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Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile Edward Korry: "...the United States did not seek to pressure, subvert, influence a single member of the Chilean Congress at any time in the entire four years of my stay...
...government ties to "select potential or actual leaders of countries to be visitors" in order to acquaint them with the U.S. In September 1973, just after the coup in Chile, the International Visitors Program invited Gustavo Palacios, director of Radio Mineria in Santiago, and Alfredo Concha, owner of the Chilean National Broadcasting System, to be guests of the U.S. government. The radio stations these two men controlled were the main anti-Allende radio propaganda as one of its methods of attacking Allende...
...Chilean radio directors visited Harvard during their stay in the U.S. in September 1973. Concha told a group of students that a Chilean coup was expected because "the Chilean people need authority, order, and strength, they need a strong hand to work." In the three years of the Allende government the U.S. International Visitors Program invited 70 Chileans to be official guests of the U.S. None of these was a member of the Allende government. According to George Porter, former acting director of information and reports in the State Department, International Visitors are selected according to a "country plan" which...
...State Department, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA. It is true that all of the proposals made by ITT in 1970 to topple Allende were eventually implemented by either the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury, or the CIA. It is also true that the CIA had been involved in Chilean politics since 1964 and possibly earlier. Chile's experience demonstrates that every tie between the U.S. and another country is a potential political lever that can be manipulated to suit U.S. purposes. Whether it is private U.S. business investments or something like the International Visitors' Program, it is a dependence...
...were making "a big mistake" in Chile. In a pained voice he said, "What I don't understand is how a country that loves democracy like the United States could try to use the CIA to stop democracy in Chile. Salvador Allende is the president of the Chilean people, we elected him. I respect the people of America, I love freedom just like they do. When you go back there you tell them the truth about Chile." I looked out the taxi window at the trees in the pale autumn sunshine. There was no doubt that winter would come soon...