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Assassination on embassy row
Dinges, John. Landau, saul
Date Written: 1980-01-30Publisher: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Year First Published: 1980 Pages: 411pp ISBN: 0-906495-43-1 Resource Type: Book On September 21,1976, a car-bomb exploded on washington's Embassy Row, killing Orlando Letelier, a former minister in Salvador Allende's socialist goverment and chilean ambassador to the united states; and a co-worker, Ronni Moffit. The murder marked an unprecedented act of terror by a foreign government on Americon soil. John Dinges, a reporter and Saul Landau, a film maker, and close friend of Letelier and Moffit at the institute for policy studies, responded to the assassination by pressing for a full-scale investigation. Their extensive research let them to embark on the writing of Assassination on Embassy Row. Subject Headings |