SANTIAGO—A former secret policeman has revealed that the clinic in which Chile’s former President Eduardo Frei Montalva died in 1982 was used by the Pinochet government’s secret police, the National Directorate of Intelligence (DINA). The cause of death was given as septic shock, but Frei’s children have often voiced their suspicions that he might have been murdered. Even former President Patricio Aylwin spoke of the possibility that a “black hand may have planted the virus” that killed Frei.
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