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DINA and,
20
,
68
,
73–81
,
126
,
130

European intelligence actions to prevent,
74–75
,
81
,
130

first plot,
72–75

González investigation of,
233–35

investigation of,
73
,
233–35
,
244

Townley and,
63
,
73–81

Propper, Eugene,
195

PRT (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores),
50
.
See also
ERP

PRTB (
Partido Revolutionario de Trabajadores de Bolivia
),
84
,
151

PVP (
Partido para Victoria del Pueblo
)

investigation of Condor operations against,
243–44
,
246

operations against,
149–50
,
210–13

and OPR33 (armed wing),
149
,
211
,
213

Al Qaeda,
5

Ramírez Sánchez, Ilich (Carlos the Jackal),
93–95
,
220–21
,
243

Rawson, Jorge Osvaldo.
See
Riveiro, José Osvaldo

Rettig Report (Chile’s National Commission of Truth and Reconciliation),
25
,
91

revolutionary left,
18–19
,
41–44
,
49–60

Argentinian refuge,
49–50

armed struggle and,
42–43
,
52–60

Che and,
18
,
42
,
52–53

Cuba and,
18
,
56–57
,
207–8

early attempts to avert Pinochet coup,
43–44

early underground networks,
45

formal alliance as JCR,
50–60
(
see also
JCR
)

Pinochet’s counterrevolution against,
42–45

reactions to Pinochet coup,
42–43
,
45
,
49–60

and spirit of revolution,
18–19
,
41–42
,
52–53
,
86–87

See also
ELN (
Ejército de Liberación Nacional
)
;
ERP (
Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
)
;
JCR (Revolutionary Coordinating Junta)
;
MIR (
Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria
)
;
Montoneros
;
Tupamaros

Rivas Vásquez, Rafael,
105
,
106

Rockefeller, Nelson,
203
,
204

Rogers, William,
251

Ruiz-Tagle, Eduardo Frei,
37

Russell Tribunal (Belgium),
119

Rutila, Graciela,
152–53

Ryan, Hewson,
8
,
170
,
175
,
181
,
197–98

Sábato, Ernesto,
232

Sábato commission,
206
,
232

Salvi, Giovanni,
132
,
236
,
241–42
,
243

Samuelson, Victor,
57–58
,
115
,
137
,
146

Sánchez, Rubén,
51
,
98
,
150–52

Sanchez Reisse, Leandro,
224

Santucho, Amílcar

capture of,
88–89
,
141

interrogation of,
97–98
,
238
,
240

and JCR mission to Paraguay,
87–89

See also
Fuentes-Santucho case

Santucho, Mario Roberto Carlos the Jackal and,
93–94

DINA/Battalion 601 targeting of,
141–42

JCR-ERP and,
50
,
51
,
54
,
58
,
60
,
82
,
84
,
137
,
205

and Tucumán Province offensive,
60
,
83
,
85

Scherrer, Robert

cable about U.S. knowledge of Condor Phase Three,
26
,
194–95

and Condor data bank,
121

and Contreras,
66

and Cuba-JCR link at Orletti prison,
208–9

and FBI handling of Fuentes-Santucho case,
90

and FBI knowledge of Condor assassination plans in Europe,
219

on Fuentes-Santucho case and Carlos the Jackal,
93–95

Letelier assassination and,
194–95
,
221
,
232

Prats assassination and,
78

Torres assassination and,
154

Schneider, René

assassination of,
3
,
20
,
73
,
157

kidnapping of,
157

Prats and,
72

School of the Americas,
122

Scowcroft, Brent,
104

Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
69–70

Senate Report on Activities of Certain Foreign Intelligence Agencies,
222

Servini de Cubría, María,
73
,
244

Shawcross, Hartley,
23

Shlaudeman, Harry,
170–74
,
251

first cable to regional ambassadors,
168–69

report to Kissinger on Condor assassination plans,
171–74
,
179

and Kissinger cable,
182–83
,
188–89
,
197

second cable to regional ambassadors (to take no further action),
189–90
,
196

third cable to regional ambassadors (reinstating canceled order),
196–98

and Hill’s cable,
204–5

and Koch assassination threat,
216
,
218

and Letelier assassination plot,
179–80
,
181–82
,
197

and U.S. policy toward Pinochet regime,
61–62

SID (
Servicio de Inteligencia de Defensa
),
117
,
210–13

SIDE (
Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado
),
74
,
78
,
112
,
116
,
178
,
206
,
208
,
219
,
224

SIE (
Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército
),
110–11
,
117
,
139–40
,
152
,
194
.
See also
Intelligence Battalion 601 (SIE)

Siracusa, Ernest,
10
,
169
,
188
,
189
,
215–17

Sivak, Martín,
152

SNI (Brazil’s intelligence service),
66
,
101

Spanish prosecution of Latin American military criminals,
24–36

Argentinian cases,
24–26
,
32–33

Garcés and,
24–30
,
32–33

García-Castellón and,
29
,
30
,
32

Garzón and,
25
,
32
,
33–35

impunity argument and,
26–27

and universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity,
27
,
32
,
34
,
36–37

U.S. cooperation in,
28–30

See also
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto, legal pursuit of and arrest of

Stamponi, Luis,
151
,
152

Stapleton, Samuel,
80

Stasi,
74
,
130

State Department, U.S.

and Canicoba investigation of Condor,
249

CIA and,
181–82

and Condor assassination plans,
6–7
,
8–9
,
165
,
167
,
169–71
,
179–81
,
221–22
,
251

INR office,
167
,
168
,
170

Kissinger cable and,
6–7
,
8
,
182–88
,
251

and Kissinger policy toward Pinochet government,
157–58

knowledge of Condor,
5
,
6–7
,
8–9
,
169–71
,
179–80
,
221–22

Koch assassination plot and,
215–16

Letelier assassination plot and,
28
,
179–80

Pinochet’s arrest and,
38–39

See also
Kissinger, Henry

Stedman, William P.,
153
,
187

Stout, Charles,
185

Stroessner, Alfredo

Almada investigation and,
237–38

and coup,
236

in exile,
238

imprisonment and interrogation of enemies,
96
,
97
,
225

Landau’s meeting with,
188

plot to assassinate,
19
,
84–85
,
96
,
237–38

Stulman, Jacobo,
226

Stulman, Matilde,
226

Suárez, Dionisio,
190–91

Sun, Margaret,
92

Swissair,
58

Taub, Benjamin,
115
,
146

Teitelboim, Volodia,
128–29

Teruggi, Frank,
30
,
247

Thatcher, Margaret,
12
,
31

Third International,
51–52

Thonon, Sophie,
243

Timerman, Jacobo,
138

Tobar Aviles, Homero,
210
.
See also
“Mauro” (Orletti prisoner)

Toronto Star
,
30

Torres, Juan José

assassination of,
153
,
154–55
,
165–66
,
201

and Bolivian left,
42
,
51
,
84
,
150–52

and JCR organizing in Argentina,
150–52

planned uprising to return to power,
150–52

PRTB and,
84
,
151

torture

of Almada,
237
,
238

as Condor Phase Two operations,
14
,
30

Coronel and,
96–97
,
237
,
238

DINA methods,
65
,
99
,
100

of Fuentes and Santucho,
97

and Orletti prison,
206

in Paraguayan jails,
96–97

rates of victims of,
100

U.S. concerns about,
65

victims talking under,
99–100

at Villa Grimaldi,
100

Townley, Mariana,
76
,
77
,
129
,
221

Townley, Michael Vernon

and Carlos the Jackal,
220–21

on Contreras,
126–27

DINA and,
75–76
,
78–79
,
126–34
,
219–22

and DINA/Condor operations in Europe,
126–27
,
128–29
,
130–34
,
219
,
220–21
,
222

and DINA-Cuba link,
208–9

Leighton assassination plot and,
131–32
,
175

Letelier assassination and,
30
,
73
,
175
,
177–79
,
190–91

personal characteristics and story,
73

Prats assassination and,
63
,
73–81

and Salvi’s investigation of DINA,
242

Trabal, Ramón,
153–54
,
229

Trimarchi, Miguel Angel,
148–49

Triple A (Argentinian death squad),
74
,
79
,
111
,
138

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