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Enrique Arancibia ( born October 13, 1944 † 28 April 2011) was a Chilean DINA intelligence operatives, who was responsible for the assassination of General Carlos Prats and his wife in 1974 on behalf of Augusto Pinochet. General Prats, under the government of Salvador Allende was Vice President and later was a staunch opponent of the coup Pinochet in 1973.

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Even if it could not be directly detected him, Arancibia has been repeatedly associated with the extreme right-wing group in compound that killed the chief of staff René Schneider. Schneider stood loyal to the democratically elected Salvador Allende and considered an apolitical military. After Schneider's assassination, Arancibia went into exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was ruled by a fascist military dictatorship and Arancibia acted as a liaison officer between the secret service DINA and the Argentine secret police. Since Pinochet's coup Prats lived in Argentina in exile. The assassination of Prats was part of the so-called. Operation Condor, an operation whose aim was to assassinate the opposition. The operational area comprised at that time almost all of Latin America. Arancibia was supported in the assassination of CIA agent Michael Townley. In addition, the Italian right-wing terrorist and intelligence agent Stefano Delle Chiaie to have been involved. He later testified against Townley and Arancibia. The contact between the Italians and the Chileans is also confirmed by documents from the FBI.

1978, shortly after Michael Townley had returned to the U.S., Arancibia was arrested by Argentine security forces and accused of espionage. He was eventually sentenced to life in prison in Argentina for the murder of Prats .. Townley was convicted of the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington DC sentenced in 1976 to a 10 - year sentence, of which he was serving only 62 months. Wegend it murder of Prats he never had to answer. Arancibia was sentenced in 2004 in Argentina because of the kidnapping of Laura Elgueta. In 2007, he was released due to technical reasons after nearly 20 years in prison. He died four years later.

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