ESTIMATES <SANITIZED> ON NATIONWIDE CIVILIAN DEATHS

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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2021
• Case Number: F-2019-02246
• Publication Date: October 12, 1973

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Declassification Schedule of E.O. 11652 Exemption Category 58 (1), (2), Impossible la Determine Date
THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
COUNTRY: CHILE
EARLY OCTOBER 1973
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ON NATIONWIDE
CIVILIAN DEATHS AND IMPRISONMENTS RESULTING
FROM THE 11 SEPTEMBER COUP
CHILE, SANTIAGO
OCTOBER 1973) FIELD No.
, ACCORDING TO
DEATHS RESULTING FROM
CANNOT BE DETERMINED.
THE EXACT NUMBER OF
THE 11 SEPTEMBER 1973 COUP AND ITS AFTERMATH
ESTIMATED THAT APPROXIMATELY
1,600 CIVILIAN DEATHS OCCURRED DURING THE PERIOD 11 SEPTEMBER
THROUGH 10 OCTOBER, WITH APPROXIMATELY 500 OCCURRING ON 11
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SEPTEMBER, 750 BETWEEN 12 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, AND 350 BETWEEN
27 SEPTEMBER AND 10 OCTOBER,
2.
ESTIMATED THAT THE NUMBER OF PRISONERS NATION-
WIDE WAS APPROXIMATELY 14,000.
THAT THIS NUMBER
WAS FAIRLY STABLE AND MADE ALLOWANCES FOR THE INFLUX OF NEW
PRISONERS AS WELL AS THE RELEASE OF OTHERS.
THAT THERE
WERE APPROXIMATELY
IN VALPARAISO
ARE APPROXIMATELY
IN CHILE.
PROVINCE,
4.500 PRISONERS IN SANTIAGO PROVINCE, 2.000
4,000 IN CONCEPCION PROVINCE, AND THERE
200 PRISONERS IN EACH OF THE OTHER 22 PROVINCES
COMMENT: "LA PRENSA" OF 11 OCTOBER 1973
REPORTED A
STATEMENT
BY THE MINISTER
OF INTERIOR THAT
5,400
PERSONS HAD BEEN INTERROGATED IN THE NATIONAL STATIUM
IN SANTIAGO
FROM 11 SEPTEMBER UNTIL 7 OCTOBER,
WERE 3,700 PERSONS REMAINING IN THE
HE CONTINUED THAT
STADIUM, BUT THAT
THERE
IT WAS
HOPED THAT ALL INTERROGATIONS WOULD
E. FINISHED BY 16
OCTOBER.
HE DID NOT DISCUSS OTHER PRISONERS IN SANTIAGO OR PROVIDE NATION-
WIDE STATISTICS.
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