Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it is not know whether Kissinger condones it, former Nazi S.S. Colonel Walter Rauff has, since the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, been made chief advisor to Colonel Hector Sepulveda. Sepulveda heads an organization called DINA (Directorate of Anti-Communist Investigation) which was recently established as an all-powerful state security network by the Pinochet government...
After the overthrow of Allende by CIA-supported Chilean militarists, Rauff returned to Chile, and was welcomed with his appointment as chief advisor to the head of DINA...
Alan Greenspan, Ford's chief economic advisor, tells a Washington audience full of blue--collar workers: "Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine, percentage-wise, who was hurt most on their income, it was Wall Street brokers. I mean, their incomes have gone down the most, so if you want to be statistical, I mean, look, let's face what the facts are." He is booed...
...these training groups, which consist of nine or ten students and one advisor, the trainees participate in "role playing," in which one student plays the part of a counselor, one of a counselee. The seven other students look on as the first two act out a hypothetical conference. When their discussion ends, the spectators join the actors for a discussion of how the problem could better have been handled...
Over the 1962 to 1973 period, the 40 Committee (an interdepartmental body that reviews and authorizes all covert CIA activities and is chaired by the President's Advisor on National Security Affairs) authorized the expenditure of approximately $11 million to help prevent the election of Allende and, in Mr. Colby's words, "destabilize" the Allende government so as to precipitate its downfall. The agency activities in Chile were viewed as a prototype, or laboratory experiment, to test the techniques of heavy financial investment in efforts to discredit and bring down a government...