Other victims of Condor included , among hundreds of less famous persons , Juan José Torres , the former President of Bolivia , assassinated in Buenos Aires on 2 June 1976 ; Carmelo Soria , a UN diplomat working for the CEPAL , assassinated in July 1976 ; Orlando Letelier , a former Chilean ambassador to the United States and minister in Allende 's cabinet , assassinated after his release from internment and exile in Washington , D.C. by a car bomb on 21 September 1976 . Documents confirm that Pinochet directly ordered the assassination of Letelier . This led to strained relations with the US and to the extradition of Michael Townley , a US citizen who worked for the DINA and had organized Letelier 's assassination . Other targeted victims , who escaped assassination , included Christian-Democrat Bernardo Leighton , who escaped an assassination attempt in Rome in 1975 by the Italian terrorist Stefano delle Chiaie ; Carlos Altamirano , the leader of the Chilean Socialist Party , targeted for murder in 1975 by Pinochet , along with Volodia Teitelboim , member of the Communist Party ; Pascal Allende , the nephew of Salvador Allende and president of the MIR , who escaped an assassination attempt in Costa Rica in March 1976 ; US Congressman Edward Koch , who became aware in 2001 of relations between death threats and his denunciation of Operation Condor , etc . Furthermore , according to current investigations , Eduardo Frei Montalva , the Christian Democrat President of Chile from 1964 to 1970 , may have been poisoned in 1982 by toxin produced by DINA biochemist Eugenio Berrios
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Assassination of Orlando Letelier
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