LIMA, Peru — Authorities on Tuesday revealed the existence of a soundproof underground interrogation center--long rumored to be a torture chamber--beneath the defunct headquarters of fugitive former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos.
"I cannot say if it was or wasn't used for torture," Peruvian Prime Minister Federico Salas told reporters after inspecting a system of underground cells at the National Intelligence Service complex. He had denied last month that the subterranean rooms existed.
