# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-contreras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:04:25.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-contreras"
name: "Manuel Contreras"
slug: "manuel-contreras"
description: "Juan Manuel \"Mamo\" Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda was a Chilean Army officer and the former head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. In 1995, he was convicted of the murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, DC, and sentenced to seven years in prison, which he served until 2001. At the time of his death, Contreras was serving 59 unappealable sentences totaling 529 years in prison for kidnapping, forced disappearance, and assassination."
tagline: "Chilean general (1929-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manuel_mamo_contreras.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-05-04"
deathDate: "2015-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.338742393509128
  historical:           12.158688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مانويل كونتريراس"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Contreras"
    title: "Manuel Contreras"
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    title: "Manuel Contreras"
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    title: "Manuel Contreras"
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    title: "マヌエル・コントレラス"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump