The Assassination of Pablo Neruda

[Jan Klimkowski]

There are other men besides Townley who may also fit the description of the mysterious Dr Price. One is Harmutt Hopp, a German convicted in a pedophilia scandal at Colonia Dignidad and the other is Manfred Jurgensen, a doctor who collaborated with Chilean intelligence.
Hopp, 68, is a German doctor who was the second in command at Colonia Dignidad, now known as Villa Baviera, a cult-like commune located in central Chile. Founded in 1961 by Paul Schäfer, a Wehrmacht doctor with ties to the Nazi party who fled to South America in 1959 after being accused of child abuse, Colonia Dignidad housed hundreds of German immigrants. It also served as a jail and torture center for political prisoners throughout Pinochet's dictatorship. Hopp was convicted of child abuse and sentenced to prison in 2011, but he fled to Germany, where the government has refused to allow his extradition to Chile.
Jurgensen was a well-known doctor who was stripped of his degree after it was revealed that he was an agent for the Central Nacional de Informaciones, an intelligence organ created by Pinochet. Jurgensen allegedly helped to torture prisoners in secret detention centers and he was involved in the death of Federico Alvarez Santibáñez, a 32-year-old chemistry professor who was disappeared in 1979. So far, the case against both men is wholly circumstantial: There is no evidence to suggest that they were present at the Neruda's hospital or that they were charged with a mission to kill the poet.

Magda - excellent find.

We know that Colonia Dignidad was an important communications hub for Operation Condor, as well as an off-the-books centre for MK-ULTRA style human experimentation.

I have little doubt that the intelligence agency doctors who conducted experiments at Colonia Dignidad would also be utilised in black operations, such as political assassinations.

The main DPF thread on the horrors is:

Colonia Dignidad: Chile's Nazi colony