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Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann (born January 23, 1938) is a Chilean Army general and a former deputy director of the DINA, the Chilean secret police under the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship. He was in charge of a secret detention center known as ''La Venda Sexy'' ("Sexy Blindfold") and ''La Discothèque'' — because of the sexual abuse inflicted on blindfolded prisoners as loud music masked their screams.〔 An aide to General Manuel Contreras, head of the DINA, he was in charge of several assassinations carried out as part of Operation Condor. He has been condemned ''in absentia'' in Italy for the failed murder of Christian-Democrat Bernardo Leighton,〔 and is wanted both in Spain and in Argentina. In the latter country, he is accused of the assassination of General Carlos Prats.〔Claudia Lagos and Patrick J. McDonnell (Fugitive ex-general stirs 'dirty war' animosities in Chile ), ''Los Angeles Times'', 16 June 2007 〕 In June 2007 Iturriaga rebelled against the 10-year prison sentence handed out to him by judge Alejandro Solís (reduced to five years by the Chilean Supreme Court) for the sequestration of Revolutionary Left Movement member Luis San Martín.〔(Un general chileno se declara en rebeldía contra un fallo que le condena a 5 años ), ''El País'', 14 June 2007 〕 He was finally captured in August 2007 in Viña del Mar.〔 == Life == Raúl Iturriaga became instructor in counter-insurgency after following courses with his future chief, Manuel Contreras, in Fort Gulick,〔(La Gran Mentira - El caso de las "Listas de los 119" (capitulo 7) ), published by Equipo Nizkor 〕 an installation of the School of the Americas based in the Panama Canal.〔(Raúl Iturriaga ), ''Memoria Viva'' 〕 He joined the DINA in November 1973, less than a month after Pinochet's coup against Salvador Allende. First responsible of the Department of Exterior Affairs of the DINA, he was named head of the Brigada Purén, based in torture center Villa Grimaldi, in December 1975.〔 He attended again a special military course in Panama in 1976. Iturriaga became vice-director of Intelligence in the DINA in 1977, before also taking care of its Economic Department, in charge of firms owned by the DINA. Iturriaga was responsible of Operation Colombo, during which political opponents were "disappeared" in Argentina while Santiago claimed they had killed themselves as a result of political in-fighting.〔〔 Although officially retired in 1991, association of victims claim that he has maintained links with the DINE, DINA's successor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raúl Iturriaga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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