INVESTIGATION AND ARREST BY ARMY OF ARMY OFFICERS SUSPECTED OF COLLUSION WITH A

Created: 10/15/1973

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RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATING ARM? OFFICERS SUSPECTED Of "HAVIMS PRO-POPULAR UNITY ENTIMENTS OR HAVlNO BEEN INVOLVED IN. ACTIVITIES,THAT COLONEL GUSTAVO . FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ARMY MOUNTAIN SCHflOL ANO FORMERLY ACTING CHIEF OF. STAFF OF THE INSTITUTIONS COMMAND HEADED |Y

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eneral qoillerho p 1emm, committed

suicide at'ThE military academy in santiago on 4

at that tine cantuarus has under arrest and scheduled to be j

on changes.of Collaborating high-level officials of. government prior to theeptember hil;tart coup.IBHP indicated -hat cahtjarjasen

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the opportunity 'to commit suicide and thus avoid further i

embarrassing disclosures. cantuarus shot hihself in the head.

'confirmed that cantuarus committed suicide.: he said.that the nehs of his death had been provided to the cadet corps of the military academy,

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that an unnamed army colonel had been permitted to commit suicide at the military school, and that his death mould be listed as having BEEN killed in action. it is believed that this officer is ioentical mith colonel cantuarus.)

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also is unoer arrest at the military academy on charges of . . se t

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