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Ronni Moffitt

Murals for DC's Chilean terror attack

A state-sponsored terror attack struck DC 40 years ago — and the proof is finally coming out

Conflict

Newly declassified files accuse the Pinochet regime of carrying out an attack in Washington in broad daylight 40 years ago. A car bomb killed Chile’s former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, and a young American woman, Ronni Moffitt.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in an undated file photo.

‘My father lost his life through a bombing, by agents of a man who Henry Kissinger supported’

Justice
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