Case No. 51.925-1: Illegal burial of Grober Hugo Venegas Islas w.- Testimony of Bernabé Ernesto Vega Velásquez, on pages 690 and 692, who states that he joined the CIRE (Regional Intelligence Center) in 1974, the year said unit was created, where his superior was an Army Captain whom he mentions, and which included officials from other branches such as the Carabineros, the Army, the Investigations Police, and the Navy, which he identifies; that upon starting at the CIRE, along with the other members, he had to take an oath, and if they did not comply, they would have to face the consequences.

That there, he volunteered to drive for the General Staff, which consisted of maintaining a card index containing data related to investigation orders issued by the Army, such as political activists who had to be investigated; he never volunteered for work when asked because it was highly likely that it involved executions or because those things were always shrouded in shadows.

He states that he did not know Grober Venegas Islas, whose photograph on page 341 is shown to him, and that he never went to the Valle de Azapa in the company of the person he mentions to carry out any covert operation.

However, he admits to having participated in 1975 in another operation, regarding a homosexual who was causing trouble at the El Morro Detachment, and whom his superior, whom he names, ordered to be "taken out" [“piteárselo”], an operation in which he admits to having killed said subject, along with others he mentions, including his superior and Mercado.

The aforementioned background information motivated the separation of documents from the case file ordered on page 1,103 and their formation into a separate volume, titled, "Homosexual Episode."

Source: Judiciary, November 8, 2011