WCOMMENT: ON4 GENERAL CARLOS PRATS, FORMER COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CHILEAN ARMY, MAS ASSASSINATED BY UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS IN BUENOS AIRES, NHMiP PRATS HAD BEEN IN EXILE SINCE THE OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT Of SALVADOR ON 3 .) ACCORDING I fl)
4 CARLOS PRATS TO RE THE WORK OF CHILEANS.,
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NO IMPORTANCE ON THE ARGENTINE POLITICAL SCENE.
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in WHICH SUCH TERRORIST ACTS. areCENTrNE GROUPS. IN ADDITION, NO GROUP has taken CREDIT for the ASSASSINATION, WHICH IS UNLIKE ARGENTINE 'EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS, and prats had
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general prats in late september and that prats had toldat he hadhone callhiliano to assumf. as argentine accent. the caller warned pratseam was priipatlm to assassinate him, the caller adding that he opposed theaccording to prats, the caller suggested thatpress conference to announce this threat, explaining that till!would likely cause the team tc cancel the assassination attiimpt.he caller also suggested that prats should carry out his pi.anni'u trip 3
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A TRIP BUT THAT HE HAD USED ALLEGED TRAVEL TO BRAZIL AS ACHILEAN CONSUL GENERAL ALVARO DROCUETT TO OBTAIN
INSISTS THAT PRATS WAS NOT POLITICALLY ACTIVE INRIS. HOWCVER, PRATS HAD NEARLY COMPLLTED HIS MEMOIRS WHICH STRONGLY CONDEMNED MANY NON-POPULAR UNITY POLITICIANS AND MILITARY OFFICERS. AFTER PRATS' ASSASSINATION, HIS DAUGHTER TOOK THE MANUSCRIPT PF THE MEMOIRS BACK TO SANTIAGO.
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