Chilean political figure Orlando Letelier was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in Washington, D.C. by agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The car bombing on Massachusetts Avenue was the most infamous act of international terrorism to take place in the nation’s capital to that point.

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