Talk:Orlando Letelier

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I assume that someone will want to include this new information, in a nicely crafted form. I can, if nobody else does. We will see. Thanx. RayKiddy (talk) 19:53, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Newly Declassified

message: This material lacks sourcing of any kind whatosever. Novak is famously known to be a liar. Material must be verifiable. If the FBI has released this material in the response to a freedom of information request, then it is valid and can be included here. If it has not been released by the FBI or the widow, it is not verifiable and violates Wikipedia rules. Skywriter 22:33, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Material is verifiable from several sources including original documents Novak, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Harvey Klehr and michael Leeden, will add all of this tonite. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 20:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

text: "Novak is famously known to be a liar."  Probably true, but "famously known" constitutes hearsay -- a citation would be preferable. Karl gregory jones (talk) 19:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  fyi, TDC was permanently banned a long time ago.... there's no reason to argue with his leftover comments. Dlabtot (talk) 04:36, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: briefcase business

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== The Briefcase Affair == 
   
  
During the FBI investigation into Letelier's assassination, the contents of the briefcase he had with him were copied and leaked to Rowland Evans and Robert Novak of the Washington Times before being returned to his widow. The documents show that Letelier was in constant contact with the surviving political leadership of the various parties that made up the Popular Unity coalition exiled in East Berlin, been given refuge and supported by the East German Government during their stay. The FBI suspected that these individuals had been recruited by the Stasi. Documents in the briefcase showed that Letelier had maintained contact with Salvador Allende’s daughter, Beatriz Allende who was married to Cuban DGI station chief Luis Fernandez Ona.   
  
According to the documents, Letelier was able to receive funding of $5,000 a month from the Cuban government and under the supervision of Beatriz Allende, he used his contacts within the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and western human rights groups to organize a campaign within the United Nations as well as the US Congress to isolate the new Chilean government, also know as Operation TOUCAN. This organized pressure on Pinochet’s government was thought to have been closely coordinated by the Cuban and Soviet governments, using individuals like Letelier to implement these efforts. Letelier's briefcase also contained his address book which contained the names of dozens of known and suspected East Block intelligence agents. All correspondence between Letelier and individuals in Cuba had been handled via Julian Rizo, who used his diplomatic status to hide his activities.   
  
Fellow IPS member and friend Saul Landau described Evans and Novak as part of an “organized right wing attack”. In 1980, Letelier's widow, Isabel, wrote in the New York Times that the money sent to her late husband from Cuba was from western sources, and that Cuba had simply acted as an intermediary, although Novak and Evans point out that the document from Beatriz Allende were very clear on the source of the money.  
  
Although potentially explosive, the supposed contents of the briefcase proved not to be damaging to the reputations of either Letelier or of the Institute for Policy Studies. Opponents of Letelier and the IPS complained that leading news media in the United States, including the New York Times and the Washington Post refused to cover the story and even rejected paid advertisements referring to the matter. Supporters of Letelier and the IPS feared that public knowledge the contents of the briefcase might turn the assassination into merely a case of spy vs. spy.  
  
The Letelier Briefcase Affair was fictionalized in a bestselling novel by Newsweek national correspondent Arnaud de Borgrave, The Spike. The title refers to the unethical journalistic practice of deliberately spiking or killing a legitimate news story. The affair remains a source of bitter contention among journalists and media critics.
signed: Travb (talk) 05:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: down the memory hole

message: Bkengland here, and I'd like to merge these two pages, make some improvements, and add some new info to the merged page. Please add comments here, and I'll wait for a few days before I actually do the merge. Bkengland 18:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Merging Letelier Case page into Orlando Letelier page

message: From: Sarah Anderson <saraha@igc.org
Sent: Jan 5, 2007 11:58 AM
To: Diana Alonzo <Diana@ips-dc.org
Cc: Nathaniel Kerksick <nate@ips-dc.org
Subject: Re: FW: P.S.2
Re: Wikipedia.org and Letilier-Moffitt case
The proposed text is fine. Nate, could you send him the portraits of Orlando and Ronni we used for the video? Thanks, Sarah
Diana Alonzo wrote:
Greetings Nate and Sarah!
I hope your holidays are going well. I recently got this email below in regards to someone who wants to post something on Orlando and Ronni. I emailed him to say that we would be able to respond to him next week when we are in the office, but it would be great to set up a policy on this especially if get these kinds of emails at the info@ips-dc.org.
In any case we talk about this nest week. Take care and have a great 
New Year's Eve....
Diana
Bkengland 18:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Permission to use "Unfinished Business" section

message: The section about the Bush Administration at the end of this article appears to be a personal,
biased  statement intended to give the reader a negative view of the administration. It is also 
includes someone's opinion of what the administration should do, which is an opinion and should 
not be part of an encyclopedia-style article. The author should include the fact that the 
information has been prepared but not acted on, and leave the reader free to draw their own 
conclusion about what should be done and by whom.
Foxran14 17:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments regarding the Bush Administration 

message: I'm afraid that using 1977 Washington Post sources is close to be original research. Newer sources should be used. Beside, this edit, reverted by the same user four minutes later, provides an interesting viewpoint on this so-called "Briefcase affair"... Tazmaniacs 16:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How in the good Lord's name can you even contemplate arguing that the use of Newspaper articles is WP:OR. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 21:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research and use of sources 

message: The part of the article that reads Later he abandoned the military life to attend the University of Chile could be read to imply that he went AWOL. Is that the case? --201.240.241.81 03:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No. He voluntarily resigned. Mel Romero 04:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Leaving the military

message: From the BBC: Orlando Letelier: Murdered in central Washington DC
– VisionHolder « talk » 21:27, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential source 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: As far as I'm aware (being a native English-speaker) this word never means the departure of just one person. Wiktionary gives the following (and only) definition: "A sudden departure of a large number of people". Why not just "departure"?213.127.210.95 (talk) 12:43, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "exodus"