Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs. In May. the preliminary report of the delegation was released. expressing the "view that present judicial procedures and safeguards do not meet the minimum standards which Chile is bound to observe under article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. 1949." The report also stated: We received most convincing evidence to support the declaration of the Catholic Bishops on April 24. 1974. that there are "interrogations with physical and moral pressure." We believe that the various forms of illtreatment. sometimes amounting to severe torture. are carried out systematically by some of those responsible for interrogation and not. as many people sought to persuade us. in isolated instances at the time of arrest. A study mission of the Senate Refugee Subcommittee traveled in Chile in April as well. It included former U.S. Ambassador to Chile Ralph A.