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For the Biblical Dina, see Dinah.
Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (Spanish for National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean secret police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
From its establishment in November 1973, DINA was headed by Manuel Contreras. It was responsible for the 1976 assassination of former Chilean government member Orlando Letelier.
DINA existed until 1977, after which it was replaced by the Centro Nacional de Información (CNI) (Spanish for National Information Center).
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