On a day like today, 35 years ago, the city of Concepción would remember the events of August 23, 1984, when an operational group of the now-dissolved Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), composed of active members of the Army and the Carabineros, ended the lives of three alleged subversive elements of the MIR in that southern city (the Mirista Luciano Aedo, killed in Hualpencillo; and his companions Mario Lagos Rodríguez and Nelson Herrera Riveros, respectively, in front of the Vega Monumental and at kilometer one, on the road to Santa Juana).

The operation in Concepción was known as Operación Alfa Carbón, circumscribed within a larger procedure called the “Southern Theater of Operations.” In the ruling issued by Judge Carlos Aldana, in case Rol 11-2009, the names of the CNI agents who proceeded to execute Mr.

Lagos and Mr. Herrera were determined, but to date, there is no information regarding the name of the CNI agent who allegedly executed Luciano Aedo Arias in the Pasaje Nápoles of Hualpencillo. According to the statements of the prosecuted agents, another unknown agent appeared, wearing military attire, a yellow armband also distinctive of the CNI, and a cowboy hat, perhaps 1.80 meters tall (according to the witness agents), who proceeded to replace the Unit Commander, moving ahead of his group, and it was in this way that he took down—after machine-gunning him—Aedo, carrying out this action before the other agents (convicted by Carlos Aldana) could arrest the Mirista Aedo Arias and place him at the disposal of the courts of that time.

MINISTER'S BROTHER WAS A CNI AGENT

However, in a unique and exclusive investigation carried out by our media outlet, it was possible to read, in the CNI Service Record of an Army lieutenant (now retired, disappeared since 2009 and from the same 1975 class as former General Humberto Oviedo) and a copy of which is attached to case Rol V-382-2017 before the 28th Civil Court of Santiago, that the administrative chief of the CNI, Major Jaime del Pozo Hoppe, certified on September 14, 1984, that through O/D (R) Dir.

Nac. No. 091 of the same date, the lieutenant and CNI official was commended for his Professional Preparation, stating verbatim: “He is commended for his excellent professional performance, demonstrated by actively participating against an extremist action carried out by subversive elements, in which a terrorist cell was dismantled, bringing the action to a successful conclusion, a situation endorsed by replacing the Unit Commander, effectively and with optimal results.”

Source: RadioKarios, October 27, 2019

Romy Rutherford’s stepbrother: former military member of the CNI, it is unknown if he is alive or dead

To date, according to Capredena documents, the pension continues to be deposited into the account of the presumed deceased and is eventually collected month by month, it is not yet known by whom or in what form, except that it is not as an inheritance.

In 2008, Rutherford appears to have had an exit from the country, but with no subsequent entries, at least with a legal record. The mysterious disappearance of Luis Guillermo Rutherford López in 2009—a former officer of the Army and the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI)—and stepbrother of Judge Romy Rutherford, is a true puzzle.

It could perfectly well be a simulated case so that, under the protection of his former institution, he could live outside the country and not have to testify in any trial, fully complying with the medical ruling not to do so due to the illness that caused his discharge.

The former military officer has been missing since late 2009, when he was last seen according to close friends. In January of that year, Nora Figueroa—his former partner and mother of his son Diego Rutherford—filed an action for presumed death in the civil courts of Santiago, which has not progressed.

To date, according to Capredena documents, the pension continues to be deposited into the account of the presumed deceased and is eventually collected month by month, it is not yet known by whom or in what form, except that it is not as an inheritance.

In 2008, Rutherford appears to have had an exit from the country, but with no subsequent entries, at least with a legal record. According to his Army Service Record, Luis Rutherford served in the dissolved CNI, as an operational member, until February 2, 1985, when his chief, Manuel Provis Carrasco, removed him from the unit.

This, despite having commendations for his “excellent performance” in a military action against “subversives” that occurred in 1984, in which he replaced the unit commander, in addition to other security actions.

That operation for which he received commendations would apparently be Operación Alfa Carbón, against militants of the MIR, in which a group of leaders of that party was murdered, mainly in Concepción.

Months after that episode, he was hospitalized and diagnosed with “acute paranoid catatonic schizophrenia,” which motivated his discharge, but without his illness being recognized as professional, despite the fact that it can appear as a result of acute psychological trauma.

In the diagnosis, he was placed in a state of interdiction (“...he must not sign any document with administrative or legal validity, nor provide testimony”), it being further determined that the psychotic process “is not recent.” His stepsister, Judge Rutherford, has refused to participate in the proceedings regarding the presumed death, possibly so as not to be recused as a member of the Court Martial, in which she maintains the prosecution of Generals (ret.) Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba and Humberto Oviedo, both former Commanders-in-Chief of the Army, for embezzlement of funds.

Source: elmostrador.cl, January 30, 2020