World IN BRIEF : CHILE : Ex-Police Chief Held in Letelier Murder
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Former secret police chief Manuel Contreras was arrested in Santiago in connection with the 1976 assassination of exiled Socialist leader Orlando Letelier in Washington. Acting on a court order, police also arrested Contreras’ deputy, Pedro Espinoza, who was chief of intelligence operations under former military ruler Augusto Pinochet, Interior Ministry officials said. Contreras and Espinoza are wanted in the United States for masterminding the slaying of Letelier with a car bomb. Letelier was ambassador to the United States during the Marxist government of Salvador Allende and became an exile leader after a coup led by Gen. Pinochet.
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