“ informs that there is a conclusive document from the CIA that shows Pinochet ordered the murder of my father. Letelier described reading the declassified documents and discovering a memo from George Shultz, who served as secretary of state in the 1980s, to President Ronald Reagan. Letelier’s son, Senator Juan Pablo Letelier, confirmed to the Guardian that he had received copies of the newly released documents, which are understood to include papers from the CIA. Her husband Michael survived but was badly wounded. Ronni Moffitt, an American colleague, was also killed in the blast. Letelier, who had once been Chile’s ambassador to the US, was murdered on 21 September 1976 by a car bomb planted under the driver’s seat of his vehicle just a mile from the White House. He later fled to the US and worked at the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington DC. Orlando Letelier, a former defence and foreign minister under President Salvador Allende, was tortured and incarcerated after Pinochet’s 1973 coup.
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