Life
Gerardo Huber graduated from military school in 1964, specializing as an engineer. Ten years later, after Augusto Pinochet's coup in 1973, he began working for the DINA intelligence agency and was sent to Argentina to infiltrate groups supporting the Chilean MIR faction in its struggle against Pinochet's dictatorship. When he returned to Chile, he worked with American-born DINA agent Michael Townley in producing chemical weapons, which were used against political dissidents.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Huber was sent to the military chemical installation in Talagante. He served as governor of Talagante Province from 1987 to 1989. Colonel Huber was nominated in March 1991 to the Army's Directorate of Logistics, where he was tasked with the buying and selling of weapons abroad. According to his widow, he met with Pinochet in May 1991 to inform him of various irregularities occurring in the logistics service of the Army. Huber's widow alleges that Pinochet's reaction was to send him to a military hospital so he could see a psychiatrist.
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