Chile leader: Ex-president's death must be solved

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Chile leader: Ex-president's death must be solved
The Associated Press Published: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 10:27 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 10:27 a.m.
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Chile's president vowed Tuesday to help find out what really killed one of his predecessors during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Sebastian Pinera said his Interior Ministry will join and support an independent judicial probe of the 1982 death of Eduardo Frei Montalva, a former president and prominent Pinochet critic who died suspiciously after a routine hernia operation.

Six people, including doctors and former Pinochet spies, were charged in December 2009 with conspiring to poison Frei Montalva.

A secret U.S. Embassy cable published by WikiLeaks Monday predicted that questions about the death will never be fully resolved because evidence was destroyed when the dead president's body was hung from a ladder and drained of fluid, with key organs removed.

The Dec. 11, 2009, cable - an analysis of the case sent to Washington after the charges were filed - also says Pinochet's spies were known to have been developing chemical and biological agents to use against political enemies.

Read more: http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20110208/API/1102081807

[ck4829]

1. Pinochet was developing chemical and biological weapons?

How come there was no Operation Chilean Freedom?

[regnaD kciN]

7. Because Pinochet was "anti-Communist"...

...and, thus, a key cog in our alliance of "freedom fighters" that included the Nicaraguan contras, El Salvador's Aubuisson, Guatamala's Rios Montt, the Marcoses, etc., etc.

:puke:

[Joanne98]

2. Ask the economic hitman.

http://www.johnperkins.org/

[L. Coyote]

3. Deja DU: for context

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

[rabs]

4. Key words: Pinochet, DINA, sarin, Eugenio Berrios, Michael Townley

It is a convoluted tale.

By 1982, Frei Montalva was pressuring the Pinochet government on horrific human rights abuses and for a return to democracy. So he had to go.

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Eugenio Berríos Sagredo (born November 14, 1947 - died in April 1995) was a Chilean biochemist who worked for the DINA intelligence agency. Berríos was charged of Proyecto Andrea in which Pinochet ordered the production of sarin gas, a chemical weapon used by the DINA which does not leave trace and makes the death of the victim similar to a heart attack <1>. Other biochemical weapons produced by Berríos included anthrax and botulism <2>. Berríos also allegedly produced cocaine for Pinochet, who then sold it to Europe and the United States <2>. Wanted by the Chilean authorities for involvement in the Letelier case, he escaped to Uruguay in 1991, at the beginning of the Chilean transition to democracy, and what has been identified as his corpse was found in 1995 near Montevideo.


Known in the DINA under his alias "Hermes", for which he began to work in 1974, Berríos was connected to the creation of the explosive used for Orlando Letelier's car-bombing assassination in Washington DC in 1976 <3>. In April 1976, Berríos recreated sarin, first invented by the Nazis <3>. He was also suspected, along with DINA agent Michael Townley, of the torture and assassination of the Spanish citizen Carmelo Soria.

Questioned in March 2005 by Judge Alejandro Madrid about ex-Chilean Christian Democrat President Eduardo Frei Montalva's death, DINA agent Michael Townley acknowledged links between Colonia Dignidad, led by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer, and DINA on one hand, and the Laboratorio de Guerra Bacteriológica del Ejército (Bacteriological War Army Laboratory) on the other hand. It is suspected that the toxin that killed Frei Montalva in a Santa Maria clinic in 1982 was created there.

Much more from wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Berr%C3%ADos

[Judi Lynn]

5. Many, many of us are very acquainted with the name "Michael Townley," regarding his CIA association!

Michael Vernon Townley was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1942. His father, Vernon Townley, was appointed head of the Ford Motor Company in Chile. As a result, the family moved to Santiago. Vernon Townley, who had developed links with the CIA while working in the Philippines, became involved in politics and helped fund the 1958 presidential campaign of conservative candidate, Jorge Alessandri who narrowly managed to defeat Salvador Allende in the election.

Michael Townley went to work for Investors Overseas Services, the company owned by Bernard Cornfeld and Robert Vesco. In 1961 Townley married Mariana Callejas. Although active in the Socialist Party of Chile, she was actually working as an informer for Chilean military intelligence. Soon afterwards Townley began working for the CIA. He became associated with a Cuban group called the Chicago Junta. This group included Frank Sturgis, Orlando Bosch, Antonio Veciana and Aldo Vera Serafin. According to Peter Dale Scott, this operational hit team was disbanded on 21st November, 1963, the day before John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

In 1967 Townley moved to Miami. According to Donald Freed (Death in Washington: The Murder of Orlando Letelier) Towney was now being sponsored by Frank Sturgis and the Secret Army Organization (SAO). "Townley began an intensive study of electronics and explosives under the tutelage of several former CIA men who were in the process of taking over an electronics operation in the Fort Lauderdale area." One of Townley's tasks was to plant bombs under the cars of people living in Miami.

In 1969 the CIA arranged for Townley to be sent to Chile under the alias of Kenneth W. Enyart. He was accompanied by Aldo Vera Serafin of the SAO. Townley now came under the control of David Atlee Phillips who had been asked to lead a special task force assigned to prevent the election of Salvador Allende as President of Chile. This campaign was unsuccessful and Allende gained power in 1970. He therefore became the first Marxist to gain power in a free democratic election.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/JFKtownleyM.jpg
More:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKtownleyM.htm

Everything about Pinochet, DINA, Nixon's and Kissinger's meddling in the election, and overthrow of Allende, as well as the murders of pro-Allende military officers, staff members, all the torture centers, the arranged national strikes which paralyzed the entire country, control of the Chilean media for anti-Allende propaganda purposes, etc., etc. all implicates the U.S. and the C.I.A. and the unholy use of U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars.

Thanks for introducing another major player in this hellish, long running crime against humanity, "Eugenio Berrios." Will want to hear more about this one, too, after this.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Here's something on Berrios and Townley from a google translation of an article:

http://www.libertaddigital.com.nyud.net:8090/fotos/semanal/subsecciones/berrios1.jpg
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The most surprising (yet none of the above may be surprising for Montesinos) is the relationship that had the National Intelligence Service (SIN) of Montesinos with former officers and employees of the DINA (National Intelligence Directorate) of Pinochet. These, as stated above, developed sarin (a deadly gas that emerged in Nazi Germany and was used for an attack in Tokyo in 1995) with the help of Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berrios Sagredo, apparently with the aim of using it in the case of a war against Peru and Argentina and also in the framework of Operation Condor. The program of development of this gas and other chemical weapons was called Project Andrea.

According to experts consulted by The Republic , the victim exposed to sarin died suddenly of a cardiac arrest can be attributed to a heart condition or suffocation. Therefore, the use of this gas in an attack can only be tested by people involved in the murder. Even the existence of this project has been confirmed, according to The Republic , by former CIA agent Michael Townley, who offered his house in the Chilean capital for Berrios worked on refining the substance. Townley now lives in the United States under the witness protection program to testify about the murder, car bombing of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington committed in 1976. In his statement, Townley said the plan was to assassinate him sprayed sarin gas on his pillow, which was not possible. After Pinochet's departure from power, Berrios Chile escaped just as he was subpoenaed to testify about the death of Letelier, probably helped by DINA agents in order to silence him. In fact, during his self-imposed exile in Uruguay was protected by these and by Uruguayan agents, but found murdered in 1993, found by fishermen in the area.

The possible relationship with Peruvian military Berrios (and therefore with Montesinos) could be discussed if not for statements by both a drug trafficker in prison in Lima as the Berrios family's lawyer, Thomas Ehrenfeld. This, in an interview with The Republic , said that shortly before traveling to Uruguay, Berrios was visited by some unidentified persons while 'it is said that they were Peruvian generals who offered him much money to go to work with them. He offered to pay for his services in Peru, to develop the sarin gas. " This has also been ratified by a witness at the trial that followed in the 6th Criminal Court of Santiago de Chile, in whose offices, according to counsel, are stored in a safe statements about the contacts of Berrios with Peruvian military.

As an example of the magnitude that could have had this kind of practice, some time ago, many Chilean newspapers reported the suspect was taken into the death of former president Eduardo Frei (who ruled Chile from 1964 to 1970 and father of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle) in January 1982. Already at the time suspected it might have been killed but not sarin gas, but with another bacterial agent. In November 1981, was admitted to a clinic to undergo surgery for a herniated stomach. Although the operation was a success, days later he was diagnosed with an infection by a strange virus, later identified as the proteus Providence , against which there were no drugs.

True or not, it seems that all versions suggest that Berrios knew much more than necessary. His assassination in Uruguay was never resolved (although seven officers accused of the Chilean Army) and is likely to be carried to the grave many state secrets that could help solve numerous murders, both inside and outside Chile. Also, contacts between Berrios and INS are almost certain, hence it plausible to use by Peruvian intelligence between 1990 and 2000 lethal gas in unexplained deaths. It is not just from the death of Gustavo Mohme Llona, but also many others. From now on, all these should be clarified and this is not only Peru but also effective investigations require the participation of former soldiers and policemen who participated in the crimes. By the way, and Montesinos, "talk?

http://www.libertaddigital.com/otros/revista/articulos/12453924.htm