Chile: judge accuses 3 in 1976 killing of US citizen
SANTIAGO, Chile – A judge in Chile is accusing three former secret police agents with the 1976 killing of U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt in a car bombing in Washington, D.C. that also killed the country’s former ambassador Orlando Letelier.
Judge Mario Carroza said Tuesday that there is enough evidence that the men who served under Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship were authors in the killing. The accused are: U.S. citizen Michael Townley, Armando Fernandez Larios and Pedro Espinoza of Chile.
Espinoza and former spy chief Manuel Contreras were indicted with Letelier’s murder by a court in Chile in 1995.
Moffitt’s husband was an aide to Letelier. He was also in the car but he survived the attack carried out on Sept. 21, 1976.
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