{"title":"Kill the Bitch and You Finish the Spawn","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter tells the story of the coup of September 11, 1973. It is also a biography of coup leader Augusto Pinochet, who pretends to be a loyalist of civilian leaders such as Allende and Letelier, who was minister of Defense on the day of the coup. Pinochet is less gifted than Contreras, but equally ruthless. The coup prompts many of those later associated with Letelier’s assassination into early atrocities against human rights. It also sends Letelier into prison camps for a year.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Events Are Developing at Such a Rapid Pace","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins when the Department of Justice and FBI, led by Eugene Propper, identify Michael Townley and Armando Fernández as having been in the United States during the assassination. This knowledge prompts US investigators to pressure the Chilean government into handing over Townley, an American citizen, for questioning. The Chileans expel him to the United States, where he reveals the conspiracy to kill Letelier. In return for his testimony, Townley is given a light sentence and placed into the Witness Protection Program. Two of the Cubans go into hiding, while three are found guilty but then later acquitted on technicalities. Three Chileans are named in the indictment.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132781644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homicide Squad","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter recounts the days leading to the assassination on September 21, 1976. Michael Townley and the Cuban-Americans follow Letelier’s movements as they suspect one another and hide their tracks. Two other Chileans, Armando Fernández and a woman with the pseudonym of “Liliana Walker,” accompany Townley to New York and Washington. Two Cubans set off the car bomb in Sheridan Circle.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125592170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fear Is Over","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter ends the narrative of the Letelier case with the 1995 decision by the Chilean Supreme Court to ratify the guilty verdict of the lower court in the case of Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza. But several challenges remain in the quest for justice, not the least of which is the resistance of Augusto Pinochet, who remains the head of the Army and threatens the return of the dictatorship if military members are targeted for human rights violations. Espinoza goes to prison willingly, but Contreras resists both legally and physically. By the end of 1995, however, the pressure for him to accept his sentence becomes overwhelming and he submits. The Letelier family expresses relief and joy.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"436 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123198630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Misguided Sense of Patriotism","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter pivots to the biographies of a handful of Cuban-Americans who will help Michael Townley surveil and assassinate Orlando Letelier. The Cuban militants, enemies of the communist revolution in Cuba, coordinate with Chileans against socialists operating outside of Chile and Cuba, using terror as a tactic. Among these Cuban Americans are Guillermo Novo, Ignacio Novo, José Suárez, Alvin Ross, and Virgilio Paz.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121365231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cueca Sola","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Isabel Letelier’s widowhood in the year or so after the assassination, in addition to the experiences of other friends and family members. Letelier and her four teenage boys face daunting challenges of ostracism and destitution. She essentially replaces her husband at the Institute for Policy Studies and, with Michael Moffitt, pressures the Jimmy Carter administration to pursue the investigation into the Pinochet government. These non-state actors will end up having a significant impact on the case.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125691220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stand Up with Me","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes another couple as its subject, Michael Moffitt and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who will both be in Orlando Letelier’s car when it is bombed. Through their biography, the chapter explains the coming-of-age of a new generation of young activists focused on human rights. In the mid-1970s, the Moffitts fall in love, marry, and begin to work with Letelier under the aegis of a Washington think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114727900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letelier Diplomacy","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Part of the Letelier investigation tries to extract cooperation from the Pinochet government, which rejects any responsibility and feigns assistance. US diplomats such as ambassador to Chile George Landau become embroiled in the investigation, confronting an important Cold War ally over a violation of sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130717263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover-Up","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0014","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134326459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Himmler of the Andes","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a pre-coup biography of Manuel Contreras, who, as the leader of the Directorate of National Intelligence, later orders the assassination of Letelier. Contreras hails from the Germanized south of Chile, which has long harboured pro-fascists. He rises through the ranks of the Chilean military as not only a brilliant tactician but also a blood-curdling sociopath obsessed with anti-communism.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131807553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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