Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera. Current director of the Aeronautical Museum was key in Operation Condor

According to a document that is part of the Archives of Terror regarding repression in the Southern Cone during the military regimes, the current Director of the National Aeronautical and Space Museum, Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera, played a predominant role in Operation Condor, personally delivering the invitation to the First National Intelligence Meeting convened by the head of the Chilean DINA, Colonel Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, to formalize the creation of this repressive network.

Jahn, then Deputy Director of Foreign Operations for the DINA, according to his own judicial statements, is mentioned twice in the passport forgery case—a judicial process aimed at determining how DINA agents Michael Townley, Armando Fernández Larios, and “Liliana Walker” obtained the false passports to travel abroad with the mission of assassinating Letelier.

Jahn himself was summoned to testify on July 10, 1978, in the same case, identifying himself on that date as "Head of the Interior Government Department of the Government Junta's Advisory Committee," and stating the following: “I performed functions in the former DINA during the years 1973, 1974, 1975, ceasing my functions in December of the last of the years referred to.

During the year 1974, I was the second-in-command of the DINA, and in 1975 I became the third, due to the arrival of a Navy Officer senior to me, Captain Rolando García Le Blanc... ...I can point out to the court that I traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Panama, and Spain, as well as to Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay, and also to Guatemala...

All of these were service missions—many of them for the acquisition of equipment or simply of a protocol nature.”

Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera is currently the Director of the National Aeronautical and Space Museum, located at Av. Pedro Aguirre Cerda 5100, Cerrillos. El Mostrador spoke with Jahn to request an interview to clarify his role in Operation Condor, but he refused, and his response was the following: “I do not talk to journalists or anyone about politics or Operation Condor.

I have no version to tell anyone, and I am not interested in doing so.”

Source: El Mostrador, July 5, 2000

FACh Colonel (ret.) in prison for crime against MIR member

Judge Alejandro Solís prosecuted FACh Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera for the crime against former MIR member Hugo Martínez González, an event that occurred in 1975 at Villa Grimaldi.

The retired FACh officer, who was placed in pretrial detention, served as acting director of the DINA when the incumbent, Manuel Contreras, was out of the country executing the Condor Plan.

“In the case of Hugo Martínez, Mario Jahn's participation is very verifiable,” maintained Loreto Meza, a lawyer for the Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior.

The current Director of the National Aeronautical and Space Museum, Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera, played a predominant role in Operation Condor, personally delivering the invitation to the First National Intelligence Meeting convened by the head of the Chilean DINA, Colonel Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, to formalize the creation of this repressive network.

Jahn, then Deputy Director of Foreign Operations for the DINA, according to his own judicial statements, is mentioned twice in the passport forgery case—a judicial process aimed at determining how DINA agents Michael Townley, Armando Fernández Larios, and “Liliana Walker” obtained the false passports to travel abroad with the mission of assassinating Letelier.

Source: fasic.org, June 1, 2010

Army rehires officers implicated in human rights cases

A high-ranking government official recently came face-to-face with a vehicle driving brazenly against traffic through the La Reina commune. Since he had a driver, the official thought it was an official car and thought about the criticism the act could unleash. He noted the license plate and planned to reproach whoever was the unruly driver for their poor behavior.

But the car did not belong to La Moneda; it belonged to the Army.

According to a journalistic investigation by La Nación, the anonymous passenger was Brigadier (ret.) Jaime Lepe Orellana, the former secretary-general of the Army and right-hand man to General Pinochet, who has been hired as a civilian by the institution, despite having retired amidst a stormy controversy over his connection to the homicide of the Spaniard Carmelo Soria, which occurred in 1976.

Lepe's rehiring was confirmed by a high-ranking source in the Ministry of Defense, who requested anonymity.

This is not the only case. The source confirmed that Brigadier (ret.) Miguel Krassnoff Marchenko is in the same situation, having been prosecuted for the disappearance of several political prisoners at Villa Grimaldi.

Lepe Orellana serves as an advisor to the Military Industry Command, while Krassnoff is still the manager of the Military Officers' Hotel, located at Providencia 1219, although he is currently suspended because he has been detained by judicial order at the Telecommunications Command since November of last year.

When asked about the new functions of Lepe and Krassnoff, the Ministry of Defense revealed last Friday that both provide services under contract and as civilians for the institution.

"The Army has been informed of the inappropriateness of this situation continuing," said the source consulted at the Ministry. "The Army expressed understanding of our point of view." Therefore, that department expects "measures to be taken."

According to the source consulted, the hiring of both is legal "but constitutes an inconsistency with the spirit of collaboration in human rights matters that the Army has demonstrated through the dialogue table."

The Army's Public Relations Department declined to provide information or comment on these facts. The practice of hiring retired uniformed personnel as civilians allows them to improve their pension with a second income.

Nothing extraordinary

According to a person very close to Miguel Krassnoff—who spoke on condition of anonymity—the retired officer hopes to return to his job at the hotel as soon as he is granted the provisional release he has repeatedly requested from the Fourth Criminal Court of San Miguel, where the disappearance of Manuel Cortés Joo is being investigated.

That file has just passed into the hands of the special judge Juan Guzmán. The magistrate also prosecuted Krassnoff for the disappearance of several political prisoners at Villa Grimaldi, but granted him the right to provisional release.

"Miguel Krassnoff is not the only officer involved in these types of cases who provides services as a civilian in the Army. It is a generalized situation," states the source close to the military officer.

It is common for uniformed personnel who retire due to service reasons to be rehired as civilians by their institution, and being linked to trials for human rights violations is not an impediment, he reveals.

"There is nothing questionable about it. These are not people who are per se sadistic, fascist, cruel, or whatever one wants to call them. They are obedient officers who were just over 20 years old when these events occurred. They only followed orders and, furthermore, developed an impeccable career. It is normal for the Army to want to continue counting on their services," he explains.

Lepe, meanwhile, was never prosecuted, as the trial investigating the death of Carmelo Soria was amnestied by the Supreme Court, but President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle vetoed his promotion to the corps of generals in 1997, amidst a bitter public controversy.

Thus, the man who kept General Augusto Pinochet's agenda became a brigadier without an assignment until September 2000, when he retired. On that occasion, the Minister of the Interior, José Miguel Insulza, praised his departure.

Carmen Soria recalled that, as stated in judicial investigations and in the testimonies of former agents José Ríos San Martín and Michael Townley, Lepe disguised himself as a carabinero to kidnap her father and later allegedly participated in the torture sessions that were practiced on him.

"Political exiles, who committed no crime other than thinking differently, could never work in the public administration again," she opines. "And yet, these people who are linked to atrocious crimes continue to enjoy privileges at the expense of all taxpayers. It is a mockery and an atrocity."

Not only in the Army

Among the background information that emerged in the trial for the crime against Tucapel Jiménez is that two former agents of the Army's National Intelligence Directorate (DINE), Manuel Contreras Donaire and Miguel Letelier Verdugo, provided services to the Army on a fee basis until, by virtue of the indictment against them, they were placed in pretrial detention.

According to sources close to their defense, their services "were necessary since it involves intelligence and secret service personnel. One does not have to fly very high to assume that there is certain information and contacts that are maintained despite having retired." However, the source denies unofficial information that they would continue to collaborate sporadically from confinement.

According to the background information, it is not only in the Army that personnel implicated in accusations of human rights violations have been rehired.

In the Air Force, former DINA agent Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera has been the director of the Aeronautical and Space Museum, which reports to the Civil Aeronautics Directorate, since he retired in the mid-80s.

In the 70s, Jahn Barrera was one of the DINA chiefs who, using the pseudonym Luis Gutiérrez, became the "roving ambassador" between the countries that formed the cooperation network in repressive tasks known as "Operation Condor," according to background information that emerged from the so-called "archives of terror" of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship and which are part of the complaint filed against him before special judge Juan Guzmán.

Barrera, however, does not appear as prosecuted in this case.

One of the pilots of the "Caravan of Death," Emilio Robert de la Mahotiere, has worked since 1996 in Operational Security of the Aeronautics Directorate, in a contract that is renewed annually. In his case, although his participation as the military pilot who transported the group commanded by Sergio Arellano is proven in the trial, Judge Juan Guzmán did not consider him deserving of criminal punishment.

The Communications Department of the Aeronautics Directorate responded that "we do not provide information about the details of our institution's staff."

FACh gives explanations for rehiring officers implicated in human rights cases

The Chilean Air Force (FACh) responded this morning through various channels that there is no legal impediment, "nor can one discriminate" in the rehiring of retired personnel, in response to allegations that officers implicated in human rights violations during the military regime had returned to that institution.

Also on this subject, the Army declined to refer to the jobs given to Brigadiers (ret.) Miguel Krassnoff and Jaime Lepe.

Although the institution declined to provide an official version, a high-ranking source stated that "as long as there is no judicial conviction, one cannot discriminate against a person."

At the same time, the FACh Communications Department clarified that one of the questioned former officers, Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn Barrera, was rehired as director of the Aeronautical Museum and as such does not depend directly on the Institution, but rather on the National Civil Aeronautics Directorate.

Meanwhile, FACh lawyer Jorge Balmaceda clarified that the DFL1 or Armed Forces Statute allows for the call to active service and the hiring of former personnel, so there is no legal impediment. "The fact that crimes have been committed or not is of a personal nature, so the courts of justice must pronounce themselves through due process of law, not through speculation or simple statements," the professional pointed out.

Army

The Army will not make any reference to the subject of the rehiring of retired personnel who participated in the former DINA—the cases of Brigadiers Miguel Krassnoff and Jaime Lepe—and who are allegedly involved in human rights violations.

It was reported that these are already known matters and that the authorities who can refer to the subject are on a tour with the commander-in-chief of the institution, Lieutenant General Juan Emilio Cheyre.

Source: Primera Línea, April 16, 2002

Former DINA agent rehired is "funado" (publicly shamed)

With the traditional shout "if there is no justice, there is funa," accompanied by banners and drums, a group of thirty people protested against the director of the Aeronautical Museum, Mario Jahn Barrera, rehired by the FACh after his retirement from the institution in the mid-80s and whom they accused of playing a fundamental role in the repression exercised by Augusto Pinochet's regime.

The spokesperson for the Comisión Funa, Alvaro Muñoz, pointed out that Jahn was deputy director of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and participated actively in the coordination of the "Condor Plan," a joint initiative that in the 70s sought to eliminate opponents of the military regimes of the Southern Cone.

He also described it as "unworthy for the country" that a retired member of the FACh who participated in human rights violations was rehired to direct a museum visited mainly by children.

The protest took place in front of the Aeronautical Museum, located on Camino a Melipilla, which remained closed to the public yesterday and under heavy police protection.

According to a flyer handed out at the site by the Comisión Funa, in 1973 Jahn was part of the FACh intelligence service and interrogated and tortured members of the institution who did not support the coup d'état.

Furthermore, the flyer adds, in 1975 and by express instruction of the DINA director, Manuel Contreras, Jahn allegedly visited the intelligence chiefs of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru to invite them to participate in the "Condor Plan."

According to the Comando Funa, the retired military officer allegedly cooperated to hide former agents of the military regime abroad, such as Carlos Herrera Jiménez in Argentina; Osvaldo Romo Mena in Brazil; and Miguel Estay (alias "El Fanta") in Paraguay.

Source: Primera Línea, May 6, 2002

Santiago and Concepción Courts of Appeals issue resolutions in Human Rights cases

Two visiting ministers investigating trials for human rights violations issued resolutions in the cases they are instructing in the jurisdictions of the Courts of Appeals of Concepción and Santiago, respectively.

In the first place, Minister Carlos Aldana, of the Penquista appellate court, issued a first-instance conviction in the investigation into the aggravated kidnapping of Adán Valdebenito Olavarría, which occurred starting on September 24, 1974, in the city of Lota.

The magistrate sentenced Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda to a penalty of 541 days and Orlando Manzo Durán to a penalty of 61 days of suspended prison for their responsibility as author and accomplice of the crime of aggravated kidnapping. In the case of Contreras Sepúlveda, the time he has remained in pretrial detention was considered served.

Meanwhile, Minister Alejandro Solís, of the Santiago Court of Appeals, issued an indictment in the investigation into the aggravated homicide of Ramón Martínez González, which occurred on January 13, 1975, in Santiago.

The magistrate indicted Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, Mario Jahn Barrera, Marcelo Moren Brito, Fernando Lauriani Maturana, and Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko for their responsibility as authors of the aforementioned crime.

Regarding the indicted Contreras Sepúlveda, Moren Brito, and Krassnoff Martchenko, pretrial detention was ordered, annexed to the sentences they are already serving. Regarding the indicted Lauriani Maturana, the benefit of provisional release is maintained, and regarding the indicted Jahn Barrera, his entry into pretrial detention was ordered for considering him a danger to society.

Source: Radio Bio Bio, June 18, 2010

Minister Solís indicts former FACh officer for human rights violations

It was determined that Mario Jahn Barrera was in charge of the DINA at the time of Hugo Martínez González's death.

Today, Judge Alejandro Solís decided to order the indictment and pretrial detention of retired FACh Colonel Mario Jahn Barrera for human rights violations.

According to the background information held by the magistrate, Jahn allegedly participated in the crime against MIR member Hugo Martínez González, who died in 1975 at Villa Grimaldi, in his capacity as acting director of the National Intelligence Directorate between February and December of that year.

Although the incumbent was Manuel Contreras, it was established that at the time of Martínez's death, he was on a tour in Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, within the framework of the Condor Plan.

Regarding the judge's decision, the lawyer for the Ministry of the Interior's Human Rights Program, Loreto Meza, told Radio Cooperativa that "the truth is that in the case of Hugo Martínez, Mario Jahn's participation is very verifiable. He was acting director of the DINA at the time Manuel Contreras was out of the country."

In addition to Jahn, Contreras, Miguel Krassnoff, Marcelo Moren Brito, and Fernando Lauriani were indicted—former members of the Armed Forces who are already deprived of liberty at the Cordillera Prison.

Source: Emol.com, June 21, 2010

Former deputy director of the sinister DINA, Colonel (ret.) Mario Jahn, dies. He was an organizer of the Condor Plan aimed at forcibly disappearing people

Cambio21 learned that in the last few hours, retired FACh Colonel Mario Jahn Barrera passed away; he was the second-in-command of the DINA when General (ret.) Manuel Contreras (the "Mamo") was the director of the dictatorship's secret police.

Jahn had been indicted in 2010 for the crime against a MIR leader. He held a record: he organized the Condor Plan, which united right-wing Latin American dictatorships against people who thought differently from those de facto governments.

Nearly 40,000 people from Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia were murdered or forcibly disappeared as a result of this sinister plan, organized in our country.

This Tuesday, it was learned that the former deputy director of the DINA, Pinochet's secret police, retired FACh Colonel Mario Jahn Barrera, passed away at the institutional hospital on Apoquindo Street last Sunday.

The hospital refused to report the cause of Jahn's death, but unofficially it was indicated that his death was due to a respiratory problem.

The military officer's funeral was held at the Parque del Recuerdo, and his mass took place this Tuesday at the Inmaculada Concepción Parish in the Vitacura commune.

The sinister history of the "Mamo's" second-in-command at the DINA

Mario Jahn Barrera was 85 years old at the time of his death and had graduated as a FACh cadet in 1946. At the time of the coup d'état, and with the rank of Colonel, he went to "work" at the National Intelligence Directorate, the sinister DINA, which was directed by the also Colonel, but of the Army, Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, the "Mamo."

Jahn quickly adapted to being the second-in-command of the DINA—often even acting for Contreras when he went to "work" abroad—serving as deputy director of the secret police during the years 73, 74, and 75, the bloodiest years of the repression of Pinochet's DINA, where nearly 2,500 Chileans died at the hands of the agents of that political-military organization.

When he appeared before the courts for human rights crimes, Mario Jahn ratified his participation in the DINA. He stated this verbatim: “I performed functions in the former DINA during the years 1973, 1974, 1975, ceasing my functions in December of the last of the years referred to.

During the year 1974, I was the second-in-command of the DINA, and in 1975 I became the third, due to the arrival of a Navy Officer senior to me, Captain Rolando García Le Blanc..."

Jahn Barrera used the pseudonym or alias "Luis Gutiérrez" and became the "roving ambassador" between the countries that formed the cooperation network in repressive tasks known as "Operation Condor," according to background information that emerged from the so-called "archives of terror" of Alfredo Stroessner, the former Paraguayan president.

This was Jahn's most sinister task: he organized and coordinated the Condor Plan, an organization that united the secret police of Latin American dictatorships whose fundamental motive was to kill or forcibly disappear opponents of the de facto regimes that had been established in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guatemala, and other nations.

Unofficial data indicates that more than 40,000 people died at the hands of the Condor Plan, which was singularly organized in Chile.

Furthermore, Jahn, on a tour of the countries with dictatorships, personally delivered the invitation to the First National Intelligence Meeting convened by the then-head of the DINA, Colonel Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, to formalize the creation of this repressive network. That meeting was held in 1974 in Santiago. It was the summit of terror.

A year ago, Judge Alejandro Solís sentenced the head of the DINA, Manuel Contreras, to 15 years in prison, and four other agents of the organization for the aggravated homicide of MIR militant Ramón Martínez, 23 years old, in 1975.

Contreras added 278 years in prison in sentences ratified by the Supreme Court. Along with Contreras, former Brigadier Miguel Krassnoff Marchenko (the one from the tribute by former mayor Labbé) and former Colonels Marcelo Moren Brito, Fernando Lauriani Maturana, and Mario Jahn Barrera were sentenced.

According to the case file, Ramón Martínez was detained on January 6, 1975, on a public street by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate, murdered at Villa Grimaldi, and then forcibly disappeared.

Thus, the long arm of justice also managed to convict Jahn Barrera for crimes against humanity, a situation that had not occurred for more than 20 years.

Source: Cambio21, June 9, 2013

Joint Command. Who they are and where they are

When Judge Mario Carroza decides to place General (Ret.) Patricio Campos in preventive detention, surely to prosecute him for obstruction of justice, and General Ríos hides behind administrative leave and visits to units far from the capital, the Comando Conjunto seems to be living its final chapters under the institutional protection of the FACH.

However, its agents—those men and women who kidnapped, tortured, murdered, and ultimately forcibly disappeared dozens of leftist militants—continue, for the most part, to live normal lives. A few are detained in units of the Air Force itself, but others are business owners or FACH officials, living quietly in military villas, voting, and walking the streets like any other citizen, even appearing at social evenings like those frequented by "la Pochi" alongside her husband.

El Siglo hopes, with this special report, to make a contribution toward ending that impunity.

The so-called Comando Conjunto (CC) was an intelligence group that operated approximately between late 1975 and early 1977, and whose main objective was the repression of the so-called Central Force of the MIR, and the central committees of the Communist Party and the Communist Youth.

During this period, according to the Rettig Report, it was responsible for the disappearance of nearly 30 people. Other sources cite more than 70.

Known internally as "the unit," it was formed primarily by agents belonging to the Air Force Intelligence Directorate (DIFA) and later with significant participation from personnel of the Carabineros Intelligence Directorate (DICAR).

It also counted, to a lesser extent, on the participation of agents from the Naval Intelligence Service (SIN) and some personnel from the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE). In addition, members of the Chilean Investigative Police and civilians from the far-right group Patria y Libertad collaborated with this Command.

Chambers of Horror

Among the first torture sites, even before being called the Comando Conjunto, appears the Air War Academy (AGA), which operated from late 1973 until late 1974, formally under the charge of the Aviation Prosecutor's Office, which in practice coordinated closely with the Air Force Intelligence Service (SIFA).

General Bachelet and many FACH officers were tortured in its basements. José Luis Baeza Cruces, a member of the PC Central Committee who is currently forcibly disappeared, was also there. Fernando Matthei, the director of the AGA at the time, has been summoned to testify regarding this case.

In January 1975, when the SIFA vacated the AGA, it moved the detainees to a house in Santiago, located in the Apoquindo sector, about two blocks from the Las Condes Municipality. This property was used as a secret detention center until March 1975 and was under the charge of agents from the recently created DIFA.

After that date, the DIFA offices moved to Juan Antonio Ríos N° 6, where the Intelligence Community operated, while the detainees were distributed between the Colina Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment ("Remo Cero") and a hangar inside the Cerrillos airport.

Another clandestine torture center is the one known as "Nido 20," located at Calle Santa Teresa 037, near the 20th stop of Gran Avenida, in Santiago. As a result of the torture inside, Alonso Gahona Chávez, now a forcibly disappeared person, died.

Humberto Castro Hurtado was also beaten to death there. Today, the house hosts the National Corporation of Laryngectomees (those operated on for laryngeal cancer).

The facility known as "Nido 18" was used exclusively to practice torture. It is a location situated at Calle Perú 9053, in the La Florida commune in Santiago, near the 18th stop of Vicuña Mackenna. In this center, according to witnesses, Arsenio Leal Pereira took his own life under the pressure of the torture to which he was being subjected.

At "Remo Cero," alongside FACH agents, members of the Naval Intelligence Service and some Army agents operated. The staff of the Carabineros Intelligence Directorate was more numerous. Civilians from Patria y Libertad also acted there.

Several detainees were allegedly taken from there by helicopter to be thrown into the sea, among them Humberto Fuentes Rodríguez and Luis Moraga Cruz. There are also witnesses who affirm that Ricardo Weibel Navarrete, Ignacio González Espinoza, Miguel Rodríguez Gallardo, and Nicomedes Toro Bravo were taken from there to be murdered and buried on the military grounds of Peldehue.

Some detainees died in this facility as a consequence of torture, among them José Sagredo Pacheco.

This location was frequently visited by a doctor who treated several detainees and supervised the torture.

A facility located at Calle Dieciocho N° 229, which had been the headquarters of the newspaper El Clarín and passed into the hands of the Carabineros after the military coup, was known as "La Firma." The Carabineros Intelligence School was installed there, some of whose professors were members not only of DICAR but also of the Comando Conjunto.

Adjacent to this building is another property connected to it, in the rear of which the CC operated clandestinely. Various communist prisoners were held in this location, among them Carlos Contreras Maluje, Juan René Orellana, Luis Emilio Maturana, and Juan Antonio Gianelli, who were taken from that place to be murdered and buried clandestinely at Cuesta Barriga, and José Weibel Navarrete, who was subsequently murdered in the Cajón del Maipo sector.

In 1985, "La Firma" would be used to kidnap a dozen teachers and the three communist professionals who would later appear with their throats slit on a rural road in Quilicura. Other properties used interchangeably by the SIFA and the CC, where detainees were held temporarily, included a property in the Bellavista neighborhood that had belonged to Sergio Bushmann, where single members of the CC lived, and the Las Tranqueras Police Station, used while a United Nations human rights delegation was visiting, so that such detainees could not be located in the better-known detention centers.

AGA: School of Torture

Witnesses who survived the torture at the Air War Academy remember as their captors and torturers, among others, Generals Orlando Gutiérrez Bravo and Juan Soler Manfredini; Commanders Sergio Lizasoaín Mitrano, Edgar Cevallos Jones, Jaime Lavín Fariña, Carlos Godoy Avendaño, Juan Bautista González, Ramón Cáceres Jorquera, and Humberto Velásquez Estay; the FACH colonel and doctor Humberto Berg Fontecilla; Colonels Sergio Sanhueza López and Javier Lopetegui Torres; Captains León Duffey Treskoff, Juan Carlos Sandoval, Alvaro Gutiérrez, Jaime Lemus, Florencio Dublé, Contreras, and Fullogher (head of the permanent guard); the lawyer Julio Tapia Falk; legal advisors Cristián Rodríguez, Jaime Cruzat, and Víctor Barahona; Lieutenants Juan Carlos Sandoval, Luis Campos, José García Huidobro, Víctor Matig Guzmán, Franklin Bello, and Gonzalo Pérez Canto; Sergeant Hugo "chuncho" Lizana, Sub-officer Juan Normabuena, Corporal Eduardo Cartagena, and 2nd Corporal Gabriel Cortés (who changed his name).

One of the survivors of the AGA, Commander Ernesto Galaz, recalls that:

"I was arrested along with General Bachelet, Vergara, and Colonel Miranda, who worked with me. They took us to the basement of the (Public Works) ministry, where the investigation began with a prosecutor who asked us things only to then send us as detainees to the Colina Air Base, where we stayed until the 20th in quite dignified conditions, treated as prisoner-of-war officers.

That day they took us out with an unusual deployment of troops, setting up a ridiculously complex operation; they put us on a helicopter and transferred us to the Air War Academy. Here they put the 4 of us in a room, one in each corner, and a mob of officers and sub-officers entered, put hoods on us, tied our hands, and began the beatings and torture.

They kept us for entire days without sleep, without drinking or eating, until they took us to testify before Prosecutor Gutiérrez, who had been my classmate at the School and who witnessed all the torture to which we were subjected.

He insistently wanted us to endorse his version; he wanted us to affirm that the story about Plan Zeta, the theft of documents, the espionage, the treason, the contacts with the MIR and the PC was true. Everything they were inventing to justify the coup.

It is a bit shameful to admit it, but we ended up signing what they presented to us after the long sessions of torture, the electric shocks to the genitals, having our fingernails lifted with pins, having cords passed between our legs and pulled to lift us by our testicles. Those documents are the basis of the courts-martial: confessions extracted under torture.

Afterward, they took us to a room where we sat, facing the wall, without hoods but with enormous fear, since at any moment they would come to get us to take us to torture, to the application of electricity.

I was there until the end of November. Of the 4 who started, we increased until we reached about 105, although there were hundreds of uniformed personnel who passed through the AGA. The 105 of us were transferred to the El Bosque Polytechnic Academy, where they installed us in four rooms, sitting, facing the wall, with a sentry at the door who was constantly clicking the safety of his rifle to let us know of his presence.

I presume they were conscripts, because in one of the rooms one of them had a shot go off and killed Corporal José Espinoza Santis. Obviously, Corporal Espinoza was buried with full military honors, presented as one of the victims of the Marxists."

The Final Steps

On Tuesday, October 8, Judge Mario Carroza ordered the preventive detention of the former Director of Civil Aeronautics and husband of "la Pochi," Patricio Campos Montecinos. The reasons of the head of the Third Criminal Court of Santiago for leaving him in custody at the El Bosque Air Base are based on the very possible verification that Campos committed the crime of obstruction of justice by providing false data to the Dialogue Table.

Until the complaint made by La Nación, General Campos was the fifth-ranking officer in the FACH and one of the possible successors to the current Commander-in-Chief of the institution. Installed by Ríos at the head of the team that decided what information to provide, his responsibility in the obstruction also points to the person who embodies the current FACH command, so following the line of Judge Carroza, who already interrogated former Commander-in-Chief Fernando Rojas Vender, it would not be strange if Ríos himself were to join Campos, Ruiz Bunger, and "mono" Saavedra at the El Bosque Base.

For their part, the associations of relatives, the CUT, the Communist Party, and various spokespersons of the Concertación continue to exert pressure so that, as soon as possible, Patricio Ríos leaves the building at Zenteno and Alameda, the place where the high commands of the Armed Forces are located.

Other Professionals of Crime

Colonel Horacio Otaiza, alias "pata de oso," died under strange circumstances.

Luis Rolando Pacheco Valdés, FACH Colonel (Ret.). Head of the Colina Air Base at the time the "Remo Cero" torture center was operating inside it. Prosecuted by Minister Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association.

Rubén Samuel Romero Gormaz, Carabineros General (Ret.), head of the DICAR at J.A.R. 6. Prosecuted by Carlos Cerda as the author of illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira.

Freddy Enrique Ruiz Bunger, FACH General (Ret.). Head of the DIFA at J.A.R. 6. Prosecuted as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira.

He is currently being prosecuted by the head of the 25th Criminal Court of Santiago for the kidnapping of Víctor Vega, and by Joaquín Billard of the First Criminal Court of Santiago, for the disappearance and death of Juan Luis Rivera Matus.

Minister Mario Carroza subjected him to prosecution for the crime of qualified kidnapping of Víctor Vega, David Urrutia, Juan Carlos Orellana, and Ricardo Weibel, and the illegal detention of survivors Isabel Stange, Jaime Estay, and Amanda Belisco.

Minister María Teresa Díaz, of the Fourth Criminal Court of San Miguel, prosecuted him for the disappearance of Alonso Gahona Chávez and Miguel Rodríguez Gallardo.

Mario H. Vivero Avila, FACH General (Ret.), Aviation Judge, and commander of the Santiago garrison in 1976. Prosecuted as the author of criminal illicit association by Carlos Cerda in 1986, amnestied by Judge Manuel Silva Ibáñez. Currently, Minister Hazbún of the 25th Criminal Court is prosecuting him as a cover-up for the illicit association and the disappearance of Víctor Vega.

Father-in-law of the FACH Chief of Staff, Mario Avila, one of the possible successors to Patricio Ríos in the Command-in-Chief. Avila commanded the Hawker Hunters that bombed the Tomás Moro presidential house on September 11, 1973.

Carlos Arturo Madrid Hayden, FACH Commander (Ret.). Vice-commander of the Colina Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment where the "Remo Cero" torture center operated. Prosecuted by Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association, while Judge Hazbún considers him an accomplice to the kidnapping of Víctor Vega.

Minister Joaquín Billard, of the First Criminal Court of Santiago, is prosecuting him as the author of qualified kidnapping in the case of Juan Luis Rivera Matus.

Germán Alfredo Esquivel Caballero, Carabineros Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), in charge of counterintelligence at DICAR. Prosecuted as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira.

Roberto Fuentes Morrison, alias "Wally," ID 3.469.587-3. During the Popular Unity, he stood out in the paramilitary groups of Patria y Libertad, where he met several of those he would later bring to the CC.

As a FACH Squadron Commander, he joined this criminal illicit association, becoming one of the operational chiefs recognized as one of the cruelest torturers. He was prosecuted by Carlos Cerda due to his participation in dozens of kidnappings, torture, executions, and disappearances of MIR and PC militants.

In mid-1989, he was riddled with bullets at the exit of his house. Jorge Arnoldo Barraza Riveros, Investigative Police Commissioner (Ret.). Alias "El Zambra." Prosecuted as an accomplice to the criminal illicit association.

Germán Enrique Pimentel Ceballos, FACH Commander (Ret.), coordinator of special operations. Prosecuted by Minister Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira.

Luis Enrique Campos Poblete, FACH Commander (Ret.). Prosecuted by Carlos Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association. Marco Alejandro Cortes Figueroa, Investigative Police Inspector (Ret.). Alias "Yoyopulus." Prosecuted as an accomplice to the criminal illicit association in the Cerda case.

Pablo Arturo Navarrete Arriagada, Carabineros Colonel (Ret.) assigned to DICAR. Prosecuted as an accomplice to criminal illicit association by Minister Cerda.

Manuel Antonio Salvatierra Rojas, Investigative Police Sub-prefect (Ret.). Alias "Negro" (ID 6.195.828-2). Prosecuted by Minister Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association. Humberto Villegas, Carabineros Second Sergeant (Ret.).

Alias "Don Beto." Prosecuted by Carlos Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the disappearance of Reinalda Pereira and Edrás Pinto.

Also appearing as collaborators is Brigadier General (Ret.) Jorge Dagoberto Alicera Carrasco, former head of the Colina air base, who in 1978 was a colonel and served as director of communications and electronics for the Air Force.

Jacobo Atala Barcudi, Director of FACH Intelligence, currently retired. In 1977, he served as an interim aviation judge. Ramón Pedro Cáceres Jorquera, alias "Comandante Matamala," a FACH prosecutor accused of torturing prisoners at the Air Force Hospital. Prosecuted in the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago for the disappearance of Luis Baeza Cruces and the murder of Alfonso Carreño Diaz in 1974.

Nicanor Díaz Estrada, Air Brigadier General (Ret.), served in 1973 as a colonel and director of the Air War Academy (AGA). Mario Ernesto Jahn Barrera, Colonel (Ret.), served as head of the FACH counterintelligence department and provided services in the DINA; as deputy director of that organization, he traveled through the Southern Cone of America inviting the security chiefs of the dictatorships to constitute what is known as Operation Condor.

Until March 2002, he was Director of the Aeronautical Museum located at Cerrillos Airport.

Eduardo Enrique Fornet Fernández, former director of FACH intelligence. Germán Segundo Campos Vásquez, Carabineros officer (Ret.). Santiago Luis Callejón Vera, who was also a bodyguard for General (Ret.) Gustavo Leigh Guzmán.

Sergio López Díaz, Army officer. Subjected to prosecution by the head of the First Criminal Court of Santiago, Joaquín Billard, as the author of the crime of qualified kidnapping in the case of Juan Rivera Matus. Roberto Serón Cárdenas, alias Satín, FACH Colonel (Ret.), head of the CC investigation team (according to "Colmillo Blanco").

Sergio José Manuel Linarez Urzúa, FACH General (Ret.).

René Arturo Peralta Pasten, FACH officer (Ret.), served as director of intelligence. Juan Manuel Duran Baeza, FACH official.

Rubén Morales Cubillos, FACH official.

Patricio Ernesto Pérez Villagrán, FACH officer (Ret.), taught counterintelligence at the institution's intelligence school.

Franklin Bello Calderón, FACH Lieutenant (Ret.), prosecuted in the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago for the disappearance of Luis Baeza Cruces and the murder of Alfonso Carreño Diaz in 1974.

José Aladino Cerda Córdoba, Gendarmerie official, prosecuted in the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago for the disappearance of Luis Baeza Cruces and the murder of Alfonso Carreño Diaz in 1974.

Miguel Angel Perucca López, FACH reservist. Víctor Misael Robles Mella, FACH officer (Ret.).

Luis Eduardo Rojas Campillay, FACH official.

Patricio Eugenio Saavedra Rojas, FACH Commander (Ret.).

Lénin Figueroa Sánchez, ID 4.633.329-2.

José Florentino Fuentes Castro, ID 5.340.552-5.

Francisco Hidalgo García, 2.633.797-6.

Francisco Segundo Illanes Miranda, ID 4.294.918-3.

Ernesto Arturo Lobos Gálvez, ID 5.082.345-8.

Also prosecuted by Minister Carlos Cerda were Gustavo Leigh Guzmán and Julio Eladio Benimelli Ruz, who died under various circumstances. Indicted as accomplices are Carabineros Colonels (Ret.) Italo Astete Sermini, Gonzalo Jiménez Huerta, Raúl Enrique Montt Carvajal, and Federico Luis Smith Ibarra.

Also Lieutenant Colonels Graciano Bernales Pérez, Juan Bezzemberger Schwarz, and Luis Humberto Villagra Rebeco. As cover-ups for the kidnappings of Reinalda Pereira and Edrás Pinto, Investigative Police Sub-commissioner Federico Infante Lillo and officer Jorge Mondaca González, both retired, were indicted.

In the process opened by Carlos Hazbún, Carlos Pascua Riquelme, Juan Arturo Chávez Sandoval, and Alejandro Sáez Mardones ("El Pegaso," serving a life sentence for the degollados case) are subjected to prosecution.

Manuel Barra Von Kretschmann, ID 1.614.559-9, head of the Naval Intelligence Service in the Intelligence Community. Frigate Captain at the time of the coup, part of the DINA leadership in 1974 and deputy director in 1975.

In 1977, he became part of the CNI. He was prosecuted as an accomplice to the criminal illicit association and the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira by Minister Cerda.

Edgar Benjamín Cevallos Jones, ID 2.895.236, FACH Colonel (Ret.). Director of the DIFA and later the SIFA, torturer at the Air War Academy, and "Wally's" boss in the CC. Alias "Inspector Cabezas." Prosecuted by Carlos Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira.

Prosecuted in the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago for the disappearance of Luis Baeza Cruces and the murder of Alfonso Carreño Díaz in 1974.

Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola, alias "Jano" and "mono," ID 4.124.917-K, FACH Colonel (Ret.). Group Commander of the Air War Academy, where he was in charge of the interrogations and torture of his comrades loyal to the government, among them Alberto Bachelet.

In 1976, he was named Director of the Colina Air Base and joined the CC, replacing Edgard Cevallos in the position of operational chief. In 1977, he moved to the Intelligence Community. Until the early 90s, he was active in the FACH with the rank of colonel.

He was prosecuted by Minister Carlos Cerda and is now sought by Judge Hazbún in the case of the disappearance of Víctor Vega. Minister Mario Carroza subjected him to prosecution for the crime of qualified kidnapping of Víctor Vega, David Urrutia, Juan Carlos Orellana, and Ricardo Weibel, and the illegal detention of survivors Isabel Stange, Jaime Estay, and Amanda Belisco.

Daniel Luis Enrique Guimpert Corvalán, Navy Lieutenant (Ret.), ID 4.638.149-1, prosecuted as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira. He is currently being prosecuted by Judge Carlos Hazbún for the kidnapping of Víctor Vega.

Eduardo Enrique Cartagena Maldonado, alias "Lalo," ID 5.083.760. FACH Sub-officer (Ret.). CC agent since 1975, participating in kidnappings, torture, and disappearances of numerous communist leaders between that year and 1976.

After the dissolution of this organization, he joined the Air Force Intelligence Service (SIFA). He is being prosecuted in the 4th Criminal Court of San Miguel for the kidnapping and torture that caused the death of Alonso Gahona Chávez.

He also appears indicted in the process opened by the judge with preferential dedication Carlos Hazbún, head of the 25th Criminal Court, regarding the kidnapping and disappearance of Víctor Vega Riquelme that occurred on January 3, 1976. His last known address is Del Rey 394, Maipú.

Miguel Arturo Estay Reyno, ID 6.446.545-7, alias "El Fanta." Former communist militant, he went from informant to agent after being detained in 1975. Knowledgeable about the internal structures of the Communist Youth and the PC, he was a vital piece in the detention of its main leaders, among whom were Carlos Contreras Maluje, José Weibel, Fernando Ortiz, and Waldo Pizarro.

He participated in the kidnapping of his former comrade Manuel Guerrero, who was one of the few who managed to escape the clutches of the CC, but in 1985 he kidnapped him again, this time with DICOMCAR agents, to finally slit his throat along with José Manuel Parada and Santiago Nattino.

Prosecuted by Minister Cerda and amnestied by Silva Ibáñez, he is currently serving his life sentence in Colina for the murder of the three communist professionals and is being prosecuted for the disappearance of Víctor Vega.

César Luis Palma Ramírez, alias "El Fifo." ID 6.387.372-1. Patria y Libertad militant detained in August 1973 for his participation in the homicide of presidential aide Arturo Araya, amnestied after the coup d'état by Admiral Adolfo Waulbaum.

A friend of "Wally," who brought him to the CC. According to Andrés Valenzuela, "El Fifo" participated in the murders of José Weibel Navarrete, Miguel Rodríguez Gallardo, Humberto Fuentes Rodríguez, and the agents of the same organization Carol Flores (alias Juanca) and Guillermo Bratti, all disappeared to date.

He is also named among those who executed communist leaders Lincoyan Berríos, Fernando Navarro, Fernando Ortiz, Waldo Pizarro, Luis Lazo, Juan Gianelly, Horacio Cepeda, Héctor Véliz, and Reinalda Pereira, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy, at Cuesta Barriga.

Prosecuted by Minister Cerda in 1986, he appears today in the cases of Alonso Gahona and Víctor Vega. His last known address is El Quilo 5535, Quinta Normal, where the cooling equipment factory FRIGOMET LTDA. operates, where they claim not to know him; however, his phone-fax 7738010 continues to be in the name of Palma Ramírez.

Leonardo Alberto Schneider Jordán, alias "El Barba." ID 5.521.250-3. Former MIR militant, agent. Accused by numerous survivors of having participated in their detention and torture at the Air War Academy.

He would later join the brigade dedicated to repressing the MIR in the DINA. Prosecuted for torture and permanent kidnapping in at least two Santiago courts. His last known address is Las Hualtatas 4966, phone 2633546, Vitacura.

Roberto Alfonso Flores Cisterna, alias "El Huaso." ID 7.767.975-8. FACH Soldier (Ret.). On September 11, 1973, as a FACH soldier at the El Bosque Air Base, he participated in interrogations and torture of detainees.

Because of his "ability," he was sent to continue his work at the Air War Academy under the command of Edgard Cevallos. In 1975, he became part of the CC, being responsible for the kidnapping, torture, and disappearance of dozens of communist militants.

Until the mid-90s, he remained in active service in the SIFA; today he appears working in the trade sector. His last known address is Villa Tantauco, Block 10282, Apt. 31, San Bernardo.

Alejandro Jorge Forero Alvarez, ID 5228186-5, cardiologist. Medical Association Registry 9580-K. Squadron Commander and doctor who was working at the FACH Hospital at the time of the coup d'état. In 1976, he provided services as a second soldier at the El Bosque Air Base and at the Colina Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

In this place, he participated in the CC, supervising the torture and drugging the prisoners who were taken out to be disappeared. He was subjected to prosecution by Judge Carlos Cerda in the middle of the dictatorship and today is again sought by Judge Hazbún in the Víctor Vega case.

He was the first person "funado" (publicly shamed) in Chile, on October 1, 1999, at his office in the INDISA Clinic. He is a member, among other organizations, of the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine, where he is listed with the INDISA address, and of the Chilean Society of Cardiology, where he appears with his private practice: Av.

Apoquindo 6275, office 116, and the email address forero@entelchile.net. His last known address is Camino La Brisa 14.199-2, Lo Barnechea, telephone 2161253.

Otto Silvio Trujillo Miranda, ID 5.684.434-1, civilian agent, alias "Colmillo Blanco" in a La Nación report. DC militant in his youth, he later joined Patria y Libertad where he met "Wally," who would take him to the CC and save his life in a dispute between this organization and the DINA; along with Carol Flores and Guillermo Bratti, they provided information to Contreras's men.

Since before the coup d'état, he belonged to the Military Intelligence Service (SIM); later he was called by Fuentes Morrison to be part of the security team of the Ministry of Agriculture and the CC.

He participated in the kidnapping, torture, and disappearance of dozens of leftist militants until his expulsion due to the incident with the DINA. His "contacts" allowed him to take charge of a security company in southern Chile, after which he was involved in numerous lawsuits for fraudulent checks.

He is on the list of those prosecuted by Carlos Cerda and in the cases opened for the disappearance of Alonso Gahona and Víctor Vega.

Guillermo Antonio Urra Carrasco, alias "Willy." ID 6.687.227-0. FACH Second Corporal (Ret.). Operational agent of the CC since its formalization in 1975. He was prosecuted by Judge Carlos Cerda for his participation in the kidnapping, torture, and disappearance of dozens of leftist militants.

According to direct witnesses, he is responsible for the execution of prisoners in the Cajón del Maipo (among them José Weibel and the agents Carol Flores and Guillermo Bratti), at Cuesta Barriga (among others Horacio Cepeda, Fernando Ortiz, and Reinalda Pereira), and for throwing others into the sea off the coast of Quinteros.

Today he is being prosecuted again, this time for the Víctor Vega case. His last known address is Santa Blanca 1990, Las Condes.

Viviana Lucinda Ugarte Sandoval, ID 7.298.556-7, FACH Second Corporal (Ret.), assigned to the DIFA and the Comando Conjunto. Alias "La Pochi." Wife of General Patricio Campos Montecinos, Director of Civil Aeronautics until the complaint made by La Nación.

Prosecuted by Minister Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the disappearance of Reinalda Pereira and Edrás Pinto, amnestied by Judge Manuel Silva Ibáñez. Patricio Campos Montecinos maintained, until March of this year, Mario Jahn Barrera in the position of Director of the Aeronautical Museum.

Fernando Patricio Zuñiga Canales, 5.974.807-6, alias "Chirola." FACH Sub-officer (Ret.). As a soldier at the El Bosque Air Base, he participated in the torture of his comrades-in-arms. He was then transferred to the Air War Academy to fulfill the same functions and from there went on to be part of the DIFA.

In 1975, he joined the CC, in which he participated in the kidnapping, torture, and disappearance of dozens of leftist militants, among them Víctor Cárdenas, Carlos Durán, Luis Maturana, Humberto Castro, and Davíd Urrutia.

He was also present at the execution of Bratti and Flores. He belonged to the FACH Intelligence Service (SIFA) at least until the early 90s. He was prosecuted by Minister Cerda and today appears in the cases of Alonso Gahona and Víctor Vega.

His last known address is Pasaje Simón Bolivar 1298, San Bernardo.

Jorge Rodrigo Cobos Manríquez, 5.890.505-5, FACH reserve lieutenant, from Patria y Libertad. Alias "Kiko" or "Elefantito" (ID 5.890.505-4). Prosecuted by Minister Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association and an accomplice to the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira. Judge Hazbún subjected him to prosecution for the disappearance of Víctor Vega.

Pedro Ernesto Caamaño Medina, FACH Sub-officer (Ret.). Alias "Peter," ID 7.024.319-9. Operational agent at the "La Firma" torture center. Prosecuted by Judge Carlos Hazbún for the kidnapping of Víctor Vega.

Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa, ID 4.842.855-K, Carabineros Major (Ret.). Alias "El Lolo." He stood out for his cruelty in the CC, returning to the Carabineros with the rank of captain. In the DICOMCAR, he shared duties with his "colleague" from the CC, Miguel Estay Reino.

In this organization, he appears involved in the murder by throat-slitting of Juan Antonio Aguirre Ballesteros in 1984. He was prosecuted by Minister Cerda; subsequently, he was sentenced to 5 years and one day for his participation in the murder of José Manuel Parada, Manuel Guerrero, and Santiago Nattino.

Today he appears prosecuted for the kidnapping and disappearance of Alonso Gahona, in the 4th Criminal Court of San Miguel, and in the case handled by Judge Hazbún for the kidnapping and disappearance of Víctor Vega.

Alejandro Fígari Verdugo, ID 6.693.227-3, alias Luty, from Patria y Libertad, second in command of the detention team, after Fifo Palma (according to "Colmillo Blanco").

Alex Damián Carrasco Olivos, FACH official, bodyguard for Leigh, Fernando Matthei, and Ramón Vega. Alias "Loco Alex," ID 6.243.426-7. Operational agent of the Comando Conjunto.

Julio Federico "Alvaro" Corbalán Castilla, Army Major, liaison between this institution and the CC. In 1980, he assumed the head of operations of the National Intelligence Center (CNI). Sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of the carpenter Juan Alegría Mundaca, carried out to cover up the murder of Tucapel Jiménez.

Implicated in the Operation Albania massacre, the disappearance of five Rodriguez-front militants in September 1987, the deaths of four leftist militants in revenge for the attack against Pinochet, and hundreds of illegal kidnappings and torture against Chileans.

The head of the First Criminal Court of Santiago, Joaquín Billard, subjected him to prosecution as the author of the crime of qualified kidnapping in the case of Juan Rivera Matus.

Raúl Horacio González Fernández, ID 6.519.815-0, FACH official (Ret.). Alias "Rodrigo" or "Wally Chico." Witnesses affirm that he participated in the detention of José Weibel. Prosecuted as an accomplice to the illegal detention of Amanda Velasco Pedersen in the 25th Criminal Court.

Antonio Benedicto Quiros Reyes, ID 3.189.349-6, FACH Colonel (Ret.) and head of the Counterintelligence Department during the years of the CC. Prosecuted by Carlos Cerda as the author of criminal illicit association.

Andrés Pablo Potin Lailhacar, ID 5.390.709-1, CC civilian agent. Alias "Yerko." Patria y Libertad militant detained in August 1973 for his participation in the homicide of presidential aide Arturo Araya. Prosecuted by Judge Hazbún as a participant in the kidnapping of Víctor Vega. Today he appears as a businessman in the computer sector with an office at Américo Vespucio Norte 2506.

Robinson Alfonso Suazo Jaque, ID 7.641.894-2, FACH soldier (Ret.). Alias "Jonathan." Torturer at the AGA. Prosecuted in the 25th Criminal Court for the kidnapping and disappearance of Víctor Vega.

Juan Luis Fernando López López, ID 5.790.799-1, code name "Pantera," FACH group commander, head of the CC logistics and detention team (according to "Colmillo Blanco").

Alberto Roque del Sagrado Corazón Badilla Grillo, ID 5.164.080-2, Navy officer belonging to the Ancla 2 group of the Naval Intelligence Service. In 1974, he was part of the DINE and later the CC. He served in the DINA, where he met "flaca" Alejandra, of whom he was a lover.

In 1977, he moved to the CNI. He was prosecuted as an accomplice to the criminal illicit association and the kidnapping of Edrás Pinto and Reinalda Pereira by Minister Cerda.

Source: elsiglo.cl, October 11, 2002

Judicial Statement of Colonel Mario Jahn Barrera: Operation Condor Case

I performed duties in the former DINA during the years 1973, 1974, 1975, ceasing my duties in December of the last of the years referred to. During the year 1974, I was the second Chief of DINA and in 1975 I became the third, due to the arrival of a Navy Officer more senior than me, Navy Captain Rolando García Le Blanc... ...I can point out to the tribunal that I traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Panama, and Spain, as well as to Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay and also to Guatemala...

All these were service missions—many of them for the acquisition of items or simply of a protocol nature.