Contreras

by Manuel Salazar Salvo

"A detailed account of Contreras's role in the creation of the infamous DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional), its links to security organizations in other countries (Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, and anti-Castro Cubans in the US and Venezuela), its pursuit of critics and opponents of the Pinochet regime, and of the ultimately successful 20-year effort to identify and punish those who ordered Letelier assassinated"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.