{"title":"No More Lies Are to Be Told","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter surveys the late 1980s, when Armando Fernández defects to the United States, stands trial, and confirms the story told a decade earlier by Michael Townley. Emboldened by the first indictment of a Chilean military man in US courts, investigators and the families push for the Chilean courts to re-open the Letelier case, which they refuse to do. Back in the United States in 1990, the two Cuban-Americans who had been on the lam since 1979, Virgilio Paz and José Suárez, are caught, tried, and jailed.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"63 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":"126314458","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":"Chilbom","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins Part Two of the book, “Investigation.” “CHILBOM” is the code-name that the Federal Bureau of Investigation gives to the Letelier case, suspecting early that the Chilean government is involved but confirming only after a year and a half of investigation. Eugene Propper is the Assistant US Attorney in charge of the investigation at the Department of Justice, with the FBI assisting.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"121 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":"132941399","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":"Prisoners, Survivors, and Judgment Creditors","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter narrates the fallout from the Townley trial and ends Part Two. Townley and his wife separate after he goes into witness protection. Isabel Letelier continues to seek justice while Michael Moffitt, experiencing post-traumatic stress, largely retreats from the case. In civil courts, the families sue the Chilean government for monetary damages. They win at first and become “judgment creditors,” but their case is then reversed on appeal. Nevertheless, a precedent of compensation is set.","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":"121467999","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 Ghost Who Haunts Our Chile Policy","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter returns to how the diplomacy of US-Chilean relations is hostage to the Letelier case throughout the 1980s. The Ronald Reagan government is far less interested in pushing for justice, but the Democratic-controlled Congress forces the executive to “certify” that Chile is making progress on the Letelier-Moffitt murders before the United States can normalize relations. US diplomats therefore turn against the Pinochet regime. Isabel Letelier and her four sons continue dealing with the fallout of the assassination.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"156 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":"121224093","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":"Fight until the End","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter once again focuses on Isabel Letelier and her activism in the case of her husband, taking the case through the end of the 1980s. With the repression in Chile easing, son Juan Pablo moves there, and so does Isabel years later. As Chileans choose a new democratic government in 1989, the Leteliers and Moffitts see their case for compensation “espoused” by the US government and win a reparations decision worth millions.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"21 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":"123766299","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":"Such a Safe City","authors":"Alan Mcpherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction recounts the day’s events of the car bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington, DC on September 21, 1976. It focuses on the experiences of the surviving family members, especially Michael Moffitt, who was in the car with his wife Ronni Moffitt but lived, and Orlando’s wife Isabel, who rushed to the hospital to find out that Orlando had already died. The story exposes the immediate suspicion that the families had that the Pinochet government was responsible. It also posits the book’s major question: will the families ever enjoy a full measure of justice?","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"81 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":"115860285","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":"I’m Not Going to Any Jail","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the early 1990s judicial pursuit of Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, now both retired yet protected by the military even after the return to democracy. The mysterious “Liliana Walker” is discovered to be a former escort called Mónica Lagos living quietly in Santiago. Lagos confirms the story told years earlier Armando Fernández, which allows the re-opening of the case in Chilean courts. Judicial reforms and the arrival of a new Supreme Court judge, Adolfo Bañados, results in the indictment of Contreras and Espinoza. They are found guilty in 1993, but they appeal.","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":"116117997","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":"Intellectual Authors, 1996–2018","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"This epilogue ties up loose ends by narrating the experiences of all the important participants in the Letelier case: Isabel Letelier and her sons have grown old and beloved; Michael Moffitt remarried and prospered; investigators moved on and remained fond of the case they solved. Some Cuban-Americans served significant sentences, but all have remained popular in their communities. Manuel Contreras died in prison in 2015; Mariana Townley died penniless while her former husband, Michael Tonwley, remained in Witness Protection. Augusto Pinochet died while awaiting trial for human rights violations and can now be safely assessed as not only covering up the crime but ordering the assassination. The epilogue ends with thoughts on the importance of the case for democracy, human rights, the Cold War, and counterterrorism.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"117 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":"124201185","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 Center of Each Other’s World","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the relationship between Isabel and Orlando Letelier before the military coup by Pinochet on September 11, 1973. They met as stdents, fell in love and into politics, and lived in Washington for a decade when Orlando was ambassador. They also raised four boys who were bi-national in their culture. Right before the coup, Orlando returned to Chile as a minister for the socialist government of Salvador Allende. The chapter establishes the depth of the couple’s love, which is tested in later chapters.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"13 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":"131539056","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":"A Rather Unsavory Past","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the biographies of Michael Townley and his wife, Mariana Callejas de Townley. Townley is the American-Chilean electronics expert and a militant anti-communist who becomes politicized during the Salvador Allende years and joins an armed resistance called Fatherland and Freedom. After the Pinochet coup, he becomes a bomb-maker for Contreras’s Directorate of National Intelligence and arranges assassinations for the regime. Through Chief of Operations Pedro Espinoza, Contreras gives Townley the order to assassinate Letelier. His wife Mariana becomes an important aide in his awakening to right-wing politics.","PeriodicalId":332920,"journal":{"name":"Ghosts of Sheridan Circle","volume":"5 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":"126233850","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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