Orlando Letelier and the FBI’s Secret Map of Condor Assassins
A 1976 cable describes "special teams" that killed a diplomat on US soil, with the most damning operational details still blacked out after decades of secrecy.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Orlando Letelier
Orlando Letelier and the Senate’s Secret Map of South American Killers
The FBI and CIA tracked a network of death squads across the Southern Cone for years, but a Top Secret Senate report on the slaughter was suppressed until a leak brought it to light.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Pinochet and the 'Good Soldier' Who Wanted to Betray the Secret Police
Kept under Top Secret/Eyes Only markings for decades, a Roger Channel cable describes a ten-hour interview with an assassin the U.S. deemed credible but never prosecuted
By Theo Marchetti ·
Pinochet and the 'Extremely Difficult' Cost of Stability
Kept secret for decades, a memorandum shows how the Reagan administration treated a political assassination on US soil as a mere diplomatic friction point to be managed
By Desmond Okafor ·
Pinochet and the 11-Year Silence on the Letelier Murders
A 1987 memo marked SECRET/NODIS shows the CIA kept President Reagan in the dark about the dictator who bombed Washington, while the State Department scrambled to shift the liability.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Michael Townley and the 33-Year Silence on a DINA Hit
Two people died in a Washington car bomb, and the American who helped build it wrote a critique of the failure that the US government kept secret until 2015
By Theo Marchetti ·
George Shultz and the 1987 Pivot on Pinochet
A secret memorandum kept from view for decades shows how the State Department used a defector's testimony to force Reagan to stop backing a dictator who bombed Washington
By Theo Marchetti ·
Pinochet and the 1987 Evidence of a Washington Murder
Kept secret for over a decade, a memo shows the State Department using CIA evidence of a capital city assassination to force Ronald Reagan to abandon a Chilean dictator.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Fernandez Larios and the State Department's Price for Silence
An indicted assassin in the Letelier case was offered a plea bargain despite failing polygraphs, while the State Department kept the 'substantial' reward for his silence secret for decades.
By Theo Marchetti ·