Editing Orlando Letelier (section)

==Activism in Exile==
(1975–1976)
In Washington, Letelier became a leading voice against Pinochet’s dictatorship, joining the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a think tank, as a senior fellow. He published influential articles, including a 1976 piece in The Nation, exposing Pinochet’s economic policies under the “[[Chicago Boys]]” as benefiting elites while impoverishing Chileans. Letelier collaborated with Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old IPS researcher, on reports documenting human rights abuses. He also worked with the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, lobbying European governments to isolate Pinochet’s regime, and testified before the United Nations and U.S. Congress, urging sanctions.

Letelier’s activism made him a target of [[Operation Condor]], a U.S.-backed campaign by Southern Cone dictatorships to eliminate dissidents. In July 1976, Pinochet revoked Letelier’s citizenship, signaling his vulnerability. The CIA, aware of Condor’s assassination plans via a 1976 cable, failed to act decisively, as revealed in declassified documents (National Security Archive).