CHILE GIVES FREE REIN TO SECRET POLICE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: May 12, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK TIMES 12 lr1AY 1976
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Chile `fives Free Rein to Secret Police
I u;dia, unversities and govern- The secret police apparatu
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SANTIAGO, Chile, May 5- government, in the view of
Last week President Augusta human-rights lawyers ahd con-
After 20 military in power
C Pinochet Ugarte unveiled a new cerned clergymen. There are
Chile's junta shows Series of rules to prevent "abu- five intelligence services, with
few sirens of dismantling the ses of power that the Govern- one or two of then) rapidly
vast apparatus of political re- anent has never approved." gaining rnore'power than the
rest. network of inforers ression the 'M created
c led I to '.'extirpate They; call for the punishrnent has expo lded t i-Oul-ho tnlthe
of torturers and require that,shantytowns, factoncs, schools
The military tool: over when new detainees be released with-
t.1e country,was bitterly polar- in five days or turned over and universities. Applicants to
ized between an anti-Marxist to the courts. Intelligence servi- public agencies are often
rby . the alltelligance
majority and a leftist minority, ces must inform a detainee's services.
and rapidly drifting toward eco- dearest relatives within 48 The agents are able to ignore
norms chaos and a possible civil f;ours'of his arrest.. standards of conduct set by
war, But from its beginning the, Thi&. junta's domestic critics the Government for other offi-
linnta has chosen to treat the) remain) skeptical because scores cials and ordinary citizens. Oc-
lfollowe-s of the late President; are still arrested every weekcasionally, an intelligence offi-
ealvador Allende Gassers as a, and allegations of torture con- cial'.s eccentric reputation
vanquis'ied enemy capable at,l tinue to make their way into spreads beyond the confines
On ic.records. of clandestine interrogation
any time of easing a strong 1),V
_ iIarch 19 Luis Guillermo centers.
terrnrist threat. Nunez, one of Chile's best- This is -true of Conidr. Edgar
T known painters, was invited Ceballos, a leader of air force
According to Government es? to exhibit a st~l'ies of his works intelligence, a burly man in
itiniates more than .41,000 at thd. French-Chilean Institute his early forties who has repor-
people -- one of every 250 of Culture. About 500 people tedly often taken a personal
Chileans-have been detained turned up at the opening exhi hand in torture.
at least tr~mporarily for politi- bit of. his abstracts, oil such "6Vith leftist military officers
who were detained he was,a
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Were planning to overthrow~lex was allegedlya mernberlby her son in an appeal toition with the purpose of pro-
-1r. Afie:ide's Marxist regime, of an extreme left-wing group.;a Santiago court for a writ ducing the intelligence necessa-
Coniniander Ceba'los succeeded Civilians hart by I ivalry of ha ,e:is corpus, :i com- ry to fornlu.late policies, pian-
I`I` in o-, aimrg -'forlr. 'herd it The intelligence rivalry 'has,plain?e_I that despite his effortslning and the adoption of rnea-
'relativel, lig+it 1.>-,year sea-,occasionally enveloped civiliansito locate his mother throughisures to assure national securi
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t,nct which he has been sere-ib yond suspicion of l:ftist acti-Government and military than-ty and the development of the
i g as a sort of personal secre-Ivities. ~nefs, he had been unable to country."
tary for the commander. On April 8 Elena Abalos;obtain any information. The same decree gives the
Another protege is Adolfo Formes, a businesswoman, sat Broad Mandate Given agency unlimited access to "the
Puz, a Socialist who led a in her living room negotiating DIVA is led by an army resources that are necessary
bazooka attack against a police with an, officer to rent an apart- colonel, Manual Contreras, and for its financing" and allows
bus during the coup. One of,with an officer to rent. an apart- most of its'egents, estiniatadlit cluty-free imports of equip?
t!:. few incidents of resistance,;rnent to air force intgencellit 1,000, are array intelligencement and accessories, p'-
file attack killed more than for an interrogation' center. Iofficers and enlisted men, butlmably for interrogation and ice.:
a dozen policemen. . Two men in civilian clothes?it includes members of ethervestigation,
`,.r. Puz has not yet been!lniockecl on her door, identified1rnilitary and pr ice branches Its agents almost always
sentenced; Commander Cebai-ithenlseIves as mc:nbers of as well as a growing number wear civilian clothes, rarely
acs convinced the militarylDlNA and announced that they'of women. display identification docu..
courts to try him on violation had come to arrest her. Wheal The decree creating the agen- Inents and drive in unmarke-
of the arms control law, a the air force officer and Mrs.!cy at. the beginning of. 19741cars or refrigerated meat true:
far lesser charge than he could Abalos Formes protested that'{ gave it a mandate broad l imported by the Allenr_ba
have exo cted. she was a stanch supporter enourrh to grow into a full-IGovernment's Public D e'c
T.ast month air force secvritvlof the, junta. one of the a[rent.' lf7ednecl secret police force,jment Corporation. Its i_iLerrt_~
ofticers under Conirnrznner Cc- said: ''I will give you iu lion-Itheoretically responsible only'gation centers include array
ballos secretly spirited TornAslcites to get ready and come to the junta. garrisons as well as former
Gonzalez Reese to sanctuary with me. If you do not I am` The decree states that theiprivate properties, the best
in the Papal Nuncio's diploma-;going to get you out of heralrr;is inrl is "to ga.tf er alt, infcrr-;kno.vn of which is 1'illa Grimsl-
IItrc residence rather 'ihan turd with my fists." lrlatirat at a national level froni!di, a on -time discotheque on
him over to DINA. Mr. GonzA-I The incident was recountedithe various theaters of. opera-(the outskirts of Santiago.
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