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	Orlando Letelier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orlando Letelier del Solar (April 13, 1932–September 21, 1976), was a member of the government of Chile.
		In 1971, Letelier was appointed ambassador to the United States by Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile.
		Orlando Letelier Archive held by the Transnational Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando_Letelier (739 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| FBI renews Pinochet probe
		Orlando Letelier had been the Chilean ambassador in Washington under the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende, which was toppled when General Pinochet led a CIA-backed coup by the country's armed forces in 1973.
		Orlando Letelier was working at a Washington think-tank, the Center for Policy Studies, when right-wing Cuban gangsters detonated a bomb taped under his Chevrolet in a cake tin.
		Orlando Letelier's widow Isabel tells Murder on Embassy Row she has been hopeful the mystery of her husband's death will finally be resolved ever since General Pinochet was arrested in Britain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/552982.stm (1136 words)

	TNI Dossier Orlando Letelier
		The conclusion one should draw is that Letelier played a role in Stevin company's decision to withdraw from Chile, as well as the Dutch politicians who were involved, but the determining force seems to have been the role of the municipalities.
		Letelier spoke at this conference as the representative of the Chilean resistance.
		Letelier's presence and prestige was used in the effort to force the Stevin Group to completely withdraw its Chilean project.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tni/letelier-docs/holland2.htm (1076 words)

	TNI Dossier Orlando Letelier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Letelier is arrested and sent to a camp near the South Pole for political prisoners.
		Orlando Letelier, the minister of defense, one of the last men Allende trusts, is called by Allende from La Moneda, the presidential palace.
		Orlando has already served the Allende government as ambassador to the United States, and, as minister of the interior and foreign affairs, demonstrated his loyalty.
	www.tni.org /letelier-docs/timeline.htm (5019 words)

	AIM Report - October A, 1980
		The Letelier assassination shocked the nation, and it brought forth numerous articles in the press and stories on television, first at the time of the murder, and later when four men were arrested and convicted for the crime.
		Letelier was also in close contact with Juan Gabriel Valdes, who appears to have had a relationship with Rizo similar to that of Letelier's.
		Letelier warned of the need to keep the Cuban connection secret because "you know how these 'liberals' are." Afraid of being linked with Cuba, they might withdraw their support, he said.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1980/10a.html (4624 words)

	[Alternatives] : An Exiled Son of Santiago
		Letelier, his colleague, and her husband, Michael Moffitt, who alone survived the blast, worked at the DC-based Institute for Policy Studies, a respected center that served thousands of civil rights and peace activists.
		Orlando Letelier himself was a complex person, a man called to politics whose soul was that of a poet and musician.
		Faviola Letelier, Orlando’s sister, is lovingly seen by her nephews as the most militant member of the family.
	www.alternatives.ca /article1787.html (4447 words)

	Chilean legislator, activist to give human rights talk (Oct 22, 1999)
		Letelier is the son of Orlando Letelier, the Chilean diplomat who was assassinated in 1976 in a car-bomb attack in Washington, D.C. Orlando Letelier had been Chilean defense minister in the government of President Salvador Allende, which was ousted by General Augusto Pinochet in a bloody military coup in 1973.
		In court hearings last year, Letelier testified that he believed the plot against his father was carried out by a "hit squad" dispatched by the Chilean secret police or DINA, and that there was evidence the DINA was directly under the control of Pinochet.
		Letelier was elected a deputy or member of Chile's parliament in 1990 as a Socialist and has served on numerous legislative committees.
	www.news.wisc.edu /2528.html (366 words)

	Carlos Fuentes essay: "A Victim of Pinochet"
		Orlando Letelier was a cultured, elegant man, of extraordinary attractiveness and a refinement both physical and intellectual.
		Letelier remembers a Pinochet obsequious to the point of being prostrate with servility, always quick to put on Minister Letelier's coat for him, offering to hold his briefcase in the corridor.
		The night of the coup, Orlando Letelier went to his office at the ministry, where a group of soldiers attacked him [lo golpeó, pun; golpear also means "to seize control in a coup"] with kicks and blows.
	www.publica.com /fuentes.html (1523 words)

	Tom Hayden
		Francisco - whose friends called him Pancho - was the son of Orlando Letelier, the Chilean diplomat murdered in Washington DC with his assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by agents of the Pinochet regime in 1976.
		Orlando Letelier was an intellectual, a singer and artist and, reluctantly, a politician and diplomat.
		Orlando Letelier was arrested at the defense ministry and deported to Dawson Island, a frozen enclave hundreds of miles off the southern Chilean coast.
	www.tomhayden.com /chili.htm (4012 words)

	RELEASE: Chilean legislator/activist Letelier to give human rights speech
		Letelier is the son of Orlando Letelier, the Chilean diplomat who was assassinated in 1976 in a car-bomb attack in Washington, D.C. Orlando Letelier had been Chilean defense minister in the government of President Salvador Allende, ousted by General Augusto Pinochet in a bloody military coup in 1973.
		In court hearings last year, Letelier testified that he believed the plot against his father was carried out by a "hit squad" dispatched by the Chilean secret police or DINA, and that there was evidence the DINA was directly under the control of General Pinochet.
		Letelier, an economist, holds degrees from Georgetown University and the Centro de Investigaciones y Docencia Economicas in Mexico.
	www.news.wisc.edu /releases/3198.html (330 words)

	Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 502 F.Supp. 259 (D.D.C., Nov. 5 1980) (narrative account, damages, attorney's fees)
		Also shortly after the Letelier mission, Townley made a telephone call to Paz in the United States, who explained to Townley that the bomb had not been detonated on Monday, September 20, 1976, because of a malfunction and, as a consequence, CNM had removed the bomb from Letelier’s car, fixed it, and then reinstalled it.
		Orlando Letelier was driving, while Ronni Moffitt was in the front passenger seat and Michael Moffitt was in the rear behind his wife.
		He found Letelier still in the driver’s seat, and despite the fact that much of his lower torso was blown away, Letelier’s head was rolling back and forth, his eyes were moving slightly, and he attempted to mutter several things, which were unintelligible.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jksonc/docs/letelier-502FSupp259.html (4077 words)

	Islands in the Clickstream
		Isabel Letelier and I were gathered with others last week for the twentieth reunion of recipients of the Gamaliel Chair in Peace and Justice, an annual speaking opportunity sponsored by the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
		Her husband, Orlando Letelier, served as Ambassador to the United States from Chile under the government of Salvador Allende before being called home to serve in the cabinet.
		When Isabel Letelier was told of her husband’s murder, she gathered her four sons in her arms and made them swear that they would not hate.
	www.spectacle.org /1102/thieme.html (988 words)

	UCLA Latin American Center
		Imprisonment and torture under Augusto Pinochet's rule are things she holds in common with the late Orlando Letelier, a high-ranking official before the coup who, two years after his release from a political prison, was murdered by car bomb in 1976 in Washington, D.C., in an act of international terrorism.
		For all of Letelier's undeniable determination, the picture of human rights work that emerged from her talk was bleak, even Sisyphean.
		Orlando's widow, Isabel Letelier, attended the talk, along with her son Francisco Letelier and grandson Matias, a middle school student in Venice, Calif.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /lac/article.asp?parentid=44215 (833 words)

	GEN. PINOCHET VERSES ATTY. GEN. RENO
		Orlando Letelier served the Marxist regime of Salvador Allende, 1970-1973, as, among other positions, Minister of Defense and Ambassador to the United States.
		Letelier was killed shortly before a planned trip to Cuba and was in possession of a briefcase filled with incriminating documents potentially embarrassing to the American establishment left.
		Letelier’s base of operation was the Institute for Policy Studies and its offshoot, the Transnational Institute.
	www.etherzone.com /2000/mors060800.html (943 words)

	ZNet Commentary: The Assassination Of Danilo Anderson
		Letelier in exile represented elected and recognized government.
		For Pinochet, the illegitimate coup maker, Letelier loomed as commander of a massive exile army, not as a single individual trying to educate Congress and the public about massive human rights violations in Chile.
		After the Letelier assassination, the CIA tried to cover up the hit to protect their illegitimate progeny.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-12/15landau.cfm (1457 words)

	Robert Parry \| Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Earlier in their government careers, when Letelier was briefly defense minister in the leftist government of Salvador Allende, Pinochet had been Letelier's subordinate.
		Letelier was doubly infuriating to Pinochet because Letelier was regarded as a man of intellect and charm, even impressing CIA officers who observed him as "a personable, socially pleasant man" and "a reasonable, mature democrat," according to CIA biographical sketches.
		The informant said the dictator had called Letelier's criticism of the government "unacceptable." The source "believes that the Chilean Government is directly involved in Letelier's death and feels that investigation into the incident will so indicate," the CIA field report said.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/092206M.shtml (3094 words)

	Pacifica.org
		Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his U.S. colleague, Ronni Moffitt in a car bomb on the streets of Washington DC.
		Letelier was a high-ranking government official in Chile under President Salvador Allende.
		Francisco Letelier, his father, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated with U.S. activist Ronni Moffitt, in a car bombing Sept. 21, 1976, on Washington DC's Embassy Row.
	www.pacifica.org /programs/dn/060921.html (775 words)

	Chile - Pinochet & Letelier
		Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by DINA, the secret police organization of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
		Orlando Letelier had been a high-ranking official in the Allende government.
		Pinochet's arrogance—carrying out a terrorist attack in the capital city of his most important ally—must have shocked even his most loyal supporters in the U.S. I was living in Washington, D.C. in 1976 when Orlando Letelier was murdered, so I was able to participate in a hastily organized protest funeral march.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /TXT2/orlandtx.html (1415 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
		They were referring to the horrific killing in broad daylight of Orlando Letelier, former ambassador and minister, and his assistant Ms.
		Letelier enjoyed great prestige; he had held important posts in Salvador Allende’s constitutional government: ambassador to the United States, minister of the interior, minister of international relations, and minister of defense when the putsch occurred.
		Whilst the public, various publications and Letelier’s own collaborators pointed the finger at the Pinochet regime, some unexpected theories — denying that connection — were suddenly published in the press...on the personal orders of George Bush, as was discovered some years later.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/julio02-3/29amist-i.html (1407 words)

	TIME.com: Death of a Dissident -- Oct. 4, 1976 -- Page 1
		A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it.
		Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975.
		But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,918403,00.html (652 words)

	John Quiggin's libels
		These documents exposed Letelier as a KGB agent with extensive links to Cuban and East German officials (read agents) as well as to Politburo and Central Committee members, every one of whom, as Quiggin well knows, was a dedicated democrat that, like Letelier and Allende, loved democracy.
		The briefcase also revealed Letelier’s extensive communications with Beatrice Allende Ona, Allende’s daughter and the wife of Louis Fernandez Ona, one of Castro’s highest-ranking DGI officers, both of whom were living in Havana.
		I put it to Quiggin and other apologists for Letelier that the man’s KGB activities, of which I have only cited a few, are indisputable evidence that far from working to restore democracy to Chile he was in fact working to impose a Castro-like totalitarian state on the Chilean people.
	www.brookesnews.com /041312quiggin2.html (2302 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: World Live Discussion
		Francisco Letelier, son of the slain former Chilean foreign minister, and Chile politics expert Arturo Valenzuela joined us Nov. 25, 1998, to discuss Chilean ex-president Augusto Pinochet and his possible extradition to Spain for human-rights crimes.
		His father Orlando was killed by a car bomb on the streets of Washington D.C. in the 1970s - an event blamed on Pinochet's secret police.
		Pinochet Discussion Guests: In 1992 the Letelier, Moffitt and Karpen families won a civil suit against the chilean Government for the wrongful death of Orlando and Ronnie.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/globalfocus/pinochet112598.htm (3451 words)

	Accuracy In Media - AIM Report
		Letelier's private papers and correspondence exposed a classic operation of a paid, unregistered foreign agent who was using the appealing cause of human rights to promote the victory of an ideology that is totally destructive of human rights, communism.
		We were shocked and disappointed by the almost total unwillingness of the major media to investigate and expose the sordid story contained in the documents in the murdered man's briefcase.
		And we have told how NBC ran a segment on Orlando Letelier in its program "Weekend" on March 5 without saying one word about the revelations of the secret papers, even though NBC had told us only a few days earlier that they were fully aware of the facts revealed by the columnists.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1977/04a.html (4437 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Harboring Terrorists: Our Own List Is Long
		Letelier had served as Chilean Defense Minister under the government of Dr. Salvador Allende until the 1973 US-backed coup overthrew him.
		After the Supreme Court decided that the INS could not hold aliens indefinitely for deportation, these two terrorists -- their actions were not limited to killing Letelier and Moffitt -- began walking the streets along with Michael Townley the bomber in chief for Pinochet's secret police.
		Orlando Bosch who boasted about his role in bombing a Cuban commercial airliner over Barbados with 73 people on board enjoys his Florida retirement thanks to President Bush the first, who welcomed this terrorist into our country from Venezuela where he faced charges for his dastardly deed.
	www.zmag.org /Sustainers/content/2002-06/06landau.cfm (742 words)

	National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
		The press conference took place on the 30th anniversary of the car-bombing assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt on Embassy Row, Washington DC, Sept. 21, and the 30th anniversary of the blowing up of Cuban Airlines flight 455, that killed 73 people on Oct. 6.
		Posada and his accomplice Orlando Bosch are widely known as the architects of the plane bombing.
		Francisco Letelier, whose father, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated with U.S. activist Ronnie Moffitt, in a car bombing Sept. 21, 1976, on Washington DC's Embassy Row.
	www.freethefive.org /sept23pressconference.htm (396 words)

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