US to Publish Records on Chile 1976 Assassination

Around 1,000 U.S. documents relating to the assassination in Washington of a Chilean politician fleeing the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship have been declassified and will be published Thursday, Chile's foreign minister said. Orlando Letelier, who served as foreign minister under socialist president Salvador Allende, was imprisoned and tortured by the Pinochet government after Allende was deposed in a coup in 1973. He later went into exile in the United States, where he led...

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