Shortly before Chile returned to democracy, a command of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) Famae kidnapped Colonel Carlos Carreño. It was 1987. Coincidence or not, the officer leading and a network of arms sales and technology transfer to countries in the Middle East. This operation was one of the starting points of what could become mafia conspiracy to air, which operated under the wing of the dictatorship until 1990 and continued to have a power in the shadows in the early years of transition. Just now, in 2006 - begin to know its true scope.
Carreño was led by the FPMR to Brazil. His captors, before being released, they used to question about the sale of cluster bombs to Iran. In December 1987, a report by the U.S. State Department, declassified in 2000 - that comments on the kidnapping of Carreño, concludes that once freed by his kidnappers was (supposedly) and summarily removed from the Army, on charges of drug trafficking . Carreño say, years later, in a declaration made to the visiting Minister Claudio Pavez, in charge of investigating the murder of Colonel Gerardo Huber, who always struck by the questions of the frontage in captivity.
Two years later, on February 10, 1989, a new report (No. 937), also declassified in July 2000 and this time written by the U.S. Embassy in Chile realizes an attempt to negotiate the former head of DINA General (R) Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, with an intermediary of the embassy.
The report said Contreras, in exchange for the north country go down the pressure for the Letelier case, they would provide information about drug trafficking activities of "a son of Pinochet (possibly Marco Antonio) and Armando Fernandez Larios" .
Drugs, weapons, Italian Mafia, Colombian, Peruvian traffickers, Syrian military intelligence agents in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Croatian war criminals, former British spy, Italian terrorists, former Nazis and a whole host of subjects related to business relations remained troubled military intelligence apparatus of Augusto Pinochet and his closed circle. The names are repeated throughout history and can configured and installed a kind of organic crime.
Former Marine
mid-1985, a subject entered Chile with a passport in the name of Trinidad Moreno. Your contact in our country was a Chilean consular officer in Los Angeles, Federico Humberto Silva Pizarro, who had sex trade and friendship. Both arrived in the country on the same flight, on June 22, 1985. In fact, Moreno was none other than former sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Ivan Baramdyka known American drug dealer based in Los Angeles (California), who escaped from the justice of his country.
On 10 July the same year he entered the Society of the Pacific Network, which, according to his deed, was engaged in the operation, promotion and marketing of fresh fish in the United States Chilean.
Years later, in 1993, was extradited to the U.S., after serving a sentence of five years for fraudulent checks money. But before the FBI take him, Baramdyka worried about leaving their videotaped story.
of the documents presented to Chile in the extradition process is clear that this person participated in the operations of the 80 known as "drugs for arms", led by Colonel Oliver North, who were used to deliver weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras . Arms shipments were financed by the cocaine to the U.S.. In his remarks
acknowledged his links with Patricio Madariaga Gutiérrez, Chile's consul in Los Angeles. The diplomat was asked to look after the affairs of Augusto Pinochet's son, when he was assigned to the legation in early 80's.
Baramdyka also said that between 1983 and 1984 multi-core buying Colombian cocaine producers ether and acetone produced in the Industrial Chemical Complex Talagante Chilean Army. The plant was transferred in 1979 from the Bacteriology, Institute of Public Health today. In 1987, Gerardo Huber, former DINA officer killed in early 1992 for the case Criacia weapons, took over the plant.
In the process for the murder of chemist Eugenio Berrios DINA, conducted by the Minister Alejandro Madrid, there is a document where the heads of the Chemical Complex Talagante recognize that the DEA warned on several occasions there was no documentation on the production of ether and acetone in the plant, essential chemicals for the manufacture of cocaine. In fact, one of the officers of the Army Research told that on one occasion a subject of Peruvian bought several thousands of liters of ether and left him 50 thousand dollars in a briefcase, after signing a contract that would be effective to date next. But, the day after the Peruvian was arrested at the airport by the OS-7 for his ties to the Cali cartel.
Baramdyka reports that within weeks of his arrival in Chile, an army officer came to his office from the street Huelén 102. He brought a message: Alvaro Corbalan, the operational head of the CNI, wanted to talk to him. They met in Rodizzio Apoquindo. Carlini said he knew who he was talking and asked for his advice to find a buyer for 75 kilos of cocaine that his organization was in the Bahamas.
Months later, in December 1985, Army officials themselves before it in the restaurant Oliver a vital character in the organization: Bathiche Edgardo Villarroel, Syrian-born man, famous in the jet-set 'local' 80. He had the only Rolls Royce of the square, had homes in southern Chile, lavishly adorned in spas properties Fashion and winter ski centers, which unfolded his collection of cars, boats and SUVs. Usually, traveling from place to place your property in helicopters. Being invited to their parties, which involved models, TV stars and beauty queens, came to be considered a privilege. Bathiche
in Chile represented the interests of Monzer Al-Kassar, a notorious drug dealer and Syrian weapons based in Spain, which at that time bought large tracts of land near Mendoza, and later obtained citizenship thanks to Argentina good offices of the government of Carlos Menem, a case that ended up in court justice of the country.
In 1985, the business of Bathiche was imported from Europe used diesel engines. His close ties to the Pinochet family came to the point that Marco Antonio Pinochet Hiriart, the representative in Chile of Chaparral boats and sold their products through Bathiche company, located in Américo Vespucio 1313.
That night, the restaurant Oliver, Baramdyka Bathiche heard what he had to tell: "He told me he could help and had excellent relations with General Pinochet and Security Services. He told me that moving large amounts of cocaine. Drug entered the country in the other Spent brought overland from Brazil Bathiche Motoren business. Also used helicopters and trucks bringing minerals from Bolivia. But this was not a problem, Alvaro Corbalan worried income security and transportation of cocaine inside the borders of Chile. It was on the outside where its operations had difficulties. They worked almost exclusively with Fabio Ochoa and her three sons, brothers Ochoa Vazquez. In the following days will meet other members of the organization, "he told the former Marine.
In 1986, Baramdyka have made three trips abroad on behalf of the organization. The procedure to exit and enter the country was always the same: military vehicle to the border of Argentina, where he delivered a Paraguayan passport in the name of Hernan Fuenzalida Galvarino. From there a taxi to Mendoza, Ezeiza and combination tickets to another country. Its mission was to ensure the transit of flights carrying military supplies Chilean in some Central American and Caribbean airports. In these places were unloaded items came from Chile cocaine hidden in military equipment. Baramdyka claims to have had knowledge of smuggling 12 tons of cocaine from Chile to Europe and the U.S. in 1986 and 1987.
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