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Manuel Contreras



General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras SepĂşlveda (born May 4, 1929) was the head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful and feared men in Chile after a military coup headed by Pinochet and other Chilean militaries overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. Documents released by the CIA in 2000 revealed that Contreras was a CIA paid asset from 1975 to 1977



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