NACLA News
On the Report's Trail Have NACLA Reports been on assigned reading lists for a school course? Has a particular issue formed the basis for a study group? Has information provided in the Report...
...and Chilean intelligence communities, where, according to Freed, responsibility ultimately lay...
...We'd like to hear from more of you...
...It's an attempt to silence authors and publishers from publishing controversial books," he says...
...When a bomb exploded under the car of Allende's ambassador to the United States one September morning in 1976 killing Letelier and a U.S...
...The many letters we receive help us keep sight of who we're writing for and what kind of material is most useful...
...Publisher Hill suspects that harrassment may be at the root of the suit...
...The attempt...
...quite another...
...Murder and torture in Santiago are one matter, but in broad daylight in Washington, D.C...
...He can't have it both ways...
...colleague, there was a sense that Pinochet and his henchmen had gone too far...
...According to Melvin Wulf, the attorney who is defending Freed and Hill, a major focus of the Association's work is to "punish critics of the intelligence community...
...to shift blame from the killers and to mislead the police and the public was in the service of fascism in action-in Chile and in the United States...
...We'd like to hear from you about how the magazine is used...
...Has information provided in the Report filled in gaps in an article you were writing...
...Phillips, founder of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, has filed a $90,000,000 libel suit against Freed and six others and an additional $120,000,000 suit against the book's publisher, Lawrence Hill & Co., Hill and his wife personally and the author...
...According to Freed, a key figure is David Atlee Phillips, head of the CIA's special Chile task force from 1970, allegedly responsible for the covert qperations that led to the 1973 overthrow of the Allende government...
...What followed was an elaborate cover-up designed to thwart investigators from tracing the crime to the top of the U.S...
...An Act of Intelligence "The assassination on Embassy Row was fascism in action," wrote 54 Donald Freed in his engrossing book, Death in Washington--The Murder of Orlando Letelier...
...Letters of support and financial contributions for the defense may be sent to Lawrence Hill & Co., 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880...
...In response to Wulf's written questions asking Phillips to disprove the book's accusations, the former agent has refused to answer queries about his 25-year CIA career claiming that to do so would violate the agency's secrecy agreement...
...In his 1980 book, Freed unveils this cover-up, thoroughly and movingly...
...There's not a chance in a million they'll win," says Wulf...
...An initial hearing on the case will be held in early spring in the Federal District Court in Washington...
...Further, knowing what happens to our research after it leaves the office helps us obtain funding and other support...
...He can't sue and then refuse to turn over evidence...
Vol. 16 • January 1982 • No. 1
