Víctor Fernando Olea Alegría, single, laborer, and socialist militant, was detained at his home on September 11, 1974, at approximately 18:00 hours, by DINA agents who claimed to be members "of the Intelligence Service." They were traveling in an old, greenish-colored car in which they took the victim away.

The victim's parents had passed away years earlier, so he lived with his paternal aunts. One of them, Raquel Olea Alarcón, was the one who answered the door to the captors and spoke with them. Her nephew was not at the residence at that moment, and she went to look for him in the vicinity.

The following day, September 12, the same agents returned and proceeded to raid the house, particularly Víctor's bedroom, from which they removed several documents and his national identity card.

The arrest and subsequent disappearance of Víctor Olea were part of a DINA operation that culminated in the detention of a group of Socialist Party militants belonging to the 10th Commune. The first of them, Claudio Venegas Lazzaro—a neighbor of Olea—was detained on September 10; then, on September 11, the victim and Leonardo Rivas Balmaceda were detained.

On the 12th, they continued with Juan Carlos González Sandoval, and on the 14th with Bernardo de Castro López, Agustín Holgado Bloch, Luis Olivares Toro, Luis Ahumada, and his spouse, who was released the same day.

On the 16th, they continued with Mario Carrasco Díaz, and days later, on September 23, Juan Luis Tapia and the Spanish citizen residing in Chile, Helios Figuerola Pujol, were detained; the latter had to turn himself in when his mother, Clara Pujol, was detained.

Finally, on the 24th, Eduardo Aliste González was detained, whom the agents had been waiting for at his home since the previous day. Of this entire group, Víctor Olea, Mario Carrasco, Bernardo De Castro, Claudio Venegas, and Eduardo Aliste remain forcibly disappeared to this date, while the rest regained their freedom on different dates, with almost all of them being expelled from the country.

The detainees held until September 16, including the victim, were first taken to the Central Investigations Headquarters (Cuartel Central de Investigaciones), where they were interrogated and fingerprinted.

On the 16th, they were transported, blindfolded, in a Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck to the DINA interrogation center known as Venda Sexy, which was a house located at Irán 3037, at the corner of Los Plátanos in the commune of Macul, where they were placed in the same room.

Later, Juan Luis Tapia and Helios Figuerola were also brought to this facility as detainees. In this place, they were interrogated and subjected to torture. According to the account of Agustín Holgado, those who suffered the torments most systematically and appeared most affected were Víctor Olea, Mario Carrasco, and Claudio Venegas, all of whom are forcibly disappeared.

Helios Figuerola also provided his testimony regarding his time at "Venda Sexy," in which he notes having seen Víctor Olea.

Among the DINA agents identified as participating in these operations is Osvaldo Romo Mena. Furthermore, the vehicles that were seen repeatedly at the various homes of the victims were the car in which they took Víctor Olea, a turquoise-blue Chevy Nova with license plate DC-22 (1974 model), and a red pickup truck with a canopy.

As established in the legal proceedings investigating the disappearance of Claudio Venegas, the plate DC-22 corresponded to a black Chevrolet car belonging to the Investigations Directorate, under the Information Department.

On September 25, they were transferred to the 4 Alamos Prisoner Camp, also under the jurisdiction of the DINA. Between the 28th and the 30th of that same month, they were transferred to Tres Alamos, except for the five detainees who remain forcibly disappeared, among whom is Víctor Olea Alegría.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On October 15, 1974, a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) was filed on his behalf before the Santiago Court of Appeals, case file 1255-74. On December 3 of that year, this writ was rejected by the Court after receiving negative reports from the authorities regarding his detention.

Other efforts made by family members also yielded no positive results regarding the fate of the young Olea.

Source: Corporation Report

The Supreme Court upheld the sanction against five former members of the DINA, including the once-fugitive Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, for two cases of forcibly disappeared persons.

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the sentence of ten years and one day of imprisonment against the former director of the DINA, Manuel Contreras, for the permanent kidnappings of Víctor Olea Alegría and Mario Carrasco Díaz, which occurred on September 11 and 16, 1974, respectively.

In a split decision, the Second Chamber of the highest court also set a penalty of five years and one day for Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, Gerardo Urrich González, and Alejandro Molina Cisternas, while Risiere Altez España received a sentence of 3 years and one day.

The vote in favor of maintaining the penalty came from justices Alberto Chaigneau, Nibaldo Segura, and Jaime Rodríguez, who considered it appropriate to continue applying the legal category of permanent kidnapping; meanwhile, Justice Rubén Ballesteros and lawyer member Ricardo Peralta were in favor of acquitting the convicted individuals by applying the statute of limitations.

The case was handled by Justice Juan Eduardo Fuentes Belmar, who on June 6, 2005, sentenced Contreras Sepúlveda to 4 years; Raúl Iturriaga Neumann to 4 years; Gerardo Urrich González to 4 years; Alejandro Molina Cisternas to 4 years with the benefit of supervised release; and Risiere Altez España to 800 days with the benefit of conditional remission.

However, the following year, the Ninth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals increased the sanctions.

Olea Alegría and Carrasco Díaz were militants of the Socialist Party and, according to the evidence gathered in the case, were held at the facility at Irán 3037, corner of Los Plátanos, known as "Venda Sexy," from where they disappeared in September 1974.

Source: EL MERCURIO - August 22, 2007

Date: 08-22-2007

The former deputy director of the DINA, accused of multiple deaths and kidnappings during the civil-military dictatorship, is the organizer of the initiative scheduled for this Friday at 11:00 a.m.

The controversial ceremony where at least six criminals of the Dictatorship will ask for forgiveness for their acts will be led by the former deputy director of the DINA, Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, who has been convicted of various crimes committed during the regime of Augusto Pinochet.

Iturriaga's criminal record includes the assassination of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert, crimes for which he received a sentence of 15 years and one day; he was also sentenced to 5 years and one day as the perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of Luis Dagoberto San Martín Vergara; to another 5 years and one day as a co-perpetrator of the qualified kidnappings of Mario Edrulfo Carrasco Díaz and Víctor Fernando Olea Alegría; to minor imprisonment in its medium degree as the perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of Félix De la Jara Goyeneche; and as a co-perpetrator of 3 qualified kidnappings of Luis Genaro González Mella, Luis Omar Mahuida Esquivel, and Antonio Patricio Soto Cerna.

Additionally, he is accused as the perpetrator of two qualified kidnappings, that of Mario and Nilda Peña in December 1974; and as a co-perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of Jorge Grez, in the so-called Operation Colombo in July of that same year.

The former deputy director of the DINA was also prosecuted as a co-perpetrator of 38 qualified kidnappings. According to information revealed in the last few hours, he is the organizer of the initiative that will take place at 11:00 a.m. this Friday in the courtyard of Punta Peuco.

Source: diario.uchile.cl 12/22/2016

Date: 12-22-2016

Justice applies new thesis in ruling on human rights violations

The justice of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Juan Eduardo Fuentes Belmar, who is in charge of the investigation of 56 human rights cases transferred to him from 4 judges with exclusive dedication, issued a sentence in the first of them and applied a new legal thesis regarding the crime of qualified kidnapping.

Juan Fuentes argued in his resolution that as of March 11, 1990, the date on which the first post-dictatorship government (presided over by Patricio Aylwin) took office, the repressive agencies ceased to exist, for which reason he set that date as the consummation of the crime of kidnapping in the case of these 2 opponents of the dictatorship.

Taking that thesis into consideration, the magistrate decided to apply the gradual statute of limitations for the illicit acts and, therefore, reduced the sentences he handed down against the leadership of the dissolved National Intelligence Directorate (DINA).

Thus, he sentenced Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, Raúl Iturriaga Neuman, Gerardo Urrich González, and Alejandro Molina Cisternas, in their capacity as perpetrators of this crime, to 4 years of minor imprisonment in its maximum degree, while he sentenced Risiere Altez España (nominally) to suffer the penalty of 800 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree.

For Contreras, Iturriaga, and Urrich, he determined that they must serve their punishment in deprivation of liberty. Meanwhile, he granted Molina Cisternas the alternative benefit of supervised release.

The first-instance sentence was issued on July 6, in case file 76.667-A. In it, it is established that on September 11 and 16, 1974, respectively, Víctor Fernando Olea Alegría, 24 years of age, and Mario Edrulfo Carrasco Díaz, 16 years of age, both militants of the Socialist Party, were deprived of liberty without a legal order, taken to the Central Investigations Headquarters of Chile, and subsequently removed by a Carabineros officer acting for the National Intelligence Directorate—DINA—and transferred to the clandestine detention center known as "Venda Sexy" or "Discoteque," a facility where they were subjected to interrogation and torture. Their whereabouts have been unknown since then, as has the fate of their physical and mental health and personal integrity, without them having made contact with family or friends, without any record of them leaving or entering the country, and without any proof of their death.

It is further established that the Army officers belonging to the DINA exercised command over the other members of the operational groups called "Brigades" and "Groups," among these the "Purén Brigade," and answered to the orders of the officer who held the position of Director of the National Intelligence Directorate.

The resolution rejects the application of the amnesty law, considering March 11, 1990, as the maximum date to consider the continuation of the qualified kidnapping, given that on that date all the institutions established in the 1980 Constitution began to function and individual guarantees began to prevail in full, and the police agencies were subjected to the control and direct supervision of the administrative authority.

Therefore, he points out that it must be concluded with an objective, logical, rational, and realistic criterion that the deprivation of liberty of the victims could only be maintained until March 11, 1990, it not being possible, due to the mere circumstance of their whereabouts being unknown, to prolong it beyond the period in which the de facto government of the Armed Forces ended and the democratic government assumed power, that date being the one that must be considered for the consummation of the kidnapping crimes of Víctor Olea Alegría and Mario Edrulfo Carrasco Díaz.

He adds that to estimate it otherwise would be to depart from the principles of reality and reasonableness that the Judge is obliged to respect in the fulfillment of his jurisdictional function, the purpose of which is to obtain the material truth, so necessary for coexistence and social peace.

Consequently, it is not appropriate to consider the crimes within the period established in the amnesty law, the temporal scope of which only includes crimes perpetrated in the period that fluctuates between September 11, 1973, and March 10, 1978.

In accordance with the date indicated as the end for the commission of the crimes—March 11, 1990—it is appropriate to apply the gradual statute of limitations for criminal action, considering the act as being covered by two or more highly qualified mitigating circumstances and no aggravating ones.

Source: EL MOSTRADOR - July 7, 2005

Date: 07-07-2005

Court of Appeals to reduce deadlines

Despite the positive evaluation, it is indicated in the courts that entering the final phase of the investigations is a factor that suggests it is not necessary to have "so much time" to continue with their work. It is indicated that only four of the five exclusive judges would remain in this rank, and a new magistrate would be added to the select group.

In the final stretch of their investigation, the five judges with exclusive dedication await the next Monday, July 22, for the Santiago and San Miguel Courts of Appeals to rule on the extension of the deadlines to continue with their human rights proceedings, although on this occasion it is expected that the work periods will be shortened.

This is the first time that the appellate courts will analyze the status of the special judges, after the Supreme Court delegated this responsibility to the direct superiors of the sitting magistrates.

In light of the progress of the proceedings, judicial sources estimate that four of the five magistrates would remain. Those continuing in the race would be the head of the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago, Raquel Lermanda; of the Eighth Criminal Court of Santiago, María Inés Collin; the head of the Fourth Criminal Court of San Miguel, María Teresa Díaz; and the head of the First Court of Letters of San Bernardo, Cecilia Flores.

Forecasts say that the magistrate of the Tenth Criminal Court, Juan Antonio Poblete, would be excluded from the select group, the only one on the team who has not prosecuted anyone in his cases and who—according to the same sources—will hardly advance in his cases.

In contrast, it is assumed that the head of the Third Criminal Court of Santiago, Mario Carroza, will re-enter the group, as he has already requested his change from preferential to exclusive status from the Supreme Court.

The Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior did the same a few days ago, whose director, Luciano Fouillioux, met with the president of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Carlos Cerda, requesting the incorporation of Carroza.

Despite the optimism surrounding the evaluation of the magistrates, there is also the certainty that there is little to nothing left to do in some proceedings, a fact that would influence the extension being more limited and no longer for three months.

The answer remains in the hands of the appellate court, which will set these deadlines based on the report that the magistrates submit monthly and which is deepened at the end of their period with a more extensive document.

It is estimated that if there are pending proceedings that are practicable and that contribute to the investigation, there would be no obstacles to the extension. In that line, the report of the visiting justice of each court plays a decisive role.

The cases Regardless of the final resolution of the Court, the magistrates continue to advance in their cases. Thus, the most important turn is the one adopted by the Ninth Criminal Court in the so-called Air War Academy (AGA) case.

Judge Lermanda is trying to unravel whether the version of a former Air Force conscript who told the Archbishopric that three agents transported an inert body, covered with bags, from the basement of the AGA to a helicopter that took it to an unidentified location is accurate.

The information provided at the Dialogue Table indicates that the final destination of the corpse would have been the sea, and Judge Lermanda's leads indicate that—preliminarily—it could be José Luis Baeza, the only forcibly disappeared person mentioned in the extensive process that already totals three thousand pages.

The thesis is handled with absolute caution for fear that there may be errors or that it may be another person.

In this case, retired Lieutenant Franklin Bello Calderón, retired Colonel Ramón Cáceres Jorquera, retired General and former director of the Air Force Intelligence Service (Sifa) Edgar Cevallos Jones, and former Gendarmerie official José Aladino Cerda Córdoba are under prosecution for the homicide of Alfonso Carreño and the disappearance of José Luis Baeza, both detained in July 1974.

The investigations carried out by the magistrate have also contributed to the parallel process regarding survivors of the AGA, which is sponsored by Codepu in the same court, and to the review appeal of retired General Alberto Bachelet, which remains pending in the Supreme Court.

In parallel, the magistrate is advancing in the final stage of the Víctor Olea Alegría case, a forcibly disappeared person at Venda Sexy. In this case, the top leadership of the DINA was charged, including retired Brigadier Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, Gerardo Urrich, and Alejandro Molina Cisternas, a retired Carabineros officer.

In another court, the Fourth of San Miguel, magistrate María Teresa Díaz also has the investigation into the disappearance of Cecilia Bojanic Abad, on October 2, 1974, when she was three months pregnant, finalized. Orlando Manzo Gutiérrez, former head of the 4 Alamos Prisoner Camp, was prosecuted in the case.

For the disappearance of Alonso Gahona, the magistrate charged Eduardo Cartagena Maldonado, an Air Force civilian; Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa, retired Carabineros Captain; Luis Palma Ramírez, Air Force civilian; Otto Trujillo Miranda, Air Force; and Fernando Patricio Zúñiga Canales, also an Air Force civilian.

In the Eighth Court, Judge Collin has been a complete surprise to the human rights community. From the beginning, the magistrate was envisioned as having a profile reluctant to these processes; however, with the passage of time, there was a drastic turn to the point of establishing that she has 80% resolved in the processes she is handling.

In fact, the only point against her is the case of Oscar Rojas Cuellar, a process that she has not been able to clarify due to a lack of evidence, and it is presumed that the dismissal will be issued shortly.

In another court, the San Bernardo Court of Letters, magistrate Cecilia Flores stands out for her role in the Cerro Chena case, but she has also recorded progress in the Jenny Barra case and transferred one of her processes regarding the Comando Conjunto—the death of communist militant David Edison Urrutia—to the hands of magistrate Carroza.

The balance of the plaintiff lawyers in these processes is favorable, to the point of thinking that the closing of the summary and the beginning of the plenary period are imminent.

Source: PRIMERA LÍNEA - July 10, 2002

Date: 07-10-2002

Court of Appeals grants freedom to retired General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann

The first chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals decided to grant bail to retired General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, who is being prosecuted for the kidnapping of socialist militant Víctor Olea Alegría.

The resolution of the capital's appellate court revoked the decision of the judge with exclusive dedication to human rights violation cases, Raquel Lermanda, who had rejected the benefit.

However, Iturriaga will remain in detention at the Army Telecommunications Command, because he continues to be prosecuted for his involvement in other human rights violation cases.

Olea Alegría was detained on September 11, 1974, at his home on Pedro Lagos Street, in the commune of Santiago.

Later, together with other socialist militants of the "Tenth Commune," he was taken to "Venda Sexy," one of the most unknown sites where opponents kidnapped by the dictatorship's repressive services were tortured, and used as a transit place for detainees who were later transferred to Villa Grimaldi.

In this case, retired Sub-officer Miguel Hernández Oyarzo and retired Brigadier Gerardo Urrich González remain under prosecution.

Source: PRIMERA LÍNEA - June 25, 2002

Date: 06-25-2002

Manuel Contreras prosecuted for disappearance of socialist militant

The head of the Ninth Criminal Court of Santiago, Raquel Lermanda, decided to prosecute the former head of the dissolved DINA, retired General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, in his capacity as the perpetrator of the kidnapping of socialist militant Víctor Olea Alegría.

The magistrate with exclusive dedication to human rights cases thus completed the indictment of the entire chain of command of the repressive unit in charge of this crime, the so-called Purén Brigade, reported El Mostrador.

Among those prosecuted in this case are former Carabineros officer Alejandro Molina Cisternas, retired Sub-officer Miguel Hernández Oyarzo, retired Brigadier Gerardo Urrich González, and retired Army General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.

Olea Alegría was detained on September 11, 1974, at his home on Pedro Lagos Street, in the commune of Santiago.

Later, together with other socialist militants of the so-called Tenth Commune, he was taken to the detention center known as "Venda Sexy"—located at Irán 3037, corner of Los Plátanos in the commune of Macul—one of the most unknown sites where opponents kidnapped by the dictatorship's repressive services were tortured, and used as a transit place for detainees who were later transferred to Villa Grimaldi.

Source: PRIMERA LÍNEA - May 23, 2002

Date: 05-23-2002

Carabineros officer prosecuted for disappearance of socialist

Former Carabineros officer Alejandro Molina was prosecuted for the 1974 kidnapping of Socialist Party militant Víctor Olea Rodríguez, who has been missing since the DINA center known as "La Venda Sexy." This was ruled by the head of the Ninth Criminal Court, Raquel Lermanda, one of the eight judges with exclusivity for human rights cases.

The magistrate became the first exclusive judge in the Metropolitan Region to submit a former State agent to prosecution for a case entrusted by the Supreme Court. Olea was detained on September 11, 1974, and taken to the detention center known as "Venda Sexy," one of the most unknown sites where opponents kidnapped by the military regime's repressive services were tortured, and used as a transit place for detainees who were later transferred to Villa Grimaldi.

Source: PRIMERA LÍNEA - December 11, 2001

Date: 12-11-2001

Ambush on key DINA, Comando Conjunto, and CNI cases

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

The hour of the DINA

The net tightens around the DINA with the case of MIR militant Carlos Cubillos Gálvez, detained in 1974 on a street in the commune of Ñuñoa. Witnesses indicated that he was taken to the Londres 38 facility and nothing more was heard of him. His case—file 11337/6—is in the Eighth Criminal Court of Santiago.

In that same court is the case of MIR militant Juan Carlos Perelman (file 12193-8), who was detained in 1975 by DINA personnel along with his partner, who was released some time later. The Rettig Report 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 last seen at the Londres 38 facility. His case No. 2310-00 is also 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 investigated by a special judge in the 11th Criminal Court of Santiago.

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

The judge with 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 last seen at Londres 38.

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

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

Towards other repressive agencies

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 Supreme Court's mandate 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 along with his brothers in 1974 and remained imprisoned for six months.

In 1976, he began to collaborate with the Comando Conjunto, a process that lasted until June 7 of that year. The former Comando Conjunto agent Andrés Valenzuela confessed that he was killed along 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, is the case of Alonso Gahona Chávez, who allegedly died as a victim of repeated torture along with Humberto Castro in the so-called "Nido 20." This was the name of the secret detention and torture facility located at Santa Teresa 037, near the 20th stop of the Gran Avenida in Santiago.

This facility operated during 1975 under the control of DIFA agents, with whom civilians from nationalist or extreme-right groups collaborated.

The exterior guard of the facility was in charge of students from the Air Force School of Specialties. Gahona, a leader of the workers of the La Cisterna Municipality and a communist militant, known as "Yuri," had been detained on September 8, 1975, on a public street. His corpse was allegedly wrapped in plastic and, apparently, thrown into the sea.

Miguel Rodríguez Gallardo was taken from the facility called "Remo Cero," of the Colina anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and possibly buried on military land in Peldehue. Case 10617 of the Fourth Court of San Miguel will attempt to reach the bases of the Comando Conjunto.

A special judge will also 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, only 22 years old.

Ramos was detained inside the government palace by military personnel, along with Antonio Aguirre Vásquez. As a result of their wounds, both were taken to the Posta Central, where there is a record of their stay. They were taken from there by uniformed personnel, and their whereabouts have been unknown since then.

In the Eighth Criminal Court of Santiago, the case of another GAP member, Mario Ramiro Melo, a retired Army officer who disappeared on 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, along 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 along with three other people in a house in Santiago that served for meetings and contacts for members of that group.

The perpetrators 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 LÍNEA - June 22, 2001

Date: 06-22-2001