CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR

UNCLAS SANTIAGO 001153 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: MARR MASS PREL PHUM CI SUBJECT: CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SECURITY RESPONSES TO TERRORISM COURSE REF: WILSON - CRETAROLO EMAIL 07/19/2007 ¶1. This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. ¶2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean candidate who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Please transmit the results of such, including information not strictly covered by the Leahy Amendment, to Embassy. ¶3. The proposed training is the Security Responses to Terrorism Course, which will take place at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, from 08/21/2007 to 08/28/2007. The name and identifying information of the proposed candidate appear in the following format: Name, rank, unit, date of birth, place of birth and national identification number. a. Julio E. GORDON Gonzalez, Major, Carabineros de Chile, 15 October 1967, Santiago, Chile, 9.129.133-9. ¶4. Embassy's ongoing investigation has not found credible information that the candidate has been involved in gross human rights violations. KELLY