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Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA)

Chile · founded 1974 · Chile's secret police under the Pinochet government.

Episode: CLASSIFIED — COMING SOON

Section: Latin America

Case files (2): Operation Condor: the Buenos Aires verdict · Letelier–Moffitt car bombing

Documented items (1)

VERIFIED Declassified 2016 and 2026

Letelier–Moffitt car bombing, 1976

FBI records identified DINA agents as responsible after almost two years; a declassified May 1987 CIA assessment on Pinochet's role is characterised by the National Security Archive as concluding he personally ordered the bombing.

Sources (opened in a new tab):

National Security Archive (GWU): CIA: 'Pinochet personally ordered' Letelier bombing ↗ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2016-09-23/cia-pinochet-personally-ordered-letelier-bombing

National Security Archive (GWU): The Letelier-Moffitt Case at 50 ↗ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2026-09-21/letelier-moffitt-case-50-verdict-history-pinochets-role

National Security Archive (GWU): CIA assessment, 1 May 1987 ↗ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/34339-document-9-cia-intelligence-assessment-pinochets-role-letelier-assassination-and