Orlando Letelier

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Person.png Orlando Letelier  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornSergio Orlando Letelier del Solar
1932-04-13
Temuco, Chile
Died1976-09-21 (Age 44)
Sheridan Circle, Washington, DC
NationalityChilean
ParentsOrlando Letelier Ruiz Inés del Solar
Children • Cristián Letelier
• José Letelier
• Francisco Letelier
• Juan Pablo Letelier
SpouseIsabel Margarita Morel
Victim ofassassination
SubpageOrlando Letelier/Assassination

Assassination

The CIA knew of and/or ordered his murder, by car bomb, but the official narrative remains that "the assassination was perpetrated by agents of the Chilean secret police (the DINA), and was one among many carried out as part of Operation Condor."

An FBI investgation lead to the extradition of Michael Townley, a US expatriate who confessed that he had hired five anti-Castro Cuban exiles to booby-trap Letelier's car. According to Jean-Guy Allard, after consultations with the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) leadership, including Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, those chosen to carry out the murder were Cuban-Americans José Dionisio Suárez, Virgilio Paz Romero, Alvin Ross Díaz, and brothers Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll. Suárez and Romero were not extradited.

Virgilio Paz Romero was later captured and pleaded guilty to the murder in 1991.


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