2 CHILEAN AIDES GET U.S. RED CARPET

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most notorious of the
Ghile$n. visitors was Col.
Monttel. Contreras-Sepulveda,
lurid .of the infamous National
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rights attempted to visit
Santiago for an investigation,
but the junta abruptly can-
celed the invitation. In his
talks with U.N. officials, say
our sources, Contreras at-
tempted to convince them the
U.N. group was barred only
because it consisted of
Marxists, assorted leftists,
and troublemakers.
on r .ras then hopped.ttown
to Washington, where his
goings-and-comings were
=P40-red so secret, that even
he Chilean embassy was kept
1,ntelligence Directorate, We have learned, however,
mown as DINA. Jt is this tIM 'the colonel stopped off at
military organization - a e CIA where, say our
Latin American version of the soirees, a private chat vas
CIA, FBI and Defense arranged with the deputy
Intelligence Agency all Z e ,Qr, Lt. Gen. Vernon
lumped together - which hers W jters.
been directly responsible for
the arrests and torture of The State Department,
hundreds of political prisoners meanwhile, was unofficially
over the past two years. asked to suggest a few people
Before coming to Contreras might see. The
stopped off in New York. He
paid a quiet visit to the United
Nations, where officials are
preparing a report on
recommended the colonel visit
some members of Congress
who are critical of the junta.
On Capitol Hill, Contreras
violations of human rights in faced his only unfriendly
Chile. audience. He wandered into
Three months ago, a U.N. the offices of Sen. Frank
find no one to talk with.
Staffers recall him as a
"short, round" man who
appeared "blase and
somewhat, disoriented."
Contreras also visited the
House International
Organizations Subcommittee,
headed by Rep. Donald Fraser
(D-Minn.). There he was
sternly interrogated by a
subcommittee staff member
about human rights violations
in Chile. The colonel
responded with the familiar
claim that reports of the
killing and torture of political
prisoners were a Marxist plot
to embarrass the junta.
Another prominent Chilean
who passed through
Washington, shortly before
Contreras, was the junta's
press attache, Federico
Willoughby. He suffers from a
chronic kidney problem and
came to the United States
primarily for medical tests at
Johns Hopkins Hospital. in
Baltimore.
IIu[iu.?= hisr.:llkday. - s1',
however, Willoughby visited
A, the State. Dnpart-
t, and several menlb,s of
Qtlgr. s? ,He managed tn:see
.lurch, who told our associate
Joe Spear. that he gave..the
Chino stiff lecture on
On Friday the junta's
Minister of Justice, Miguel
Schweitzer, is scheduled to
arrive in Washington. His
main mission, say our sour-
ces, will be to lobby in favor of
a resumption of U.S. military
aid to Chile, which was dut off
by Congress last December.
* eam hile, Sen., Edward
}I_ID:MassJ .bas. in-
formed the? Senate CIA
committee of the Contreras
Uri ani `has requestesliLbe
,jnytiaat~We have learned
independently that committee
staff members are preparing
written requests for in-
formation concerning the
visit.
Our own ingairies at ti CIA
,a0gt the Walters-Contreras
,3lteeting, meanwhile,
oduced only a curt . `:No
ram- ment.
Footnote: The Chilean
visitors are not the only
controversial people who have
been able to gain access to top
U.S. officials. Giorgio
Almirante, the Italian neo-
Fascist leader, came to
Washington in September and
met with two officials of the
National Security Council.
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