The whereabouts of 580 missing individuals have been unveiled by Chile's former secrete police chief, who said victims were usually thrown into the sea after being executed under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.

Retired Gen. Manuel Contreras, 75, handed over a document to the Supreme Court on Friday, hinting at the whereabouts of some 580 missing individuals including those dumped into the sea, according to lawyer Juan Carlos Manns.

Manns said one of the cases cited by his client in the document is Alberto Leiva Vargas, who was arrested by an army patrol on Sept. 14, 1973, and later killed and thrown into the sea off the Pichilemu coast.

Contreras, ex-chief of the National Intelligence Direction ( DINA), or secret police, held Pinochet accountable for the repression against the opposition in a bid to lessen his own sentence.

Pinochet and the military junta issued all sorts of orders to suppress "left-wing groups who could have emerged as an opposition to the government," Contreras said in his document.

The former DINA director was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of being responsible for the disappearance of left-wing activist Miguel Angel Rodriguez in 1975.

Source: Xinhua