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Report: Accused Chilean Torturer Taught for Pentagon for 13 Years

HeadlineMar 13, 2015

McClatchy Newspapers reports an accused torturer who served as a member of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s secret police force worked for the Pentagon’s top university for 13 years. Jaime García Covarrubias returned to Chile last year. He remains there under a Chilean judge’s order amid a probe into his alleged masterminding of the murders of seven people in the weeks after the U.S.-backed coup that brought Pinochet to power September 11, 1973. An alleged victim of García Covarrubias said he used to wield a horsewhip while presiding over sexual torture and electric shocks. Despite repeated complaints over García Covarrubias’ past, officials with the State Department and Pentagon let him teach at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, while immigration officials let him remain in the United States.

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