Classified Pinochet documents released

WASHINGTON, JULY 1: The United States on Tuesday released thousands of classified documents on former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet covering his regime from 1973 to 1978, the State Department said.

8220;These documents are part of a voluntary review of US government files related to human rights abuses, terrorism and other acts of political violence prior to and during the Pinochet era in Chile,8221; State Department spokesman James Foley said in a statement.

More than 25,000 pages of material from 5,800 documents were declassified, he said.

Some 5,000 of these documents come from the State Department, 490 from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, 200 from the National Archives, 100 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and 60 from the Defense Department.