| *Hugo Acevedo | 1970, Combat Arms Orientation | DINA: According to testimony by Luz Arce, Acevedo was a key official in the repressive forces of the DINA. (PTDI) |
| *LTC German Barriga | 1986, Instructor | Repression of socialist party: According to testimony by Luz Arce, Barriga was in charge of repression of the socialist party by the DINA. (PTDI) |
| COL Pablo Belmar | 1987, Guest Instructor 1968, Basic Arms Orientation Course |
Torture, murder of U.N. official, 1976: Directly implicated in the 1976 torture and murder of United Nations official Carmelo Soria, whose neck was broken after he was arrested and tortured by Chilean DINA personnel. (DINA - Dirección de lnteligencia Nacional - was Pinochet's personal secret police force that operated from 1974-1977.) Soria's car and body were dumped in a Santiago canal in order to make his death appear accidental. (AW:UB) |
| *Alejandro Burgos | 1975, Basic Officer Orientation | Manipulation of Political Prisoners: According to testimony by Luz Arce, Burgos was involved in a plan to get left-wing political prisoners who had been tortured into collaborating with the DINA to meet with the U.S. Ambassador to show that they had changed their political convictions. (PTDI) |
| COL Alfredo Canales | 1974, Basic Officer Orientation Course | Barred exhumation of body, July 14, 1994: In an event related to the disappearance of four soldiers in 1974, Canales personally barred the exhumation of a body believed to have been illegally buried on Army premises. Canales had earlier given his approval to the exhumation. (NSN 7/30/94) |
| *LTC Alfonso Faundez Norambuena | 1969, Chilean Officer Orienation | Concentration Camp: Faundez was active in the Villa Grimaldi concentration camp in which nearly 4,500 prisoners were held. (PPC) |
| 1LT Armando Fernandez Larios | 1970, Combat Arms Orientation | "Caravan of death," 1973: Fernandez Larios was
second in command to General Sergio Arellano Stark, whose tour
of northern cities in 1973 resulted in dozens of summary
executions. (AW:CIT) Assassination of former defense minister Prats and his wife, 1974: Fernandez Larios was one of two DINA agents charged with assassinating General Carlos Prats González, who was defense minister under the regime Augusto Pinochet overthrew. Prats and his wife were killed by a car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AW:UB) Assassination of former foreign minister Orlando Letelier, 1976: Indicted in 1979 by U.S. grand jury for involvement in the Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., three years earlier. (Letelier, Allende's foreign minister, was also murdered by a car bomb.) (AW:CIT) |
| MAJ Carlos Herrera Jiménez | 1971, Combat Arms Orientation | Torture, murder, 1984; murder, 1982: Sentenced in December 1991 for the torture and murder of a transport worker in La Serena. Also implicated in the abduction and murder of trade unionist Tucapel Jiménez in 1982. (AW:UB) Attended the 1971 course with Lauriani, below. (LL) |
| *Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann | 1965, Basic Airborne Course | Exploitation of political prisoners: According to testimony by Luz Arce, Iturriaga and other officers of the DINA used political prisoners that had been tortured into collaboration as secretaries and analysts in their offices. (PTDI) |
| 1LT Miguel Krassnoff | 1974, Urban Counterinsurgency Course | Failure to testify, 1994: Recently failed to show up at a hearing regarding the 1974 kidnapping and disappearance of four opposition soldiers. Krassnoff is a former member of the DINA, Chile's now-defunct secret police. (NSN 7/30/94) |
| LTC Fernando Lauriani | 1971, Combat Arms Orientation Course | Kidnapping, disappearance, 1974: Implicated in the 1974 kidnapping and disappearance of brothers Juan Carlos and Jorge Elias Andrónico Antequera, Lauriani's was one of the few cases of military crimes to be tried after Pinochet's brutal dictatorship. Unfortunately, Pinochet brought all of his influence to bear and the case was finally handed to a military court, which, of course, absolved Lauriani and closed the case. (AW:UB) Attended the same 1971 course as Herrera, above. (LL) |
| COL Jaime Lepe Orellana | 1968, Basic Arms Orientation Course | Torture, murder of U.N. official, 1976: Directly
implicated in the 1976 torture and murder of United Nations
official Carmelo Soria, whose neck was broken after he was
arrested by Chilean DINA personnel. Soria's car and body were
dumped in a Santiago canal in order to make his death appear
accidental. At the time the case was reopened in 1991, Lepe was
General Pinochet's personal secretary.
(AW:UB) On Nov. 4, 1997, Lepe was rejected for promotion from Brigadier to General, the first time that such a rejection was made public. Chilean President Eduardo Frei reportedly rejected the promotion because of Lepe's bad image and concern that such a promotion would damage "harmonious relations" between Chilean citizens and the armed forces. (EFE, 11/4 and 11/5, 1997) |
| *GEN Augusto Lutz | 1966, Comando y Estado Mayor | Coup: Lutz was one of the military officials who participated with Pinochet in the coup against the Allende government. (JPE) |
| *Odlanier Mena | 1970, Comando y Estado Mayor | Exploitation of prisoners: Luz Arce, a political prisoner who was torutred by DINA officials, testified that Mena offered her freedom in exchange for working three years as a spy for the DINA. (PCDI) |
| *LTC Manuel Rolando Mosqueira Jarpa | 1970, Combat Arms Orientation | Concentration camp: Mosqueira was active in the Villa Grimaldi concentration camp in which more than 4500 people were held. (PPC) |
| *COL Manuel Provis Carrasco | 1970, Combat Arms Orienation | Concentration camp: Provis was active in the Villa Grimaldi concentration camp in which more than 4500 people were held. (PPC) |
| *COL Marco Antonio Saez Saavedra | 1970, Combat Arms Orientation | Concentration camp: Saez was active in the Villa Grimaldi concentration camp in which more than 4500 people were held. (PPC) |
| *MAJ Guillermo Humberto Salinas Torres | 1974, Curso de Armas Combinadas para Cadetes | Assassination, 1976: Salinas was linked to the assassination of Spanish citizen Carmelo Soria. However, because of Pinochet's amnesty laws, the case was stayed. (CCS) |
| *Carlos Parera Silva | 1969, Irregular Warfare Operations | DINA: According to testimony by Luz Arce, Silva was one of the key actors within the repressive forces of the DINA. (PTDI) |
| *COL Jose Zara | 1965, Basic Airborne 1970, Basic Officer Orientation |
Linked to Pratts assassination: According to lawyers working on the case, Zara, as undersecretary of the Foreign Relations department of the DINA, provided logistical support for the assassination of the ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army, General Carlos Prats and his wife. (SDH) |
Information researched by Vicky Imerman and Heather Dean.