Chilean court convicts three men in 1976 Washington DC car bomb attack

The three who were convicted were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police which hunted down opponents at home and abroad Fifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet’s secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a Santiago court has convicted three former agents of Moffitt’s murder. Judge Paola Plaza, a special minister for human rights in Ch...

By John Bartlett in Santiago