"A detailed account of Contreras's role in the creation of the infamous DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional), its links to security organizations in other countries (Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, and anti-Castro Cubans in the US and Venezuela), its pursuit of critics and opponents of the Pinochet regime, and of the ultimately successful 20-year effort to identify and punish those who ordered Letelier assassinated"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.