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    • DINA chief’s letter asks Pinochet for money to “neutralize” exile leaders. Letter is a false document, but request actually was made.

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July 3, 2025John Dinges Leave a Comment

Pending and Recent Events —September 18, Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Latin American Seminar, dinner and lecture, “Chile’s coup and the deaths of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi: Finally a critical—and definitive– investigation. Dinges will address the quandary he has… Continue Reading →

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Books by John Dinges 2

August 13, 2024John Dinges 1 Comment

Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup (U. California Press 2025) Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning… Continue Reading →

Writing

Assassination on Embassy Row

August 13, 2018John Dinges

Assassination on Embassy Row, by John Dinges and Saul Landau Forbidden Bookshelf 2014 (Updated with Afterword and new introduction) Hardback available used (Pantheon 1980). “A devastating political document that probes all aspects of the Letelier-Moffitt assassinations, interweaving the investigations of… Continue Reading →

Writing

The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press 2004, 2005)

August 13, 2018John Dinges 1 Comment

Updated and expanded edition: Los Años del Cóndor Debate 2021 *The Most Important Revelations in The Condor Years *Documents from John Dinges “Condor” Archive Foreign Affairs suppressed debate about Kissinger and Condor *News about Condor-related court cases in Spain, Italy, France,… Continue Reading →

Writing

Forged DINA document

August 12, 2018John Dinges

KGB Fabrication A “DINA document” that was too good to be true A Document purporting to be letter from Contreras to Pinochet asking for $600,000 for the “neutralization” of exiled opposition leaders. The document, dated September 16, 1975, has an authentic… Continue Reading →

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