Pinochet security service chief imprisoned

[emad]

By EDUARDO GALLARDO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

SANTIAGO, Chile -- The chief of the feared security service of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was forcefully arrested at his home Friday and sent to prison with four of his top aides after being convicted in an emblematic human rights case.

Retired Gen. Manuel Contreras, who commanded the security service known as DINA, refused a court order to appear before a judge to be served notice of his 12-year sentence and be sent to jail.

The judge, Alejandro Solis, issued an arrest warrant and sent police to Contreras' suburban home to arrest him. Police did not disclose details on the arrest, but press reports indicated the detectives had trouble subduing the 75-year-old Contreras, and that he even attempted to grab a revolver.

A lawyer for Contreras, Juan Carlos Mann, called that report "absolutely false. Gen. Contreras never took a gun and never opposed a violent resistance."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Chile%20Pinochet%20Agents

[jmcgowanjm]

1. Hah HAh Hah How you feelin' Dr K?

There are more than 200 international warrants for the arrest
of military officials who took part in Condor, but the
U.S. government has remained mum on the issue.
Kissinger has refused to testify in criminal proceedings
related to Condor, and Dinges says that there is ample
evidence of "cooperation, liaison, acquiescence, and
even complicity" between the United States and
Condor.

"With the new indictment of Pinochet, Chile has sent a
message to the world that there is no statute of limitations
on terrorist
crimes."

Remember this Senators -that when you vote to confirm
Alberto Gonzales you will be committing conspiracy
to aid and abet war crimes, and there is no
statute of limitations.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index2.htm

[jmcgowanjm]

2. Please advise

U.S. ambassador to Chile David Popper answered the
Kissinger Condor cable immediately. He has met with the
CIA station chief Stewart Burton and deputy chief of
mission Thomas Boyatt and they have decided that
Pinochet would be "insulted" if the Ambassador raised the
issue of assassinations with him. Popper offers an
alternative: that Burton present the warning to DINA chief
Manuel Contreras. Popper than writes: "Please advise."
(The names of Burton and Contreras are blanked out in
the cable, but have been confirmed in interviews with
former officials.)

Document 7: Santiago 8210, August 24, 1976, Ambassador David Popper to the State Department

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index2.htm

[BuyingThyme]

3. It's time to fry Dr. K for the murder of Charles Horman

Pinochet wouldn't have dared to kill an American without the approval of Kissinger.