CIA Connects Pinera to Pinochet
Santiago - Documents revealed by the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), published on
Friday in this capital, relate presidential
candidate Sebastian Pinera to ex dictator
Augusto Pinochet and several actions for
illegal enrichment.
El Siglo weekly highlighted today several
CIA documents, one of which said Pinera's
father had collaborated with that spy agency
since 1965, and his brother Jose, Pinochet's
Labor and Mining minister, was its direct
collaborator and financial analyst.
Pinera told Spanish El Mundo daily in early
July that he had always been opposed to
Pinochet's government.
The weekly, which entitled its front page
headline as Dossier Pinera: secret CIA
documents, devoted several pages to
demonstrate Pinera's closeness to Pinochet's
environment, as well as data about the
origin of his fortune.
The reports conclusions emphasized "the
inconvenience that a man about whom the
intelligence services of the largest power
in the world have so much information
assumes the Republic's presidency."
Quoting the documents, El Siglo journalist
Francisco Herreros revealed a 1982
operation, ordered by the then US
ambassador, to take Pinera out of the
country because he had been accused of
several crimes related to fraudulent placing
in administration and liquidation of the
Talca Bank.
A list of around 80 false companies were
created to receive credit from the Talca
Bank and then "to buy its shares," is among
the crimes attributed to Pinera and his
brother Jose, together with Carlos Massad,
El Siglo
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