A Very Quiet Horror

A Very Quiet HorrorOne drizzly morning last September, a light-blue Chevelle entered Sheridan Circle along Embassy Row in Washington, D. C. Suddenly, it erupted with a deafening explosion that blew out its roof and fatally injured Orlando Letelier, 45, the exiled former defense minister in Salvador Alleende's Marxist government in Chile. A bomb had been so carefully planted in Letelier's car that a passenger in the rear seat was barely injured—suggesting a professional assassination. Investigato...