- Leon Chiles: Many of these prisoners were tortured?
- Colonel Emilio Pantoya: Ah, well, they... hey were interrogated, let's say, vigorously. I mean, these people were very dangerous people. I mean, many of them belonged to armed groups financed by Cuba and by the Soviet Union.
- Leon Chiles: Some of them were executed?
- Colonel Emilio Pantoya: Only the ones, uh, that were found guilty of treason by a military tribunal.
- Leon Chiles: How do you explain Jason Whitman's death?
- Colonel Emilio Pantoya: A mistake. A regrettable mistake, during time of crisis. It was not sanctioned by me or by anyone under my command. I am not stupid enough to pick a fight with the United States by killing one of its citizens.
- Colonel Emilio Pantoya: And Mrs. Whitman's little boy went to Chile to help the communists destroy my country.