FBI DOCUMENTS

• FBI Report on the DINA, 21 January 1982
• FBI Operation Condor Cable, 28 September 1976
• FBI Report to Chilean Military on Detainee, 6 June 1975

FBI Report on the DINA, 21 January 1982

This report provides a summary of information taken from prison letters written by Michael Townley, the DINA agent responsible for the assassination of Orlando Letelier. This report includes information not directly provided to the FBI by Townley, but drawn about meetings between Chilean President Pinochet and Italian terrorists and spies, codenames and activities of DINA personnel, collaboration between DINA and anti-Castro Cubans; the creation of a fake terrorist organisation to take the blame for a DINA kidnapping in Argentina; DINA involvement in relations between the UK and Northern Ireland; and Townley's fear that information about kidnappings and assassinations of prominent critics of Pinochet would somehow be traced back to him.

This cable, written by the FBI's attache in Buenos Aires, Robert Scherrer, summarises intelligence information provided by a confidential source abroad about Operation Condor, a South American joint intelligence operation designed to eliminate Marxist terrorist activities in the area. The cable reports that Chile is the center of Operation Condor, and provides information about special teams which travel anywhere in the world ... to carry out sanctions up to assassination against terrorists or supporters of terrorist organisations. Several sections relating to these special teams have been excised. The cable suggests that the assassination of Orlando Letelier may have been carried out as an action of Operation Condor.

FBI Report to Chilean Military on Detainee, 6 June 1975

This letter, one of a number sent by FBI attache Robert Scherrer to Chilean General Ernesto Baeza, provides intelligence obtained through the interrogation of a captured Chilean leftist, Jorge Isaac Fuentes. The document records US collaboration with Chile's security forces, including the promise of surveillance of subjects inside the United States. Fuentes was detained through Operation Condor - a network of Chilean, Argentinian and Paraguayan secret police agency which coordinated tracking, capturing and killing opponents. According to the Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, he was tortured in Paraguay, turned over to the Chilean secret police, and disappeared.