CHILE(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: COVERT ACTION CHILE
• Keywords: CHILE
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005492957
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2000-01886
• Publication Date: May 12, 1975

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DATE: 05-09-2011
 NEW YORK TIMES
' ? ~ gives free Rein to Secret Polio
~~i~e
ur'dia,~unversities and govern-~ The secret police apparatus'
' By JONATHAN KANDELL I mental circles in Western has grown t;o such . a degree
s~eaatwsn.aexYoesT.mu ,~ countries. ~ .? that It has become a parallel
SANTIAGO. Chile. May 5- ' 'government, in the view of
After 20 raonxhs in power Last week President Au;usto human-rights lawyers ahd con-
riulochet Ugarte unveileii a nevi' corned clergymen. ? There are
1~lile's military junta shows series of rules- to prevent "abu. five intelligence sen7ces, with
f~ signs of dismantling the ses of powe6 that the Govern-.one or two of them rapidly
mast apparatus of political =e- ment has never approved." gaining more'power than the
~?sssio Catned~to "extirpate '1'hey;eall for .the punishment. hasL expanded rthroughou~ he
? of torturers and require that shantytowns, factories, schools .
?; The uiiiiiary took over when nay detainees be released with- '
She country was bitterly polar- ~ five days .or 'turned over
itaed. between an anti-Marxist to the; courts, Ititelllaence.servI-
'C~f1Pst'minorit
'
aril a:
majority
y, cos must inform a detai;lee's
,snd rapidly drifting toward eco- nearest relatives ? within 48
aom:c chaos and a possible civil i7ours:of his arrest.
.aas:.}3ut fxoul its beginning the+ ~~ junta's domestic critics
jtslta has chosen to treat the remaifl skeptical because scores
follon~ers of the late President are still 'arrested every' week
halt odor Allende Gossens as a; and allegations of torture con-
vanquisIled enemy capable atj tinue ;io make their way into
any time of posing a strong) Pubic, records. '
On ;.Itiarch I9' Luis. Guillermo
~trrrorist threat. ~_.. Nunez, one of .Chile's best-
' According io Govsrnment es?
ftsmstes .more ?llan ~i1,000
~peogle --- one ? of ~ every 250
Cf~eans-ha-re been d~tai?ned
Satz least temoocarl7Y for naliti?
known painters, ? wars invited
to exhibit a series of fris works
at the:: French-Chi[eaa''Institute
of Cultuce. About .500 people
turned up at the opening exhi-
bit of his abstracts, an~. such
-'"`-.-,,. :.. ,.,,.,_..~.. ,.~.,, >.~~,e( h1leRat10r1 a,nd?loss of_ireedom.l
?~aon'cerned themselves with po-~ respite the fact tnac the
,, show was partly sponsored by
~Iitica] prisoners be,leve that they the FYench Embassy. it was
figure is closer to 55,000, ones quickly closed by, the.' sel:ret
=c+% eve~?~r IfiO.~Bot': the Gowen- police,~The next day Mr. Nlinex
~m_nt and if.: .'.omcstic critics tivas arested at Home by secret
,? ~OwMV .,-y.~.rT ' i11."t thC?t? :_.?^ ~)t}=1CF,'1'1Pn . wi20...:~000TGj1T1(y* : t0;
-^~? ^;ighbors. arrved in a
_~Lijt r,r'`:.~ ~ePr7le Ira ;trlf~?il. 5A1111 ?iSiC^tlp truck.?,il:i rll~-~
:- ged? an app". fora
~'?::.:?r ??1.i~. ,~,'L'itl)'=r5 Qi p:?Ahi~' ~ l::rlt Oi habeas co~uS. }3llt ]le
. w_ .., i':YC .~ %i3~?fltiU~l lil ~. o G'3; tiCCr, heard trU.i:.
-.:.. ^% 's.:,+;1': ti is ?' Cnllp { ':..1St .^?l0at2 J~all Sr?n4lV?da
-
~+;iel:ds j Arancibi::, . 4?-yea;-o'??:' ? ourler jfriends in. apart.-rlents ' -rented
?~`:_ , .;~*,~'.~ :';?: ~;~E~u
.., ~~+: t'.e arr?:sts and (c: an >+clo repair ,:;tor, was Iby alt ford intelligence. After
- lrrr:'~tCti ::^'th tvc .. :i.' rOnS a ~:aC.::Un, On E3StP-C ISla:ld?
_ ;; ?~'i: ?:c derecti i ,.;,u a,?ere he c .~tt asci: b.e_: t:il~ir.:.
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~rld universities. ~ipplicants to
.public agencies are often
screeneli -by -.the -intelUgsnc~e
services.- - --
The a;ents are ai2ale to i'gnnse
standards of conduet set 6y
the Government for other offi-.
cials and ordinary citizens.' Oa
casionally, an intelligence offi-
cial's eccentric ? reputation
spreads beyond .the confines
of, ctandestine . interrogation
centers. _ ~ - - ~' ' ? ? .
:This is true of Comdr. Edgar
Cebatlos. a leader of air force
intelligence, a burly man in
his early forties who has repor-
tedly often taken a personal,
hand in torture.
"With leftist military' officers
~ who were detained he. was .a
bast and worked 'then; over
with .a.~ ? ?uncontrollFCi anima .
fury," said a man couain-
+ted with several ce~~lr~~etims.
With?~ civilian suspa, saame
of them Left-wing extreuaa'is~, "
he has mi ed severe torte~le.
with personal courtesies._ it as.,
said. He has ~ invited some~
to "snacks 3t Nico's, a _well-
Itnowr. pizzera` in an. ,upper-
class neighborhood: Sometimes
'
he i. ~ angel rendezvcxrs fns
prisoners.. with their vro3naal
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were planning to overthrowllez 'was allegedly a member~by her son in an appeal to lion with the. purpose of pm-
Dr. Alleride's Marxist regime. of an extreme left?wing group. a Santiago court for a writ during the intelligence necessa-
Commander Ceballos succeeded Civilians Hurt by Rivalry . of haaeas corpus, lie co.m- xy .to .fermulata.,policies,..pli!n?
in- obtaining 'for "Ivlr. 'Perk 'a 'The intelligence rivalry "has plained th~;t mate leis efforts ning and the adoption of maa-
relatively light '15?year sec- occasionally enveloped civElians to k Fria ? through?suses to assure national securi-
[ante, which he has been serv- beyond suspicion of l~f4i,.s~t pi's- Gvmrm~oemt ~d aciilitary than. ity arnd the daveTapment of tte
ing as a sort of personal sacra= vibes. ~ had I ~u.?sabk tao~~country""
[ary for the commander. On April ?8 ??Elenai AGetos obwsin any, inftsssseatla~n. -',rte sage ~cxeE ;giw-es the
Another protege is Adolfo Formes, a businesswoman, sat ? Broad riiandate Given? ? . agency unlimited' access to "t:`te
!Puz, a Socialist who led a in her living room negotiating DINA is tad by an army resources that ~ are necessary
bazooka attack against a police with an officer to rent an apart- colonel, Manual Contreras, and for its financing" and ailos~s
bus during the coup. One of with an officer to rent an apart- most of its agents, estimated, it duty-free .imports of equip..
the fe~v incidents of resistance, ment to air force intelligence:at 1,000, arc army intelligence men[" and :acaessor~cs, presume
the attack killed more than'for an interrogation'center. lofficers and enlisted men, Wit, ~ ' int+a mrsd sn,`
a dozen.policemen. Two men in civilian clothesit includes members of othe a+rstiga
Mr. Puz has not yet been 'lmorked on her. door. identified] military and police branches .Its agents afrnost alaraejat
;sentenced; Commander Cabal- themselves as members? of~as well as a gmwing number wear civilian clothes. xarrir
los convinced the mili?taryIDIYA and announced that they of women. ~ ? display identification da;tt-'
courts to try him on violation had come to arrest her. 'Nhenf .The decree creating the agen- menu and drive in unmarkef
of the arms control Iaw, althe air force' officer and Mrs: cy. at the beginning of? 1974 cars or refrigerated meat truc.~
far lesser charge than he couldttAbalos Formes prole"sled? thanga~e it a mandate.? brosd imported by the ?AlIane'A
have expected. ' ? (she was a stanch Supporter ennuvh to Prow into a fulj-jGov.rnment,'s PVbli~.? L~~~eFo;+-
_ Last month air force seCUrity o[ the junta, onP pf the a.~rntal FlA~pPd corrpt notice f~re~?1-R?~- ~or*~oratiOR, T}c :nra..ny.
officers under Commander Ce-said: "I will give you lU min- tneorezicatty responsible onlylgation, centers. include a-~
hallos secretly spirited Tomds utes to get ready and ~ come to the junta. : garrisons as .well as: fore::::
Gonzalez Reese to sanctuary with me. If you do rrot I am The decree states that' theymate properties, the bas;
jin the Papal Nuncio's diploma-igoing to get you out of here n;lssir,:z is "to gatF~r nit inf~>r- rroti:?n of ~vt;ich is vIla G:imai-
jtic residence rather than turn??~iwith my fists." matic:, at a :9zie(,!t~.?~' f_ro~:+.~di, a one-t:n?e discetl?Laque on
shim over to DINA. Mr. Gonza-I. The incident was :recountedithe variaus a ~;i.. a?r~c.;t)ze out