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284:, during which political opponents "disappeared" in Argentina while Santiago claimed they had killed themselves as a result of political in-fighting. In his defense, Iturriaga argues that there is no evidence linking him to the operation and that the accusations against him are "unfounded" and that the "presumptions of guilt" that have been made against him do not meet the necessary legal standards to be considered valid.
369:, exclusively responsible, and affirming that he wasn't involved on DINA since he was studying economy in the University of Chile at the time. Iturriaga was also requested by the then Spanish magistrate, Baltasar Garzón as he was accused to have played a prominent role in the assassination of Spanish-Chilean United Nations diplomat
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Head of DINA Manuel
Contreras has been the only other general to have contested the Chilean justice during democratic rule. Contreras was on the run from justice for two months, taking refuge in the south and then in a military regiment, before being captured by security forces and detained. However,
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Iturriaga affirms that he never held the position of head of the DINA's
Foreign Department, as has been attributed to him. In his defense, he emphasizes that he was the head of the "Purén" Analysis Unit and that he had no authority over the operations with which he is charged. In addition, he was not
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Iturriaga accusing him of not being "supported by concrete evidence" and that Townley is the only one who mentions him, as well as the fact that before the attack he did not know the people with whom he is accused of illicitly associating with the DINA, emphasizing the circumstances of
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Later on he moved to France, where he assumed the position of Chile's military attaché in 1981. During his time in France, Iturriaga was dedicated to establishing relations with the French Armed Forces and combating political narratives about the situation in
Pinochet's Chile, his professional focus
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Between the end of 1975 and March 1977, Raúl
Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann was in a period of transition in his career. During this time, he did not belong to DINA, as he was studying for a graduate degree in economics at the Latin American Graduate School (ESCOLATINA) at the University of Chile after a
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where he also learned parachuting, a discipline in its infancy in Chile at the time. He also received special forces training in insurgency and counterinsurgency, jump chief, parachute packing and maintenance, tactical diver, frogman-parachutist, military free jump and jungle survival. In the same
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For cases involving military personnel active during the military dictatorship of
Augusto Pinochet, the old criminal procedure system from 1906 is used, without the guarantees introduced with the reform carried out between 2000 and 2005. These military personnel are serving sentences in the Punta
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At the end of 1989, he was appointed
Director General of National Mobilization for the next government of Patricio Aylwin, where he was to plan and coordinate actions in the Chilean Armed Forces. With the new government, he became directly dependent on a politician in the Ministry of Defense.
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National Director of Information, he requested a new assignment and left DINA in May 1978. Before that he was temporarily assigned to the Personnel Directorate of the General Staff of the Army. After this, he was appointed as Chief of Staff of the
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in Rome, which occurred on
October 6, 1975, when Leighton was shot along with his wife by Italian neo-fascists in association with Stefano delle Chiaie outside the apartment building where he lived. The conviction occurred in part because of the testimony supplied by
306:, DINA's successor.However, Iturriaga rejects this claim, arguing that his retirement from the DINA was for normal institutional reasons and that there is no evidence to support the claim that he continued to be linked to the organization.
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On 2 June 2017, Iturriaga was among 106 former intelligence officers who
Chilean Judge Hernán Cristoso sentenced to prison for a judicial case involving the kidnapping and murder of 16 leftist activists in 1974 and 1975.
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Son of Jorge Iturriaga and Amelia Neumann, Raúl Iturriaga has a son and two daughters with Mireya Baeza, to whom he was married. His ex-wife is the daughter of General Ernesto Baeza, who was Director of Investigations.
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adequately notified of the judicial proceedings against him in Italy, so he could not have had a judicial defense. He is also accused in Chile in the judicial process regarding the assassination of General
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He was first appointed in mid-1974 as head of the intelligence directorate called "Purén Brigade" (unit in charge of intelligence in the economic-social field of action), whose center of operations was
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In 1965 he studied at the School of the Americas in Panama, as did José Octavio Zara Holger, Alfredo Canales Taricco,
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successful application. His focus shifted from intelligence activities to education and professional development.
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Parlamentarios repudian rebeldía de general Iturriaga Neumann
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884:"Fugitive ex-general stirs 'dirty war' animosities in Chile"
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instructor after taking courses with his future chief,
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senator and former head of staff of the Chilean Navy,
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in November 1973, when he was the second commander of
584:. Editorial Maye, 2009, 437 pages. ISBN 9789568433291
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In 2002, he was indicted for the "disappearance" of
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251:in Peldehue, less than three months after the
16:Chilean army general and economist (born 1938)
508:compared the Penal Cordillera prison to the "
1200:Bernardo O'Higgins Military Academy alumni
971:"Arrestation d'un ancien général en fuite"
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