Gerardo Huber

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Huber and the second or maternal family name is Olivares.

Gerardo Huber Olivares (disappeared 29 January 1992; body found 20 February 1992) was a Chilean Army Colonel and agent of the DINA, Chile's intelligence agency. He was in charge of purchasing weapons abroad for the army.[1] Huber was assassinated shortly before he was due to testify before Magistrate Hernán Correa de la Cerda in a case concerning the illegal export of weapons to the Croatian army. That enterprise involved 370 tons of weapons sold to the Croatian government by Chile on 7 December 1991, when Croatia was under a United Nations embargo arising from the war in Yugoslavia.[2] In January 1992, Magistrate Correa sought testimony from Huber on the deal. However, Huber may well have been silenced to avoid implicating the Dictator, then-Commander-in-Chief of the Army Augusto Pinochet, who was himself awaiting trial on related charges.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Larry Rohter, Colonel's Death Gives Clues to Pinochet Arms Deals, The New York Times, 19 June 2006 (in English)
  2. ^ Biographical notice Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine on Memoria viva NGO website (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Andrea Chaparro, CDE insiste en unir caso Huber con tráfico de armas a Croacia Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, La Nación, 15 August 2005 (in Spanish)