CHILE: LEGAT REQUESTS ADDITIONAL CANDIDATE FOR

UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000460 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS STATE FOR WHA/BSC, DRL, INR, PM E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KCRM PREL SNAR PHUM CI SUBJECT: CHILE: LEGAT REQUESTS ADDITIONAL CANDIDATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR REF: CHA - GALVIN EMAIL 20 MARCH 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 Latin American Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (LALEEDS),which will take place at the FBI Academy, Quantico VA, March 31 - April 27, 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. Javier Alberto Ortega Jara, Prefect, Chief of North-Central Santiago Zone, Chilean Investigations Police (PICH),8 April 1955, Concepcion CHILE, 6.571.047-1. ¶4. Embassy's ongoing investigation has not found credible information that the candidate has been involved in gross human rights violations. KELLY