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National Security Archive Update, December 12, 2006
PINOCHET: A Declassified Documentary Obit
Archive Posts Records on former Dictator's Repression, Acts of
Terrorism, U.S. Support
Washington, DC, December 12, 2006 - As Chile prepared to bury
General Augusto Pinochet, the National Security Archive today
posted a selection of declassified U.S. documents that illuminate
the former dictator's record of repression. The documents include
CIA records on Pinochet's role in the Washington D.C. car bombing
that killed former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his
American colleague Ronni Moffitt, Defense Intelligence Agency
biographic reports on Pinochet, and transcripts of meetings in
which Secretary of State Henry Kissinger resisted bringing pressure
on the Chilean military for its human rights atrocities.
"Pinochet's death has denied his victims a final judicial
reckoning," said Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Archive's Chile
Documentation Project. "But the declassified documents do
contribute to the ultimate verdict of history on his
atrocities."
Most of the documents posted today are drawn from a collection of
24,000 declassified records that were released by the Clinton
administration after Pinochet's October, 1998, arrest in London.
Many of them are reproduced in Kornbluh's book, "The Pinochet File:
A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability."
Pinochet died of complications from a heart attack on December 10,
which was, by coincidence, International Human Rights Day.
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