C 0 58 8 3 53 21FIED U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 J DENY THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON --e-a_ ' RELEASE IN FULL c _- MEMORAND UM FOR THE P RESIDENT lA J 'lrl Ge�rge P Shultz FROM SUBJECT A· J G I Pinochet and the Letelier-Moffitt Implications for US Policy Murders We are heading into an extremely difficult I 12rl8 month period with Chile President Augusto Pinochet is �etermined to suc ceed himself as Pt�sld�nt by whatever means will ensure success He has ruled out the possibility of a free and open election and instead intends to proceed with a yes no plebiscite involving a single candidate--himself The consequences of his staying in office would be highly dangerous for Chile and the region as a whole inevitably it would lead to serious polarization of the Chilean population-and a significant strengthening of the large Pinochet and growing Moscow-dependent communist party over the coming months I would like to thanks to As events develop discuss the overall situation with you In the midst of this recent report prepared by I have been particularly of Orlando Letelier by a the CIA analyzing the events surrounding the assassination by car-bombing in 1976 struck - a former Chilean washington Foreign in Minister and Ronni Moffitt an American citizen The CIA concludes that its review provides what we regard as convincing evidence that President Pinochet personally ordered his intelligence chief to carry out the murders decided It also confirms that Pinochet to· stonewall on the US investigation to involvement and continues to do so including hide his by considering even the elimination of his former intelligence chief We·have long known that the Chilean secret police intelligence service was behind this brutal act perhaps the only clear case of state-supported terrorism that has occurred in the Chilean Government Washington D C handed over to us one of US-Chilean national In 1978 the responsible people Then another of the indictees earlier this Chilean Major come to washington and give himself up a dual year we persuaded Armando Fernandez to in spite of the Chilean Government's prolonged attempts to prevent him from doing so Fern andez provided strong corroborative information concerning the roles Chilean Army of the two previously indicted senior officials who planned the ·murders the former head SEGRE I· UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 C 0 58 8 3 53 2 1ED �· U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 of their secret significant new police and his chief information of o perations and on President Augusto Pinochet's role in organizing a cover-up Fernandez' revelations have had a significant political impact within Chile and the CIA concl udes that Pinochet will be unable to satisfy the military's concern that Pinochet take ef fective steps to repair the damage already done to the armed forces' While some in the USG Pinochet had ordered reputation had previously believed that the murders and there·were strong signs that he was involved in the cover-up the CIA has never before drawn and presented its concl usion that such strong evidence exists of his leade·r-sh ip role in this act of terrorism It is not clear whether we can or would want to consider indicting Pinochet evidence even if Nevertheless we had more public sources of this is a blatant example of a chief state's direct involvement in an act of state terrorism one that is particularly disturbing both because it occurred in our of capital and since his government is generally considered to be friendly I believe that by their very nature the CIA's conclusions and our own judgments as to Pinochet's direct involvement must _ af fect both our overall policy towards Chile and the general conceptual framework of how we make decisions regarding that country What we now know about Pinochet's role in these· assassinations is of the greatest seriousness and adds further impetus to the need to work toward complete democratization of Chile I � look forward to discussing th s further with you SEC REi UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 C 0 58 8 3 53 2 1FIED U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 • • DRAFTER ARA RSGelbard 10 6 87 Wang il4 SEA · hul M�t6 • ___ _ wiW ' --� · - •• - r---� � CLEARED P MArrnacost ARA EAbrarns 4 L M K o z ak � INR MAbrarno w INR CKarnrnan f �� subs - UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No M-2015-14753 Doc No C05883532 Date 10 01 2015 � 1