Chile Finds Huge Guerrilla Arsenal
President Augusto Pinochet announced Monday that security agents have found a Soviet-supplied guerrilla arsenal with enough explosives “to blow away half of Santiago.”
National Information Central, the army-led secret police agency, displayed the arms cache, which it said was uncovered in a building disguised as a fishing warehouse at Carrizal Cove, 409 miles north of Santiago.
It said the cache contained 348 rifles, including a large number of U.S.-designed M-16s, 210,000 rounds of ammunition, a rocket launcher and 30 tons of explosives, including more than a ton of TNT.
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