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Assassination on Embassy Row

By: John Dinges, Sal Landau
Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
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The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet's Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.

On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden. Eleven days later, while Letelier was on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, a bomb affixed to the bottom of his car exploded, killing him and his coworker Ronni Moffitt. The slaying, staggering in its own right, exposed an international conspiracy that reached well into US territory. Pinochet had targeted Letelier, a former Chilean foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, and carried out the attack with the help of Operation Condor, the secret alliance of South America's military dictatorships dedicated to wiping out their most influential opponents.

This gripping account tells the story not only of a political plot that ended in murder, but also of the FBI's inquiry into the affair. Definitive in its examination both of Letelier's murder and of the subsequent investigations carried out by American intelligence, Assassination on Embassy Row is equal parts keen analysis and true-life spy thriller.

©1980 John Dinges and Saul Landau, This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Fascism Freedom & Security Ideologies & Doctrines Intelligence & Espionage Media Studies Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences Espionage Latin America Assassin
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This is definitely a great book, I’ve read others by Dingas. The only downside is that I wish they would’ve chosen a narrator that could pronounce Spanish names, it’s pretty annoying. For example, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who pronounces the name Chile the way he does. Not only is it incorrect, it’s weird - there is no accent on the e!

Great Book - Great Author - Ok Narrator

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I had thought based on the title that this would be an international true-crime story, but that is just a side show. Really this is a history of the Pinochet regime's coup and repression of communists.

History of Chile, not true-crime

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