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==FBI Investigation==
 
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[[image:Romero wanted 1978.jpg|left|400px|thumbnail|A 1978 wanted poster for [[Virgilio Paz Romero]]in connection with the murder. He later served 6 years after pleading guilty of Letelier's murder]]  
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An [[FBI]] investigation lead to the extradition of [[Michael Townley]], a US expatriate who confessed that he had hired five anti-Castro Cuban exiles (from [[Operation 40]]?{{cn}}) 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 Novo Sampoll|Guillermo]] and [[Ignacio Novo Sampoll]]. Suárez and Romero were not extradited.
 
An [[FBI]] investigation lead to the extradition of [[Michael Townley]], a US expatriate who confessed that he had hired five anti-Castro Cuban exiles (from [[Operation 40]]?{{cn}}) 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 Novo Sampoll|Guillermo]] and [[Ignacio Novo Sampoll]]. Suárez and Romero were not extradited.
  
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Revision as of 19:54, 17 August 2017

Event.png Orlando Letelier/Assassination (Assassination) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Orlando Letelier Assassination.jpg
DateSeptember 21, 1976
LocationWashington,  D.C.
Blamed onDINA
Typecar bombing
Deaths2
Injured (non-fatal)1
Interest ofJohn Dinges, Donald Freed

Orlando Letelier was killed by a car bomb , together with his assistant Ronni Moffitt at 9:30 a.m. on September 21, 1976 in Embassy Row of Washington, D.C.. Moffitt's husband of 4 months, Michael was in the rear of the car and was injured.[1]

Perpetrators

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."

FBI Investigation

A 1978 wanted poster for Virgilio Paz Romero in connection with the murder. He later served 6 years after pleading guilty of Letelier's murder

An FBI investigation lead to the extradition of Michael Townley, a US expatriate who confessed that he had hired five anti-Castro Cuban exiles (from Operation 40?[citation needed]) 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.


 

The Official Culprit

NameDescription
DINAThe secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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