| http://abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-30may2001-53.htm
CIA accused of Washington car bomb attack The former head of Chile's secret police says the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) planned a car bombing which killed two people in Washington. Retired General Manuel Contreras says the CIA planned the 1976 bombing which killed a former Chilean cabinet minister and his American aide. Contreras was convicted of masterminding the bombing and spent six years in jail, but in his first post-release interview he claims he was simply carrying out the CIA's orders. The man who ran Chile's secret police in the mid-1970s has also accused the CIA of planning a similar car bombing in Argentina in 1974 which killed a former Chilean Army chief and his wife. The allegations come as France seeks to question then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, about links between the American and Chilean secret services in the disappearance of five French citizens. |
