Saul Landau on IPS & the Letelier-Moffitt Assassination

Saul Landau retraces the history of the Letelier-Moffitt assassination. Operatives of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet detonated a car bomb on Sheridan Circle in the heart of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row, killing IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean diplomat, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a development associate. 

IPS Fellow, filmmaker and author Saul Landau retraces the history of the Letelier-Moffitt assassination. On September 21, 1976, operatives of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet detonated a car bomb on Sheridan Circle in the heart of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row, killing IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean diplomat, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a development associate. Landau's own investigation of the murders culminated in the 1980 book, "Assassination on Embassy Row," co-authored by John Dinges.

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