MIL AND CARABINERO LEADERS REACTIONS TO LETELIER ASSASSINATION

Created: 3/20/1978

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C0NSI0ERE0 THE CURRENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE POSSIBLE COMPLICITY OF CHILEAN OFFICIALS IN THE ASSASSINATION OP ORLANDO LETELIER IGHLY SERIOUS MATTER. sskwammty president AUGUSTO PINOCHET THAT PINOCHET OIO NOT KNOB TMEEHIND THE TRAVEL OF TmO INDIVIDUALS TO THE UNITED STATES IN6 ON OFFICIAL CHILEAN PASSPORTS IN THE ALIASES OF JUAN I ROSE AND ALEJANORO JARA mm,

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TOUBLIC CONTACT HI TH PINOCHET TO TME DEGREE POSSIBLE UNTIL 4PJB^^MND OUT MORE ABOUT MUCH "OULD BT THIS INVESTIGATION, 3.

IN ADDITION, SOME CARABINERO COLONELS EXPRESSED THE belief at. THAT GENERAL MANUEL ND THE NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE (OINA)PROBABLY INVOLVEO IN THE LETELIER ASSASSINATION, ANO THMT IF PINOCHET is PROVEN TO HAVE MAO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS PLOT, HE SHOULD BE REPLACED AS PRESIDENT, 5.

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BUT HAS CONFIDENT THAT IT MOULD BE PURSUEDT PROOUCCO "CONCRETE DISCLAIMING KNOHLEDGE OF

OPINION POLLS ALLEGEDLY SMOKING THE PRESIDENT MORE POPULAR THAN THE JUNTA, LEIGH SUGGESTED THAT MITH SUCH BACKING PINOCHET SHOULO ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION PLAN.)

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