U.S THREATENING TO SEVER CHILE RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002000090080-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 80
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U.S. Threatening to Sever Chile Relations
JUAN WILLIAMS ROSE U.S. authorities want to talk to two Chilean secret agents (left and right) about the September 1976 car explosion here which killed Orlando Leteller.
ALEJANDRO ROMERAL JARA I
SANTIAGO PRESSURED TO COOPERATE IN PROBE- OP LETELIER MURDER HERE
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By Jeremiah O'Leary
Washington Star Staff Writer
The United States is prepared to
sever diplomatic relations with Chile
if the Santiago regime refuses to
comply with Washington's formal re-
quest that it make available two al-
leged_ secret police agents for ques-
tioning about their roles in the bomb-
murders of former Ambassador
Orlando Letelier and a companion.
An uncooperative attitude from
Chile toward the U.S. request could
result in the recall of Ambassador
George Landau at the least and in a
rupture of diplomatic relations at
worst, sources aid.
Washington last week asked that
the Chilean Supreme Court to ques-
tion the two alleged agents of DINA,
the secret police organization of the
Santiago military regime. If Santiago
does not comply, informed sources
here said, the United,,States would re-
taliate within about 10 days.
The two Chileans are known to
investigators here only by the false
names they gave when their applica-
tions for diplomatic visas were re-
ceived at the American consulate in
Santiago. They are said by officials
to be members of the Chilean army
and to have used the names "Juan
Williams Rose" and "Alejandro
Romeral Jara."
INVESTIGATORS believe that the
two may have been the persons who
put out the "contract" for the assas-
sination of Letelier, an exiled sup-
porter of the Marxist government of
the late President Salvador Allende.
It is known that they two alleged
agents came to -the United States
three times - in January, August
y .fp o
e
and October 1976 - using Chilean ment to Chi
P lean Supreme Court. Assistant U.S.
passports validated by the United and under seal.
States to certify that they were on The Star has obtained copies of the Attorney Eugene Propper, who is
official business. passport pictures used by "Wil- handling the Letelier case, declined
Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were liams" and "Romeral." Investiga- to comment. The FBI said only that
killed on Sept. 21, 1976, when a tors have been using the pictures in the case is still very active but offi-
powerful bomb went off under the Miami, New York and Washington in cials added no new details to the
driver's seat of the car Letelier was efforts to tie the two Chileans to anti- status of the probe.
driving at Sheridan Circle during Castro Cuban exiles who are sus- Although administration officials
rush hour. petted of having carried out the remain tight-lipped about the details
Photographs of the two men, who actual bombing. of the case developed by investiga-
are prime suspects in the alleged OFFICIAL SOURCES at the State tors, the new squeeze on Chile comes
conspiracy to kill Letelier, were in- and Justice Departments said they against a backdrop of steadily wors-
Abe-
cluded in the formal U.S. request had nothing to add to the covering ening relations i$ethe LETELIER, past year
that was sent by the State Depart- letter sent by Chief U.S. District
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