What is Assassination of Orlando Letelier?
{{Infobox terrorist attack |title = Assassination of Orlando Letelier |image = |caption = |location = [[Washington, D.C.]]<br>[[United States]] |target = [[Orlando Letelier]] |date = September 21, 1976 |time = 9:30&nbsp;am |timezone = [[UTC-04:00]] |type = [[Car bomb]]ing |fatalities = 2 |injuries = 1 |perps = [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] }} [[File:Orlando Letelier & Ronni K Moffit Memorial 28375046.jpg|thumb|right|Letelier and Moffitt Memorial on Sheridan Circle, Washington D.C.]] The '''Assassination of Orlando Letelier''' was a [[car bomb]]ing which killed [[Orlando Letelier]], a [[Chile]]an [[socialist]] [[political figure]] when [[Salvador Allende]] was [[president]] of [[Chile]]. It all starts when he was based in the [[United States]] as an [[activist]]. Letelier was killed in [[Washington, D.C.]] with his American assistant, Ronni Karpen and her husband, Michael Moffitt (who worked for Letelier)<ref>John Dinges and Saul Landau, ''Assassination on Embassy Row'', London (1981). Retrieved in August 7, 2016</ref> by some Chilean [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] agents in September 21, 1976. Until [[9/11]], it was known as the most infamous act of international [[terrorism]] in the capital of the US. Declassified [[U.S. intelligence]] documents show and confirm that [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] ordered the killing.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/pinochet-directly-ordered-washington-killing-diplomat-documents-orlando-letelier-declassified Pinochet directly ordered killing on US soil of Chilean diplomat, papers reveal] ''The Guardian'' October 8, 2015. Retrieved in August 7, 2016.</ref> == References == <references/> == Bibliography == * [[John Dinges|Dinges, John]], and [[Saul Landau|Landau, Saul]]. ''Assassination on Embassy Row'' (London, 1981) {{ISBN|0-07-016998-5}}, (McGraw-Hill, 1981) * Dinges, John. ''The Condor Years'' (The New Press: 2004) {{ISBN|1-56584-764-4}} * Hitchens, Christopher, ''The Trial of Henry Kissinger,'' (Verso: 2001) {{ISBN|1-85984-631-