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Allende and Chile: ‘Bring Him Down’
3 November 2020 — Origin: National Security Archive
Salvador Allende’s Historic Inauguration 50 Years Later
Declassified White House Records Show How Nixon-Kissinger Set Strategy of Destabilization—And Why
Washington D.C., November 3, 2020 — Several days after Salvador Allende’s history-changing November 3, 1970, inauguration, Richard Nixon convened his National Security Council for a formal meeting on what policy the U.S. should adopt toward Chile’s new Popular Unity government. Only a few officials who gathered in the White House Cabinet Room knew that, under Nixon’s orders, the CIA had covertly tried, and failed, to foment a preemptive military coup to prevent Allende from ever being inaugurated. The SECRET/SENSITIVE NSC memorandum of conversation revealed a consensus that Allende’s democratic election and his socialist agenda for substantive change in Chile threatened U.S. interests, but divergent views on what the U.S. could, and should do about it. “We can bring his downfall, perhaps, without being counterproductive,” suggested Secretary of State William Rogers, who opposed overt hostility and aggression toward Chile. “We have to do everything we can to hurt [Allende] and bring him down,” agreed the secretary of defense, Melvin Laird.
The CIA and Chile: Anatomy of an Assassination
22 October 2020 — National Security Archive
Chile Marks 50th Anniversary of Assassination of Chilean Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider
’60 Minutes’ Posts Dramatic Exposé on Henry Kissinger’s Role and Schneider Family Lawsuit
Schneider’s Murder: “a stain on the pages of contemporary history”
The U.S. 12-Step Method to Conduct Regime Change By Vijay Prashad
2 February 2019 — CommonDreams
On September 15, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger authorized the U.S. government to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger, according to the notes kept by CIA Director Richard Helms, wanted to “make the economy scream” in Chile; they were “not concerned [about the] risks involved.” War was acceptable to them as long as Allende’s government was removed from power. The CIA started Project FUBELT, with $10 million as a first installment to begin the covert destabilization of the country.
Chile: Secrets of State
12 September 2017 — National Security Archive
On 44th Anniversary of Military Coup, Archive Posts 9/11/1973 Documents
Special Exhibit of Declassified Documents, Curated by The National Security Archive, Opens in Santiago Musuem of Memory and Human Rights
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 603
NSA: CIA Cover-Up on Chile
10 September 2016 — National Security Archive
Agency Tries to Hide Knowledge of 9/11/73 Coup Plotting
Dubious Secrets: Declassified Daily Briefs to Nixon Completely Censored, Despite Release of CIA and DIA Cables 16 Years Ago
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 558
National Security Archive: THE PINOCHET FILE: U.S. DECLASSIFIES MISSING DOCUMENTS IN THE LETELIER-MOFFITT CASE
8 October 2015 — National Security Archive
THE PINOCHET FILE: U.S. DECLASSIFIES MISSING DOCUMENTS IN THE LETELIER-MOFFITT CASE FINALLY THE VERDICT OF HISTORY ON PINOCHET’S ROLE IN TERRORIST ACT
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 532
National Security Archive 31 July 2015: Los Quemados: Chile’s Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity
31 July 2015 — National Security Archive
Los Quemados: Chile’s Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity
Chilean Dictator Rejected Police Report Identifying Army Units which Burned Alive Teenage Protesters in 1986
Declassified Documents Could Provide Evidence in long-awaited Prosecution for Murder of Washington D.C. Resident Rodrigo Rojas, Burning of Carmen Quintana
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And For Everything Else…
2 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
…there’s Mastercard. The Telegraph is reporting that Greece’s Finance Ministry has hired the investment banking group Lazard to advise it on issues of debt and fiscal policy.
Those of you who are old enough will remember Allende bringing into his cabinet three senior military officers. These officers were co-opted in order to placate the bourgeoisie after their counterrevolutionary attempt at a nationwide lockout had been defeated by the spontaneous and self-organized resistance of the Chilean workers.
U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election
23 May 2014 — National Security Archive
U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election
Nixon Alerted in Advance to Date of Coup, Retired CIA Operative Writes in Foreign Affairs
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The Question of US ‘Democracy Promotion’ in the Newspaper of Record By Peter Hart
26 February 2014 — FAIR Blog
You might ask Chilean President Salvador Allende what he thinks about US democracy promotion–if he hadn’t been killed in a CIA-backed coup in 1973. (cc photo: Sebastian Baryli )
Sometimes the thing we call “media bias” isn’t about what a given piece of journalism explicitly says about the world; it’s more about the assumptions that must be taken for granted. Question those assumptions and the whole thing starts to fall apart.
In an age of 'realists' and vigilantes, there is cause for optimism By John Pilger
19 September 2013 — John Pilger
The most important anniversary of the year was the 40th anniversary of 11 September 1973 – the crushing of the democratic government of Chile by General Augusto Pinochet and Henry Kissinger, then US secretary of state. The National Security Archive in Washington has posted new documents that reveal much about Kissinger’s role in an atrocity that cost thousands of lives.
The New Dark Age 