Among the accused, all retired, are eight colonels and 23 non-commissioned officers of the Army, 40 officers and non-commissioned officers of the Carabineros, two former FACH agents, one former Navy agent, and seven former agents of the Investigative Police.

The biggest blow to the repression of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship was dealt yesterday by Minister Víctor Montiglio, who indicted 98 former agents from different branches of the Armed Forces, Carabineros, and the Investigative Police for 42 victims of Operation Colombo.

This is the largest resolution issued among the nearly 400 human rights violation cases currently being investigated in the country. It even surpassed the 67 former agents indicted by the same Judge Montiglio in 2007 for the crimes of the Brigada Lautaro and its Grupo Delfín at the Simón Bolívar barracks.

Among those accused for Colombo are eight Army colonels (R), six of whom had not been indicted in any previous case. Also declared defendants were 23 Army non-commissioned officers (R), of whom at least 50 percent appear for the first time in these types of cases.

Among these non-commissioned officers is Juvenal Piña, alias "El Elefante," a former agent of the Brigada Lautaro, who was the one who suffocated the clandestine Communist leader (1976) Víctor Díaz with a plastic bag over his head, before he was injected with cyanide.

Furthermore, the magistrate indicted 40 former officer and non-commissioned officer agents of the Carabineros, among whom are Ricardo Lawrence, Heriberto Acevedo, Claudio Pacheco, and José Mora, all former members of the same Brigade.

Among the indicted are also former agents who belonged to the Investigative Police. The only civilian (Army) is Juan Suárez. Of the total list, at least thirteen are already serving sentences for other cases (see list).

As of the closing of this edition, the accused were still being detained to be interned in different locations, such as the Peñalolén Military Police Battalion. Among the 42 victims for whom the minister issued his resolution are María Angélica Andreolli, Miguel Acuña Castillo, Juan Carlos Perelmann Ide, Juan Chacón Olivares, Jorge Müller Silva, Luis Guendelmann Wisniak, Mario Calderón Tapia, and Carmen Bueno Cifuentes.

Operation Colombo and the media The list of the 119 was published in the magazine Lea (Buenos Aires) and the newspaper O Dia (Brazil) in 1975; these reports were also false. Both publications were created by DINA agents.

Operation Colombo was part of Operation Condor and consisted of a setup by the dictatorship to make the population believe that 119 forcibly disappeared detainees had clandestinely left for Argentina and died there in confrontations with police and Army forces during the phase prior to the 1976 military coup in Argentina.

Some of those names appeared as militants "murdered" in Buenos Aires and its surroundings, with signs on their bodies stating they had been executed by their own comrades in a settling of scores due to internal disputes.

However, this also turned out to be a setup. The list of the 119 was published in the magazine Lea (Buenos Aires) and the newspaper O Dia (Brazil) in 1975; these reports were also false. Both publications were created by DINA agents abroad and had only one edition.

In Chile, the pro-dictatorship press, such as the newspapers El Mercurio, La Tercera, Las Ultimas Noticias, and La Segunda, reproduced the intelligence services' setup. The headline of the evening paper remains in memory, which reported: "Exterminated like rats: 59 Chilean MIR members fall in military operation in Argentina." They were part of the list of the 119 disappeared of Colombo.

The former fugitive Raúl Iturriaga, who was one of the heads of the DINA's foreign department, was the one who first shed light on this operation in Buenos Aires. According to the former civilian agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, convicted in Buenos Aires for the crime of General Carlos Prats and his wife, it was Iturriaga who met with him at the beginning of 1975 to ask him to prepare what was necessary because "we have to make some dead people from Operation Colombo appear." It was a matter of preparing the appearance of the supposed bodies of Jaime Robotham and Luis Guendelmann as part of the setup. List of the indicted

Army (all retired)

Víctor Molina Astete (colonel); Sergio Castillo González (col); Eduardo Guerra Guajardo (col); Víctor San Martín Jiménez (col); José Fuentes Torres (col); Manuel Carevic Cubillos (col); Jaime Paris Ramos (col); César Manríquez Bravo (col); Raúl Toro Montes (non-commissioned officer); Eduardo Reyes Lagos (NCO); Orlando Torrejón Gatica (NCO); Osvaldo Tapia Alvarez (NCO.

Committed suicide); Juvenal Piña Garrido (NCO. “El Elefante”); Juan Suárez Delgado (civilian); Nelson Paz Bustamante (NCO); José Aravena Ruiz (NCO); Luis Torres Méndez (NCO); Raúl Soto Pérez (NCO); Jorge Andrade Gómez (NCO); Juan Escobar Valenzuela (NCO); Rolando Concha Rodríguez (NCO); Gustavo Apablaza Meneses (NCO); Hiro Alvarez Vega (NCO); Víctor Alvarez Droguett (NCO); Jorge Venegas Silva (NCO); Carlos Rinaldi Suazo (NCO); Carlos Letelier Verdugo (NCO); Reinaldo Concha Orellana (NCO); Máximo Aliaga Soto (NCO); Hugo Clavería Leiva (NCO); Samuel Fuenzalida Devia (NCO); Investigative Police Juan Urbina Cáceres; Hugo Hernández; Manuel Rivas Díaz; Herman Alfaro; Eugenio Fieldhouse; Osvaldo Castillo; Carabineros (officers and non-commissioned officers all retired) Gerardo Godoy García; Ciro Torres Sáez, Alejandro Molina Cisternas; Camilo Torres Negrier; Héctor Lira Aravena; José Fritz Esparza; Claudio Pacheco Fernández; Jorge Sagardia Monge; Sergio Castro Andrade; Luis Villarroel Gutiérrez; Armando Cofré Gómez; Fernando Roa Montaña; Gerardo Meza Acuña; Enrique Gutiérrez Rubilar; Luis Mora Cerda; José Muñoz Leal; Juan Duarte Gallegos; Carlos Miranda Meza; Rufino Jaime Astorga; Luis Urrutia Acuña; Luis Zúñiga Ovalle; Pedro Alfaro Hernández; Orlando Inostroza Lagos; Rosa Ramos Hernández; Gustavo Caruvan Soto; Héctor Valdebenito Araya; Manuel Avendaño González; José Mora Diocares; Guido Jara Brevis; Nelson Ortiz Vignolo; Ruderlindo Urrutia Jorquera; Héctor Flores Vergara; Jerónimo Neira Méndez; Manuel Montré Méndez; Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo; Claudio Orellana de la Pinta; Nelson Iturriaga Cortés; Luis Gutiérrez Uribe; José Ojeda Obando; Air Force Delia Gajardo Cortés; Hernán Avalos Muñoz Navy Teresa Navarro Osorio; Indicted who are already serving sentences Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda; Pedro Espinoza Bravo; Raúl Iturriaga Neumann; Marcelo Moren Brito; Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; Ricardo Lawrence Mires; Basclay Zapata Reyes; Conrado Pacheco; Francisco Ferrer Lima; Gerardo Urrich; Orlando Manzo Durán; Rizier Altez España; Fernando Lauriani Maturana

Source: La Nación, May 27, 2008

Case File 2182-1998 “Villa Grimaldi” Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso case

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REGARDING THE DETENTION CENTERS;

Report No. 336 of the Department V of the Investigative Police regarding the groups, barracks, and a list of names of DINA agents who provided services in the different detention and torture centers: “Londres 38”, “José Domingo Cañas”, “La Venda Sexy” or “La Discoteca”, “Cuartel Terranova” or “Villa Grimaldi”, “Cuatro Álamos”, and “Tres Álamos”.

Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade Chiefs: Cesar Manríquez Bravo; Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, “Don Rodrigo”; Marcelo Luis Moren Brito, “Coronta” and “Ronco”; and Carlos López Tapia. General Staff: Rolf Wenderoth Pozo; Enrique Jesús Fieldhouse Chávez; Higinio Barra Vega; Jaime Rubilar Ocampo, messenger; Iván Jofré, typist, Army non-commissioned officer.

Barracks Chief (José Domingo Cañas): Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez; Francisco Maximiliano Ferrer Lima. Caupolicán Brigade Chief: Marcelo Luis Moren Brito. Halcón Group: Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; Jorge Claudio Andrade Gómez; Alejandro Paulino Campos Rehbein; Miguel Ángel Concha Rodríguez.

Halcón Brigade members: Bascaly Humberto Zapata Reyes, “Troglo”; Osvaldo Enrique Romo Mena, “Guatón Romo” and “Comandante Raúl”; Teresa del Carmen Osorio Navarro, “Marisol”, “Tere”, “Soledad”; José Abigail Fuentes Espinoza, “Car’e Santo”; Luis René Torres Méndez, “Negro Torres”; Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, “Concha”; Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa; Tulio Pereira Pereira; José Abel Aravena Ruíz, “Muñeca”; José Avelino Yévenes Vergara, “Kiko”; Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo, “Lalo” and “Pulgar”; “Gordillo”; Blond freckled youth; “Lucas”, Army conscript; “Mario”, Army conscript.

Águila Group Chief: Ricardo Lawrence Mires, “Cachete Grande”.

Águila Group members

Miguel Eugenio Hernández Oyarzo, “Paco Hernández”; Emilio Marín Huincaleo, “Indio” and “Caballo Justiciero”; Mario Braulio Marín Castro; Rosa Humilde Ramos Hernández, “Rosa”; Emilio Hernán Troncoso Vivallos; Pedro René Alfaro Hernández; Germán Alfredo Esquivel Caballero; María Órdenes Montecinos, “Guatona Gaby”; Manuel Jesús Clavijo Vera; Eduardo Garea Guzmán; Alicia Contreras Ceballos; “Gino”, surname Ferrada, from San Antonio; “Vitiligo” or “Manchado”; “Fritz”; “Espinoza”; “Inostroza”; “Gato”; “Villanueva”.

Tucán Group Chief: Ernesto Godoy García, “Cachete Chico”; Tucán members: Carlo Alberto Carrasco Matus, “Mauro”. Vampiro Group Chief: Nibaldo Jiménez Santibáñez; Daniel Valentín Cancino Varas, “Pájaro” or “Pájaro Loco”, driver; “Jara” or “Mora”, Carabinero.

Purén Brigade Chiefs: Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann; Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González. Purén Brigade members: Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo; Palmira Isabel Almuna Guzmán; Germán Jorge Barriga Muñoz, “Don Jaime”; Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos; Manuel Rolando Mosquera Jarpa; Ingrid Felicitas Olderock Bernhard; Antonio Paredes Pedraza, “Larry”: Marco Antonio Sáez Saavedra; Manuel Abraham Vásquez Chahuan; Irma Nelia Guareschi Salmerón; Manuel Jesús Leyton Robles; Verónica Águila Ubilla; Elsa del Tránsito Lagos Salazar; Francisca del Carmen Cerda Galleguillos; Claudio Pacheco Fernández, “Este niño” or “Inhumano”; Ximena San Juan; Viviana Ugarte; “Coja”; “Rucia”; “Piña”, “Pamela”, Carabinero, wife of guard Clavería. Guard Group: Óscar Núñez, “Chacra”, Army non-commissioned officer; José Luis Venegas Silva, “Cabezón Venegas”; Samuel Enrique Fuenzalida Devia, “Gato”; Luis René Torres Méndez, “Negro Torres”; Jorge or Miguel Yañez; Manuel Delgado, “Chufinga”, corporal; Raúl Bernardo Toro Montes, “Toromonte”; “Obreque”, Army corporal; “Francisco”; “Montero”, Óscar de la Flor, “El Negro”, Army non-commissioned officer. Detainee Custody Guard: Juan Carlos Neira Hernández, Hugo Hernán Clavería Leiva; “Clavo”; Leonardo Mario Pampilioni Moccia, “Pam”; Juan Carlos Escobar Valenzuela, “Cacha”; Carlos Rogelio Soto Cubillos; Ricardo Tapia Báez, “Charles Bronson”. Other Guards: “Jote”, Air Force soldier; “Rucio”; “Cucharita”; “Tuberculoso”; “Diego”; “Crespo”; “Rucio de los Fierros”; “Otero”. Other unclassified agents: Manuel Lucero Lobos, driver; Hernán Eduardo Ávalos Muñoz; Nelson René Herrera Lagos; Julio José Hoyos Zegarra; Ana del Carmen Vilches Muñoz, “Pamela” or “Francesca”; Elías del Carmen Camuz Camuz; Viviana Aminta Pincetti Barra; “Loco Gangas”; Vallejos, “Gargal”; Contreras, driver; Cavada, Sergeant, Méndez, driver. Group that advised the interrogators: Basaure, “psychologist”. Other Investigative Police officials: Jorge Alfonso Palma Franjola; Mario Santander González; Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres; Jorge Lander Cabezas; Jorge Segundo Madariaga Acevedo; Luis Matías Olea Pineda; Flavio Rolando Olea Pineda; Miguel Aguilera Ruíz; Francisco Aladino Caamaño Díaz; Lionel Cox Roa; Manuel Gregorio Chirinos Ramírez; Carlos René Favre Bocaz.

Source: Judiciary, June 14, 2013

Case File 2182-98: Operation Colombo episode, Washington Cid Urrutia

ONE HUNDREDTH: That the accused Herman Avalos Muñoz in his inquiry on page 2737, maintained that he joined the DINA in November 1973, with the rank of conscript soldier of the Air Force, on detached duty, remaining in the DINA.

He was assigned to Rinconada de Maipú; there were approximately 200 agents, and there were about six from the Air Force, later more appeared. The commander of Rinconada was Commander Manríquez, who organized the groups; it was he who distributed the people to the existing barracks, which are Londres N°38 and Villa Grimaldi.

He moved to Villa Grimaldi in April 1974 and stayed until the DINA was dissolved. His operational name was “Carlos San Jorge Iglesias” and they called me “el fijo” (the fixed one). He stayed or slept in the barracks where this was, that is, Rinconada Maipú and Villa Grimaldi; he ate in the same facilities; his schedule was from 08:30 to 17:30 hrs., and it was theoretical.

His duties were as a messenger from Villa Grimaldi to the General Headquarters or vice versa, and maintenance and cleaning. The Air Force always paid him. He is aware that in Terranova or Villa Grimaldi, there were people detained in transit to Tres or Cuatro Álamos.

The average number of detained people was approximately 60, and he is unaware of the physical circumstances in which these people were found, but I am aware that they were blindfolded for security reasons, and I am not aware that they were subjected to torture, since for reasons of compartmentalization, I was not authorized to inquire about details of the operational part.

Source: Judiciary, October 29, 2015