Chile sentences three former DINA agents to 15 years for 1976 assassination in Washington D.C.
A Chilean court has sentenced three former members of Pinochet's secret police for the attack that killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in 1976.
Chilean court sentences former DINA agents for attack on Embassy Row
Three former agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet's secret police have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Chilean court, according to democracynow.org, for their involvement in the murder of Ronni Moffitt in Washington D.C. in 1976.
On 21 September of that year, the agents placed a car bomb on Embassy Row—the avenue of embassies, just blocks from the White House—which killed former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and Moffitt, a United States citizen who worked at the Institute for Policy Studies.
The Pinochet regime had the backing of the United States. The attack is considered one of the most serious acts of state terrorism perpetrated on North American soil during the Cold War.
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