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====Chile 1974-7====
 
====Chile 1974-7====
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{{Main article|Augusto Pinochet regime (Chile, 1973–90)#Orlando Letelier, Carlos Prat & Bernardo Leighton Cases - the CIA uses Chile as a scapegoat}}
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{{Main article|Orlando Letelier, Carlos Prats & Bernardo Leighton Cases}}
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The U.S. government used the Chileans and the DINA as scapegoats in the Orlando Letelier, Carlos Prat & Bernardo Leighton cases that were perpetrated by the CIA agent Michael Vernon Townley Welch who used more than 15 assumed names, carried out three attacks against Chilean citizens: He assassinated the Prats couple in Buenos Aires; he made a criminal attempt against the Leighton couple in Rome, through the Italian neo-Nazi movement ''Avanguardia Nazionale''; and he assassinated Orlando Letelier and his secretary, Ronnie Moffit, in Washington D.C.
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The U.S. government used the Chileans and the DINA as scapegoats in the Orlando Letelier, Carlos Prat & Bernardo Leighton cases that were perpetrated by the CIA agent Michael Vernon Townley Welch who used more than 15 false names, carried out three attacks against Chilean citizens: He assassinated the Prats couple in Buenos Aires; he made a criminal attempt against the Leighton couple in Rome, through the Italian neo-Nazi movement ''Avanguardia Nazionale''; and he assassinated Orlando Letelier and his secretary, Ronnie Moffit, in Washington D.C.
    
Three attacks in a row, in the first three years of the Military Government, and immediately prior to the Annual meeting of the United Nations in New York.
 
Three attacks in a row, in the first three years of the Military Government, and immediately prior to the Annual meeting of the United Nations in New York.
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