LATIN AMERICA BRIEF - CHILE: LETELIER CASE

Created: 10/6/1979

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//CHILE APPARENTLY hill NOT CONTINUE to INVESTIGATELETELIER CASE EVEN THOUGH it EXPECTS CONSIDERABLE NEGATIVE us REACTION. CHILEAN SUPREME COURT POUND THAT NEITHER TMfc us EVIDENCE NORNVESTIGATIONS JUSTIFIEO EXTRADITION of the ACCUSEO, EVEN ATRIAL. FURTHER CIVILIAN COURT ACTION is UNLIKELY. M0NTH-0LD INVESTIGATIONilitary COURT INVOLVING FALSIFICATION of DOCUMENTS BY THE CHILEAN SECURITY AGENCY CONTINUES, THIS COULD EXPAND to INCLUDE HOMICIDE CHARGES/ SHflULO NE* evidence be DEVELOPED. RIVEN This COURT's DESULTORY PAST PERFORMANCE, HOWEVER. VIGOROUS ACTION SECS

//PRESIDENT PINOCHET's REMARKS after the SUPREME court RULING SUGGEST no PLANS to HAVE ANOTHER GOVERNMENT agency take further ACTION. he oepicteo the CASE ASLACKING AND SAID EXTRADITION had been DENIED BECAUSE the ACCUSED "ERE not FOUND GUILT*," PINOCHET