Address: Los Tulipanes N°10.285, Población Cooperativa, La Florida, Santiago Marital Status: Married, three children Occupation: Laborer Political Affiliation: Member of the Communist Party until 1974. Date of Detention: June 10, 1976

On August 13, 1974, at approximately 11:00 hours, a group of individuals dressed in civilian clothes, who did not identify themselves, arrived in a van and a white Datsun car (license plate DC 124, and another white car, license plate DC 156 of Las Condes) at the home of the victim's father, located in the Población El Almendral in the commune of San Bernardo.

The agents, who remained on the premises until approximately 17:00 hours, proceeded to detain Carol Fedor Flores Castillo there, along with his brothers Boris and Lincoyán. All three were taken to the Air Force War Academy (AGA), a facility where they remained as political prisoners and were subjected to intense torture before being released.

Lincoyán Flores was the first to be released; he had to be admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital due to a mental health crisis, having been the victim of severe physical and psychological abuse at the AGA facility.

After one month, Boris Flores Castillo was released; his relatives were able to confirm that he bore visible signs on his body of having been flogged.

Carol Fedor Flores was released on February 24, 1975, without commenting on what had occurred during his more than five months of confinement in the aforementioned facility, which belonged to the Chilean Air Force.

Jeanette Córdova Pérez, the victim's spouse, testified in 1981 in the case known as the "Process of the Thirteen," the proceedings of which would later be continued by the Extraordinary Visiting Judge Carlos Cerda Fernández.

She stated that after his release, Carol Flores practically did not communicate with his family and appeared distant and pensive. At that time, she added, various individuals would come to look for him at his home, including the driver of the white car that participated in his detention, one who identified himself as "Satín," a certain "Lito"—whom she later learned was named Guillermo Bratti—a certain "Chirola," "Otto," "Lalo," and an individual nicknamed "Wally," whose identity she would later learn was Roberto Fuentes Morrison.

Mrs. Córdova continued by noting that when these people arrived, the victim would leave immediately in their company, later learning that they were heading to a building located on Juan Antonio Ríos street, which had the phone number 36319. On one occasion, Carol Flores even indicated that if she needed to locate him quickly, she should contact a man with the surname Ceballos at that same number.

Likewise, the victim began to be absent from his home more than usual, at times missing for more than two weeks. Furthermore, between October and December 1975, the victim told his family that they had to move immediately to a property located at 10.285 Tulipanes Street in La Florida.

Under these circumstances, he left his home on approximately June 1, 1976, and did not return. His wife has had no news of his whereabouts to this day.

However, other relatives did have contact with Carol Flores after that date. On June 10, 1976, the victim was at his father's office, located at the intersection of Moneda and Brasil streets in the capital.

Around 11:00 hours, Carol Flores received a phone call there, telling his father that agents from the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) wished to speak with him to request some information. He left the place, supposedly to contact the person from the call, and has remained forcibly disappeared ever since.

Parallel to all these events, word began to spread among the victim's circle of acquaintances and Communist Party militants who had been in contact with him that Carol Flores Castillo was collaborating with the Air Force Intelligence Service (SIFA).

On the other hand, statements from former detainees held by FACH (Chilean Air Force) personnel, as well as eyewitnesses to the detentions of people who remain forcibly disappeared today—such as the case of Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez—state that among the agents who carried out these detentions was the former Communist militant Carol Fedor Flores Castillo.

In the report prepared by the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (created by the President of the Republic, Mr. Patricio Aylwin Azócar, with the purpose of investigating and making known to the country the most serious human rights violations committed between September 11, 1973, and March 10, 1990), it was stated that Carol Flores was detained in 1974, along with two of his brothers, in an operation carried out by the Joint Command, remaining imprisoned for six months at the Air Force War Academy (AGA).

He was released and subsequently collaborated with the aforementioned Command in the detention of Communist Party militants. In the first days of June 1976, a group identified as agents of the Joint Command detained him again. It was added that, based on information in the possession of this Commission, the victim was subsequently executed by his captors.

The testimonies provided in 1984 by the former member of the Chilean Air Force, Andrés Antonio Valenzuela Morales, have allowed us to reconstruct, in part, the management and actions of an illicit association, endowed with material means and the guarantees of anonymity and impunity, to act in a criminal manner and in open violation of fundamental human rights, which has come to be called the "Joint Command," and of which the witness was a part.

In sworn statements provided by Andrés Valenzuela on August 28 and October 10, 1984, the witness recounted and provided the following information regarding Carol Fedor Flores Castillo:

"My first contact with Carol Flores occurred when he remained as a prisoner at the Air Force War Academy (AGA) in 1974, staying in one of the rooms in the basement of that facility, and being subsequently released.

At the beginning of the third quarter of 1975, Carol Flores appeared on the scene again, when the group was operating in the hangar located inside Cerrillos Airport. We nicknamed him 'Juanca,' as his war name was Juan Carlos.

At this time, Flores participated in the interrogations of detainees, providing information, as he knew a vast number of Communist Party militants. Precisely, the appearance of 'Juanca' coincided with the detention of a large number of Communist militants, more or less in September 1975."

"Carol Flores was just another agent, and he was even provided with a house that had been requisitioned from the MIR and was located in the commune of La Florida. He used a weapon, an intercom, went to our shooting practice, and entered the institution's offices like any of us."

"An exceptional circumstance that moved us all, which occurred in mid-1976, was when Guillermo Bratti Cornejo, Otto Trujillo, and Carol Fedor Flores Castillo were detained, being imprisoned in cells with their eyes blindfolded, interrogated, and punished inside the facility known as 'La Firma,' located on Dieciocho Street in the capital.

Our Chief of Operations, Roberto Fuentes Morrison, informed us that the arrest was because the three had passed information to the Communist Party and the MIR, but that explanation did not satisfy us, since it was normal for anyone who fell into disgrace to be discredited so that others would hate them."

"Another version of his detention that we learned was that they had given information we possessed to the DINA, which carried out operations that harmed our group. The DINA, according to the statements of the detained agents, had offered them more money, a vehicle, and a house.

Bratti declared this, and I heard it on a tape recording of his interrogation years later. The three of them were distanced from us, and at that moment it was decided that Bratti would be discharged, and Trujillo and Flores were marginalized from the institution."

Former agent Valenzuela added: "I will now proceed to relate my experience regarding the Cajón del Maipo. A few weeks after the detentions of Bratti, Trujillo, and Flores, an operation was organized in which I had to participate.

César Palma Ramírez ('Fifo') picked me up at the house in Bellavista and told me I had to accompany him. We headed to the 'La Firma' facility, where Lieutenant of the Carabineros Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa ('Lolo'), the Navy Officer with the surname Guimpert, Roberto Fuentes Morrison, and other agents of Patria y Libertad were already present.

There was a table with things for a cocktail. I helped myself, even though I didn't understand anything that was happening. When we finished, they told the sentry to bring 'the package' (it was a detainee).

To my surprise, they brought Bratti handcuffed, blindfolded, and drugged. They put him in the trunk of a car, and we left in two vehicles. I remember that before leaving, they gave me a pill, which some agents also took.

I was in the car driven by Palma, heading toward the Cajón del Maipo. Palma made the journey with great confidence, and passing a bridge where the river crosses, from left to right, he turned left onto a road that is on the eastern slope.

In that sector, he stopped at a place that was about 7 km inside and about 40 meters from some cliffs. They took Bratti down, blindfolded. Palma placed him near a rock and said to him: 'How do you want to die?' He also wanted to play a macabre game with him, saying: 'If you want, run and I'll chase you.' He was half-drunk.

Bratti told him, 'Take off the handcuffs and the blindfold.' I had to take them off, and he immediately sent me to the vehicle to look for ropes and wires. When I arrived at the car and started taking things out of the trunk, I heard a burst of a submachine gun with a silencer.

Upon returning to the place, I saw that Palma was finishing him off. I did not see the others shoot. They asked me to tie him by the feet and hands; ballast stones were put on him, and they signaled for me to push him over the cliffs.

Since there were bushes, I had to pull the body toward the void; someone held me by the hand, and I was left hanging, even thinking at some point that they were going to kill me too, but in the end, Bratti's corpse fell into the water, and we all returned."

"I know that Carol Flores was also killed, but I cannot remember if it was days before or days after Bratti. Palma alluded to it being the same place or sector."

Some time after these events, the corpse of Guillermo Bratti Cornejo was found in Puente Alto, in the Cajón del Maipo sector, indeed presenting his feet and hands tied with ropes and wire. However, the lifeless body of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo has never been found, despite the discovery in that year, 1976, of other bodies in the same conditions described in the Cajón del Maipo, and despite the fact that his father and spouse recognized the victim's body among them during an inspection and recognition ordered by judicial authority.

Judicial and/or Administrative Actions

Jeanette Córdova Pérez, the victim's spouse, filed a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) in favor of Carol Flores Castillo after his detention was verified in August 1974, before the Santiago Court of Appeals, on August 19 of that same year.

Although there is written evidence of the filing of the amparo, there is no information to establish what the final result of this judicial action was. After Carol Flores disappeared on approximately June 1, 1976, without appearing at his home or contacting his family, his spouse went to a Carabineros station in the commune of La Florida, where she filed the corresponding report on June 8 of that same year.

The report in question was sent by police officials to the Eleventh Criminal Court of Santiago, whose Magistrate ordered on June 9 that a summary investigation be opened, the complainant be summoned, and an order to investigate be dispatched in order to establish the victim's whereabouts. The case was registered under N°6.567.

The order to investigate dispatched in the case files to the Chilean Investigative Police did not provide information that would allow the fate or whereabouts of the victim to be established. After carrying out investigations without results in hospitals, emergency clinics, the Legal Medical Institute, and detention centers, it was returned to the Court, which ordered it to be added to the case files on July 27, 1976.

On September 9, the Court, ex officio, ordered that the Ministry of the Interior be notified to report whether Carol Flores Castillo was being held in detention. On page 6, dated September 17, 1976, the negative report from the Minister of the Interior of the time regarding the victim's detention is recorded.

Based on the merits of the evidence presented, on October 1, 1976, the summary was declared closed, and bearing in mind that the reported fact was not legally proven by the evidence gathered in the process, the case was temporarily dismissed until new and better investigative data were presented.

The preceding resolution was appealed and was approved by the Santiago Court of Appeals on November 22, 1976.

On the other hand, Boris Flores Castillo, the victim's brother, filed a new writ of amparo in his favor before the Santiago Court of Appeals on July 28, 1976, which was registered under N°655 76.

Although the respective filing requested that the Ministries of the Interior and Justice, as well as the National Intelligence Directorate, be notified to provide a report regarding Carol Fedor Flores, there is no record that these actions were carried out, nor is there any information regarding the final outcome of this action attempted before the Courts of Justice.

Following the detention and disappearance of 13 high-ranking leaders of leftist political parties—11 of them from the Communist Party and 2 from the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)—in November and December 1976, and after the respective writs of amparo filed were rejected, the victims' relatives requested that the Supreme Court appoint a Visiting Judge to investigate such an irregular situation.

The Highest Court of the Republic ordered the Santiago Court of Appeals to make such an appointment, which fell to Judge Guastavino. After requesting a report from the Ministry of the Interior, which stated that the victims had left the country through a mountain pass toward the Argentine Republic, he dismissed the case.

This resolution was revoked by the Santiago Court of Appeals, as was the case on the second occasion when a new closure of the summary was decreed.

Subsequently, taking charge of the process known as the "Process of the Thirteen," Judge Carlos Letelier Bobadilla, who replaced the previous judge, closed the summary in August 1978, stating that "no progress could be made in the investigation."

This resolution was challenged by the lawyers, who pointed out to the judge that progress could indeed be made in the investigation because there were pending investigative steps requested and because other steps would arise from the state of the process. Thus, Judge Letelier set aside his own resolution and decreed investigative steps.

Later, when Judge Guastavino resumed his duties, he decreed a definitive dismissal by application of Decree Law 2.191 in December 1980. The Court of Appeals, this time, revoked the resolution to close the summary, and the Visiting Judge himself set aside the dismissal decreed because a legal formality had been omitted. In this way, the proceedings continued.

By 1983, Judge Carlos Cerda Fernández took charge of the investigation into the "Process of the Thirteen." The judge ordered hundreds of investigative steps, consisting of summoning people, recognizing places and people, expert reports, reviewing criminal files, and dispatching official letters requesting reports from State services, branches of the Armed Forces, private institutions, and others of vital importance.

In total, he received nearly 200 testimonies from eyewitnesses to the detentions of the victims and their confinement in clandestine centers. These testimonies also included those of members of the Armed Forces who participated in Intelligence Services, as well as officials from the Carabineros and the Investigative Police.

Likewise, the testimonies of civilians who collaborated with the Security Services were included, as is the case of Otto Trujillo and Miguel Estay Reyno ("El Fanta").

There was also the statement of a first-class soldier of the Chilean Air Force, Andrés Valenzuela Morales, who deserted from this institution in 1984. Through his statement, he provided accounts and data that in the mid-70s, a so-called Joint Command or Anti-Subversive Joint Command began to operate, composed of members of the different branches of the Armed Forces and Order, plus some civilians who belonged to leftist parties and who, after being detained by the Intelligence Services and subjected to pressure and/or extortion, became collaborators.

Said Command had material means at its disposal, such as vehicles, weaponry, transmission equipment, and clandestine detention centers.

At this stage of the investigation, Judge Carlos Cerda managed to establish valuable and clarifying data regarding other cases of human rights violations, some of them involving the disappearance of people, even ordering the referral of some parts of the "Process of the Thirteen" to other courts that were hearing criminal cases regarding them.

Among the latter is the case of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo, regarding whom Judge Cerda, faced with the Supreme Court's refusal to extend his visit to the present crime, ordered the referral to the Eleventh Criminal Court of Santiago of duly authorized copies of some parts of the process, as they pertained to case file N°6567, all on August 14, 1976.

Page 3919 (reverse side) contains the statement provided in the case files by Jeannette Córdova Pérez, the victim's spouse, on October 3, 1985, who details the circumstances surrounding the detention of Carol Flores in August 1974, while he was held at the Air Force War Academy (AGA).

The witness stated that she was able to visit her spouse at that facility on three occasions, by express authorization of Mr. Berdichewsky.

After Carol Flores was released, she added, the agent nicknamed "pelao Lito" began to arrive at their home and became the victim's shadow. Other individuals also arrived, whose nicknames or names she would learn some time later, such as "Lalo," "Chirola," "Satín," "Lolo," Otto, "Fifo," and Roberto Fuentes Morrison (Wally).

She also pointed out, "Carol had arrived home different after his first detention; now he did not worry about his personal appearance, he did not attend to the children. He practically had no schedule; almost always they would come to look for him and frequently they would drop him off.

At the end of May 1976, Carol had lunch at home with Bratti ('pelao Lito'), and then they left, and I never had news of him again."

Finally, the witness provided the Court with the physical characteristics of the mentioned agents.

Page 3049 corresponds to the statement provided before Judge Cerda by Lincoyán Flores Castillo, the victim's brother, on October 7, 1985, who was detained along with Carol Flores in August 1974, sharing the confinement facility at the AGA.

In it, the witness noted that after several days of detention, without having consumed water or food, he thought he distinguished the voice of an agent nicknamed "Satín," proposing to Carol Flores that he collaborate with them so that his younger brothers would be fed and obtain their freedom.

Likewise, he stated that after his release, the victim had contact with some of his captors, whom he knew as Bratti (nicknamed "Lito"), "Lalo," Otto Trujillo, and the aforementioned "Satín," of whom he provided physical characteristics.

Page 3112 contains the judicial statement of the victim's father, Oscar Flores Cabrera, dated October 8, 1985. In it, he expresses having learned of the circumstances of his children's detention through what was related by his spouse, an eyewitness to it, and by having seen the victim inside a vehicle, accompanied by strangers, on that day in August when he was returning home.

Around the sixth month after the detention, the witness continued, Carol Flores went to his home, telling him that a Colonel with the surname Ceballos, from the Air Force, had promised to help him if he cooperated with the Security Services.

The help consisted of releasing his brothers Boris and Lincoyán and not bothering his relatives, under pressure that if he did not accept, his wife, children, brothers, and other close relatives would be murdered.

Likewise, the victim told him that a certain "Wally" Fuentes had assured him that if he accepted the deal, no one would bother his family. Subsequently, strangers would come to pick up the victim, who apparently performed surveillance duties.

Regarding Carol Flores, he looked bad, tired, and sick, especially in the last contact the witness had with him in the first days of June 1976, when the victim communicated by phone with "Wally Fuentes," agreeing to meet a few hours later.

Page 3298 corresponds to the judicial statement provided on October 11, 1985, by Boris Flores Castillo. In it, he adds the following information to the already known facts:

That of the agents who carried out his detention in August 1974, one wore a Carabineros uniform, and the rest wore Air Force uniforms and civilian clothes, recognizing the police official as Luis de la Fuente, a Carabineros officer who was a neighbor of the victims. Later, he would learn the nicknames of the civilians who beat him severely on that occasion: "Satín" and "Chago."

That he was taken first, apparently, to the El Bosque Air Base, and then was transferred by his captors to the Air Force War Academy (AGA), being subjected to torture in both places. Among the agents, the witness mentions one called "Cabezas," about 40 years old, semi-bald, white, quite big-nosed, thin lips, brown eyes, and black hair.

That Carol Flores, once he was released, told him that he had had to accept a deal to collaborate with his captors in exchange for saving and protecting the lives of his closest relatives. From then on, agents would constantly come to look for him, among them "Lito," "Otto," and "Wally."

That in January 1976, he went to the victim's home; Carol Flores was pale, bearded, and had a mustache, telling him that he had been court-martialed along with Otto and Lito, with the three of them remaining imprisoned in Colina.

Some time later, the victim told him that he was doing very badly, that he could not meet with either "Lito" or "Otto," that he was in terrible trouble, and that he thought they were going to kill him at any moment.

Page 3450 contains the statement provided before Judge Cerda, dated October 16, 1985, by Roberto Fuentes Morrison.

The witness stated that he requested his entry into the Air Force at the end of 1974, being appointed Reserve Officer and Commissioned to the Counterintelligence Department of the Air Force Operations Directorate, performing duties of information gathering and analysis.

The head of this Department was General Luis Muñoz Sáenz, and he could not provide the names of the other members for reasons of confidentiality regarding the Institution.

When the Air Force Intelligence Directorate (DIFA) was created, approximately at the end of 1975, its first Director was General Enrique Ruiz Bunger, seconded in various areas—which for reasons of confidentiality he cannot specify—by Colonel Horacio Otaíza López, Commander Sergio Linares Urzúa, and Commander Edgar Ceballos Jones.

The witness reported directly to General Ruiz and, according to the mission entrusted, had to relate to the other three. The newly created DIFA, he added, was installed in the building at 6 Juan Antonio Ríos, and he could not specify if the Intelligence Directorates of other Institutions were already operating there.

When expressly asked, the witness says he does not know of the Anti-Subversive Joint Command. He added that he had worked quite a bit with Colonel Edgar Ceballos.

Likewise, he stated that he knew Luis César Palma Ramírez ("Fifo"), whom he brought to the FACH to take charge of the mechanical maintenance of the DIFA vehicles, later moving on to perform information analysis work, with very good results. On a couple of occasions, Fuentes pointed out, he had carried out missions with Palma in Colonel Ceballos's team.

He recognizes Manuel Agustín Núñez Gamboa, who was an officer performing duties in the Carabineros Intelligence Service (SICAR). He denies having participated with him in specific operations; they only met for coordination purposes.

He also stated that he knew Otto Trujillo Miranda since the beginning of 1974, when they worked at the Ministry of Agriculture in processing and exchanging information, noting his great efficiency, which led the witness to recommend him to Colonel Otaíza as an element that could be requested on a service commission to work in tasks.

intelligence of the FACH, which is what happened. Many times, he continued, I carried out field work with Trujillo. Subsequently, Otto Trujillo was discharged from the FACH, on a date he cannot specify.

As his life was in danger from other intelligence agencies, the witness located him and advised him to leave Santiago. He pointed out, for his part, that he knew Daniel Guimpert, who was an intelligence officer of the Navy, who worked in the Intelligence Community, without having contact with him as far as field work is concerned.

Jorge Cobo Manríquez, he continued, was a Reserve Officer who worked in the Intelligence Directorate in the documentation section, largely focused on the computational side. At the beginning, he carried out missions for the Directorate, together with said person.

He also adds that there was no Investigative personnel in the community, knowing a Cortés, belonging to this institution, who was commissioned together with a group at the War Academy in the year 1974, and there was another with the surname Barraza.

Regarding Dr. Forero, he stated that he is a doctor at the Air Force Hospital, having never seen him in the community building nor knowing that he had any specific function. Asked by the Court, he stated that sometimes conscripts armed with weapons attended as support for operations, ordered by the Prosecutor's Offices, it being possible that Andrés Valenzuela Morales ("Papudo") participated in some of them.

However, this person had been hired, in his capacity as a conscript, by the DIFA, to work as a waiter, having permanent contact with the members of the Directorate, since he attended all the offices, did the cleaning, and ran errands.

Interrogated, he replied that he has no proof that the Cerrillos airport was used as a detention center, and he did not operate in his intelligence work from there, nor from the Colina Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, expressly pointing out that the place did not serve as a detention center, being entirely unaware of the expression "Remo Cero".

Asked if the building at Calle Dieciocho N°229 brings any memory to him, he indicated that he only relates it to the Carabineros Intelligence Directorate, which he learned functioned there until 1977. It was, he adds, an old house, where the newspaper "El Clarín" operated, which he visited on two or three occasions to make informative inquiries.

Consulted, he expresses that he does not know if detainees were kept in said place because the premises belonged to another Institution. Likewise, the witness declared having no idea of the meaning of the expressions "La Firma", "Nido 18", and "Nido 20", he has not read that terminology in any document nor has he heard it in transmissions or communications from his superiors.

He also had no knowledge of the existence of an operation center located on Calle Bellavista; the bachelors, officials of the DIFA, occupied a house on Calle Maruri, being unaware of the existence of a facility located on Avda.

Apoquindo. He added, "from what I have just pointed out, it is evident that I was not aware that detainees had been kept in the facilities about which I have been asked, as that was not the procedure of the FACH", "many times I detained people, always in groups that carried out actions ordered by the Aviation Prosecutor's Offices".

The DIFA never detained people without any order from the Prosecutor's Office; furthermore, in the year 1975, there was a superior order that all anti-subversive activity was to be centered in the National Intelligence Directorate".

Asked regarding the references that have been made about the witness in the statements made by the former member of the FACH and member of the Comando Conjunto, he expressed that they are absolutely false.

Regarding the affected party, he stated that he met Carol Fedor Flores Castillo when he was a prisoner at the AGA, at the end of '74 or the beginning of '75, where he had no dealings with him nor was it his duty to carry out any mission regarding him.

He encounters Carol Flores again in the Intelligence community building, where witness Fuentes is assigned the task of supporting a mission whose specific scope he ignores, presuming that it was about obtaining information on the Communist Party in the southern area of Santiago, a task for which he had to receive, on several occasions, Carol Flores, Otto Trujillo, and the soldier Guillermo Bratti, who handed him sealed envelopes with information, addressed to Colonel Otaíza, and others that apparently contained photographs, for Colonel Ceballos.

Carol Flores, he added, began to collaborate with the DIFA, obtaining information relative to the Communist Party, a campaign that Colonel Otaíza mainly faced and to which soldier Guillermo Bratti was assigned.

The declarant was responsible for supporting the operation, providing them with vehicles, money, weaponry, and material in general, being removed from the mission in February 1976. Finally, he expressed that, as a result of an incident in the FACH, Otto and Bratti were discharged, the corpse of the latter appearing later, without him having news of what happened to Flores Castillo.

The one on page 3955, by virtue of which he was summoned again to the judicial presence, Roberto Fuentes Morrison expressed that Carol Flores never called him personally by phone, although he had a number to have been able to do so, a number that was also in the possession of the spouse of the affected party, who did call him several times.

He added that he never met with Flores Castillo at Moneda corner of Brasil, but that he was at his house, more than once, in the company of agents Otto Trujillo and Guillermo Bratti. Those on pages 5636 and 5639, which account for the fact that when photographs of the skull and body of a corpse found in the Cajón del Maipo sector were exhibited, both the spouse and the father of the affected party recognized it as that of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo, the 1st of the witnesses also recognizing some pieces of clothing.

Likewise, Minister Cerda ordered, in his resolution of August 1986, the referral to the Eleventh Criminal Court of Santiago of an authorized copy of the following documents: The one on page 2426, which contains the sworn statements provided by the former member of the FACH Andrés Valenzuela Morales, dated August 28 and October 10, 1984, which have already been reported, when recounting the repressive situation of the affected party.

The one on page 4533, which corresponds to an Inspection Act drawn up with the background information on the discovery of several corpses in the Cajón del Maipo sector, during the course of the year 1976, among which was that of Guillermo Bratti Cornejo.

Notwithstanding the above and the diligence employed by Minister Cerda, in order for the Eleventh Criminal Court, with the background information to be sent, to continue the investigation, there is no record that they were received nor that, on their merit, the reopening of the temporarily dismissed summary proceeding had been decreed.

For further background information regarding the substantiation, instructed fundamentally by the Visiting Minister Carlos Cerda Fernández, of the so-called "trial of the thirteen", see the file that recounts the detention and subsequent disappearance of the Communist Party militant, Reinalda Pereira Plaza.

For his part, on April 29, 1991, Oscar Flores Cabrera, father of the affected party, filed a criminal complaint before the Eleventh Criminal Court of Santiago for the crimes of illicit association, kidnapping, eventually homicide, and others that could be configured, committed against the person of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo, and against all those who, belonging to the so-called Comando Conjunto Antisubversivo, had participation in those illicit acts as authors, accomplices, or cover-ups.

Such a complaint is based on the background information sent to the Court by the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, relative to the fate suffered by the affected party and contained in the statements that the former member of the Air Force Andrés Valenzuela Morales provided before that body.

Said case entered processing under roll 6567 3 and as of December 1992, it was in the summary stage. As a result of the active collaboration that his spouse provided in the process instructed by the Visiting Minister Carlos Cerda, she and her three children had to leave the country.

Source: Vicaría de la Solidaridad

The landscape of betrayals and loyalties within the Communist Party in the first years of the dictatorship. Advanced in the year 1970, the communist security apparatus that operated during the period of Salvador Allende's government was still in full organization.

At that time, Ulises Merino Varas and René Basoa Alarcón politically directed the youth self-defense front from their positions in the National Commission of Cadres and members of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth (the Jota), at the same time that they coordinated the entry of young militants into Military Service and the non-commissioned officer schools of the Armed Forces and Carabineros, all under the supervision of José Weibel Navarrete, deputy general secretary of the Jota.

These same people were in charge, starting in the seventies, of selecting from among the militants of the Communist Youth those who would join the officer schools of the Armed Forces, the Carabineros, and the then-Investigation Service.

In 1971 –probably in mid-April–, José Flores Garrido, a prominent member of the Jota's self-defense leadership, was designated to travel to the GDR to prepare in security matters. Among his schoolmates were Daniel Escobar Cruz, who was captured at La Moneda for the coup and later murdered; Flores Garrido managed to avoid repression until August 11, 1976, the date on which he was kidnapped and since which he has been a forcibly disappeared person; Malaquías Delgadillo Navarro, detained and tortured by the Comando Conjunto since October 24, 1975, and who later, after his release, escaped to Canada, where he resides today; Eduardo Valenzuela, a former student of the University of Chile, currently based in Sweden; and David Canales, ("Rolando"), currently in Chile. Upon his return, Flores Garrido was assigned high responsibilities in the Party's security front. From at least November 1975, he was incorporated at the same level of leadership as "Santiago" and "Rolando", whom the Directorate ordered to leave the country for having been identified and being practically surrounded, a trip that took place on March 5, 1976, after being hidden and then granted asylum in the Hungarian embassy since the previous December 31. Due to the betrayal of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo –detained first on June 5, '74 and then definitively on June 7, '75–, who was a member of the military apparatus in the South Regional Committee, most of these structures fell both in that area and in the North and San Miguel regional committees, especially starting from mid-1975. This also dragged down the national leadership of the military front in September, October, and November 1975. Since the fall, torture, and prompt delivery of information by Carol Flores in 1974, which allowed his release, he was harassed by FACH intelligence and threatened with death, he and his family, until he surrendered totally to their designs, first with simple data and then with the organizational chart of the regional military front and part of the regional leadership and that of some local committees. A year later, at the date of his second false capture, Carol Flores was already an active salaried collaborator and member of the Comando Conjunto, and thus began his massive and terrifying hunt for communist militants. FACH Intelligence was the entity best prepared for the repression of left-wing organizations. It possessed the highest-level leadership in Chile and they wanted to cleanse the stain of having had in their ranks throughout the Allende government not only the largest number of progressive young officers, but also having brought together the largest number of middle and senior officers –formally constituted as a group– studying economics and social sciences at universities and research institutes, in the spirit of serving the government and with clearly socialist and constitutionalist tendencies. Such a group was dismantled from September 11 itself and its members taken prisoner, tortured, murdered, or expelled into exile. As the spring of 1975 dawned, the detentions carried out by the Comando Conjunto ceased to be selective and became massive. The members of one of the groups of communist detainees, resulting from a raid on the Jota regional committees, were provisionally together in a detention center and agreed, given that their captors knew much about their party participation, to acknowledge what their activity had been until September 11, 1973. From there –they would say– they did not participate in anything and only old friendship united them. Finally, they had to name, under torture, known leaders and militants. The repressors obtained a good database of militants in the Military Front; also in the Security one. Obviously, among those identified was an important part of the Party's Military and Security Directorate, fully active in the underground, and also the majority of the comrades who traveled abroad to receive courses of a paramilitary, security, and intelligence nature, between the years 1969 and 1972. From the beginning of this operation, the Comando Conjunto had the objective of identifying and hunting down the members of all the groups that went abroad –USSR, GDR, and Cuba– to train paramilitarily since before the Allende government, groups that were made up of hundreds of comrades who went for short periods, of two, three, or more months.

Among them traveled

To Cuba, just as an example, Ulises Merino Varas (detained on February 2, 1976, and disappeared after his time at "Remo Cero", "Bellavista", Las Tranqueras Police Station, and "La Firma") and David Urrutia Galaz (captured on December 22, 1975, and murdered at "Remo Cero").

Both also went at a later date to the Intelligence or Security course in Europe. They also did so in another group that went to Moscow, Ricardo Ramírez Herrera (made to disappear from Buenos Aires on April 16, 1977, in "Operation Condor"), Carlos Piñero Lucero (murdered by the "Caravan of Death" in Calama in 1973), and Rodolfo Núñez Benavides (made to disappear on May 18, 1976, in the framework of the Calle Conferencia ambush).

Subsequently, ten people traveled to Moscow, among whom were Miguel Estay Reyno (later turned into a traitor, interrogator, and executioner of his own comrades); Víctor Vega Riquelme (later murdered). All the communists who traveled outside the country for advanced training courses between 1965 and 1973 did so with their true identities and legitimate passports.

In a subsequent delegation, Gastón Oyarzún Martínez, a prominent Chilean mountaineer, also headed to Moscow, who recovered his freedom thanks to his friendship with Roberto Fuentes Morrison, "El Wally"; Ignacio González Espinoza (murdered at "Remo Cero"); Ricardo Weibel Navarrete (murdered at "Remo Cero"); Juan Quiñones Ibaceta (captured in a trap set by "el Fanta"), contemporaneously with a group from the Propaganda front, on July 23, 1976, and made to disappear from "La Firma", among others.

Also, René Basoa Alarcón, "Renato", went out to take the same type of course, on a different occasion, having become a traitor shortly after falling prisoner.

Source: interferencia.cl, September 6, 2021

Date: 06-09-2021

"COMANDO CONJUNTO" CONDEMNED FOR CRIMES OF 2 AGENTS

The Supreme Court issued a final sentence in the investigation into the qualified homicides of Guillermo Bratti Cornejo (former agent of the Air Force Intelligence Service, SIFA) and Carol Fedor Flores Castillo (informant of the same group) committed on June 1 and June 21, 1976.

In a split decision, the ministers of the Second Chamber of the highest court Jaime Rodríguez, Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, and the participating lawyer Nelson Pozo accepted the cassation appeals presented against the sentence that acquitted 7 former members of the so-called "Comando Conjunto".

The sentence was adopted with the dissenting vote of Minister Rubén Ballesteros, who was in favor of accepting the figure of the statute of limitations for criminal action. Those condemned are Enrique Ruiz Bunger, Juan Saavedra Loyola, César Palma Ramírez, and Daniel Guimpert Corvalán, all with sentences of 5 years in prison for their responsibility as authors of both homicides.

In all 4 cases, the benefit of supervised release was granted. Meanwhile, Edgar Cevallos Jones, Roberto Serón Cárdenas, and Juan Luis López López were acquitted for lack of participation. In the civil part, the lawsuit presented by the wife and the three children of Carol Fedor Flores Castillo was accepted and it was ordered to pay each of them the sum of $ 50,000,000 (fifty million pesos), that is, the total sum of $ 200,000,000 (two hundred million pesos).

This last aspect was resolved with the dissenting votes of ministers Ballesteros and Rodríguez, who were in favor of accepting the cause of absolute incompetence of the court.

THE AGENTS

Carol Flores Castillo was a militant of the PC until 1974. That year he was detained together with his brothers and transferred to the Air War Academy (AGA). In this facility, occupied by repressive bodies of the dictatorship, he was allegedly brutally tortured and then released.

Witnesses, in the Rettig Report, declared that after this episode Flores began to collaborate with the SIFA, denouncing comrades of the PC, which coincides with a series of detentions of communist militants during this time.

However, in June 1976, he disappeared. The former member of the FACh, Andrés Valenzuela Morales, declared in the process that he knew that members of the SIFA took Flores to the Cajón del Maipo and got rid of his body.

This last point because they would have found out that he was giving information to the DINA about what the command was doing. This deeply annoyed those in charge of the AGA. The same conduct, according to this witness, was imputed to the officer Guillermo Bratti, victim of this judicial case.

Before the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, Andrés Valenzuela pointed out that both Flores and Bratti were executed because there existed the "version that they had given information that we possessed to the DINA, which carried out operations harming our group (Comando Conjunto).

The DINA, according to the statements of the detained agents, had offered them more money, a vehicle, and a house".

Source: La Nacion, Friday, November 11, 2011

Date: 11-11-2011

Ambush on key cases of the DINA, the Comando Conjunto, and the CNI

On Monday, the Administrative Corporation of the Judiciary must report the cost that the nomination of special judges will have. Meanwhile, the world of human rights has the hope that they will advance where until now their efforts have been fruitless: the cases benefited by a judge of exclusive dedication correspond mostly to disappearances perpetrated by the DINA, the Comando Conjunto, and an emblematic case of the CNI.

The hour of the DINA The net closes on the DINA with the case of the MIR militant, Carlos Cubillos Gálvez, detained in 1974 on a street in the commune of Nuñoa. Witnesses indicated that he was taken to the facility at Londres 38 and nothing more was heard of him.

His case - roll 11337/6 - is in the Eighth Criminal Court of Santiago. In that same court is located the case of the MIR militant, Juan Carlos Perelman (roll 12193-8), who was detained in 1975 by DINA personnel together with his partner, who was released some time later.

The Rettig Commission affirmed that his disappearance was the responsibility of State agents. On August 1, 1974, Sergio Sebastián Montecinos Alfaro was detained, who, at 28 years old, was the union coordinator of the political parties that had adhered to the UP in the Western Zone of Santiago.

He was taken from his home by DINA personnel and seen for the last time at the facility at Londres 38. His case Nº2310-00 also appears in the Eighth Court of Santiago. The kidnapping of Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, on December 7, 1974, is the responsibility of the same security agency.

The case of this MIR militant, labeled with the number 2808-5, will also be instructed by a special judge in the 11th Criminal Court of Santiago. The minister of exclusive dedication of that same court will focus on the case of Jaime Cadiz Norambuena (case 768-6).

This MIR militant was detained in the José María Caro neighborhood and disappeared from the DINA facility at Londres 38. Number 2161-8 of that court records another DINA case on which the judge will place emphasis.

The MIR member Jorge Humberto D´orival Briceño was detained in his home in the commune of Conchalí and seen later, together with two other detainees, at Villa Grimaldi. The trail of the three was lost at the Cuatro Alamos facility.

The judge of exclusive dedication of the Third Criminal Court of San Miguel will investigate the case of Leopoldo Muñoz Andrade, a MIR militant who disappeared from the DINA facility at Cuatro Alamos. In the hands of this magistrate will also be the clarification of the disappearance of another MIR member, Daniel Reyes Piña, who was seen for the last time at Londres 38.

To that repressive body is also attributed the disappearance of Víctor Fernando Olea Alegría on September 11, 1974. He was 24 years old when he was detained by agents on a public road. His case is located in the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago with the number 76667.

Another case that will have special attention will be that of Washington Cid Urrutia, who disappeared in 1974 from Villa Grimaldi. His case is located in the Tenth Criminal Court of Santiago and is attributed to the DINA.

Towards other repressive bodies Not only the DINA will be investigated by the special judges. The criminal actions perpetrated by the Comando Conjunto will have the same destination. In fact, the mandate of the Supreme Court touches the threads of one of the cases that offers the greatest contradictions with the report of the Armed Forces: the disappearance of the Communist Youth militant Carol Fedor Flores Castillo .

The military report establishes that Flores Castillo was detained in 1976, killed, and thrown into the sea off the coast of San Antonio. However, Flores was captured together with his brothers in 1974 and remained imprisoned for six months.

In 1976 he began to collaborate with the Comando Conjunto , a process that extended until June 7 of that year. The former agent of the Comando Conjunto Andrés Valenzuela confessed that he was killed together with a soldier in the Cajón del Maipo and thrown into the river.

Now his crime will be investigated by the judge of the Tenth Court of Santiago. In the Fourth Criminal Court of San Miguel, under number 10161, appears the case of Alonso Gahona Chávez , who allegedly died a victim of repeated torture together with Humberto Castro in the so-called " Nido 20 ".

That was the name of the secret detention and torture facility located at Calle Santa Teresa 037, near the 20th stop of the Gran Avenida in Santiago. This facility operated during 1975 under the control of agents of the DIFA with whom civilians from nationalist or far-right groups collaborated.

The exterior guard of the facility was in charge of students from the Air Force Specialty School. Gahona, a leader of the workers of the Municipality of La Cisterna and a communist militant, known as "Yuri", had been detained on September 8, 1975, on a public road.

His corpse was allegedly wrapped in plastic and, apparently, thrown into the sea. From the facility called "Remo Cero", of the Colina anti-aircraft artillery regiment, Miguel Rodríguez Gallardo was taken and possibly buried on military grounds in Peldehue.

Case 10617 of the Fourth Court of San Miguel will attempt to reach the bases of the Comando Conjunto. Also, a special judge will investigate the fate of at least one of the forcibly disappeared persons from La Moneda.

In the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago is case 17584, which corresponds to Osvaldo Ramos Rivera, a member of the GAP of only 22 years old. Ramos was detained inside the government palace by military personnel, together with Antonio Aguirre Vásquez.

As a result of their wounds, both were transferred to the Posta Central where there is a record of their stay. They were taken from there by uniformed personnel and since then their whereabouts are unknown.

In the Eighth Criminal Court of Santiago, the case of another GAP, Mario Ramiro Melo, a retired Army officer, disappeared since September 29, 1973, will be investigated. The case of Miguel Acuña Castillo, labeled with the number 11509-8 in the Eighth Court of Santiago, will also be investigated.

Acuña was a leader of the secondary student section of the MIR when he disappeared in 1974, together with his friend Héctor Garay Hermosilla. The work of the special judges will also extend to the Air Force War Academy.

In the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago, the case of José Luis Baeza, 41 years old, a salesman and member of the Central Committee of the PC, will be seen. He was apprehended together with three other people in a house in Santiago that served for meetings and contacts of members of that collective.

The authors of the detention were identified as members of the Air Force Intelligence Service, commanded by a well-known Intelligence Chief. Baeza was taken to the War Academy of that institution, where he was seen by several witnesses. These testimonies contradict the official version provided by the Minister of the Interior who, at that time, denied his detention.

Source: Primera linea June 22, 2001

Date: 22-06-2001