On this day, Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, was assassinated in a car bomb attack in Washington. As an important member of Salvador Allende’s administration, Letelier was one of the first to be arrested, imprisoned and tortured after the Chilean coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in 1973. When international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, the Governor of Venezuela, and the U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger resulted in Letelier’s release in 1974, he took up residence in Washington where he soon became a leading voice in Chilean resistance. In retaliation, Pinochet deprived Letelier of his nationality on 10th September 1976 and subsequently ordered his assassination. The assassination was carried out by agents of the Chilean secret police (DINA), and was one among many carried out as part of ‘Operation Condor’ as has been confirmed by declassified U.S. intelligence documents.
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