DINA intelligence service
also: special secret police
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Claims (25)
DINA assassinated
Cora Prats documented
“The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 36:42
DINA assassinated
Oscar Bonilla documented
“The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 36:42
DINA attempted_assassination_of
Bernardo Leighton documented
“B-O-N-I-L-L-A. Bonilla, along with five other people, died when the helicopter in which they were passengers blew up. On October 6, 1975, the former leader of Chile's Christian Democrat Party, Bernardo Leighton, and his wife, Anna, were att…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:11
DINA assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“shared in circle in Washington, D.C. A moment later, the bomb went off. Lettier's body was torn in two pieces. The blast turned his torso completely around in the sea. Ronnie Moffitt showed no outward signs of injury, but a major artery in …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 38:36
DINA assassinated
Ronnie Moffitt documented
“shared in circle in Washington, D.C. A moment later, the bomb went off. Lettier's body was torn in two pieces. The blast turned his torso completely around in the sea. Ronnie Moffitt showed no outward signs of injury, but a major artery in …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 38:36
Augusto Pinochet created
DINA documented
“They had stopped all shipping. They were blockading. They had naval vessels off the shore. So there's a declaration of emergency that's declared. And then what happens? The CIA immediately calls him a dictatorship because he has to implemen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 34:42
DINA attempted_assassination_of
Anna Leighton documented
“B-O-N-I-L-L-A. Bonilla, along with five other people, died when the helicopter in which they were passengers blew up. On October 6, 1975, the former leader of Chile's Christian Democrat Party, Bernardo Leighton, and his wife, Anna, were att…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:11
DINA assassinated
Carlos Prats documented
“The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 36:42
Paladin Group member_of
DINA documented
“The intelligence apparatus was quick to recognize the value of the PL, and the PL purpose was temporarily used and then eventually disbanded because they all joined the DINA. Its former members were in very high demand, and by 1974, they we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 35:09
DINA ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“while Junta leader Peniche himself, according to U.S. documents, was personally responsible for the assassination. One of these shootings, that of former Chilean Christian Democrat leader Bernardo Leighton and his wife, who was left paralyz…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:52
Michael Townley member_of
DINA documented
“As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:20
Manuel Contreras headed
DINA host_asserted
“National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 32:49
Michael Townley member_of
DINA host_asserted
“feeling that the Nazi apparatus was not defeated in World War II. The key figure for Kondo on behalf of Dina was a man by the name of Michael Vernon Townley, one of the colony's key liaisons with the Chilean intelligence service. Townley ba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 12:35
Dieter Blumenwitz covered_up
DINA host_asserted
“on a new constitution for the dictatorship in Chile. Blumenwitz reportedly visited the colony with Basel a few times. Eventually, he would intervene on behalf of the colony to block Amnesty International from publishing a report that docume…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 44:26
CIA trained
DINA book_quoted
“the author says, shot himself, but he did not. He was murdered. What came next in a military dictatorship that engaged in every form of torture, the CIA helped train Pinochet's secret police, the dreaded DINA, D-I-N-A, and suggested that DI…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 37:14
DINA carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Blood splattered walls all across the world. Before Dina and General Pinochet had finished what they had started, a murder for assassin rampage called Operation Condor, that we're all very familiar with here, blood would spill even on the s…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 33:49
Stefano Delle Chiaie worked_for
DINA host_asserted
“The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 29:19
DINA assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:05:34
Walter Rauff member_of
DINA documented
“Where? In Chile, where he became a top advisor to Dina and Pinochet. You know, where they had the colony of dignity and the terrorist training camps and the child pedophilia. Yeah, he was one of the top advisors as a Nazi to Pinochet, who w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 35:27
DINA carried_out_attack
Assassination of Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“were also part of the CIA. In fact, Klein's knowingly set up a clandestine CIA source for a cell to a terrorist corporation, or excuse me, a terrorist country through this corporation. Furthermore, DINA, which is the Chilean Operation Condo…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 25:08
DINA carried_out_attack
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“Using that equipment at the Dignity Colony would communicate to their counterparts in the other countries that they were there and they would assassinate them. That's basically what they did to the one guy that was in Italy. It's what they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 36:10
DINA carried_out_attack
Dignity Colony host_asserted
“would be tortured by Dina at the colony in the years following the coup. The methods utilized were chilling. In a 1976 Amnesty International report, they charged the colony with maintaining underground prison cells, which, by the way, was c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 25:05
CIA spied_on
DINA host_asserted
“That allowed the CIA and the German BND to read every cable that was sent during Pinochet's government in Chile and in Paraguay. So the CIA not only knew about these fake passports because they were in the middle of making sure that it was …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 49:02
DINA member_of
CIA host_asserted
“National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 32:49
Jim Atkins member_of
DINA host_asserted
“Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 32:29
Mentions (57)
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trained operatives in guerrilla tactics propaganda and assassinations with graduates like lee sing ming supplying weapons for italy's piazza fontana bombing and others advising pinochet's dinna in chile…
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Often, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Chilean DINA, which was the ones that did all the killing in Chile, and you're going to see the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance. Remember, I told you there's a whole bunch of those.…
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Yes. That is our story today. And I'm really glad we got through this because I think it's a story that just had to be told. And I just want to reemphasize again, because this is critically important. If I could, I'd stand up and stop my fe…
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the author says, shot himself, but he did not. He was murdered. What came next in a military dictatorship that engaged in every form of torture, the CIA helped train Pinochet's secret police, the dreaded DINA, D-I-N-A, and suggested that DI…
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were also part of the CIA. In fact, Klein's knowingly set up a clandestine CIA source for a cell to a terrorist corporation, or excuse me, a terrorist country through this corporation. Furthermore, DINA, which is the Chilean Operation Condo…
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National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…
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While in the U.S., Contreras traveled to Miami to meet the Cuban exile leaders and all of the former CIA agents, including Wilson's associate, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez. Tom Clines made some of the arrangements for the Miami meeting. The…
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Blood splattered walls all across the world. Before Dina and General Pinochet had finished what they had started, a murder for assassin rampage called Operation Condor, that we're all very familiar with here, blood would spill even on the s…
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Israeli Mossad, the South Korean CIA, which we already know about the Moonies, and Chile's DINA and the intelligence agencies of several other Latin American dictatorships, including Paraguay, which of course we know where the Bush and the …
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as a result of the meeting that Klein's had arranged in Miami, were Denicio Suarez, and I'm going to spell his name. His first name is D-I-O-N-I-S-I-O, and Suarez, S-U-A-R-E-Z. And the second person was Virgilio Pablo Paz.…
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V-I-R-G-I-L-I-O, middle name Pablo, P-A-B-L-O, last name P-A-Z. According to Wilson and the FBI official Carter Cornick, both men were affiliated with Omega-7, which is an anti-Castro terrorist group, which we've explored on some of our dee…
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And instead of using the words anti-Castro, let's just call it what it is. This is the Cuban exile Gladio group that was embedded in the CIA in the United States. Suarez, in an almost comical event, had once tried to fire a mortar into the …
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guy that was the former ambassador to Allende. So yes, the Cuban exiles, in addition to being involved in the JFK assassination, the overthrow of Nixon, they conducted all kinds of Gladio operations inside the United States. Unfortunately, …
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The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…
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B-O-N-I-L-L-A. Bonilla, along with five other people, died when the helicopter in which they were passengers blew up. On October 6, 1975, the former leader of Chile's Christian Democrat Party, Bernardo Leighton, and his wife, Anna, were att…
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The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…
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ambassador to Washington, Orlando LaDier. LaDier was now in exile and working at the Institute for Policy Studies. On the morning of September 21st, driving to work with two American colleagues, LaDier was behind the steering wheel when Ron…
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shared in circle in Washington, D.C. A moment later, the bomb went off. Lettier's body was torn in two pieces. The blast turned his torso completely around in the sea. Ronnie Moffitt showed no outward signs of injury, but a major artery in …
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The Lettier murder could not have happened at a worse time for Shackley, Clines, and the operations directorate at the CIA. Attorney General Levi's bloodhounds set on the trail of Ambassador Corey were already pressing the CIA to produce do…
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and a handful of ITT executives, because remember they paid Nixon, seemed to be barely moving. The DCI, Bush, all stations message to the CIA during this period, on the surface, urged cooperation, but in reality, there was zero. Levi wrote …
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But weeks passed by with nothing. When answers finally came, Levi and his prosecutors seemed to be faced with a classic case of objection, excuse me, obstruction of justice. But Levi did catch the attention of the Washington establishment. …
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Clifford was one of the two lawyers that helped BCCI buy three banks inside the United States illegally. Washington insider Clark Clifford visited Deputy Attorney General Harold Tyler. He warned him that the indictment of Richard Helms woul…
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Now that the FBI opened an investigation into the Chilean ambassador's bombing and murder, Shackley believed Bush would protect him. Bush's CIA history and personal life were well known in detail by Shackley, and Shackley had continued to u…
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Bush apparently had become a captive of Shackley's and his blackmail. The details of the events preceding the Lettier and Moffitt murders demonstrated how and why. On July 26, 1976, eight weeks before the murders, the U.S. ambassador in Par…
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who, for operational reasons, needed to travel to the United States, but were going to be using Paraguayan documents. In other words, false documents. So the U.S. ambassador in Paraguay got a request from the president in Paraguay that he i…
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Ambassador George Landau considered the request extraordinary. The CIA station chief immediately notified Shackley's office. Did Shackley contact Colonel Contreras at Dena to find out why the Chileans were sneaking operatives into the U.S.?…
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The ambassador complied with the Chilean request because he was assured by the Paraguayan government that the two agents would be meeting with top CIA officials once they got to Washington, D.C. Because Landau was uncomfortable with the ent…
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After he did it? Sure. Landau's cable to the CIA went directly to George Bush, who asked Shackley to review it. Valuable time passed while Shackley sat on it. Finally, on August 4th, Bush cabled Landau that the CIA wanted nothing to do with…
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They even had the Chilean embassy notify the CIA that they had arrived in Washington. In the huge investigation that followed the murders, the CIA argued that it had done nothing to further the suspicion of Dina. But equally, and more to th…
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So this is kind of their modus operandi, if you will. This is the plausible deniability. They know exactly what's going on. They know that Chile is sneaking operatives into the United States because they do it in reverse. They do this exact…
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When, in fact, the Office of Public Safety and people like, you know, although it was a different country, Dan Mederone, but his counterparts in Chile were training the actual terrorists were the national police and the DINA. And any time t…
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The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…
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He wasn't implicated. He did it. That bomb that he placed on that aircraft killed 73 people. Posado had worked for Venezuelan intelligence in Pinochet's Dina. You know, all in the family. He had been condemned to death in absentee in Venezu…
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Secord thought he might get 10 launchers and 20 blowpipes from Chile, the DINA, if Rodriguez could get Salvadoran end-user certificates. Rodriguez turned to North. The White House staffer made appropriate gestures. Bermudez complained of th…
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Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…
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Many of the disappeared ended up at detention centers or interrogation centers like Dignity Colony. And they had established a remarkable working relationship with DINA, D-I-N-A, which is basically the CIA for Chile.…
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That relationship was set up as soon as the DINA, D-I-N-A, was established. It began working with the Dignity Colony like they already knew what was going on there, because they did. That DINA eventually gets replaced with a thing called Ce…
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It basically is doing all the same things. So the go-between between the colony and the DINA, again, this is Chilean intelligence and a colony in Chile. So you would think that the go-between between those two things would not be an America…
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with each other, that they would kill each other's citizens if they tried to escape to that other country. So they had basically like an open border assassination program. So as early as 1974, months after the coup, Townley had been dispatc…
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would be tortured by Dina at the colony in the years following the coup. The methods utilized were chilling. In a 1976 Amnesty International report, they charged the colony with maintaining underground prison cells, which, by the way, was c…
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In one especially disturbing incident, Amnesty International said that dogs had been trained to commit sexual aggression and destroy sexual organs on people of both sexes. It would seem that Dina or someone in the Chilean state or the US CI…
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And oh, by the way, a lot of this was funded by pieces of USAID under the Office of Public Safety, another one of those oxymorons. So whatever they name something in the government, it's exactly the opposite. The Office of Public Safety was…
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dictating that this stuff be done, which of course was a CIA operation. The colony also possessed a massive stockpile of arms, which investigators believe were being sold to the Chilean military during the 1970s. In the underground network,…
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73 deaths, which we've covered before. Besides terrorism, many of the Condor partners were knee-deep in drug trafficking, because of course they were, because that's all part of Operation Gladio. The DINA, which was the special, cruel natio…
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feeling that the Nazi apparatus was not defeated in World War II. The key figure for Kondo on behalf of Dina was a man by the name of Michael Vernon Townley, one of the colony's key liaisons with the Chilean intelligence service. Townley ba…
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that very thing to the DINA. And there's no indication that that initiative was approved or disapproved, but it would have been the perfect place. As I described it before with the, you know, like six or eight foot walls, the Constantine wi…
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on a new constitution for the dictatorship in Chile. Blumenwitz reportedly visited the colony with Basel a few times. Eventually, he would intervene on behalf of the colony to block Amnesty International from publishing a report that docume…
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The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…
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but also from people like Dallashay, who was fairly high up in the network. And of course, they received funding from Strauss, who basically ran one aspect of it. While many of these contacts emerged after the Pinochet coup, it is important…
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So again, you have the special secret police, DINA, who were trained by the CIA, and they're meeting the BND, and you have the colony in the middle of those introductions. The colony clearly had intelligence ties. This also validates claims…
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They had stopped all shipping. They were blockading. They had naval vessels off the shore. So there's a declaration of emergency that's declared. And then what happens? The CIA immediately calls him a dictatorship because he has to implemen…
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The intelligence apparatus was quick to recognize the value of the PL, and the PL purpose was temporarily used and then eventually disbanded because they all joined the DINA. Its former members were in very high demand, and by 1974, they we…
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Hello, we've had ours. He goes on to say then, but torture also became a significant tool in the toolkit. The horrendous methods employed by DINA and other intelligence services in Latin America would become the stuff of legends. Torture, a…
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Where? In Chile, where he became a top advisor to Dina and Pinochet. You know, where they had the colony of dignity and the terrorist training camps and the child pedophilia. Yeah, he was one of the top advisors as a Nazi to Pinochet, who w…
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As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…
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that Borghese did with Guillermo Novo. They decided they liked it so much, they spent a year there working with Pinochet and the DINA and the CIA and the Office of Public Safety under USAID. Bosch himself spoke to New Times reporter Blake F…
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He couldn't go home because the CIA overthrew his country and left him stranded in the United States. And there was a death warrant put out for him by the DINA and Pinochet. He was trapped in the United States and the son of a bitches worke…