Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts of the Chilean experience totally contradict Kissinger's view of the relationship between U.S. aid and human rights. The U.S. trained, equipped and advised the Chilean officer corps which carried out a coup in which, depending on one's sources, some 2000 to 37,000 Chileans have lost their lives. These officers were aided in their efforts by an $8 million CIA program to "destabilize" the Allende government. According to a recent Amnesty International report, these same officers now maintain concentration camps for some 6000 to 10,000 political prisoners where electrical torture and beatings are commonplace. These political...
...order to ensure maximum efficiency in the discovery and imprisonment of all political opposition, the Chilean junta created a new intelligence service last April. This new intelligence service combines the former Army, Navy, Air Force and civilian intelligence services into one organization. The sub-director of this new organization is Walter Rauff. Rauff is an ex-Nazi S.S. officer who is wanted for war crimes in West Germany. He is alleged to have murdered some 300,000 Jews. Rauff is the first known Nazi war criminal to ever be given a public job anywhere in the world...
...abrupt change in policy by the State Department regarding the Javits-Pell trip can be understood in light of the explosive hostile reaction of the American news media, and segments of the Congress, to the developing Chilean story. It is possible that the trip was permitted simply for tactical reasons. Perhaps government officials were unwilling to further antagonize the Congress and the press by restricting the right of two Senators to travel, the Administration position having been seriously eroded by the Chilean revelations. Hearings had begun before the Foreign Relations Committee, and it was apparent that perjury indictments against high...
Clearly the time has arrived for America's twelve-year policy of hostility towards Cuba to come to an end. Perhaps the Chilean developments accelerated U.S. realization of this imperative...
...Chilean military junta celebrates its first anniversary, stronger than ever...