SECRET POLICE
NEW GOVERNMENT WILL ' DISBAND ESPIONAGE SYSTEM. * SANTIAGO, Chile Chile's new Government has laid plq'ns for the eliminqtion of the notorious seeret police of former President Ibanez, who has taken refuge in Buenos Air.es. p.enoy IJbanez had built up an espionage system which, it was' charged, ferreted. out persons who did ino more "than speak mildly against him. Many citizens arrested by the secret' police were exiled or sent to island prisons. Chileans say thqt frequently tpe victims of the pofice were mistreated. Aingry citizens still were searching fou:, 'Senor (Ventulra MatUrana, chief of the secret police, who is repprfed to have fled across the border. It Was understood that the new Goviernmpnt, headed by the acting President, Senor Juan E'steban Monterpi would retain a detectiye division fori purely police purposes and would abolish the polifical departmgnt. The GoVerhment also turned its attehtion to measures to control foreigh; e^change and meet emergency finpjiciai peeds. •• I^xcept - for scattered- - • extfeme radfcal groups,, th^ entire . nation was backing the new Government. Several radical pamphlets appeared in thdistreets.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 October 1931, Page 4
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