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Special Supplement Vol 3, Issue 2 $1.75 COUNTERSp The Magazine For People Who Need To Know Jamaican "Werewolf" Coup Aborted Earthquake Warfare .r She Bugged My Typewriter 1, I By Philip Agee lt(i II 11011,1.1S111 W "Bloody Wednesday" in Bangkok I was born a Ch lean am a Chilean SPECIAL I will die a Chilean. They, the Fascists SUPPLEMENT were born traitors, live as traitors Viet Nam War Atrocities and will be remembered forever CBS Aids as Fascist traitors. Pentagon Cover-Up Leaders of the Junta from left: air force commander General Gustavo Leigh Guzman, Junta President Pinochet, Admiral „lose Toribio Merino Castro, and General Cesar Mendoza Duran, commander of the carabineros (armed police). 8 CounterSpy By the time CIA Director George Bush met with Justice' Chilean Popular Unity Government was an outspoken 'critic Department Officials to, as the Washington Post put it, "Aid , of the present Chilean military Junta which overthrew his the Federal investigation of the -bombing death of former, government on September 11, 1973, almost three years to Chilean-Ambassador Orlando Letelier''', the Covgr7up was in the day they: assassinated him. The Junta had targeted him full gear. Bush knew he couldn't..keep all the strands of the. for a long time through its propaganda machine and through CIA's convoluted web of intrigue from being tom, but , verbal threats made on his life: Letelier became a symbol of official probe could be just a narrow investigation focused unity in, the movement to resist the bloody dictatorship. only on those who,committed the murder. With persuasion, Also killed when an explosive device went off in Letelier's and limited cooperation on his part; the JuStice.pepartment car on September 21, as it rounded Sheiidan Circle 'in , would probably not examine "all the CIA'S "soinces,add Washington's Embassy Row, was Ronni Karpen Moffitt of methods": The odds were favorable for the narrol.:".in-• ' the Institute for Policy Studies: Moffitt was an assistant to vestiption. the Institute's' director and active in Chile solidarity work. ) Confused local police, FBI iiivestigators; and bomb ex- Letelier was an economist and Director of the international perta examined-the bits and pieces, of twisted automobile program of the Institute-the Transnational Institute (TM), .glass and metal Whatelier remained likthe hornb did not explain its composition or the methed...of "detonation:. assassins were . long gone before police could even recon struct the event. Interrogation of bystanders and witnesses, were equally fruitless; conflicting stories are common after crimes of high tension and quick' execution',: ppee methods do; not work. This 4ias atiassinatiOn not, a common murder. " • `'= • ' :.- The professional assassin Can kill anyone; any time at any place and does not hinge )stiecess.)Sois the inethOd of:.. murder but on protectie invisibiliti*, The :objeethia the killing, but the not-gettinglcanglit; The centrates cOnfusiOri, false escape and finally, the • frame-upz Why : assassinations such as those of the Kennedy's and Martin Luther King .have produced more tangled and Specula(ive theory than evidentiary faci, which is likely to be the fate, of this assassination.' . Reportera in the Washington political community heard .... shake Leteliei may have died of a bomb, of his own making„ or : since coming to the US after imPriithiment by the Junta. perhaps that of a jealous lover or political rival in his own:. Moffitt's *husband of three months,: Michael, wai inidred faMily. The whispers from IZetelier's enemies were far , in the blast.' ". • ). , fetched and'abundant.e htrauma'of death in the nation's' • The-leader of the Junta, General Atigusto Pinoehet, had capital was momentous' enough for mass confusion. Bush personally greeted Letelier that daY; three years ago when could plausibly deny involvement of the CIA, allowing :- the tanks and Planes Murdered Chilean democracy. Allende those at the bottom of the murderous hierarchy to be the- was killed by the'tirrie. Pinochit'otlered soldiers to take scapegoat if the whispers and confusion failed.Ilie capital's Letelier from the Ministry of Defense building,at gunPoint. citizens might know in their hearts "that henchrneri of the The Junta imprisoned Letelier at a concentration camp for CIA and its bloodthirsty Chilean client .DINA.(the Direc-_ ' the next year- of his life on the bitterly' cold Dawson cion de Intelligencia Nacional), committed the soul deed Is/and, off Tierra 'del Fuego. But through concerted efforts but the CIA could live with that What the CIA must hide; of his friends andappporters throughout the world, Letelier is the vast web of CIA and Chilean intelligence agents,— was released on September 10, 1974; a year after the coup. foreign dictatorships and their secret police, right-wing Letelier joined other Chilean refugeeeina life of deter- terrorists, media agents, lobbyists and corrupt' overnment mined .resistance against the JUnta. List February, in the officials that, would be exposed by:a ','broad" investigation. course of his Tisll activities, he visited -1-1611ind and spoke The American public must never know that the bloody with the Dockworkers, Federation and the Dutch trade hands that murdered the Chilean- democrat patriot and the.: -unions. After listening to Leteliei, ttley agreed, to ..a total Young American woman with him, are connected:body and boycott on the 'handling, of-Chilean eoMmodities.. After soul, to the secret power of fascism permanently woven talks;with Letelier; the Dutch government offered fmancial into the .frabric of Anierica's liberal democracy and aid for Chilean refugees .in.) 1-.1ollarid and cancelled a $63 foreign poliey. million development credit for the Junta. Leteliei's prestige and leadership qualities :made. him a key,. figure among, Symbol of Unity.' Chilean exiles' from the POpUlar 'Unity ;parties,stthe (Movenient';of the' RevdfittionarY some Chiiistian Orlando Letelier, 44-year-old former Minister of Foreign , Demoerats, • andt'lhe'liberal Catholics. He was i'symbot of Affairs and Defense and Ambassador to the `JS for the Chilean unity. +6. More threati on Leteliet's life began shortly after Con- .. gress passed,. the Kenrie0/Friser 'resolution to cut off military aid to Chile on June 16, 1976: Stiange men would Call Isabel Letelier to ask: "Are you the wife: of Orlando Letelier?": , •: "Yes," Isabel would answer: "NO, you are his widol," the voice on the line would Say: Some of Letelier's mail was mysteriously opined arid ihrOugh friends , the diplomatic' community, he learned that there were high. level discussions in the:Junta over *hether or not to assassinate him. . t. ;Thel-JUnta., viewed him as 'such ihreat that Pinochet personally signed a. decree revoking his Chilean citizenship • on September 10, 1976. .181rLetelier was ;killed by right-wing Cuban gi.isanoi or worms-in the pay of both the CIA and recently DINA: The gushnok'haVe been engaged in a war of terror against the Caribbean countries and'Iatin-America.' ORLANDO BOSCH,leader of the Eta:fano? terrorist group, ' ORLI,.,:recenq :s accused_ ,. GUILLERMO, "and IGNACIO :11,0\0 SAMBOL Of killing Letelier. The gusanoa alsn blow!,up; airplanes,, embassies, fishing boats, airports and carry Out kidnappings in an effort to. overthrow and disrupt the Cuban• government. ',The:CIA' trained the gnianos. The gUsanos2 ariny, after. training, Wasoeganized by' the Chilean gestapo, called DINA. The CIA with D1NA,i organized the r'escalated war against Cuba. Today DINA- is,daclaring its independence from the CIA by 'eari5Ping. out own operations :against Chilean resisters. The CIA-trained DINA-organized gusanot are • Orlando Bosch Connected to the secretpolice, agenciei of several Central and South AMencan right-whig,dictatorships and also to the secret police of ,Yeneinela: Certain operations are Carded in Havana. One of the messages indicated that the CIA was out under CIA.directions; others are unilateraLefforts by planning another attempt On Cattro's life. The message of. DINA or other foreign, Secret ,OOlice agencies. Together the October. 9 read: network is desperatelytryingto cover up its connections by ' Pleaie report as soon as possible any information dealing using its .paramilitary operations and its psychological with Fickl's ittenddrice at the ceremony on the first anni- warfare methods. , • Fgrsaly of the independence of Angola onNovember 11. if What follows is a portrait of-what a broad inVestigition laffIrinative, try ,to find out complete itinerary of Fidel"a m of the CIA's paramilitary and propaganda operations that visit; isi other countries during the same trip. created, trained- and 'suPPOrted DINA would uncover. A Witli.applause from the •CroWil„ Castro said We haVe the • narrow investigation such as the one the CIA is trying to code, the ciphers and all the evidence of the ,veracity of control will cover up these facts. But the,CIA will also have these communications:" Castro also mentioned that the CIA to cover up the fact that the. US government can no longer- agent had bugged the office of Osmany Cienfuegos, secretary control its brutal and vicious Monsters ;like Dr. Frankenstein of the executive committee of the council of ministers, who • when the monster he created from many . dead bodies participates in formulating Cuba's African policy. turned to attack him ,in his own laboratory.. The other message from CIA headqUarters intercepted earlier asked a series of questions about terrorist acts against PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS Cuban property. The message read: • Whaijs the official and private reaction to bomb attacks On October '15', Cuban Prenrier 'Fidel. Castro announced against Cuban offices abroad? What are they going to do to cancellation_ 'of the .1913 anti-hijacking 'agreement with. the avoid and prevent them? Who ,issuspected as responsible? US in retaliation for what he tenneda CIA-bached,"teirorist Will there be retaliations? Campaign" against' Cuba. Castro spoke- at the mass funeral In a barely plausible denial, Henry Kissinger said in rally in Havana for the 57 Cubans.
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