Cover-Up

Abstract

This chapter begins Part Three, “Prosecution,” which chronicles the pursuit of justice in Chile against Manuel Contreras, Pedro Espinoza, and Armando Fernández. US courts previously indicted the three Chileans, and US investigators and diplomats push the Chilean government to try them. The Chilean justice system, nominally independent but under the influence of the military dictatorship, judges the evidence against the three to be insufficient for a trial. Augusto Pinochet takes a direct role in covering up his government’s planning of the assassination.