Kissinger And Chile: The Declassified Record On Regime Change

[Make7]

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September 12, 2013
by Lauren Harper

[/font]In September 1973 the US backed a Chilean military coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government. The coup became a decisive moment in Chilean history and an important milestone in the Cold War. For their involvement, the coup’s US backers, namely Henry Kissinger, effectively sanctioned the destruction of “democracy and rise of dictatorship in Chile,” according to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Archive’s Chile Documentation Project.

In commemoration of the coup’s 40^th anniversary the Archive is posting the top ten documents it has obtained on Kissinger’s role in the regime change. According to the Archive posting, “[t]he documents, which include transcripts of Kissinger’s “telcons” — telephone conversations — that were never shown to the special Senate Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in the mid 1970s, provide key details about the arguments, decisions, and operations Kissinger made and supervised during his tenure as national security adviser and secretary of state.”[font style="font-size:0.8462em;"]

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http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/kissinger-and-chile-the-declassified-record-on-regime-change/[/font]

[Kolesar]

1. That's why the Democrats sponsored and passed the "Freedom of Information Act"

The DEMOCRATS

[KG]

2. but, but he wrote on 'diplomacy' that kerry liked.

[malaise]

3. And yet Kerry sought his opinion on anything outside of a trip to the Hague

[deutsey]

4. The coup was also the first testing ground for Friedman's free market theories

Under Allende, Nixon and Kissinger wanted to make the economy scream.

Under Pinochet, the economy made the people scream.

[Wilms]

5. ^