The man who gave the most headaches to Juica and the Fifth Department of the Investigations Police was Hernán Mikele, known as "el facho" (the fascist) among his colleagues at the CNI. He is a former FACH officer and later a civilian officer for the CNI.

Hernán Mikele was arrested last year and subsequently released due to lack of evidence, and his is perhaps the case that presented the most complexities for Judge Juica and the team from the Fifth Department of Investigations (DV).

This is because the former agent, in 1999, managed to evade the reach of justice for almost a year by using a false identity, dyeing his hair, changing his address, and traveling through various cities in the country.

On that occasion, the DV searched for him in La Serena, where he had relatives, but they did not locate his whereabouts. Civil police officers later located him in the city of La Unión, Tenth Region, where he was working as security personnel at the company of another acquaintance.

Investigations located him and attempted his arrest, but just one day before raiding the location, he had departed for an unknown destination, according to qualified sources who spoke to this media outlet.

In police jargon, there is an old adage: everyone who flees from justice returns to the fold. Mikele had a partner in the commune of Maipú and, knowing this, the DV maintained "fixed surveillance points" for weeks, until one day the former agent arrived at the location.

The detectives attempted his arrest and, faced with Mikele's resistance, the officers used physical force. But this year, at the beginning of October, following several testimonies that implicated him in Operation Albania, the judge ordered his arrest again and indicted him.

Source: El Mostrador, Saturday, November 4, 2000

Active DINE commander and former FACH officer. Juica indicts two other officers for the Albania case

The indictment orders were issued in mid-October and had been kept under extreme confidentiality by the investigating judge of the case, Milton Juica. Visiting Judge Milton Juica, who is investigating the case known as Operation Albania, indicted active-duty Lieutenant Colonel of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE), Eric Silva, as a perpetrator.

Furthermore, he indicted the former Air Force officer and civilian employee of the defunct National Information Center, Hernán Mikele, known among his peers as "el facho," also as a perpetrator. The information was obtained exclusively by El Mostrador from military, judicial, and police sources.

Both were indicted approximately fifteen days ago, but until now their names had not reached the press, as Judge Juica has maintained extreme confidentiality in his investigation. Juica's discretion is due to the fact that former CNI officers and lower-ranking personnel have begun to confess how the defunct intelligence service mounted an operation to cover up the kidnapping followed by the homicide of 12 militants of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, on June 15 and 16, 1987, in four different locations in Santiago, as can be inferred from the indictment orders issued by the magistrate.

Juica had also kept the indictments secret because in the coming days he was going to add them to another list of defendants that he will make public.

Source: EL MOSTRADOR - Saturday, November 4, 2000