This article examines the role of collaborators — former leftist militants who aided Pinochet’s repressive apparatus after the 1973 coup in Chile — in the country’s politics of memory. Focusing on four cases (Luz Arce, Marcia Merino, Miguel Estay, and Osvaldo Romo), Leigh A. Payne analyzes how their public confessions shaped collective memory during Chile’s democratic transition. The study identifies two distinct confessional modes: remorseful confessions, in which Arce and Merino framed their collaboration as coerced survival, seeking atonement and contributing to the “Never Again” memory project; and heroic confessions, in which Estay and Romo justified their actions as patriotic duty, ultimately generating public outrage rather than absolution. The article argues that three interrelated factors — confessional text, audience, and institutional context — determine how collaborators’ testimonies function within memory politics. Despite their ambiguous moral standing and the strategic construction of their narratives, collaborators’ confessions paradoxically contribute to exposing the truth about state violence, even when absolution remains unattained.