A LESS FLATTERING VIEW OF LETELIER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680044-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: October 21, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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A : WASHINGTON STAi-i
`' 21 October 1980
Oki
Pinochet is questioned. It is a fact-
known widely throughout the_
nomic recovery of Chile under''
Robert Borosage and the other by
John Dinges, were in your Oct. 12
edition. In the. first letter, the eco-
-View of Letelier
A Less Flattering
remarkable - economic recovery.
money channeled to him by'Bea
trice Allende, daughter of the for-
mer Marxist president of Chile. Bea- I
trice is married to a high-ranking
Cuban intelligence official
would like to be onfriendly,"terms_-__.
However, both American and
international banks are sufficiently
impressed by Chile's recovery to
have no hesitation in lending Chile
money; something none of them
would have dreamt of doing when
Allende was pulling the country
down around his ears.
The socalled'"libel" charged to
William Buckley's column directed
at the late Orlando Letelier is noth-r
ing of the kind. Let it be stated
clearly, once and for all. that Le.
telier was a Marxist Cuban spy
working against the interests of the
United States. He was paid for, b}
the countries behind the Iron Cur-
tian since she cannot trade with the
Western nations with whom she
Chile enjoys a, thriving trade with `
FBI files reveal numerous con-~
tacts between; Letelier and Cuban
intelligence officers in New York
and a close working relationship
with a variety of people in., the'
United States sympathetic to vari-
"ous left-wing organizations and a
ORLANDO LETELIER
A Marxist Cuban spy?
variety of Kremlin front organiza,~
tions.
Orlando Letelier did not deserve
to be assassinated, but anyone who
thinks that he deserves a memorial{
plaque at the site of.his. assassina-
tion here should havehis heady
examined.
Nicholas Smyth
Bethesda. Md.
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