Operation Colombo

"Operation Colombo" design a disinformation plan by the DINA ,chilean's secret police, in july 1976, to cover up the murder of 119 leftist opponents.

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In july 1976, two magasines, in Argentina and Brasil, published the names of 119 chilean leftists' opponents, claiming they had been killed in internal fights. Those two magasines would disappear after this lone and only issue. Judge Juan Guzman would eventually ask chilean justice's to lift Pinochet 's immunity in this case, having accumulated proofs that he had ordered the DINA to make up this disinformation plan, in order to cover up the "disparition" and murder by the chilean secret police of those 119 persons. On september 2005, chilean's Supreme court would accept to lift Pinochet's immunity on this case. Judge Victor Montiglio, who took up the case after Juan Guzman's retirement a few months before, has yet to nominate the doctors who would statue on Pinochet's health and ability to be interrogated. Victor Montiglio is known as a pinochetist, and supports militaries' auto-amnisty laws. He has already accorded amnisty to Manuel Contreras, who was given firm prison sentence in 2004 in the operation Colombo trial.

Related Topics:
DINA - Manuel Contreras

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