While working as principal deputy legal advisor , Kozak originated an idea to settle a dispute between the U.S. government and the Chilean government over the killing of a former Chilean diplomat in exile in the United States , Orlando Letelier , and his American assistant Ronni Moffit in a 1976 car bombing near Dupont Circle in Washington , DC . As Chile was unwilling to submit to a determination by a U.S. tribunal , Kozak proposed invoking the arbitration clause of the 1914 Chile-United States peace treaty , and Chile agreed
1976 car bombing
Assassination of Orlando Letelier
Michael Kozak