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Manuel Contreras
General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepulveda was the head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful and feared men in Chile after a military coup headed by Pinochet and other Chilean militaries overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
Operation Condor
From 1973 to 1977, he led the agency on an international hunt to track down and murder the political opponents of the dictatorship, particularly members of the Communist and Socialist Parties and the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). According to the report "CIA activities in Chile" released on ...
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