Assassinations

https://youtu.be/pFYcqeIxIac

the octopus murders

Orlando Latellier - Orlando Latellier was a critic of the Agusto Pinese regime of Chile who was assassinated with a carb bomb in Washington DC ostensibly by agents of the Pinese era Chilean intelligence agency known as Dina. The assassination occurred in 1976 in the midst of the CIA's Operation Condor, a yearslong campaign of terror in which the US government helped its Latin American allies, virtually exclusively right-wing dictatorships, to carry out intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations against their left-wing opponents, both domestically and internationally. It's long been speculated that the CIA had at least tacitly approved, if not directly, participated in Latellier's assassination as part of Operation Condor, either through training, funding, or just looking the other way. Kaminsk's role was as a jailhouse informant testifying in court that one of the plots's alleged ring leaders had divulged incriminating information to him. It seems notable that this ex-con fugitive Kaminsky almost immediately upon his arrest turned federal informant in a highly politically sensitive case providing information the government considered so valuable that it canceled out his years of blackmail. Was this a pre-existing relationship between Kaminsky and the feds? had he been an informant all along and the prosecutors or case agents just planted him in the same jail as the assassins knowing they could rely on him to elicit a confession or just concoct one.