordinating the operation, as well as for the murder in Buenos Aires of retired army general Carlos Prats.
		Contreras had been released from prison in January after completing a seven-year sentence in Chile for Operation Condor's most notorious crime, the 1976 murder in Washington D.C. of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and his assistant Ronni Moffitt.
		The judge accused Pinochet, Contreras, and Espinoza as instigators and conspirators, the Iturriaga brothers as accessories, and Callejas as co-author of the Prats crime.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/argentina/argen1201-09.htm (1005 words)

	IMPUNITY: Cases (previous investigations)- Víctor Manuel Oropeza Contreras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Víctor Manuel Oropeza Contreras was a controversial journalist who did not depend on journalistic work for his living — he was also a doctor.
		During a later stage of the investigation, in which the case file was sent to México City and then returned to Ciudad Juárez, considerable documentation was lost.
		Víctor Manuel Oropeza Contreras begins a series of columns uncovering corruption and illegal activities in the Federal Judicial Police and the Chihuahua State Judicial Police.
	www.impunidad.com /cases/victor97E.htm (3237 words)

	Human Rights in Chile - The Legacy
		Judge Adolfo Banados sentences former DINA chief Manuel Contreras and former DINA operations chief Pedro Espinoza to seven and six years of prison respectively in the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Moffit.
		Manuel Contreras is sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a Roman court for ordering the 1975 assassination attempt against Bernardo Leighton and his wife Ana Fresno.
		The bill comes three months after DINA chiefs Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza are convicted for the assassination of Orlando Letelier and as the Armed Forces press for guarantees that there will be no more convictions for human rights violations.
	www.chipsites.com /derechos/1995_eng.html (531 words)

	Tornavoz Music
		Manuel Contreras II Manuel Contreras began the study of guitar making while working in the Ramírez workshop in the late 1950s.
		The Contreras workshop is currently run by Manuel Contreras II, who continues to create guitars with the same quality, craftsmanship and innovation passed down to him by his father.
		Entry level of the Contreras II line and one of the best values from the Madrid school.
	www.tornavozmusic.com /?site_url=181 (269 words)

	ABC News: Pinochet's Son Files Defamation Suit
		Manuel Contreras was head of Pinochet's repressive police force from the 1973 coup until 1976, the period encompassing the worst human rights abuses against leftist opponents of the military dictatorship.
		A local newspaper reported Sunday that Contreras claimed in a document that Pinochet's family gained extensive wealth from trafficking cocaine processed at a military facility on the outskirts of Santiago.
		The paper cited Contreras as stating that cocaine was sent to Europe and the United States, and that the earnings went to "various accounts that the Pinochet clan maintained in the old continent and the United States."
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2180485 (448 words)

	CIA Used Chilean Official Known to Be Human Rights Violator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON — The CIA maintained relations with and made a one-time cash payment in the mid-1970s to a top Chilean intelligence official, Manuel Contreras, even though he was considered one of the country's major human rights violators, according to a new CIA report on covert agency operations in Chile, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
		The report says the CIA maintained relations with Contreras from 1974 to 1977, having urged him "from the start" to refrain from human rights abuses.
		Despite those reservations, CIA officers in Chile recommended that "a paid relationship" with Contreras be established to take advantage of "his unique position and access to Pinochet," according to the report.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/9/20/93133 (406 words)

	George H.W. Bush, the CIA & a Case of State Terrorism by Robert Parry
		In a 21-page report to Congress on Sept. 18, the CIA officially acknowledged for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA.
		Contreras told Gilstrap that the most likely killers were communists who wanted to make a martyr out of Letelier.
		The CIA report added that "a one-time payment was given to Contreras" in 1975, a time frame when the CIA was first hearing about Operation Condor, a cross-border program run by South America's military dictatorships to hunt down dissidents living in other countries.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Terrorism/GBush_CIA_StateTerror.html (1760 words)

	Chile court studies blames against Pinochet made by his former chief of spies - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The well documented accusation was submitted by the head of the secret police under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Retired Gen. Manuel Contreras, who is currently serving a 15-year prison term for the assassination of a dissident.
		According to Contreras, the former CIA agent Michael Townley, who has already confessed his participation in the crimes, acted under direct instruction from his superiors in Washington and Pinochet.
		Contreras, his lawyer said, "assumes the responsibility he may have as commander of the security service, but at the same time exempts from responsibility a number of other military officers who were assigned to carry on duties ordered by the military junta" led by Pinochet.
	english.pravda.ru /world/americas/17-05-2005/8251-pinochet-0 (707 words)

	Operation Condor: Deciphering the U.S. Role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The second astonishing piece of recently-released information is the admission by the CIA itself in September 2000 that DINA chief Manuel Contreras was a CIA asset between 1974 and 1977, and that he received an unspecified payment for his services.
		Contreras was sentenced to a prison term in Chile for this crime, and convicted in absentia in Italy for the Leighton attack.
		The question that must be asked is whether Townley and Contreras were acting independently, or as CIA agents in Condor planning and operations.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/general/2001/07condor.htm (2143 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; October 23, 1995
		The long standoff between Contreras and the civilian government was a constant embarrassment to the Christian Democrat leader.
		Contreras, the former head of the military intelligence agency DINA, was once considered the second most powerful person in Chile, after President and Army Commander in Chief Augosto Pinochet.
		Manuel Contreras' recent imprisonment, Oviedo said he accompanied "all those that suffer, and so I also accompany him." Police and Red Cross volunteers present at the pilgrimage reported no injuries, although the 1,800 buses transporting the crowds back to Santiago were diverted because of a fire which destroyed the Chacabuco tunnel, closing the usual route.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h95/chip.19951023.html (2904 words)

	Torturers
		According to Manuel Contreras, she pushed the button on the bomb that finished the Prats couple, this was confirmed by her ex-husband Michael Townley.
		Manuel Contreras is in Punta Peuco prison, constructed especially for him and Espinoza, with sentences of 5 and 7 years.
		Punta Peuco is a modern prison, where Contreras lives in a suite (room and separate bath) and according to reports, has television and computer with internet access.
	www.memoriaviva.com /English/criminals_list.htm (9430 words)

	Chile 11.715
		Juan Manuel Contreras San Martín, Víctor Eduardo Osses Conejeros, and José Alfredo Soto Ruz v.
		On July 6, 1989, the Police Investigations Service detained Víctor Eduardo Osses Conejeros, and, on July 8, 1989, Juan Manuel Contreras San Martín and José Alfredo Soto Ruz, in the course of the criminal proceeding instituted as a result of the homicide of Mrs.
		On March 28, 1994, the court delivered a judgment sentencing José Alfredo Soto Ruz and Juan Manuel Contreras San Martín to 10 years imprisonment for aggravated homicide, and Víctor Eduardo Osses Conejeros to five years imprisonment for the same crime.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/32-02.html (2249 words)

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