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Assassination on Embassy Row By John Dinges and Saul Landau Pantheon, 411 pp., $14.95 Four years after the assassination of the Chilean leftist politician Orlando Letelier, the circle around the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which provided him with his exile base in Washington, has at last produced a book-length work of hagiography.

Saul Landau, the joint author of Assassination on Embassy Row, served for a time as Letelier’s successor as director of an IPS offshoot, the Transnational Institute. He and his co-author, a former Time stringer in Latin America, give thanks to a long list of IPS luminaries, as well as associates of the CIA defector Philip Agee, in their acknowledgments.

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Assassination on Embassy Row By John Dinges and Saul Landau Pantheon, 411 pp., $14.95 Four years after the assassination of the Chilean leftist politician Orlando Letelier, the circle around the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which provided him with his exile base in Washington, has at last produced a book-length work of hagiography.

Saul Landau, the joint author of Assassination on Embassy Row, served for a time as Letelier’s successor as director of an IPS offshoot, the Transnational Institute. He and his co-author, a former Time stringer in Latin America, give thanks to a long list of IPS luminaries, as well as associates of the CIA defector Philip Agee, in their acknowledgments.